Defenseiskey
| Favorite team: | LSU  |
| Location: | Houston, TX |
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| Number of Posts: | 2189 |
| Registered on: | 11/18/2010 |
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re: Cities in Louisiana where youre surprised they keep alot of local kids with colleg degrees
Posted by Defenseiskey on 5/31/26 at 9:36 pm to evil cockroach
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that has a lot to do with college men marrying Cajun girls who WILL NOT leave their mom far behind. “Job offer in New York? That’s nice. We can’t move. Mom lives in Broussard.”
This is very true. One of buddies graduated with an engineering degree from LSU and married a Lafayette girl. Got into O&G and had a lot of opportunities to go the company's offices in Houston, Denver, or Pittsburgh. Kind of stuck where he is because his wife can't be more than 8 miles away from her mom who lives in Broadmoor.
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re: What are some good, high paying jobs that are undersaturated right now?
Posted by Defenseiskey on 5/31/26 at 8:44 pm to Chastains
Manufacturing depending on where you live.
A talented machinist can make six figures. A guy with a background in automation/instrumentation is an easy six figures. An engineer who specializes in manufacturing can easily make $125k plus.
A lot of people don't want these jobs or don't know anything about them.
A talented machinist can make six figures. A guy with a background in automation/instrumentation is an easy six figures. An engineer who specializes in manufacturing can easily make $125k plus.
A lot of people don't want these jobs or don't know anything about them.
re: What percent of Twitter, Reddit, Meta, and Tigerdroppings do you think are bots?
Posted by Defenseiskey on 5/30/26 at 9:47 pm to LittleJerrySeinfield
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hope half the Political Board are bots.
Me to, but then I remember Jeff Landry didn't need a runoff.
re: Who else lives close to Mexicans partying hard tonight?
Posted by Defenseiskey on 5/30/26 at 9:43 pm to holdmuh keystonelite
Happened a lot when I lived on the southside of Houston. Doesn't happen a lot in Kingwood, it's pretty white out here. My wife is the only Latina (not Mexican) on my block.
re: What percent of Twitter, Reddit, Meta, and Tigerdroppings do you think are bots?
Posted by Defenseiskey on 5/30/26 at 8:09 pm to sta4ever
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90% of posters on the Poli Board are bots.
I don't know. I've heard some of the stuff they say. Seems pretty accurate for a Louisiana boomer. Maybe they can program the bots like that.
re: The amount of development Africa experienced in the last 50 years is astounding
Posted by Defenseiskey on 5/30/26 at 8:19 am to Jim Rockford
Botswana is livable because it's built on one the largest diamond and rare earth deposits in the world and its leadership is only a little corrupt, not 100% corrupt.
re: Who is attending the Rally Against Rednecks in Frisco hosted by some Pajeets?
Posted by Defenseiskey on 5/29/26 at 3:24 pm to stout
It's going to smell crazy at that rally.
re: What Law in Louisiana pisses you off the most
Posted by Defenseiskey on 5/29/26 at 10:51 am to inotsure
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Texas was intelligent enough to realize in order to meet traffic flow demands you either needed to A speed up the flow to meet the demand in the desired time frame or B increase the size of the passage to allow more flow.
Lol, I take the Katy Freeway at least twice a week, it's gotten worse since they widened it.
re: Where Young Americans Earn the Most - Mapped (Median Income)
Posted by Defenseiskey on 5/28/26 at 12:12 pm to Everyday Is Saturday
I get paid almost double in Houston for the same job I had in Lafayette. My COL is about $1500 more per month (higher mortgage along with property taxes). More than makes up for it, just have to deal with a lot more traffic but I'm only 8 miles from my home office and I can work from home one day a week.
Wife also makes about $1700 more per month than she did in Lafayette as a teacher with a similar role.
Wife also makes about $1700 more per month than she did in Lafayette as a teacher with a similar role.
re: A quarter of Americans have no retirement savings. Zero.
