@669563d8 it’s like a cult board game. You get points for certain parts of the demographic until the game changes to include something else that will knowingly piss off republicans.
@19cbfccb says the solar panel installer. How do you handle your Tesla crazed customers that are primarily motivated to advertise “a good example” with their solar panels and car?
I think climate alarmism is a scam but I also would love to have solar with a battery bank for power outages mostly, but to save on my electric bill is a major bonus. How many of your clients are like me?
@669563d8 that twitter account always makes me think of Onyong on Arrested Development, probably because I’m racist? 🤷♂️
Or because it is the same sense of humor with the same workings. I enjoy it freely.
I wonder if I can follow it on here…
@669563d8 that twitter account always makes me think of Onyong on Arrested Development, probably because I’m racist? 🤷♂️
Or because it is the same sense of humor with the same workings. I enjoy it freely.
I wonder if I can follow it on here…
@669563d8 duh Scott. It’s been said already. The next step is realizing that Nazi’s had the most highly educated demographic of any party in any nation and they didn’t ever change their minds, even after defeat.
@669563d8 it takes a split second for someone to imagine what the reaction would be if conservatives did the same thing. That’s a split second they are avoiding to take place in their minds at all costs.
@7502a322 ya. There are so many ridiculous things occurring that obviously could be addressed better that it is hard to know what are the leading factors.
I see the masses (mostly members of the progressive uniparty) behaving like narcissists that cannot admit they ever do anything wrong and I see that as the most dangerous thing for our kids’ future. Pol Pot, Stalin, Hitler, etc all suffered from that same affliction and the people that bought into it all went to a point of no return.
@7502a322 valid points. I’m not ignoring those points though. I really want the flood of illegals to stop. I’m just saying we have other issues that are contributing more to other things.
@7502a322 I ended up quitting to relocate to Alaska in an attempt to save my first marriage. I had to give a little less than two weeks notice because the next company wanted me to start sooner. They got a little tweaked that I wasn’t giving them two weeks notice. I responded to them saying they never gave me any commitment, so I don’t feel real bad about giving 9 days notice instead of 14.
The next day they escorted me out. Those type of companies deserve to fail but they won’t.
@7502a322 of course. And if I were your employer I wouldn’t hold that against you, especially if you were always a standup dude that gave the company all you could.
I should say I have experience in what you are talking about. I worked for a company in Denver that was making gobs of money, so much that they easily could afford to be really dysfunctional. They wouldn’t hire people on. I had to work through a temp agency and really good people had to work through a temp agency for years.
@7502a322 I ended up quitting to relocate to Alaska in an attempt to save my first marriage. I had to give a little less than two weeks notice because the next company wanted me to start sooner. They got a little tweaked that I wasn’t giving them two weeks notice. I responded to them saying they never gave me any commitment, so I don’t feel real bad about giving 9 days notice instead of 14.
The next day they escorted me out. Those type of companies deserve to fail but they won’t.
@7502a322 of course. And if I were your employer I wouldn’t hold that against you, especially if you were always a standup dude that gave the company all you could.
I should say I have experience in what you are talking about. I worked for a company in Denver that was making gobs of money, so much that they easily could afford to be really dysfunctional. They wouldn’t hire people on. I had to work through a temp agency and really good people had to work through a temp agency for years.
@7502a322 haha.
Actually I don’t have a college degree, didn’t get any scholarships and I did fine just because my dad instilled in me a joy for a good work ethic and not much fear of being a little poor sometimes. But to your last point, haha, he also gave me good genes that made me smarter than the average bear. 🤷♂️
@7502a322 ya. I just think we see the same coin from different sides. In my experience companies are very nervous about offering more because of what they are getting. But to your point, they should pay more and fire more and make that very well known. Productive people hate working with deadbeats anyway, especially when understaffed, and would love hearing that sentiment.
@440af60e that’s the unique laugh we all have after blowing shit up. I should go do some of that. Haven’t done that for a very long time. Maybe I’ll make a potato gun with my kids. Nobody tell mom.
