rintintin
| Favorite team: | Tulane  |
| Location: | Life is Life |
| Biography: | LSU fan |
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| Number of Posts: | 17081 |
| Registered on: | 11/2/2008 |
| Online Status: | Not Online |
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People who travel with babies that do nothing but cry; what's the point? Stay the frick home
This is dumb
There are many reasons that people may need to travel with a baby aside from just a vacation.
Even if it is for a vacation, frick off. You're on public transportation. Pay for first class or fly private if you dont like it. People with kids aren't going to put their life on hold because some people don't know how to put on headphones.
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Neighborhoods have 75% of the apartments being around $2k. Many of those are bought by investors and turned into condos in the 800k-1M range. Many of those condos are bought as vacation/secondary stays in the city. Neighborhood now has 35% of the apartments being around $2k.
That certainly makes sense.
I'd be interested in how much that's actually happened in otherwise affordable areas.
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Mamdani's plan means a lot of rents will stay at $2500/mo instead of go to $2550
So their costs rise with inflation but they aren't allowed to raise rent in parallel.
How generous.
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Another issue driving scarcity is the sheer amount of wealthy people who have a 2nd or 3rd or 4th residence in NYC. (For all the talk of rich people being driven away, they sure keep flocking here in droves)
This isn't tracking with me. How does a wealthy person owning a multimillion dollar 2nd residence affect the average person paying $2k in rent?
It's not like the sandwich maker down the street would ever live there. Is that more to do about converting those spaces into rentals? Which also doesn't make sense but I'm genuinely trying to understand the argument.
re: NYC officially approves a rent freeze for up to 2 years
Posted by rintintin on 6/26/26 at 6:57 am to NolaLovingClemsonFan
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but I don’t know how you fix what’s going on in NYC for anything close to affordable rent.
Why exactly does it need to be "fixed"?
This is always the false narrative that gets Gov't involved, then in turn the problem gets much worse down the line because Gov't policies are always shortsighted.
Remove regulations as much as feasibly possible, then let the market do its thing. There's no golden rule that states people can live wherever they want.
re: Tulane to invest 700 million into Charity Hospital in Downtown New Orleans
Posted by rintintin on 6/24/26 at 9:48 am to metallica81788
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However, I'm skeptical of anything Tulane does. They couldn't keep their own shitty hospital open and had to infiltrate EJ and the entire LCMC complex.
Lol, that's quite the take.
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Will create 2,000 jobs. Sorry no link. Will create a biomedical district
Riiight.
How does 2,000 employees for a 1M square foot building seem outlandish?
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It beats the hell out of going to the emergency room. It’s especially convenient with primary care doctors not having appointments available.
This. If you want ED wait times and costs to go down you should relish more urgent cares.
So you can identify as any gender you want and a man can subsequently walk into a girl's locker room with no problem.
But in order to identify as gay, you need to fill out paperwork proving it?
This is beyond clown world.
But in order to identify as gay, you need to fill out paperwork proving it?
This is beyond clown world.
re: Customers hit with automatic 20% gratuities as restaurants combat tipping confusion
Posted by rintintin on 6/13/26 at 5:47 pm to weagle1999
Wonder if its OK for Nola to do this during the Bayou Classic.
re: Just saw a group of jehovah witnesses on them E-bikes
Posted by rintintin on 6/13/26 at 5:45 pm to TechDawg2007
Man I got a handwritten letter in the mail from a Jehova witness and I must say I actually took the time to sit down and read the whole letter and had an appreciation for it. Looked like a 13 year old wrote it.
Usually any type of bible thumping mail goes directly in the trash but I can respect the hustle of them JW's.
Usually any type of bible thumping mail goes directly in the trash but I can respect the hustle of them JW's.
re: OpenAI - China ran covert campaign to turn Americans against data centers, but used facts
Posted by rintintin on 6/12/26 at 7:23 am to Stealth Matrix
I don't think the largest companies in the world are dropping unprecedented levels of capex for something that doesn't have demand.
Are they "needed" is not the right question, technically we don't need a bunch of the modern shite we use.
The right question is, is there demand? And the answer to that right now is unequivocally yes. So much so that there's a massive shortage of data centers.
I'm on the fence on whether they're good or bad, but my optimistic side says that if we want power technology to advance, then this massive demand is how to achieve that. The demand and shortage of power has never been higher. Innovation in that space is absolutely needed to keep up. This could be a new industrial revolution for power and electricity.
Are they "needed" is not the right question, technically we don't need a bunch of the modern shite we use.
The right question is, is there demand? And the answer to that right now is unequivocally yes. So much so that there's a massive shortage of data centers.