Posted by Defenseiskey on 5/27/26 at 6:19 pm to Slippy
I've always said there should be a Nationally mandated retirement account. Put about $2500 into a broad stock market/bond fund that makes 6-8% a year when kids are born. Put about $60 out their paycheck every month. Can't take the annuity payments until they turn 65.
re: LSU did 601 million in research this year
Posted by Defenseiskey on 5/27/26 at 6:13 pm to PSS101
Coast and Environment, Agriculture, and Pennington is probably 80% of that.
re: What’s the creepiest town in Louisiana?
Posted by Defenseiskey on 5/26/26 at 11:11 pm to Chastains
Port Barre
re: Who are your favorite YouTube "personalities"?
Posted by Defenseiskey on 5/26/26 at 8:25 pm to SidewalkTiger
Andrew Santino and Tommy G
re: Burning question: How did Portuguese evolve as a language distinct from Spanish?
Posted by Defenseiskey on 5/26/26 at 4:22 pm to TulsaSooner78
Catalan and especially Basque (isn't even Latin based) are also distinct but they all speak Spanish since they're apart of the Spanish crown.
re: Is Sams Club worth it?
Posted by Defenseiskey on 5/26/26 at 12:41 pm to Gerry Laval
I save a lot on just buying coffee, juice, coke, kid's snacks, chicken, and gas alone.
Also buy a lot of stuff there for my business as well.
Also buy a lot of stuff there for my business as well.
re: Post A Picture Of A Current Or Defunct Beer Can Or Bottle
Posted by Defenseiskey on 5/26/26 at 11:35 am to Mo Debumly
re: My theory on why baby boomers are criticized
Posted by Defenseiskey on 5/26/26 at 11:15 am to CleverUserName
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It's funny that most of what is blamed on another generation is actually government's doing.
You voted for them. Also, your generation created identity politics so why are yall mad it's being flipped?
I know a lot of people on here will say "this is liberals fault" but boomers are probably the most liberal generation when it comes to fiscal policy at least. Kamala got close to half of your generation's vote.
Even "conservative" boomers vote for politicians that support deficit spending, modern monetary policy (biggest cause of inflation), globalist economic policy,and Neoconservative foreign policy (which has taken trillions out of the budget).
re: My theory on why baby boomers are criticized
Posted by Defenseiskey on 5/26/26 at 10:57 am to Ramblin Wreck
I think a lot of stems from them claiming they work so hard which is clearly never the case. I've worked in sales and our poorest performers were always boomers but they always got a pass because they had "experience." If I missed a target (which only happened once) I was on the hot seat for a month.
You could put yourself through college with a part time minimum wage job if you didn't blow your money.
Meanwhile, they're supporting politicians that send our jobs overseas, making it harder to build houses, send our tax money to a foreign country, putting occupational license requirements on jobs that don't need them.
A lot of it is ignorance I'm sure but that's not really a good excuse and is a bad look to other people.
You could put yourself through college with a part time minimum wage job if you didn't blow your money.
Meanwhile, they're supporting politicians that send our jobs overseas, making it harder to build houses, send our tax money to a foreign country, putting occupational license requirements on jobs that don't need them.
A lot of it is ignorance I'm sure but that's not really a good excuse and is a bad look to other people.
re: My theory on why baby boomers are criticized
Posted by Defenseiskey on 5/26/26 at 10:33 am to Ramblin Wreck
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My theory on why boomers are criticized
There's always some "conspiracy" to yall lol.
My dad put himself through LSU working on a pipeline 2 1/2 months a year as helper making $5/hr. Was able to pay the $300 per semester tuition in cash and had money leftover to buy a meal plan and live in a frat house without having to work 9 months out of the year.
re: Born/Raised in LA, Lived in St. Tam. 46 Years, Moved to CO Sprgs Last Summer-Pics Added
Posted by Defenseiskey on 5/25/26 at 2:01 pm to Friedbrie
Im sure some of the Louisiana lifer will acuse you of being a liberal before this thread ends.
re: My Facebook feed has lost its ever-loving mind with the constant posting of randos
Posted by Defenseiskey on 5/24/26 at 11:17 am to shutterspeed
Outside of the occasional Facebook Marketplace browsing, I don't use it. Its full of chronically online boomers, single moms, and unemployed people. People I have nothing in common with.
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