No Excuses

Battlefield 2042 is fun but super glitchy. Hard to imagine they get it patched up in a playable state by release next month. 

Joe Manchin isn’t ideal but he’s really valuable as a senator from a deep red state and his replacement would be horrible.

Kyrsten Sinema is an actual clown on the other hand. She has no reason to be throwing the tantrum that she is considering Mark Kelly ran ahead of her #s, is actually working to advance the liberal agenda and she’s not even up for re-election in 22 like he is.

There’s a major local issue in America, and that is a housing shortage in every major metro region. Most economic problems in this country trace themselves to the spiraling affordability crisis in places where jobs exist. 
 

It has a very simple solution: build more housing, primarily condos and apartments along transit routes. It doesn’t get that much attention because it’s a very local government related issue and the media is typically busy jerking off to the federal government. I wish they would shine a light on the insufferable NIMBYs who block every development project that aims to solve this problem.

We literally don’t build housing to keep up with metro region growth because a small coalition of really loud voices find it in their financial interest to keep the prices of their ****ty single family houses artificially inflated.

No problem, my phone is getting bombarded by spam texts all day long now. 
 

AT&T really wants to send me a lot of gifts for paying bills on time apparently. 🙄

I promise you this is the single greatest thing you will read this evening. 

I can’t with these people man. They are beyond parody lmao.

Installing my Cuck box while chugging horse paste to own the libs.

8 hours ago, Dr. Do Itch Big said:

I’m trying to join the pc gang and it looks like prebuilt is the only way right now. 

Prebuilts get a bad rep from the hardcore PC crowd but there’s lots of good companies that make them. You want to make sure that a prebuilt isn’t going cheap on the less flashy but very important components like the Power Supply Unit, while offering a beefy GPU/CPU combo. 
 

It’s a bad time in general to buy a prebuilt or make your own unless you’re willing to pay a premium for GPU’s. If money isn’t an issue, just go for it. 

HZD is amazing to play on tough difficulties that force you learn the weaknesses of each machine. The combat is just so ****ing good when you’re challenged to really hit your shots and take the machines apart systematically. 

12 hours ago, mojo said:

Totally agree.  With all money that’s spent over the last 17 months, pay the people if it’s really such a priority.  Don’t put all the pressure on the working class.

The unvaccinated minority is the biggest danger to the livelihoods of the working class by keeping caseloads high, straining community resources and slowing the economic recovery.

We should be honest about what's happening right now. A small % of the population has a bogus concept of freedom which states that society has to sit back and tolerate their ignorance, while they overwhelm public health resources and sabotage basic social functioning.

Anti-vaxxers adopting the “freedom” mantle is such nonsense because they are actively impeding the freedom of the vast majority of the public by willingly serving as incubators for a deadly new virus. They are depriving people of valuable medical care by overwhelming hospitals. They are endangering children who can’t receive the vaccine. They endanger immunocompromised people who can’t be vaccinated. They endanger the economy and livelihood of millions by slowing our recovery.

**** outta here.

I really don’t understand the testing once a week option if not vaccinated but better than nothing I suppose.

2 hours ago, Riggo-toni said:

Men are programmed to work hard enough to get laid.  With hookups now being so much easier, the old days of when you had to work for a degree and get the best job to score a hot wife in order to secure a sex life are history, so now dudes are not going to be motivated as they once were.

FWIW, data from dating apps shows that it's a lot easier for women to get laid now and a lot of men are striking out in hook up culture. College-educated men with good jobs and tolerable personalities have never had it easier in the urban dating scene. But there's a lot more guys striking out and finding it difficult to get laid.

2 minutes ago, mammajamma said:

says someone who hasnt been in the D terminal during a pandemic

Fair enough, I flew in/out of Dulles before the pandemic and never since.

I don't know, my metric for comparison is somewhere like the airport in Reykjavik where a lot of the gates are literally inside of a small round tube with barely any seating for the passengers. It's poverty ville compared to Dulles.

