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re: How did Japan Mess It Up So Bad?
Posted by TheRealTigerHorn on 7/6/26 at 1:46 pm to Baers Foot
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Japan implemented loose monetary policies that led to extreme speculation in real estate and the stock market. By 1989, the Nikkei 225 index reached nearly 39,000. When the Bank of Japan raised interest rates to cool the market in 1990, the bubble burst. Land and stock prices plummeted
Hmmm....
Before you get too excited about predicting the US is going down that same road, realize we've already done it 3x since Japan hit the wall:
- S&L crisis, 1990s
- Y2K bubble burst
- 2008-09 Financial meltdown
And I guess you could count COVID too. Japan has structural and cultural problems that we don't, well beyond just birth rates. You think raising a kid is expensive here, try it as a traditional Japanese salaryman there. Business failure there is seppuku time, here's its conversation fodder for lessons learned on your next VC raise. On and on. As great a place as Japan is in many respects, they are often their own worst enemy.
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re: They Thought They Knew America… Until the World Cup 2026 Changed Everything
Posted by TheRealTigerHorn on 7/5/26 at 12:49 pm to Gaspergou202
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They are being misled by the negativity of our media, entertainment industry, education, and Democrats.
Unlike our liberal mindless morons, they can directly compare their socialist societies to our reality!
Our morons believe the fantasy of the big lie of socialism, communism, and the “horrors” of America.
First time I went overseas back in the 1990's, I was stunned by how openly anti-American CNN International was. And it was in every airport from Europe to Asia, not to mention hotels and homes. At that time, I would have been a true "undecided moderate" voter around election time. That was one of many little things that combined to change my outlook.
re: UCF grads jeer commencement speaker who praised AI
Posted by TheRealTigerHorn on 7/4/26 at 9:39 am to Hog Zealot
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You couldn’t be more wrong. Outside of Vandy, Florida, and UGA, UCF blows the rest of the SEC out of the water. The UCF acceptance rate is 30% lower than LSU. The GPA and test scores are higher than any other school in the SEC for acceptance outside those 3 schools. Got anymore bangers for us slick?
Are you the same guy who had to be embarrassed the last time this came up?
UCF would rank no better than 10th in the SEC academically, and they are an eyelash from falling to 12th, and even that is using the badly DEI-skewed public rankings that give schools extra credit for "diversity" of their student bodies over academic credentials.
As for AAU, it became another thought police award 30 years ago, really doesn't mean much any more than just a welcome to the echo chamber.
re: Annual July 4th "My dog is bat shite crazy during fireworks" Thread
Posted by TheRealTigerHorn on 7/4/26 at 9:24 am to FLBooGoTigs1
1st year, my now 3 YO Aussie was curious and wanted to go outside to watch. He sat down and watched a little while, gave me his "I'm bored now, it's bedtime, can we go back inside?" look and that was it.
Last year he was mildly interested again. Oddly, he doesn't like loud noises that are close to him, like something falling in the house, but he could care less about fireworks.
My old Aussie that passed at 14 a few years ago wasn't bothered by them until she also got scared of thunderstorms in her old age. I think it was a combo of one really bad storm that passed by and losing her eyesight.
Last year he was mildly interested again. Oddly, he doesn't like loud noises that are close to him, like something falling in the house, but he could care less about fireworks.
My old Aussie that passed at 14 a few years ago wasn't bothered by them until she also got scared of thunderstorms in her old age. I think it was a combo of one really bad storm that passed by and losing her eyesight.
re: Warning letters sent: FTC Warns 97 Auto Dealership Groups About Deceptive Pricing
Posted by TheRealTigerHorn on 7/3/26 at 9:07 am to N2cars
Probably already been noted, but most if not all of the big boy dealer groups are on there. That is probably most of the mainstream dealers in the US.
I also see that some of the larger menu price, no dicker groups are NOT on the list - Gunn Auto and Jordan Ford to name two.
I also see that some of the larger menu price, no dicker groups are NOT on the list - Gunn Auto and Jordan Ford to name two.
re: Red flags for people
Posted by TheRealTigerHorn on 7/2/26 at 1:39 pm to tigafan4life
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White. Liberal. Women. They are a whole arse bag of red flags. A factory full of red flags.
