jclem11
| Favorite team: | Houston Astros  |
| Location: | Chief Nihilist |
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| Occupation: | Chief Nihilist |
| Number of Posts: | 9885 |
| Registered on: | 11/14/2011 |
| Online Status: | Not Online |
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I’m not giving Walmart money so they can donate it for a tax write off
Please show the class the journal entries and how Wal-Mart gets a tax benefit from taking your money to donate to charity. We will wait.
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RIP in peace Peña. Won’t see him again this year or maybe ever.
re: DAT 6/29: Twins (Matthews) @ Astros (Lambert) 7:10 PM
Posted by jclem11 on 6/29/26 at 5:11 pm to Uncle Mike23
Fire Dana and Joe and my fricks to give may come back.
Until then FBD and FJE.
Until then FBD and FJE.
re: “Renters don’t pay property taxes”
Posted by jclem11 on 6/29/26 at 2:26 pm to Cold Cous Cous
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I've never paid a cent of taxes in my life- I always make my wife sign the checks.
:rotflmao:
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The goal of owning a rent house is for some sort of income. Why own something you're not using if it only costs you money with nothing to gain?
The income is generally from the appreciation of the property and the tenant paying the mortgage off for you as the monthly cash flow is rather small and usually you need to save it for future repairs and make ready expenses.
Most rentals with mortgages barely cashflow over the long term factoring in potential large repairs and increasing taxes and insurance.
The people I have seen do the best renting single family homes have no mortgage on the properties.
re: Have you ever run your TD handle through AI?
Posted by jclem11 on 6/26/26 at 11:13 am to RanchoLaPuerto
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From their public posting history, they tend to:
Participate heavily in the O-T Lounge, but also post on the Tiger Rant, More Sports, and other boards.
Share news articles, YouTube videos, and discussion starters rather than only replying to others. Examples include threads about:
Juvenile's Tiny Desk Concert.
Cryptocurrency and finance commentary.
LSU athletics.
Urban planning and transportation.
Criminal trials (such as the widely discussed Karen Read case).
Their posting style is generally:
Dry and sarcastic, often using humor.
Interested in economics, public policy, transportation, finance, and technology.
Willing to argue unpopular positions—for example, advocating for denser, more walkable cities and criticizing suburban development, which has generated debate with other users.
Denser, walkable cities are based as frick and suburbs are cringe and gay.
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jclem11 is a long-time TigerDroppings poster (member since November 2011) with the custom title "Chief Nihilist." They are a frequent contributor who tends to post on politics, current events, technology, urbanism, finance, and LSU sports. Their style is sarcastic, argumentative, and skeptical, and they often challenge conservative viewpoints on the site's politics board, making them a polarizing figure who regularly attracts strong disagreement from other users.
re: World Cup Daily Thread - Thurs., June 25
Posted by jclem11 on 6/25/26 at 7:23 pm to Floyd Dawg
That was an insane shot!
re: Amazon wants to be your Healthcare provider
Posted by jclem11 on 6/25/26 at 1:46 pm to Jim Rockford
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Amazon wants to be your Healthcare provider
re: Husbends who make happy birthday post to their wives on facebook
Posted by jclem11 on 6/24/26 at 1:05 pm to lsubatman1
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Husbends
Drunk before noon?
Stop it. Get some help.
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Sorry you have hurt feelings...
Wat?
You are the one who is arse mad that your takes are completely incorrect ITT.
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Maybe you'll get a good tip on your shift this afternoon
Wrong again but that is to be expected from you. Lucky for you breathing is involuntary.
re: The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and SUV's
Posted by jclem11 on 6/23/26 at 1:28 pm to SparkyWilson
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That doesn't say much for the average pedestrian or cyclist considering they are part of that same citizenry.
Agreed. However, automobile drivers are operating a deadly weapon and have a greater duty of care in this scenario.
You can only control what you can control and driving a comically large vehicle that you cannot safely operate is a bad choice to make as the maximum damage is much greater.
Limiting the size of vehicles is the best approach from an overall public policy perspective especially in urban envrionments.
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When was the last time you saw someone walking down the street and they weren't staring at their phone?
I see it on a weekly basis when I walk to get lunch. I work on a very busy 6 lane stroad with restaurants across the street from the office.
Many of us cross the street daily and pay attention to our surroundings. I see many drivers with their heads down and not checking to their right before turning right through a cross walk.
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I call into question their conclusions, and how they arrived at them, with their own scanners and "engineers ".
With whataoutism and feels lmao.
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And as far as "reconstruction" experts, I can hire any expert to agree or disagree with whatever conclusion I desire.
This is your best refuation? Hope you don't practice defense law because your client is for sure going to prison.
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Im not sure how sightlines can decrease in a vehicle that has four large windows and a windshield and usually, a unobstructed back glass. You may actually have to adjust seats, mirrors, or pedals.
I will say some SUVs do a have larger C-Pillar, which when combined with a sloping hatch area, can have a significant blind spot, so the driver should be aware of that.
It's almost like the new cars are frickin huge and way taller than the average adult in the US and thus are more deadly to pedestrians....which is the *checks notes* entire fricking topic of discussion in the article and thread.
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In addition, most modern vehicles have backup cameras as well as BSIs, as standard equipment.
This means frick all if the vehicle is too big and runs over a pedestrian in a crosswalk or other road way.
Also, I linked an article that discusses an experiment was done with 18 children and a Yukon and none of the drivers could see them.
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Cite some info from IIHS or other unbiased sources.
frick off. You have cited nothing and are just made at the conclusion. Do your own research.
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As far as large trucks (pickups and SUVs) having more "blind spots", that is just false. You can see every corner of the vehicle, assuming you adjust seats and mirrors correctly
The article you didn't read addresses this lmao.