@7502a322 ya and that’s what should happen. Don’t work for Disney. And Disney will either fold or get a clue or maybe even get a clue but be too late and still fold.
@7502a322 and that will send shockwaves and corporations will realize they need to provide more. But what’s interesting about that is that it will cause prices to go up yet again and wages will have to go up yet again.
@7502a322 I think if your kids have integrity and work hard and provide value and actual profits for companies, they will excel considering their competition. I just think the housing market is scary because I think it is hyper inflated and dangerous for young investors.
I have kids too. I’m extremely concerned about the cultural breakdowns that are occurring and this quiet quitting and passive aggressive nature causing productivity and reliability to plummet.
@7502a322 ya and that’s what should happen. Don’t work for Disney. And Disney will either fold or get a clue or maybe even get a clue but be too late and still fold.
@7502a322 I agree that corporations aren’t raising wages fast enough, but I also see “people not wanting to work anymore”.
It is an employee market now if employees just had the honesty and ethics to continue to be extremely valuable but say “I would like X or I’m going to seek employment elsewhere, which I don’t want to do but will at this point.”
@7502a322 my folks didn’t wait until they could buy a home. And when they got married they literally put their tv set on cinder blocks and laughed about it. They didn’t put their hand to their forehead “wo is me”. They actually enjoyed persevering and never feared the fact that they could only own one vehicle at times. They new they could make it and build a life eventually as long as they didn’t mess things up for themselves. They did fear bad luck because that’s always a factor…
@7502a322 who are the cheaters? The cheaters are the politicians pandering to the ignorance of Americans that think they are entitled to a house, no matter how inflated the market is.
If I was king, I would be backing out the fha loans a little bit by increasing the requirements to get an fha loan little by little. Then I would incentivize construction and development. I would also incentivize low cost rentals and give more power to tenants to evict easily.
@7502a322 of course, I would protect the border and send people back even if they have legit reasons for asylum. We allow asylum seekers, but not one that break our laws right off the bat.
I am convinced that dems don’t even know how manipulated they are by people pulling the strings that for some reason want illegals over legals. My guess is that illegals cause divisiveness and they will side easily with the ones that pander to them. Dems addicted to getting their egos stroked know that too.
@7502a322 now you are getting closer to my line of thinking. I think divorce numbers being high and marriage rates being lower are a cultural issue and much less a financial issue. Actually I don’t think it is a financial issue at all. It’s an issue with the new dynamics of finances within a marriage. Even well off married couples are getting divorced at a higher rate over finances.
@7502a322 who are the cheaters? The cheaters are the politicians pandering to the ignorance of Americans that think they are entitled to a house, no matter how inflated the market is.
If I was king, I would be backing out the fha loans a little bit by increasing the requirements to get an fha loan little by little. Then I would incentivize construction and development. I would also incentivize low cost rentals and give more power to tenants to evict easily.
@7502a322 I know millennials and ya they’ll give you every excuse in the book of why they don’t want to marry. Marriage actually makes things financially easier, not more difficult. People still got married during the Great Depression. And people still get married in 3rd world countries where standards of living is much much lower. And they actually have less reason to get married because they can’t survive independently otherwise.
@7502a322 The housing problem is due to multiple things that are much more obvious to me than a flood of illegals. All during Covid there was zero foreclosures which can only cause an inflated market. Add supply chain issues preventing construction, still more help to not foreclose, ramped up expectations for the size of house everybody wants, and a really inflated market before we even entered the scamdenic, and it’s obvious that the market will get out of control. We need a correction badly.
@7502a322 but a correction would also send us into a recession right now, if not a depression, especially with the supply chain issues. We are screwed.
But with me believing all of that to be true, I still agree that the flood of illegals is incredibly idiotic and counterproductive and adding to the problems. And if they were actually legal immigrants, just some of them, we wouldn’t have the labor shortage and it would light a fire in young people, perhaps, but I wouldn’t count on it.
