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| Favorite team: | LSU  |
| Location: | Jawja |
| Biography: | King of the normies. |
| Interests: | God, wife and kids. In that order. |
| Occupation: | Professional data nerd. |
| Number of Posts: | 3442 |
| Registered on: | 12/3/2023 |
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Stuff like this is why I entertain the idea of making school non-compulsory after, say, 5th grade.
I know there will be negative consequences to that but man, so much of running K-12 is behavior management as opposed to education. It’s a problem.
I know there will be negative consequences to that but man, so much of running K-12 is behavior management as opposed to education. It’s a problem.
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re: Which one of you is married to her? You might want to call her now!!
Posted by Dadren on 8/21/26 at 6:36 am to LemmyLives
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A steady diet of "STOP MANSPLAINING!" will do that to men.
I think we as a society need to do a better job of separating internet narratives from real life.
If it was me, I would have just asked “Excuse me, is that a [make/model]? I had no idea they took diesel…what year is that”? At least something to make her aware of what she was doing.
re: A Quick Way To Pay Down/Pay Off The $40 Trillion National Debt
Posted by Dadren on 8/20/26 at 3:41 pm to bulletprooftiger
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The government issues bonds (t-bills) to print more money. Those are the debt.
The Federal Reserve buys the majority of those bonds with money from its member institutions, i.e. banks. We have to keep our money in banks. Our money is used to buy the the debt. The bond (debt) holder, The Federal Reserve, gets the interest and puts it back in the banks. We will continue to run a huge deficit and it will continue not to make a difference because we are mostly borrowing from ourselves to pay ourselves while "creating" more money in the process.
The federal reserve only holds $4.5 trillion of the national debt. Your explanation only accounts for 10%
Most of the remaining $35 trillion is held by private entities/funds and local governments. We’re not simply “paying interest to ourselves”. The federal government is spending outside of the budget, borrowing from said entities to pay for it and using our tax dollars to pay the interest on that debt. To the tune of hundreds of billions per year.
re: A Quick Way To Pay Down/Pay Off The $40 Trillion National Debt
Posted by Dadren on 8/20/26 at 3:32 pm to Bestbank Tiger
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Hell, freeze discretionary spending at current levels for five years and let revenue catch up.
100% this.
It’ll take a generation but it’s the only practical solution.
re: The U.S. national debt hits $40 trillion
Posted by Dadren on 8/20/26 at 12:59 pm to TeddyPadillac
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Interest to who? The govt?
Every large corporation on the planet owns treasury securities.
But even when it’s government to government, how does that change anything? If random government agency (as opposed to Amazon) “owns” a t-bill, interest is still being paid and it’s not fantasy money. It is your tax dollars. Again, there is a line item in the budget for it and the bigger the debt, the bigger that line item will be.
re: The U.S. national debt hits $40 trillion
Posted by Dadren on 8/20/26 at 8:56 am to TeddyPadillac
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Kewl. If they can hand out $40 trillion, then what the hell does it matter if they hand out another $40 trillion? These numbers are almost make believe numbers.
I literally just explained this.
If you double the outstanding debt, you double the interest.
Unless you double the revenue, more of the federal budget goes to interest.
You kewl with more of your taxes going toward interest on dollars that should never have been spent in the first place?
re: The U.S. national debt hits $40 trillion
Posted by Dadren on 8/20/26 at 8:00 am to TeddyPadillac
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I don't even know what it even means, or how real it actually is.
Treasury securities (bonds, t-bills, etc) are very real. And $40 trillion worth have been issued to cover government spending that exceeded the federal budget.
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In what way does it prevent the gov't from spending?
Today, it doesn’t. As long as the federal government keeps paying interest on those securities, everybody is happy.
However, interest on the national debt is 18 percent of the federal budget. It is a bigger line item than defense spending at this point.
Math says this is unsustainable because if we keep doubling this ridiculous amount every few years, there won’t be enough federal revenue to pay the interest.
At that point, the answer to your second question will be very clear.
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If sleepy Joe were still president those numbers would be even worse.
This is like a woman saying “my ex husband beat me worse than my current husband does”.
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Am I an a-hole for not caring when other friends are visibly upset. It's getting hard to pretend I care when they tell me He moved his arm today or He tried to talk today.
I’ll say conditionally, you are not the a-hole.
