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dewster
| Favorite team: | LSU  |
| Location: | Chicago |
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| Registered on: | 8/4/2006 |
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re: This really was 3D Chess by Trump
Posted by dewster on 3/3/26 at 8:40 am to conservativewifeymom
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I think it's time we stopped calling him 'little' Marco.
His physical stature may be on the short side, but his diplomatic and management stature is quite impressive.
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re: Bring Us Your Favorite 2021 and Beyond Memes
Posted by dewster on 3/3/26 at 8:28 am to kywildcatfanone
Readers added context.......and it was brutally honest.
Lockheed Martin stock is rising so fast it needs a call sign.
re: Are wages increasing? Not at my company.
Posted by dewster on 3/1/26 at 4:06 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
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Raises have not come remotely close to keeping up with inflation since covid.
True.
But a lot of people also job hopped in 2020-2022 and got very generous bumps in salary for that. Companies seem to be belt tightening now. And fewer exit opportunities for people in tech since the massive Bay Area companies are not hiring as much.
At some point it will get bad enough for people to start job hopping again. But loyalty is just not valued anymore.
re: Are wages increasing? Not at my company.
Posted by dewster on 3/1/26 at 4:00 pm to LSUSUPERSTAR
Only a 3% raise, but a 15% bonus on a 230k salary paid out in 2 weeks. A lot of people getting 2% raises, but I did well this year.
I am happy with it, and that’s all that matters. Company doing well and it seems to be improving so bonuses should be solid next year too.
I get to work from home most of the time. Travel is getting worse but still manageable. I get to spend a lot of time with my family and for volunteer opportunities locally.
I am happy with it, and that’s all that matters. Company doing well and it seems to be improving so bonuses should be solid next year too.
I get to work from home most of the time. Travel is getting worse but still manageable. I get to spend a lot of time with my family and for volunteer opportunities locally.
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Yeah. Don’t we sell the 35? I don’t hear much about us selling the 22.
Yes - F-35 is exported to allies like Italy, Japan, Israel, and many others.
We also export the F-16 to countries that can’t afford a 5th gen fighter.
re: How much of what we're seeing now is directly because of F-35?
Posted by dewster on 3/1/26 at 11:46 am to Epaminondas
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It's ironic because the F-35 was for so long widely criticized as a massive failure: an enormously expensive and largely ineffective weapons system plagued with operational issues.
Consider the agenda of the source of that criticism.
The F-35 is clearly a world class 5th gen fighter.
Require ID for it. These stipends are going to get sold for $0.50 on the dollar.
GM’s Super Cruise is the best hands free system short of a Tesla.
Drive them all. That’s what we did and we ended up in a Yukon XL AT4. Your choice of 3 different engines, and the best ride in the class. No gas particulate filters. Plenty of power. The diesel gets excellent mileage. The L84 5.3L is a reliable unit - much improved over the L83 from a couple of years ago. They claim the 6.2 is improved but we’ll see.
Expedition is second best. Definitely a solid option if the local Ford dealer is really good or if you don’t like the styling of the GM trucks. Some weird interior design choices by Ford but this is a very solid option otherwise. Some of them have a gas particulate filter in 2026, and I’m opposed to that in principle.
Sequoia is a disappointment. I wanted to like it. I am a Toyota guy and I was trading in a 5th Gen 4Runner because we needed more space. But that Sequoia is a train wreck from a design standpoint, and offers the least reliable engine in its class - which is saying something.
The Nissan Armada is surprisingly good. Much better than the Sequoia, but I’m not sure if Nissan will hold their value.
Jeep is the worst from a depreciation standpoint, but I think it has one of the best engines. The Hurricane motor is very responsive and smooth. The interior is well designed on this rig too. But it’s got a history of having a lot of issues.
Before anyone asks….my beloved 5th gen 4Runner has already been sold. I’m going to miss it.
Drive them all. That’s what we did and we ended up in a Yukon XL AT4. Your choice of 3 different engines, and the best ride in the class. No gas particulate filters. Plenty of power. The diesel gets excellent mileage. The L84 5.3L is a reliable unit - much improved over the L83 from a couple of years ago. They claim the 6.2 is improved but we’ll see.
Expedition is second best. Definitely a solid option if the local Ford dealer is really good or if you don’t like the styling of the GM trucks. Some weird interior design choices by Ford but this is a very solid option otherwise. Some of them have a gas particulate filter in 2026, and I’m opposed to that in principle.
Sequoia is a disappointment. I wanted to like it. I am a Toyota guy and I was trading in a 5th Gen 4Runner because we needed more space. But that Sequoia is a train wreck from a design standpoint, and offers the least reliable engine in its class - which is saying something.
The Nissan Armada is surprisingly good. Much better than the Sequoia, but I’m not sure if Nissan will hold their value.
Jeep is the worst from a depreciation standpoint, but I think it has one of the best engines. The Hurricane motor is very responsive and smooth. The interior is well designed on this rig too. But it’s got a history of having a lot of issues.
Before anyone asks….my beloved 5th gen 4Runner has already been sold. I’m going to miss it.
Arrest should be immediate. Don’t care if it’s a boy or a girl that does it- it’s sexual assault.
