| Favorite team: | |
| Location: | Brooklyn |
| Biography: | |
| Interests: | Sports |
| Occupation: | Record Shop / Label |
| Number of Posts: | 8793 |
| Registered on: | 3/16/2010 |
| Online Status: | Not Online |
Recent Posts
Message
re: Women are so fake
Posted by wm72 on 6/13/25 at 2:11 pm
quote:
Women are so fake
all you have to do is look at posters on this board picking apart every little physical detail of women's appearances to understand why.
0
re: Interesting: murder rates are down from 1970 due to medical advances ,not fewer attempts
Posted by wm72 on 6/12/25 at 12:27 pm
quote:
I guess it comes down to stats vs experience
1995 in NYC just “feels” safer to people than 2025 nyc
Maybe if these people are following the media outlets exaggerating crime instead of actually walking around Brooklyn neighborhoods? Vast areas of Manhattan and Brooklyn that seemed sketchy even in 2010 now feel ultra safe.
The only outlier I can think of was 2021-2022 after the city let tons of mentally ill people out of facilities during the height of the Covid pandemic. I assume is was to avoid lawsuits ect if they or staff would have died in facilities. For those 2 years, a lot of the city had crazy people all over but they've them rounded back up now.
re: Interesting: murder rates are down from 1970 due to medical advances ,not fewer attempts
Posted by wm72 on 6/12/25 at 12:02 pm
quote:
to be fair...i was there last week and there are still certain areas I wouldnt want to go in. Like outside yankee stadium in the bronx
Yeah, I'd add East NY in Brooklyn out near JFK airport too. Bronx has a lot of sketchy parts though Harlem is pretty gentrified these days.
However those areas don't really leak out all over the city where a vast proportion of seems very safe.
And, there's really not many cities or towns anywhere in America where you can't find some areas you don't really want to be strolling around in after dark.
re: Interesting: murder rates are down from 1970 due to medical advances ,not fewer attempts
Posted by wm72 on 6/12/25 at 11:41 am
quote:
yea thats complete and utter bullshite. Violence is way way down in most cities. Now it might not be as isolated as it was back then but violence in general is way down.
the 80-90s crack epidemic and drug culture in places like Baltimore, St Louis, Nola, even Los Angles and the herion epidemic in NYC in the 70s and early 80s and in places like Newark along with mob violence tells you this is BS.
there are less gun shot victims in general...plus all other violent crime is down.
if you are going to post things, at least try and understand them and verify truth before just running at the mouth.
Yeah, violent crimes in many big cities is a fraction of what it was in the 70s-80s.
NYC, for example, has a violent crime rate that's about the same as Fort Worth Texas or Colorado Springs and 1/2 that of Pensacola, Huntsville AL or Knoxville.
Certain media loves to paint a different picture of crime since it's great political capital though.
re: Tips for floating drywall? Update: did my first coat of mud and tape.
Posted by wm72 on 6/11/25 at 6:32 pm
I'd just follow these directions from 9rocket if I were you.
I've taped a bunch and this is very close to what I do (although I'm pretty good just using the green bucket mud and continually mixing more water to get the final polishing coat).
If you're having trouble getting the final coat smooth, you can just take your watered down mixture --like a really thick milkshake -- and apply it in 3 or so foot sections with a paint tray and roller and use your large knife to smooth by removing it.
re: If you were the devil and wanted to keep an entire nation sick, what would you do?
Posted by wm72 on 6/11/25 at 7:29 am
quote:
haven’t seen capitalism in a long time. The regulation we see today was to used prop up corporatism by driving small fries out of the marketplace and replaced with a very wealthy and powerful few, not capitalism. They had to close shop because of those regulations
I don't know. This seems exactly what happens when a very wealthy and powerful few accumulate most of the capital.
re: The gig economy will be dead in 5 years
Posted by wm72 on 6/10/25 at 7:03 pm
quote:
t's more likely that the 1% will continue to hoard capital. What happens then?
One really wonders how well middle / working class Americans would be doing if all the billionaires that became mega-multi billionaires on the back of exporting manufacturing labor overseas, cutting American workers wages and benefits through part-time, gig work, gaming health care etc etc were still just regular old fashioned billionaires?
Something tells me the vast majority of our problems wouldn't seem so bad.
re: Tide Hoops | Recruiting
Posted by wm72 on 6/8/25 at 1:53 pm
The step Philon needs to take isn't as much alpha scorer as alpha point guard when we need a basket late in the shot clock.
He needs to be the guy to beat his man and make good decisions using the array of great 3 point shooters surrounding him.
He needs to be the guy to beat his man and make good decisions using the array of great 3 point shooters surrounding him.
re: Honeymoon question, 1 night in NYC before Bermuda
Posted by wm72 on 6/5/25 at 8:09 am
I'd forget the driver unless you just really want to bounce around a ton of places quickly.
Uber Black is fine.
I'd just make reservations at a cool restaurant/ bar like Raf's or Monkey Bar and relax the schedule a bit.
Uber Black is fine.
I'd just make reservations at a cool restaurant/ bar like Raf's or Monkey Bar and relax the schedule a bit.
re: When will companies end the minimalist design experiment?
Posted by wm72 on 6/1/25 at 4:20 pm
quote:
The modern look has been sold to hipsters because they have no soul.