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To analyze how these blind zones have changed, we used a three-dimensional scanner to compare sightlines in four of the most common pickups today — the Chevrolet Silverado, Ford F-150, GMC Sierra and Toyota Tacoma — with their counterparts from the 1990s or early 2000s.
The Silverado’s blind zones have nearly doubled.
The Sierra’s and the Tacoma’s grew by about 60 percent.
The smallest increase was the F-150’s. Its blind zones grew by about 25 percent.
Our overall findings match what we found in court records and heard from dozens of experts who reconstruct crashes for police and lawyers.
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There is absolutely no question that, overall, vehicles are safer now than they were 10 or 20 years ago.
Just compare traffic death statistics for the past 20 years.
Again, we are talking about pedestrian deaths which have INCREASED.
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For decades, American roads were steadily getting safer for pedestrians. But around 2009, the trend reversed. Since then, the number of pedestrians killed each year has risen by about 75 percent.
Again read the article before raging all over because your truck feels got hurt.
re: The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and SUV's
Posted by jclem11 on 6/23/26 at 11:51 am to SparkyWilson
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And, no, I don't "need" my 2014 F-150, but it's been a great vehicle. I don't need it to do truck things until I need it to do truck things and it's far more convenient to not have to pivot to a 3rd party to do those things. I like to think I'm conscientious about driving it. I don't park to block views or back in over sidewalks (I mean when the bed hangs 3' over the sidewalk). I don't leave my ball hitch installed. I watch for crosswalks and pedestrians/cyclists in general (even when they are doing wrong).
I appreciate that you may not be a bad actor. However when it comes to public policy you have to remember that your average fellow citizen is a fricking retard and you have to craft public policy accordingly.
Most people have no business in these giant trucks and thus public policy needs to address the issue as they are harming the rest of us.
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I hope you also advocate for better adherence to pedestrian/cycling laws as well.
For sure. However most American cities are down right hostile in regards to pedestrians and cyclists and thus people that need to use walking or cycling to get to work or travel are forced to take unnecessary risks and interact with vehicles.
I'll use my own city of Houston as an example. Many parts of town have no or inconsistent sidewalks and the bus service is arse. So many folks end up walking / biking if they cannot afford a vehicle.
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Clames
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Such an ignorant, uneducated opinion
You are so confidently wrong but we will continue.
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Let's just focus purely on simple dimensions and not the fact that today's trucks and SUV's already incorporate front profiles and energy absorbing materials and designs for the sake of safety, both for those inside as well as those impacted.
We are talking about impacts with a pedestrian ITT. Modern trucks have hoods almost 5 feet tall in some cases. The pedestrian is run over and shoved under the truck and killed immediately.
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New trucks have front ends that are more blunt and full plastic with bumpers mounted to crumple zones that are much more effective in absorbing and distributing impact forces.
None of this shite matters when you hit a pedestrian dude. The truck is too talk and will kill more people. Stop arguing with the data.
You are just wrong on this topic. Take a lap.
re: The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and SUV's
Posted by jclem11 on 6/23/26 at 11:07 am to SparkyWilson
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Are you advocating for getting rid of trucks and SUVs completely?
Not a full ban. The height of the hoods and size of them should be strictly regulated and reduced especially for urban environments.
The size of trucks and SUVs is comically large now and we have empirical data showing they are unsafe, especially in urban environments with pedestrians and cyclists are more likely to be encountered.
Frankly, there is no reason to be driving a large F-250 in the urban core when you are an office bro that lives in a suburb mcmansion that maybe hauls stuff a few times a year.
re: The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and SUV's
Posted by jclem11 on 6/23/26 at 10:35 am to GurleyGirl
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Found the problem. Liberal shill shilling for warped liberal progressive perspective.
Or it is just data and common sense. :dunno:
Never go full ostrich mode.
re: The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and SUV's
Posted by jclem11 on 6/23/26 at 8:17 am to Nutriaitch
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Nutriaitch
You are being needlessly edgy.
It is quite simple and explained in the article that none of you read. The truck bros got all in their feels because someone dare point out that large trucks are unsafe.
Large vehicles are deadlier due to taller hoods and larger blind spots.
If an adult is hit at 20 mph by a Camry, they likely roll over the hood and have some broken bones and bruises but aren't dead.
If an adult is hit at 20 mph by an F-250, they are pushed under the hood and run over and killed almost instantly.
Why is this concept so difficult for some of yall to grasp? lmao.
re: The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and SUV's
Posted by jclem11 on 6/23/26 at 8:03 am to ned nederlander
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I think this is a huge part of it. A truck or large SUV parked in the last spot near an intersection is a wall for both a car and pedestrian approaching the intersection.
Large trucks and suvs parked too close to an intersection should be towed with no remorse.
Correct. The key that all the truck advocates are missing is that the large vehicles have huge blind spots which lead to pedestrian accidents. Accidents with large vehicle lead to higher change of death as the person is pushed under the car and run over. It's common sense.
An experiment was performed in Kansas City in 2019 with 18 kids sitting in front of a Yukon Denali and none of the drivers could see the kids. LINK
The large blind spots and the fact that a collision with a large truck/suv is more likely to be fatal is a problem.
The trucks/suvs are simply too big and are a hazard for everyone.
re: The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and SUV's
Posted by jclem11 on 6/22/26 at 12:36 pm to Chucktown_Badger
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So do black males aged 16-40, and way more of them than trucks.
Non sequitur. Stay on topic. This thread is about giant trucks and SUVs.
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Do we want to have that conversation too?
We can do that in a separate thread. Get back on topic ITT.
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