@7502a322 no it is not right but I don’t buy that illegals are causing the housing problem. Nor do I buy that housing issues are the leading reason why young people are choosing to not marry. Marriage and having kids is not something young people are thinking about. They want a dog and a cat and to shack up indefinitely and lead an easy life having fun with a career in doing something they love. They don’t get that and get stuck waiting for it.
@7502a322 The housing problem is due to multiple things that are much more obvious to me than a flood of illegals. All during Covid there was zero foreclosures which can only cause an inflated market. Add supply chain issues preventing construction, still more help to not foreclose, ramped up expectations for the size of house everybody wants, and a really inflated market before we even entered the scamdenic, and it’s obvious that the market will get out of control. We need a correction badly.
@7502a322 no it is not right but I don’t buy that illegals are causing the housing problem. Nor do I buy that housing issues are the leading reason why young people are choosing to not marry. Marriage and having kids is not something young people are thinking about. They want a dog and a cat and to shack up indefinitely and lead an easy life having fun with a career in doing something they love. They don’t get that and get stuck waiting for it.
@7502a322 I’m at point in my life where I really have a hard time enjoying anyone that might have voted for Biden. And that’s not only because they voted for Biden, of course.
@7502a322 the only problem I have with this analogy is that our kids aren’t starving. They are ever growing to be more and more entitled with softer and softer hands that don’t do anything other than hold a phone.
I wish for legal immigrants because they might actually help the upcoming generations to not be so ungrateful. I want lots of them, but still less than half as many as we are getting illegally. Legal ones choose to respect our culture and country. And that’s why I want zero illegals
@e23d4596 yes exactly and the reaction to that is “that’s not right! It’s unfair. Men are dicks” instead of “girls, this is how you set yourself up for success and prepare yourself for attracting the best man and keeping him happy and yourself happy and living a fulfilling honest life…”
@357cdba8 pretty classy move that allowed him to support writers but not get into the controversy.
But as usual I think the union hurt the writers because they couldn’t do what Adam is talking about and take their products of creativity elsewhere. The unions and the strike allow Hollywood, the worst people, to continue to be the gatekeepers. But they can go after Russell Brand all they want. Things are still going to change.
@768e9cf3 all going according to WEF’s plans, it seems. This is everywhere. Ya, it may suck to work for corporate America that is slow to raise wages to match inflation, but that’s all companies and that’s why inflation sucks. But the market won’t adjust appropriately if people all decide to suck instead of quitting to find work elsewhere. If this generation in large numbers suck as employees, they will ruin productivity and will try to squeeze blood out of a turnip. When they get no blood…
@e23d4596 this is so true. And I have a thing for it. 😳
It is a male fantasy to meet a young woman that is sexually mature but naive to their beauty, naive in general, innocent, and appreciates everything you are willing to do for her to the point she will forever be loyal.
@e23d4596 oh geez. This guy sounds like a modern day male feminist. He doesn’t understand the power of femininity and the dynamics that have been between men and women for thousands of years. He’s injecting his perception of unbalance where there is none.
@e23d4596 this is so true. And I have a thing for it. 😳
It is a male fantasy to meet a young woman that is sexually mature but naive to their beauty, naive in general, innocent, and appreciates everything you are willing to do for her to the point she will forever be loyal.
@669563d8 how has this man gone through life without being punched in the face. He has a very punchable face. Somebody should at least pie him. I guess that just made Bill Gates worse. But it was still really satisfying.
@669563d8 this level of stupidity…
One night I was hanging out with some trendy “bros”, some are cocky helicopter pilot types, all lean left and have minds like pro snowboarders.
One young guy says, “Dumb people are having more kids. The government should make it so all males get a vasectomy at an early age and then have to apply to get it reversed later.”
The others say, “Dude. That’s an amazing idea!!! Fuck ya. I would not want it reversed until I’m ready. That’s actually really convenient.”
@669563d8 Just recently started to look up information on narcissistic personality disorder and this guy is acting like he experienced a really bad narcissistic injury.
Is that the mass hysteria? Everyone is becoming more narcissistic, maybe due to social media? That would explain all of the projection going on. Self aggrandizing. Needs compliments all of the time. Super judgy… belittles at every chance.
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