I'm on the fence on whether they're good or bad, but my optimistic side says that if we want power technology to advance, then this massive demand is how to achieve that. The demand and shortage of power has never been higher. Innovation in that space is absolutely needed to keep up. This could be a new industrial revolution for power and electricity.
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Every meal except Thanksgiving lunch and dinner. Not even sure why we have a kitchen in the house
Not trying to divert this thread but I really need to know more about this. I have so many questions.
- How much money do you make?
- How many kids do you have (and what age)
- What does breakfast look like? Yall really leave the house to eat breakfast everyday?
I need to know how this operates :lol:
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Our family eats out every meal.
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Going to church.
My dad never went with us but he told me I was gonna get my arse up and go to church with my mother and sisters.
:lol: He wanted that precious hour of peace and quiet to himself and I don't blame him.
re: ‘Please pay attention to me or my dog’
Posted by rintintin on 5/23/26 at 9:45 am to weagle1999
I like dogs.
I like people with dogs.
I hate people who bring their dogs everywhere and act like it's normal to bring animals inside establishments.
I like people with dogs.
I hate people who bring their dogs everywhere and act like it's normal to bring animals inside establishments.
Female's blame weight gain on "uncontrollable" factors. The simple physiological truth behind calorie deficits don't resonate.
re: Am I Essentially Doomed To Weight Loss/Diabetes Medicine?
Posted by rintintin on 5/22/26 at 6:25 am to TheMagicMan
Holy shite what the hell is going on here? Are we already at the point that people think it's impossible to lose weight without drugs?
If your physician told you that I would find a new one ASAP. That's a ridiculously lazy opinion and points to some kind of incentive to get as many people on weight loss drugs as possible.
You're not even that bad off. Get on a diet, get on a workout routine and you can shed that weight in a few months.
What the frick
If your physician told you that I would find a new one ASAP. That's a ridiculously lazy opinion and points to some kind of incentive to get as many people on weight loss drugs as possible.
You're not even that bad off. Get on a diet, get on a workout routine and you can shed that weight in a few months.
What the frick
re: Women hitchhike from Denmark - Japan to show world is friendly place
Posted by rintintin on 5/21/26 at 8:46 pm to weagle1999
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the world is a pretty good place, and lots of people are nice
I mean I agree with this statement. Overall I think the majority of people in the world are just trying to live their life as happily as possible.
Problem is it only takes one instance of running into the minority who don't think that way.
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I'm a simple man. I search a topic, I see a list of sites, I click on the most pertinent one. That's all I need, Google.
What you describe is not simplicity. You click on the one that paid the most to be there. Google search turned into a giant ad list and I welcome this change.
Somehow search got worse as time went on.
I assume they make much more money than you think. With 80+ home games a year they don't need 50k fans in attendance.
This is anecdotal but probably points to what baseball is versus other sports. I went to a MN twins games last year on a random Tues night when they were out of the playoff running.
I was blown away by how many people were there and engaged with the game / having a good time. The amount of families and kids is impressive, and hoards of young teenagers too. It was just a great atmosphere.
Baseball seems more of an atmosphere / spectator sport than other sports. There aren't drunk trashy dudes with oversized jerseys picking fights. You go to the ballpark to hang with the family, eat a few hotdogs and drink a beer.
This is anecdotal but probably points to what baseball is versus other sports. I went to a MN twins games last year on a random Tues night when they were out of the playoff running.
I was blown away by how many people were there and engaged with the game / having a good time. The amount of families and kids is impressive, and hoards of young teenagers too. It was just a great atmosphere.
Baseball seems more of an atmosphere / spectator sport than other sports. There aren't drunk trashy dudes with oversized jerseys picking fights. You go to the ballpark to hang with the family, eat a few hotdogs and drink a beer.
re: Considering leaving the sun belt, who has did it and how has it been
Posted by rintintin on 5/9/26 at 9:20 pm to Galloglaich
Moved from LA to MN a few years ago.
It was cool for a couple of years but after the novelty of living somewhere new wore off, it honestly sucks.
The winters are just brutal for someone from the South. And everyone keeps saying the past few winters have been mild. frick that, if this is mild then I don't want to see normal.
Spring is the worst because there isn't really a spring. You get a random mildly warm day that makes you pack your coat up, then 2 days later it's fricking snowing again.
Also, people are weird. Hard to mingle in this part of the country.
It was cool for a couple of years but after the novelty of living somewhere new wore off, it honestly sucks.
The winters are just brutal for someone from the South. And everyone keeps saying the past few winters have been mild. frick that, if this is mild then I don't want to see normal.
Spring is the worst because there isn't really a spring. You get a random mildly warm day that makes you pack your coat up, then 2 days later it's fricking snowing again.
Also, people are weird. Hard to mingle in this part of the country.
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