Years ago, we were interviewing a female engineer from a well-known Midwestern university. She was blond and pale-skinned. Her resume included that she played a role in some Native American campus organizations. I have some Cherokee in my distant past, like a lot of older Southern families, so I asked her about it.
Within about 10 seconds, it was clear she was all about victimhood and oppression. I mentally checked out of the interview after that, and she went on to the next engineer to interview.
About the time she wrapped up with him, I'm talking to my boss standing in his door as she walks past on her way to another interview. He said "You know, I really like that gal, I think I'm going to make her an offer!". I held my tongue and just nodded. On her way out the door that afternoon, she filed a formal complaint with HR over being referred to as a "gal". My boss was a dumbass, and I was all too happy to get out of there a year or two later, but at least I didn't have to work with her grievances.
I have a lot of stories about such womenz from my time in corporate America, unfortunately.
re: Supersonic commercial flight coming back soon
Posted by TheRealTigerHorn on 7/2/26 at 1:30 pm to Joshjrn
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The problem is air drag. While making it more aerodynamic would help, that plane was already extremely aerodynamic. This is the core problem with supersonic flight, in a single graph:
Over-simplification of the problem. Dig deeper on what they're doing and get back to me. I assume you have some engineering background and won't be intimidated by their publications?
re: Supersonic commercial flight coming back soon
Posted by TheRealTigerHorn on 7/2/26 at 12:29 pm to Giantkiller
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I was on a plane the other day and it really dawned on me that we should be further along with air travel. From the Wright Bros to modern commercial flights of the 60's and 70's, there were massive gains. But now here we are since then and we've still barely advanced in that compative time frame to today. What gives?
Since the dawn of jet travel, we are about 75-80% more efficient in fuel use per passenger mile. Some of that admittedly though is more tightly packed seating, biggest chunk was from better jet engines.
re: Supersonic commercial flight coming back soon
Posted by TheRealTigerHorn on 7/2/26 at 12:20 pm to Joshjrn
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Do you have any numbers for how much better fuel efficiency would be? Because as you say, even more than the sonic booms, that was the biggest issue facing commercial supersonic flight. Unless it can be dramatically improved, it has zero shot.
The Concorde engines were design finalized at the beginning of 1964, and remained essentially unchanged. The Concorde design itself dates to 1965.
Since then, jet engines alone have gotten about 50% more efficient, and we are far, far better at aerodynamics and packaging than we were then. I would not be surprised to see 75% or more efficiency per passenger mile improvements over Concorde. People forget how old that plane was.
re: What quintessentially American things blow the European mind?
Posted by TheRealTigerHorn on 7/2/26 at 9:14 am to Everyday Is Saturday
They also can't wrap their heads around how rural some parts of the US are, not to mention the concept of being 30 minutes to 2-3 hours from police response.
re: Kentucky church - Commandos for Christ swat team "kills the devil" during VBS
Posted by TheRealTigerHorn on 7/2/26 at 9:12 am to Shexter
CS Lewis illustrated in the Narnia books that the strongest among us could not take out the devil without Jesus. Remember the scene in the movie where the mighty centaur tried to take on the witch and failed?
re: What quintessentially American things blow the European mind?
Posted by TheRealTigerHorn on 7/2/26 at 9:09 am to SallysHuman
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They don’t have handicap stalls?
Where do their differently abled answer the call of nature?
Now that you mention it, in my substantial travels to Europe for business, I have never seen anyone in a wheelchair out and about.
Come to think of it, one restroom stall I went to in Paris inside a prestigious business whose name you would instantly recognize had walls so narrow that I had to turn myself about 30 degrees sideways to get close enough to take a leak. For reference, I'm about 5' 10" with a 44" chest, 34 inch waist at the time, so I'm not some morbidly obese dude or a muscle-bound freak. No handicapped person would have had a chance in hades of using that restroom.
re: Republicans are going to sweep the midterms
Posted by TheRealTigerHorn on 7/1/26 at 12:32 pm to Reagan80
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LOL. no they won't. The GOP base is not turning out because they know the GOP will not do anything. The GOP is an impotent useless bunch. The Democrats sense blood in the water, and the potential to never give up power. This election will be a bloodbath for the useless trough feeding Repubs.
