AUFANATL
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I think in some ways it's simply a reflection of the housing market. That's why states with huge groups of people in poverty, like New Mexico and Hawaii, have low numbers.
But it still seems a little off. What percentage of people own homes and have been in them long enough to build equity?
There's also the snag of valuing personal item assets that a person owns. If my house burns down tomorrow, I'm filing an insurance claim stating my "stuff" was worth $50,000. If I have to move to Hawaii and want to sell all of my "stuff" I would be lucky to get $2000 off craigslist, FB marketplace, Ebay, etc and the months long headache that entails probably wouldn't be worth the hassle versus donating it to whatever charity is willing to haul it away.
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Even if I won $1 million betting on Russian ping pong, I would be too scared to try to collect it.
re: Vikings need to make a blockbuster trade tomorrow for Herbert.
Posted by AUFANATL on 11/10/26 at 8:49 am to Oilfieldbiology
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Because I’m not old enough to really remember the 80’s and 90’s qb play.
I remember the 80s being good. You had a big influx of young talent and defenses were still built to stop the run.
I don't remember the specifics but several years ago there was a weekend where the NFL started a bunch of crappy, "who the hell is that guy" QBs. Someone listed the starting QBs for a random weekend in 1986. It was something like Montana, Marino, Elway, Kelley, Young, Fouts, Moon, Esaison, Simms, Kosar, McMahon, Cunningham, Everett, Kreig, O'Brien, etc. Just pretty solid across the board. Even guys like Eason, Schroeder and Hostettler game managed their team to a Super Bowl.
Never went to a summer camp but all of the youth sports I played - soccer, little league baseball and football were organized through the YMCA.
It's contributing to the hype of a 24 team playoff as well. The money grab was probably inevitable but the idea that a traditional mid-tier program riding a wave of emotion is going to roll into the end of the year banged up with no talent depth and reel off four straight wins against ranked opponents is foolish. We're not going to get the football equivalent of March Madness. The stocked ponds like Georgia and Ohio St are going to grind the little guys down and the process will be become self-perpetuating because the top recruits and players will then flock to the grinders instead of the grindees.
What's the SOL and maximum penalty for illegally filming someone without their consent? I think we're at the point where you just have to set up a network of surveillance cameras to document every interaction, even if you know you're breaking the law. The alternative is a vindictive group that wants to persecute you for some other reason can go out and find some ex-lover willing to throw out "he said - she said" accusations in a forum shopped court where the "she said" side is always right, especially if there's some irrelevant aspect of the "he said" personality they don't like.
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This is more accurate than I could be sailing around the world.
What's strange about it is that Europe's contours are messed up. Africa and Asia aren't too bad. I wouldn't expect them to get the New World right but you would think they would have a better idea of the Mediterranean and Scandanavia.
re: Every commercial on NFL this morning features effeminate, gay white guys & mixed couples.
Posted by AUFANATL on 11/8/26 at 1:21 pm to ImaObserver
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Just face it, they are trying to match the demographics of those who waste their lifetime watching things like the NFL and other sports, and memorizing teams, players, historic stats, etc.
Gay dudes and sassy black women are not watching NFL games. And some of these other creations barely even exist at all. That's what's so strange about all of this. It would be logical to air these commercials on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy or something.
Some of these companies are either stupid, stubbornly ideological or they simply see more indirect money at the end of the road by flying a political allegiance flag than they do convincing a viewer to purchase their product via a 20 second clip.
The original actor who played Alfalfa in the Little Rascals had a similar downfall. He couldn't get acting work as an adult so he quit Hollywood and absconded to a life of rural poverty in the midwest. His attempts at subsistence farming failed and he had to take on any menial jobs he could find, one of which was training hunting dogs. He offered to train another surly redneck's coon dog. Alfala lost the dog in the woods. After putting up fliers, another man eventually found the dog and Alfalfa paid him a reward. Alfalfa felt the dog's owner should compensate him for the reward money. The owner disagreed since Alfalfa lost the dog in the first place and he also suspected he might be the victim of a redneck ruse to scam him out of more money. A front porch brawl ensued and the man shot and killed Alfalfa.
Taco man was a southpaw - they do everything backwards. He should have listened to Apollo Creed's trainer:
re: Colorado voters reject amendment making hunting and fishing a constitutional right
Posted by AUFANATL on 11/5/26 at 8:26 pm to LARancher1991
There's also specific seasons you can hunt and other times it is disallowed. And limits for things like the amount of fish you can catch or birds you can shoot.
I don't think anyone has a problem with hunting regulations.
re: Each state's most disproportionately popular kink, according to hook up app Fetlife
Posted by AUFANATL on 11/5/26 at 4:35 pm to JohnnyKilroy
Virginia being interrogation tracks as that is where CIA and FBI are based.
re: Texas and a Republican path to the WH
Posted by AUFANATL on 11/5/26 at 3:36 pm to geauxbrown
I think there's still a narrow path but it would involve winning every swing state - so it would be like a 1% chance versus a 0% chance.