Dulles isn’t that bad, and once the silver line goes to it will be quite good.

Legit one of the best airports in the country is Reagan National. You can be in DC within 30-40 minutes of landing. 
 

But flying is ****ing ass cheeks and getting worse every year. I’ve taken one flight since starting this thread. If I can, I will drive to a destination as long as it’s doable in a one day span. 

If I were a researcher, one of my starting questions would be if video games are leading to disparate educational outcomes between boys and girls. 
 

There’s already evidence linking an increase in quality of video games to men working less hours.

It may be something as simple as boys spending less time studying compared to girls because they spend more time gaming.

The answer to the question of why girls are out competing boys in education is almost certainly buried in time use datasets. 

29 minutes ago, PleaseBlitz said:

In other words, I think if you are aimless and low in self-esteem to start with, college may not be the solution you need.  

Agreed, college isn’t going to fix your aimlessness or self-esteem issues, especially if you’re developing them in your youth. 

We should be trying to address why men are losing a drive for higher educational and career achievement before its time to apply for college. There’s just no getting around the fact that college-educated men and women in the US have more stable families and earn significantly more over their lifetimes. We should be doing more to nudge youth towards a higher education path.
 

I really don’t like giving young people the advice that college is not for everyone. We should be making it more achievable and accessible to as many people as we can, which we aren’t remotely doing a good job of currently. Partially this is related to bringing down costs, but I do think proper guidance and messaging from adults is sorely lacking as well. 

It’s definitely a problem but the research on why this is happening isn’t very good or comprehensive. It’s tough to come up with solutions when you can’t pin point the root causes.

But it’s usually not good for society when a decent % of it’s men are aimless, low in self-esteem and have too much free time on their hands. 

This one hurts man. He was a great actor and even better person. 
 

RIP. Played the best character on the greatest show of all time. Legend. 

39 minutes ago, Jabbyrwock said:

In any case, you have to hand it to them whether you like the outcome or not:

Nah fam, you don’t have to. 
 

Time to bust out the greatest dril tweet

4 minutes ago, Simmsy said:

I have a question: does this mean that if I were to get an abortion in Virginia, as someone who resides in VA, does that mean someone in Texas can sue me in court? I don't see how they can enforce this law. 

Only in Texas. The law bans all abortions in Texas after 6 weeks, and leaves the enforcement mechanism to private citizens through civil litigation. 
 

It’s truly one of the most absurd laws crafted in this country and it’s intent is entirely to shut down abortion clinics while the courts decide what the **** to do with it. Even if the courts reverse it eventually, the damage will be done by then. 

3 minutes ago, Ball Security said:

Yes, that’s definitely part of the equation.

They are going to lose a lot of businesses that need college-educated people if this is really their end goal. You can bet that yuppies in big cities who have fueled the growth of the state in recent years are going to be letting their displeasure known. 
 

In an extremely hot labor market for educated, tech workers, I wouldn’t want to be a business whose employees are looking to take jobs in states that better align with their values. 

What’s stopping states from enacting any unconstitutional law under this nonsense regulatory scheme where the state passes of its enforcement responsibility to private citizens?  
 

California should consider a law that bans the possession of most guns, and allows private citizens to sue gun owners for possession. 
 

There is little chance this stands long term but let’s have some fun with it along the way at least. 

I wonder how much vaccine hesitancy going down is anti-vaxxers seeing someone they know or care about die due to COVID. 

Don’t think it’s possible for a hurricane of Cat3-5 to make it up here to the DMV, there probably aren’t enough sources of energy to sustain a hurricane all the way up to us at that level of intensity. But even residual aftermaths of hurricanes are probably bad for this area.

There’s something deeply funny about the GOP base taking like the one and only accomplishment of Trump’s presidency (Operation Warp Speed) and turning it into a grand conspiracy of the deep state. Now he gets booed for taking credit for it and none of them can campaign on it.