NorCali

The Dad looks like he did a part as a Klingon

Believe it or not, Alabama recruits Silicon Valley pretty hard and makes the final list for a number of girls who want to go to Alabama and live their best life in a sorority. This are not the colored hair types, obviously

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$120k is great money in most states.

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And it’s a starting base salary, with probably 3%/year increases, great benefits (hard to get), etc.
What I wish was discussed more is if there is any impact from the unions making it possible to retire after 20 or so years? Maybe that has changed but don’t know.
As an aside, Alabama has done a great job investing in education of trade workers and that is part of why they have all the car plants

Isn't there a "wild game" dinner in some towns in South Louisiana that isn't exactly about what is on the dinner menu? :lol:

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My understanding is that ballots had already been printed (and many already mailed back) when Smith suspended his campaign.

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hmm, maybe the same apparatus used to get Dems elected was used to weaken the R side by helping the non-candidate. Is it a closed primary?
Kind of a smart strategy if you have a weak incumbent, help the weakest on the other side win their primary

Perhaps it’s Private equity affiliated with LSU and/or other state institutional endowment funds?
Having Private Equity isn’t necessarily a bad thing until you see the terms and understand the valuation given and path to exit or return on investment.
LSU athletics is not a failing entity that needs/can be broken down and sold for component parts.
Agree with others this is first step towards a class of “ownership”

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stay home and raise three amazing children to adulthood, with all the sleepless nights, sports, school projects..

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the lack of objective value in society for this is one of our biggest challenges. Fathers that go to work all day have no clue the physical and mental exhaustion of this. Women without children have no clue either. Closest thing I can relate (I’m a male doctor) is being on call virtually 24/7 and doing rounds (the mundane daily tasks) everyday except when you can find someone to cover (grandparents, sitter, nanny, etc). I’m also convinced there are some women that decide a career is easier than being a stay at home mom (can’t blame them) and go back to work for that. Raising multiple kids is the most important but most thankless job in society and I salute you for doing it. Oh and those judgmental career women, highly likely they are envious that you were able to do something they wanted to do but for whatever reason couldn’t

No one disagrees with making it available for older, higher risk people and voluntary for others.
Many people disagreed, strongly, about mandating for others (especially children) and instituting punitive measures for non-compliance, such as travel restrictions, not being able to participate in events and in the extreme loss of employment.
This move led to the questioning of the credibility of those making these decisions which led to the realization of very real conflicts of interest such as age bias ( Trump, Biden, Fauci, Pelosi, McConnell, Schumer were all near or were Octogenarians and highest risk group so bias for self interest even benefits were on shown to the individuals vaccinated and never to stop transmission) or personal bias with Fauci as he was on record as supporting gain of function research which may have been the root cause of the pandemic.
As an aside, the lack of effectiveness for slowing transmission is probably related to the fact that RNA vaccines only give short term (measured in weeks) immunity so the fact of many infections post-vaccination and the early introduction of boosters also
led to questions of credibility in a “gene therapy vaccine” which has long term risk implications if the transgenes become integrated.
I never saw published the estimated therapeutic index or the Number needed to treat (NNT) in order to prevent a death or Number needed to harm, which is a measure of the number vaccinated with a severe adverse event/total vaccinated. Ideally the NNT should be much higher, but we never saw this, so again leads to credibility issues.

How quickly people forget. “the vax” isn’t a binary discussion.
Based on the early data everyone, including Ron Paul, thought older folks, especially with health problems making them high risk for death, should get vaccinated.

Where things diverge is later when the government tries to mandate it and individuals who were not high risk were penalized if they did not get get. The other major part of this is the forcing it on kids as it is a gene therapy and the short term risk of Covid infection was very very low (they don’t die), the long term risk of the vaccine were unknown, so no one knew what the therapeutic index (risk/benefit ratio) was.

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Cali simply overproduced. Everybody with some land began producing grapes, trying to get rich. Supply and demand.

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This is the correct answer. I didn’t read the article but the guy is going to make a fortune selling land that he has had for 50 years.