goofball

re: Only Mazda's got a truck for just 57....95 (sakes alive)

Posted by goofball on 3/30/26 at 4:27 pm to CAD703X

1980s-1990s trucks were cool.

1998 Chevy S-10 pickup with a 4.3L V6 and 5 speed manual was a little speed demon for like $16,000.

re: No Kings! This Girl was Cooking!

Posted by goofball on 3/30/26 at 1:15 pm to theballguy

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There's no goals, no objectives, nothing defined at all. No wonder everyone believes they're incompetent.

And we don't even have Kings.

re: Population growth slowed in a majority of the nation’s counties

Posted by goofball on 3/30/26 at 1:01 pm to RLDSC FAN

Life is unaffordable. Places need reasonable costs of living AND a robust job market to grow, and it has to be steady.....not a boom and bust situation to be sustainable.

People are moving to where the jobs are and concentrating in some areas.

So not only are most counties seeing a net outmigration, the birth rate is too low to even sustain what they have. That's a map to a public sector fiscal cliff.

Definitely alarming. I'm seeing places get stagnant that I never thought would get stagnant in my lifetime. A lot of that is because the costs of living there are just too damn high.

re: Buc-ee’s coming to Livingston Parish?

Posted by goofball on 3/30/26 at 12:59 pm to Roy Curado

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Cities do not provide tracts to business to develop. Businesses find tracts to develop

Yeah.....a lot of posters seem to blame Baton Rouge, Shreveport, New Orleans, or Hammond for not having one.

Having available sites that works for their operation is a prerequisite.

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re: Buc-ee’s coming to Livingston Parish?

Posted by goofball on 3/30/26 at 12:56 pm to Defenseiskey

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Apparently Lafayette was the only city in the area that was willing to get the ball rolling. Every other city would either pussyfoot around or couldn't provide a tract with decent infrastructure or were unwilling to.

It helps to have available land with fairly easy sewer taps near a giant highway exit. That site was available, and it was a solid location.

Lafayette didn't stitch the sites together though. If it were that easy, Denham Springs or Hammond would probably have one by now.

Seems like this is the OT version of Top Golf. Everyone denies its coming to Louisiana until one day they show up on Siegen Lane of all places.

re: Buc-ee’s coming to Livingston Parish?

Posted by goofball on 3/30/26 at 12:52 pm to TheGeauxt9

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I think that wouldnt be a bad spot, usually Buc-ees are placed on outskirts of metro areas or between them. Theyll have between Lafayette and BR, and then if so here, between BR and Hammond

Not a bad location.....

Is that a bayou down the middle of it?

re: New Orleans airport lines are in the parking lot. Well over 3 hours to get through (Sunday

Posted by goofball on 3/22/26 at 3:57 pm to tigerskin

Why have Democrats blocked funding for TSA this time?

re: 2026 Tundra Limited

Posted by goofball on 1/17/26 at 9:55 pm to TDTOM

Not very appealing to me at all but I guess looks are subjective.

I’d be more concerned with the catastrophic engine failures and the amount of these that regularly go on a stop sale because they are traded in before Toyota can ship an engine for the recall.

re: Has the sugar industry become exploitative in south Louisiana?

Posted by goofball on 12/27/25 at 8:23 pm to Turnblad85

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I think he just simps for them.

People who simp for modern large scale agriculture corporations are pretty pathetic.

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whatever would we do without dirt cheap sugar in our diets?

All of these price controls and government help in the form of special treatment for immigration and environmental issues….is insane. Some of the best farmland in the country and we are scared of imported sugar.

It’s not as insane as cutting gasoline with ethanol to keep the corn growers happy. That is flat out batshit.

re: Has the sugar industry become exploitative in south Louisiana?

Posted by goofball on 12/27/25 at 2:17 pm to Riverside

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historically important

But currently only important to few corporations, immigrant laborers, and big landowners.

I think that's the point of this thread and it's a damn good point. Sugar isn't the job producer it used to be. If it were, Donaldsonville, Morganza, and Plaquemine wouldn't be dead towns today.

Politically....demanding that an industry with so many protections employ more local labor and cared more for their local environment is a fair ask, especially if it's not a big bang approach that hits the industry all at once.

re: Has the sugar industry become exploitative in south Louisiana?

Posted by goofball on 12/27/25 at 2:04 pm to frequent flyer

If the sugar cane workers that earn a living in Louisiana could read English, they'd be furious with this whole thread.

But they all speak Spanish so you'll just get a few idiots that worship agriculture and see it as being "different" from every other highly controlled, highly subsidized business that they love to criticize.

re: Why Are Mid-Level Convertibles No Longer Popular?

Posted by goofball on 12/27/25 at 2:02 pm to Red Stick Tigress

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Solara was Toyota's convertible.

I think they've canceled it before Obama got to office. But I could be wrong.

The tech bros that could afford convertibles in the $50k-$70k range today are buying Teslas. And for some reason Tesla doesn't offer a convertible right now.

re: Why Are Mid-Level Convertibles No Longer Popular?

Posted by goofball on 12/27/25 at 2:01 pm to cypresstiger

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Mercedes makes convertibles.

They still do, but they are consolidating some models. And that's kind of nuts because Mercedes is IMO one of the world's best when it comes to a convertible GT car.

Fewer people can afford what is basically a "3rd" vehicle. I think this is the same reason sports compacts aren't as popular as they were during the Bush era. Younger people who don't need a massive SUV don't have the disposable income for a fun vehicle. And the fun vehicles that do exist are not resonating with the handful that can make it work.

Porsche, Corvette, some Mercedes models.....those are reliably attracting a lot of those buyers. But every other automaker is seeing very limited success in that market. Many carmakers have abandoned it entirely.

re: How much are plant operators at the LNG plants making per hour?

Posted by goofball on 12/27/25 at 1:58 pm to theunknownknight

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Hourly rate
+ 1.5 times rate overtime after 8 hours each day
+ gift card/extra pay for side “contract replacement” work
+ full pension after 15 years
+ social security
+ stock/401k
+ clothing allowance
+ turn around pay

= money

We should be building these LNG plants fricking everywhere in Louisiana.

re: Are all HR departments out there complete dog shite?

Posted by goofball on 12/27/25 at 1:57 pm to cbree88

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Are all HR departments out there complete dog shite?

People with brains don't typically work in HR.

In fact they stay far away from anyone in HR.

re: If your Toyota Truck engine was replaced/recalled - check for pinched fuel lines

Posted by goofball on 12/14/25 at 12:52 pm to member12

The new Tundras are total shite. I wouldn’t buy one new or used.

I can’t believe they went from one of the best trucks ever made to this twin turbo garbage that has to be torn down and rebuilt.

re: Fed Chair Says U.S. May Be Drastically Overstating Jobs Numbers

Posted by goofball on 12/11/25 at 10:06 am to ragincajun03

The Fed adjusted the 2024 hiring numbers downward by 911,000 back in September 2025. That's no rounding error. That's incredibly bad data that the Fed is using to make decisions.

I don't trust the data.