Another reason to worry about the Colorodofication of Texas and Georgia is that they can gerrymander those states to give them permanent control of the House as well.
I've been saying this for years. Democrats (the braintrust at least) are playing the long game while you are distracted with nonsense like tranny story time and executive ballrooms.
The goal - move the party ideology to the far left, remove political roadblocks and build the resources and infrastructure to flip Texas blue. Then it's game over - losing Texas is the equivalent of losing the queen on a chess board.
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Trump had a trifecta and perhaps the most executive power an american president has ever had.
This isn't true. Republicans had a very narrow majority and several of them were openly or quietly working against anything he wanted to do. Not to mention all of the forum shopped activist judges who proudly consider themselves a non-elected veto rather than servants of the law. Add in all of the other petty squabbles, roadblocks and other BS that anyone right of Castro in DC has become increasingly known for and it was an uphill mountain at climb.
Trump still deserves plenty of blame. He failed to play the game even if he was the road team and the refs were in the bag. And he suffered a lot of self-inflicted wounds and penalties.
re: Is Vance Backing Away from Trump?
Posted by AUFANATL on 11/4/26 at 2:52 pm to hogcard1964
I think he's partly getting out in front of the messaging here.
The Democrat base has been sharply divided on this stuff and to a lesser extent Republicans too. The media/entertainment/communications machine is heavily Jewish and pro-Israel so they are going to spin the results as a repudiation of MAGA populism and conservative values and all of the other stuff they hate.
They played Trump like a fiddle - got him to go all in on Israel first knowing they would get everything they secretly wanted while Trump and Republican candidates suffered the fallout which creates the added benefit of them getting a far left domestic and social agenda.
Vance is pointing that out so it gets out and is heard. Perhaps distancing himself from the trainwreck too for the sake of his own future, but that's understandable.
re: No one is discussing the radical DSA taking over the Dem party and Repub changing
Posted by AUFANATL on 11/4/26 at 11:34 am to HailToTheChiz
I'm not a political historian, but with all of the flips PLUS retirements PLUS traditional Dems being replaced with far left candidates, this seems pretty damn historic (and frightening).
When was the last time there was this big of a shift - not just numbers - in Congress? I remember 1994 was a big deal.
While this and many other results are awful, I think it also puts some perspective on the Chicken Little "sky is falling" crowd who think Texas is the new California and a Republican will never win a race in Georgia again.
This was a nationwide trend and a perfect storm. Finicky republicans sat this election out. So did the MAGA never voted before crowd. Wishy washy independents and the angry at government crowd broke for the Dems. And the loyal, yellow dogs showed up in full force.
The Democrats built a political army and spent hundreds of millions of dollars to flip a Senate Seat in Texas. But all they had to do this fall was gather some signatures and put his name on the ballot with a D next to it. The rolling tides of political emotion would have done the rest.
re: Young white men swung +45 to Ds this election cycle
Posted by AUFANATL on 11/4/26 at 12:45 am to tiggerthetooth
This probably has more to do with domestic economic policies than it does Israel.
A lot of young men are simply priced out of the American Dream. They're stuck begging for low paying jobs - many of which are being replaced by outsourcing, AI or immigrants - and they see no hope of getting married, owning a home or a decent car and raising kids. Many of them don't even have any disposable income for things like a date, concert, ballgame, bar night with the boys, golf outing, etc... All the things that make being young fun.
And politicians and the media have been feeding them bullshite for over a decade. But the bullshite doesn't work because they have reality beamed into their phone 24 hours a day from every direction of their social networks and sites. So they just keep swinging towards the political opposition - MAGA in 2016 and 2024 and liberals in 2020 and 2026 just to send a message. Because what else can they do?
Letting a Supreme Court seat go unfilled for four years, or even two, would be pretty ridiculous. It would just lead to a cycle where the opposing party blocked a President's nominees forever until they retook the White House. Hell, the Supreme court itself might step in and usher some type of activist ruling on that.
Now, there's precedent for holding a seat open until an impending election - Garland - but you can't just stall out an entire term.
Same with packing. Democrats add five, so Republicans add 10, so Democrats add 20... it's absurd.
re: GOP Gerrymandering in TX Backfired Bigly
Posted by AUFANATL on 11/3/26 at 10:47 pm to AggieDub14
This was pointed out when they did it. When you dilute two Solid-R districts to make a Lean-D district a Lean-R district you put all of those seats at risk during a blue wave.
All the focus has been on the Senate but there were some shocking losses in the House. Some good Congressmen got replaced by crazies.
I get it. People wanted to send a message, but the collateral damage here is extraordinary and there's going to be severe long term effects and fallout from this.
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