The Brits didn't turn out for their last major election because their version of the R's didn't get anything done, especially WRT immigration. It got them Keir Starmer. I imagine a lot of them regret not turning out now.
re: Talarico tied with Paxton?
Posted by TheRealTigerHorn on 7/1/26 at 12:25 pm to BFIV
The polls always look like this. Beto was supposed to win too.
re: Supersonic commercial flight coming back soon
Posted by TheRealTigerHorn on 6/30/26 at 3:55 pm to DesScorp
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It's not technology holding back supersonic flight for the masses. It's cost. California's bullet train to nowhere will be a reality before mass supersonic airline travel. You'll see some supersonic bizjets (and not many) but nothing like a 737 that breaks Mach 1.
Cali's train will never be built, so there is no way your supposition can be right. :booboo: Even if the present supersonic techs fail, something else will come along.
Some of the innovations in that led to "super cruise" (supersonic cruising speeds) in the F-22 will also allow supersonic airliners to have good fuel efficiency, thus ticket prices will come down from the Concorde, which was both horribly inefficient and carried very few passengers.
Better fuel economics (vs Concorde) + more passengers + being able to turn crews and planes on transoceanic routes 2x per day instead of 1x will make it possible for the less well-heeled among us.
FTR, type certification on the Boeing Dreamliner took 8 years. If we can manage to replace some FAA bureaucrats with AI, :nana: who knows how fast it might get done.
re: Which continent has had the biggest negative impact on the world?
Posted by TheRealTigerHorn on 6/30/26 at 3:37 pm to JerryTheKingBawler
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North America because we slaughtered the natives and had slavery.
I assume this is sarcasm.
Both the Arabs and the S American nations enslaved more Africans than N America. The Asians have historically done a fine job of enslaving each other.
I vote Asia just due to the Mongol Hordes and the rise of Communism there, though the latter can in part be attributed to Europe as well.
ETA: The natives were doing a fine job of slaughtering each other before we got here.
re: Lightning storm story. Tell us about it.
Posted by TheRealTigerHorn on 6/29/26 at 9:33 pm to nuwaydawg
Early 2k's, lightning hit our house just past bedtime. Or so we thought. Fried every smoke and CO2 sensor in the house, and they all started beeping and gave off a light halo of smoke. Took out random things throughout the house -
- The washer, but not the dryer right next to it
- About a third of my component home theater setup, they were all on the same Monster surge protector.
- Range next to the oven, which it also got, but not the microwave right above the oven
- One of the two outside AC units, they were separated by maybe 2-3'
The neighbors on both sides got their breakers blown. Altogether $14k in damage, neither us nor the FD, who went up on a ladder truck with a thermal camera over our roof that night, could ever find where the lightning struck. Trees and house showed no signs. Nothing was still hot on thermal.
- The washer, but not the dryer right next to it
- About a third of my component home theater setup, they were all on the same Monster surge protector.
- Range next to the oven, which it also got, but not the microwave right above the oven
- One of the two outside AC units, they were separated by maybe 2-3'
The neighbors on both sides got their breakers blown. Altogether $14k in damage, neither us nor the FD, who went up on a ladder truck with a thermal camera over our roof that night, could ever find where the lightning struck. Trees and house showed no signs. Nothing was still hot on thermal.
re: Southern Business and Law School Rankings
Posted by TheRealTigerHorn on 6/29/26 at 9:10 pm to ClassicCityAlum
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Your anecdotal, subjective experience aside, the vast, vast majority of very successful business owners are very well educated. Also, most people will not be starting their own business in rural Louisiana. The men aged 25-35 who are making seven figures while working under another business owner are, likewise, very well educated.
LOL. You have no idea how much objective data I have behind that. I was closely involved wth the IC2 Institute at the University of Texas for the better part of two decades. IC2 stands for "Innovation, Creativity, and Capital". It was the leading authority in US Higher Ed for 30 or more years on entrepreneurship, and more or less invented the "incubator" phenomenon for young companies that has expanded worldwide now.
