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an inevitable result of the Gingrich-led slashing of education budgets in the 1990s




Imagine still believing this in 2026

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Bless your heart.. it’s never been more *obvious* than at this moment, in 2026, that America is filled to the brim, absolutely chock full of undereducated dolts… just look at your own post as an example .

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Great town

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Florida in general is a joke now.. but Siesta Beach on Siesta Key is the nicest beach in America, including anything on Hawai’i .

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I feel less attached to the thought of alcohol. Now, every now and again I wonder worst it would be like to have a cold one (Shawshank Redemption) but then realize Andy didn’t drink and enjoyed just the watching. I’m content haha.

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It’s funny, the older i get, the more i realize that most successful people in life are non-drinkers.. just one example- most of the US presidents in my lifetime (im Gen X) have been non-drinkers.. Reagan barely drank at all, same with Bill Clinton.. Dubya famously quit drinking on his 40th birthday.. both Biden and Trump claim to have NEVER HAD A SIP OF ALCOHOL OR BEER IN THEIR ENTIRE LIVES .. that’s a true story .



Even fictional characters- like you mentioend Andy Dufresne in Shawashank.. and i think of Sam Malone on Cheers.. dude owned a freaking bar and was stone cold sober.. Legend .


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Rickey Jackson - Lived on his street

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Same same .. you and I must’ve been neighbors.. Rickey’s was the big pink house , iirc .


Also what i for sure remember is that Rickey had three or four daughters- Rickeeta, Rickietta, Rickenia et al.. all different variations of “Rickey”…. And also that same street had the first million dollar house in the area.. this was back in the 1980s, when million dollar homes were unheard of in Louisiana .. perhaps that was your house .. whoever owned it had a Corvette that Rickey famously borrowed and promptly crashed- resulting in him playing Saintsrep games with his jaw wired shut.. this was around the same time that he had to miss a game due to hemmorhoids .. What a time to be alive .

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I dont really have an opinion on lifeguards getting their paychecks early.. but just in re to “the system” as a whole.. it truly does seem like way too many things in 2026 are based on subscriptions , and prices continue to rise (as they always have) but the quality has dropped off a cliff.. the “enshitificaton “ of everything .


As for me , i tell people all the time, and im 100% serious- i was priced out of America .. I literally could not afford to be American anymore… i had to seek out greener pastures overseas where my US dollars typically go 5-10x further than they do in my home country …lest yall think i was destitute, i wasnt.. i made six figures a few years back for many years, back when my salary (about $130-$140k most years) was actually a pretty decent salary to live in the American South .. took a hit during C19.. never recovered to where i was able to live comfortably while also saving & investing at the rate i like .. so i left.. When my friends & family back home say “It must be nice.. Wish i could afford to leave “.. i ask them , and again im 100% serious - “How can you afford to STAY ??”

No problem, i dont mind being fact checked, at all .

Two things are at play here- 1) I neglected to mention Gen Z, not because there arent great numbers of them, but just b/c i didnt feel like listing all of the generations .. i do realize there are a lot more Gen Zers than there are Gen Xers… 2) the fact that Gen X is tied with Boomers now, at 19% of the population, means that my data is outdated.. the graph above is clearly a representation of the fact that Boomers are , obviously, older and are now starting to die off in huge numbers, and at a very rapid pace .. so yeah, up until recently , we Gen Xers were the smaller group in terms of percentage of population

I have no clue about Talarico’s sexuality .. i just want to say that, as a guy who has been married and divorced- i think it’s stupid to criticize never-married guys and act all suspicious of them being gay .. Why do i think it’s stupid ? Because marriage is a trap, and it’s almost entirely geared to enrich women (usually thru divorce where they take half ur stuff) .. marriage also reduces guys’ natural instincts to have sex with many different women .. and unfortunately i know/have known several friends in sexless marriages for years…. i realize ill get pushback that marriage “benefits society” yada yada.. im not talking about that, im simply pointing out what a bad deal marriage is for *men* (not always, but usually)…. So if a guy wants to do what imo is the only sane thing and avoid marriage at all costs- we shouldnt keep alienating them and calling them closeted homos etc.. b/c the cycle will never break, people will still get married, roughly half of them will still end in divorce et al…. Maybe Talarico *is* gay, i dont know- but tbh it’s really beside the point .

I live mostly in SE Asia, so yeah all the time … and from my understanding, it was pretty commonplace here to wear masks (esp when sick) for a large portion of the population, many years before C19 .

I buzzed my head for years and years, mainly b/c it was cheaper and much more comfortable in the heat and humidity .

But for the last couple years ive grown my hair out and gotten haircuts about every 6 weeks.. and every woman I’ve dated has told me that they vastly prefer me with hair .. guess my face isnt much to look at :lol:… in any case, wish i was strong enough to say ‘frick it’ and just keep buzzing it.. but I like pussy, so ill keep it grown out like the women prefer .

Picked this up from Amazon a while back and it’s been great.. never thought id spend this much on a backpack but now i get it.. iif i live to be 100 yrs old, and it doesnt get stolen - i think it’ll still be with me for 50+ more years.. keep ur eye on Amazon and you can regularly find it on sale for 20-30% off.. warning though, like most high-quality things, it weighs a lot.. im 6’2” and walk around at about 197 or 198 lbs.. so if youre 5’7” with a jacked up F250 then you probably wont like it .



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