She and that ref should be reporting to cops. Forget the coach.
She and that ref should be reporting to cops. Forget the coach.
We’ll see how this works out. The younger generation in the US haven’t had the opportunities to develop in the last 10 years. It’s hurt our ability to find good mid level talent now too.
Maybe this changes. But IBM is probably going with H1B’s for this.
Maybe this changes. But IBM is probably going with H1B’s for this.
The human trafficking element was international. It will be hugely embarrassing to this country if we are the last ones to prosecute the big fish.
re: Best fast food Burger, Fries and Drink
Posted by dewster on 2/8/26 at 2:18 pm to BoomerandSooner
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Culvers butter burger is the best I have ever eaten. Had it on a business trip to Chicago.
Lived in Chicago for 4 years and I don't understand why people like Culvers. It's big, clean, but the food is bland. This restaurant would get it's arse handed to it outside of the midwest because you can't taste the damn food.
re: At Least 112 USAF C-17 Aircraft Headed To Middle East
Posted by dewster on 2/8/26 at 12:49 pm to Night Vision
I want to know what's inside of them....
re: Is Vegas normally this dead?
Posted by dewster on 2/2/26 at 7:41 pm to Yaboylsu63
Resort fees, parking fees, insane dining prices, and other predatory tactics have become the norm in Las Vegas. It has annoyed a lot of tourists who have reallocated their travel budgets to Florida and other places.
And also there is an increasingly obvious issue with cleanliness and homelessness. That is also turning people away. Vegas spent decades ridding itself of that gritty, sketchy desert city only to let that element come right back in.
Vegas is in steep decline. It has excellent entertainment venues still, but the writing is on the wall. It will get worse before it gets better especially when regular folks have so many alternative outlets for cheap gambling.
And also there is an increasingly obvious issue with cleanliness and homelessness. That is also turning people away. Vegas spent decades ridding itself of that gritty, sketchy desert city only to let that element come right back in.
Vegas is in steep decline. It has excellent entertainment venues still, but the writing is on the wall. It will get worse before it gets better especially when regular folks have so many alternative outlets for cheap gambling.
re: How long does the OT usually keep a vehicle?
Posted by dewster on 2/1/26 at 2:19 pm to Hangover Haven
Just outgrew one that I wanted to keep forever.
Kids have a way of changing things.
Kids have a way of changing things.
Whatever floats your boat.
From a practical standpoint….it’s supposed to be stupid expensive to get repaired. So I wouldn’t buy a car with it, at least until I could verify that stuff.
From a practical standpoint….it’s supposed to be stupid expensive to get repaired. So I wouldn’t buy a car with it, at least until I could verify that stuff.
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The valedictorian of my medschool class was Black, and went into Peds. He is badly served by DEI and the rational perceptions it renders. It is what it is.
Yep. This highly discriminatory practice creates this unfair doubt over truly competitive applicants that happened to be black.
Matriculation statistics for medical schools were posted annually by race up until at least a few years ago. It was eye opening and really frustrating to learn that MCAT and GPA averages of those accepted differed wildly by race. It was such a huge delta that the only explanation was that the system is, in some ways, expecting far more from Asian and white applicants.
The real issue here is that a lot of native Americans and African Americans are totally screwed by public schools, teacher unions, and the special interests that have hijacked all of those entities. If there is unequal representation in our medical schools, the correct way to address this is to take an honest look at the problems in our K-12 public education system that are charged with helping these applicants ready themselves for the world.
It seems like there is a problem with unequal access to basic education, but instead of sorting that root cause out - we just stack the deck in a way that addresses the symptoms of that problem in a hugely unfair way.
Another example of progressives in education resorting to discriminatory practices to solve a problem that they created. And trust me on this - all of the applicants know this. They may not talk about it, but they know what's happening.
It's obvious and deliberate. These are not rounding errors. These are huge deltas in standards by race. And it's not something that can be defended in a rational argument:
The real issue here is that a lot of native Americans and African Americans are totally screwed by public schools, teacher unions, and the special interests that have hijacked all of those entities. If there is unequal representation in our medical schools, the correct way to address this is to take an honest look at the problems in our K-12 public education system that are charged with helping these applicants ready themselves for the world.
It seems like there is a problem with unequal access to basic education, but instead of sorting that root cause out - we just stack the deck in a way that addresses the symptoms of that problem in a hugely unfair way.
Another example of progressives in education resorting to discriminatory practices to solve a problem that they created. And trust me on this - all of the applicants know this. They may not talk about it, but they know what's happening.
It's obvious and deliberate. These are not rounding errors. These are huge deltas in standards by race. And it's not something that can be defended in a rational argument:
re: Molly Ringwald Warns Trump Supporters:Collaborators Are Criminals When Democrats Take Over
Posted by dewster on 1/29/26 at 7:58 am to LuckyTiger
I have always had a thing for red heads, but her whiney voice always pissed me off in all those 1980s movies she was in.
re: Is there really a housing shortage? Consider this.
Posted by dewster on 1/28/26 at 7:55 pm to Jax Teller
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short term rentals.
These shouldn't be so popular. They thrive in areas where hotels are either very difficult or impossible to construct because of local zoning laws.
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