The same hipsters that flock to retro designed shops and restaurants and fight over mid-century Danish or Italian Space Age design pieces?
re: Salaries vs inflation
Posted by wm72 on 6/1/25 at 3:57 pm
quote:
This isn’t me bashing young families today. It’s definitely hard, but people like to ignore all the tech/material advantages of living in 2025 vs 1985. It’s pretty significant from a quality of life perspective even if you have to “struggle” for it.
The irony is that the wider availability of "luxury" products that people point to in comparison to the 1970s are a big reason we're in this mess.
The country was duped into all sorts of big money schemes that resulted in trading wages with more buying power for cheap TVs at Walmart.
re: Feds are prosecuting contractors who are hiring illegals
Posted by wm72 on 6/1/25 at 12:07 pm
quote:
There is a whole industry of sub contractors, "employment agencies" that take the risk (for a nice pay day) for the GC. These are underfunded shells that fold as soon someone starts asking questions.
GC gets the benefit of the cheap labor, zero liability. Guess who owns and sits on the Board(s) of these big construction companies? Republicans.
All theater.
Yeah, a lot of people don't seem to understand this dynamic. It's not just Republicans or just construction companies. It's just about every big company of every type.
Most "genius" CEOs that have successfully "slashed costs" in everything from chain stores to resort golf hotels to delivery services have used the shell company subcontractors playbook.
re: Gen contractor says the constr. economy is going to tank because his workers got deported
Posted by wm72 on 5/31/25 at 2:17 pm
quote:
I don’t understand why these businesses aren’t being punished.
I assume it's because almost every wealthy person, politicians included, and every major company hires tons of illegals insulated by subcontractors.
No wealthy person wants to open that box.
And, going after the small subcontractors is like whack a mole.
re: Blackstone Grill - Different models (quality) /prices at different stores?
Posted by wm72 on 5/30/25 at 5:17 pm
quote:
Walmart, Sams, Costco and Amazon can get manufacturers to build specific models for them, that are usually of slightest less quality to provided a cheaper version.
A family friend's food company got a contract with Walmart and makes versions of their products with much cheaper, unhealthier ingredients for Walmart shelves than what goes to other supermarkets like Publix etc.
I guess I shouldn't be surprised.
re: U.S. GDP has tripled the last 20 years, do you think the country is 3x better than it was?
Posted by wm72 on 5/30/25 at 4:00 pm
quote:
i can guarantee most households have way more "luxury" items then we did 20 years ago. now most luxury items are considered essential items.
Cheap Asian products that diminished American manufacturing is precisely what flipped the script on "luxury" items, though.
In the 60s-80s, the new electronics were luxury items for working middle class folks but they owned a home.
I lived in Italy from 2000-2006 when European policies meant Chinese DVD players were just as expensive as German ones and Chinese shoes were more expensive than nice Italian ones. Luxury items in Europe, at that point at least, were still luxury items insofar as the retail price reflected the costs to make them with decently paid workers.
It's like we simply traded good jobs that brought real buying power to a majority of working Americans for cheap "luxury" Chinese TVs at Walmart.
re: Gen contractor says the constr. economy is going to tank because his workers got deported
Posted by wm72 on 5/30/25 at 3:38 pm
It will be interesting to see if ICE picks mainly on smaller local contractors or actually goes after all the cleaning, basic labor and maintenance being subcontracted by the biggest corporations.
re: As a new Mississippi River bridge moves forward, rare cypress forest could be in danger
Posted by wm72 on 5/30/25 at 11:21 am
quote:
? My dad had to fight and hold on to 100 acres in northwest Louisiana and thankfully we still have it. He and my siblings and I had a lot of money thrown at us, nope, land meant too much and was more important than the money. I don’t blame her for not wanting it cut down.
My brother and I own 60 acres in the Florida panhandle that's all old growth forest aside from a few acres of highway frontage. It used to be rural but now there are new clear cut style cheaply built subdivisions all around it.
I couldn't be more content doing absolutely nothing with that land aside from letting some family friends hunt there.
re: Interesting lawsuit in Orleans that could affect magnet and academy schools statewide.
Posted by wm72 on 5/30/25 at 10:02 am
quote:
There is not a private school in this state that does not take at least a very small amount of taxdollars. In for a penny, in for a dollar.
I can guess that tax dollars directed away from public schools that must provide for disabled children and toward private schools than don't have that expense is a controversial topic.
re: Are you good with going in a restuarant right before it’s scheduled to close?
Posted by wm72 on 5/29/25 at 5:40 pm
quote:
what you're saying is it's up to the owner? Seems ya'll agree.
Exactly. When owner sets the closing time they expect customers to be considerate enough to be out of the place by that time.
re: Are you good with going in a restuarant right before it’s scheduled to close?
Posted by wm72 on 5/29/25 at 5:03 pm
quote:
This thread certainly points out the type of people that own businesses vs the ones that wash dishes
Yeah, it's people that don't own businesses who would come in to a place that closes at 9pm and expect them to stay open until 9:30 just to serve them.
I own a record shop and if someone's polite to my staff and apologizes for being there a few minute late, that's fine. I leave that up to them but I also pay them more per hour if they stay late.
However, it's up to my employees because I want them to be happy with their jobs and make it on time to dinner with their girlfriends or band practice a whole hell of a lot more than I need a few extra dollars from the type inconsiderate assholes that would just expect them stay 30 minutes extra.
Popular
25