There are plenty of both examples out there, more of the ones run by guys with less than impressive educations than people realize, which was both my point and the point of the guy I replied to.
In sharp contrast, I have seen vastly more failures by ex-consultants than successes. I have also had a ringside seat for the current round of PE idiocy of handing established companies to fresh grad Ivy MBAs, with a very high failure rate.
FTR, I have one of those "prestige MBAs", plus the benefit of 40+ years of real world experience. Don't be so quick to dismiss people, you never know who you might be talking to. That is one of the top 5 lessons for young entrepreneurs to learn.
re: Southern Business and Law School Rankings
Posted by TheRealTigerHorn on 6/29/26 at 7:41 pm to lewis and herschel
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You have to be tenacious and basically ignorant of the challenges that lie ahead to make it...m Just pure on stubborn that your idea will work no matter....
Business schools gives us the idiot bud light, target, Gillette, cracker barrel moron, bubble critter's who think their customer smell like Walmart... or give a flying frick about social issues.
Shockingly rational and level-headed take for a Dawg! :cheers:
I fit the stubborn part of the criteria, and I was indeed naive relative to the challenges of building a business, though less so than most.
Since I built and exited my business, some of the best entrepreneurs I've met were HS-educated guys who just started out small and kept their nose to the grindstone in an industry that they learned something about.
It always cracks me up when I see these postings on places like Catalant for "entrepreneurial reform needed, PE-backed company, former McKinsey/Bain/etc consultant experience required". Those clowns are the exact opposite of what they need, but they'll fall over backwards paying a prestige school MBA big money to guide them into bankruptcy when a guy who's actually built a company and had to live the consequences is what they need.
re: This era of college football is sadly gone forever
Posted by TheRealTigerHorn on 6/29/26 at 7:21 pm to RunningJacket
The novelty for fans of schools like Indiana and Tech will wear off just like it did for the rest of us. Both schools had solid attendance prior to NIL.
For me, I used to settle in with College Gameday in the AM, and watch all day, emphasis on Auburn and Texas. College Gameday sold out first, and I stopped watching it in the late aughts. Since NIL, I've barely watched any of Texas, and most of the Auburn games I turned off by halftime winning or losing.
The sole exception in the NIL era were Bruce Pearl's last few teams that managed to retain a more faces YoY vs the CBB average.
For me, I used to settle in with College Gameday in the AM, and watch all day, emphasis on Auburn and Texas. College Gameday sold out first, and I stopped watching it in the late aughts. Since NIL, I've barely watched any of Texas, and most of the Auburn games I turned off by halftime winning or losing.
The sole exception in the NIL era were Bruce Pearl's last few teams that managed to retain a more faces YoY vs the CBB average.
re: BS university rankings
Posted by TheRealTigerHorn on 6/29/26 at 3:13 pm to allin2010
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I am lazy and you should be too, use AI to get your answers. This is Claude. Not a lot of surprises. Not sure CEO numbers is that important, but included for you.
With four criteria each carrying exactly 25% — academic rank, research expenditure, Fortune 500 CEOs, and a salary score — here's how it lands:
That's a decent cut at it, but it probably over-rewards schools with med schools (that will be the majority of research $ by a good bit) and doesn't take into account how some schools pool their research & endowment $ across both med and rest of the university, while others don't. Examples:
- Texas seldom counts its various med schools, but if you did, their research $ would dwarf the rest of the SEC, possibly combined. I believe Vandy does count their med school research. LSU does sometimes as well.
- Alabama likes to count the endowments for UAB (BIG med school endowment) and UAH when reporting their total endowment numbers.
- CEO count changes regularly, and usually misses some CEOs of very big privately held companies. Also, CEOs are almost always counted for the last school attended, so if you got your undergrad at LSU then a Harvard MBA, you would be counted as a Harvard alum, not as a LSU alum, by the outfits that rank these sorts of things.
Even so, I think the overall grouping is about right, with Tennessee and Auburn knocking on the door to enter the top group.
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