There’s a difference between not caring about the guy and not caring about your friends being upset about something.
re: If you get pulled over, do you answer seemingly innocuous questions?
Posted by Dadren on 8/18/26 at 1:41 pm to southpawcock
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"Officer, here is my license, registration, and proof of insurance. I am going to exercise my right not to answer any of your questions, am I free to go?"
Like, as soon as he’s handing the cop the licenses, he asks if he’s free to go? How does that not come off as dickish? :lol:
I mean sure, I hear them on Rodriguez v. United States but if I’m actually dealing with a cop that’s looking for someone to be a problem, responding like this just to avoid telling him I’m going to the UPS store doesn’t seem like a winning move.
Not a lawyer and don’t even have a clue what the correct answer is, but this is one hell of a deep dive. :lol:
Who knows man. CFB is so monumentally screwed sideways. Maybe the Daniels family/camp/momma has a case.
And if they win, they’re still asshoe and CFB is still a dumpster fire.
Who knows man. CFB is so monumentally screwed sideways. Maybe the Daniels family/camp/momma has a case.
And if they win, they’re still asshoe and CFB is still a dumpster fire.
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Now maybe you dumb Cajuns will finally admit Caleb is the superior QB
Yeah your guy totally doesn’t have mommy issues like Daniels.
re: Pet Peeve: Why can’t some people just answer the bloody, fricking question?
Posted by Dadren on 8/17/26 at 9:40 am to DownshiftAndFloorIt
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And you should promptly respond to them that if they knew the answer, saw the question, and didnt answer it they've forfeit any right to comment about anything. If you want to opine on the decision, do it before the decision gets made and not after everyone sat around looking for someone to make the decision that you did not make.
The arm chair QBs I had in mind were oversight/regulatory agencies.
I work for a bank so we can’t just tell the FDIC or FRB examiners your opinion doesn’t matter…as much as I would love to. :lol:
re: Do women understand that men do not care about their careers. Etc?
Posted by Dadren on 8/17/26 at 9:33 am to burger bearcat
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She is also is bewildered why guys don’t seem interested in her 6 figure salary and nice condo over looking the city. Some guy she was seeing ended up moving on to a younger girl that worked as a bank teller part time, and she was confused.
It’s because women (men also to a degree) conflate what makes them “formidable” within their own sex with what makes them attractive to the opposite sex.
While the “girl boss career woman pathway” is new, the idea itself is pretty old. It’s the same circuitry that makes women spend hours on makeup and buy expensive purses and shoes.
Or men who spend a ton on cars or build their lives around lifting and muscle gains.
re: Pet Peeve: Why can’t some people just answer the bloody, fricking question?
Posted by Dadren on 8/17/26 at 9:20 am to burger bearcat
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You ask certain people for specific information on an email. And they proceed to respond with a word vomit answer with an endless maze of options and possibilities. And then a few minutes later you get the dreaded follow up phone call from the same person wanting to further expand and ramble on about their text book they already sent me.
It’s because we live in a world where everyone is looking for someone else to blame problems on.
Everyone has to qualify the living hell out of everything they share because if something goes wrong, some arm-chair QB is going to scrutinize every word.
re: Jayden Daniels wants LSU to give back the school's Heisman Trophy copy
Posted by Dadren on 8/15/26 at 9:34 am to wildtigercat93
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Before this happened, LSU was going to honor Jayden and his accomplishments. They still will. Working with him to announce a future event or way to honor him without bending the knee on the jersey number request is a way to move forward without “losing” anything.
I feel like (and these are just my feelings so take that for what it’s worth) continuing with their plans would be bending the knee.
The dude came out of nowhere with a lawsuit, a ridiculous demand to send him LSU’s copy of the Heisman, all with the implication that LSU did something underhanded.
It was a selfish, douchey move and pretty disruptive right before fall camp. Continuing with plans to honor him implies “it’s all good”, when it clearly is not. That’s dishonest IMO, and the majority of LSU fans have no interest in it.
JD5 completely nuked his relationship with LSU, not the other way around. If LSU acts accordingly, that’s not petty. It’s simply an acknowledgment of the reality he created.
re: Disgraced Cambridge "professor" Arday found dead
Posted by Dadren on 8/15/26 at 9:15 am to RohanGonzales
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So after all the damage has been done, let's just forget about it.
Black people have been saying exactly this for decades about slavery, Jim Crow and redlining.
What’s your solution? Everyone just cross their arms and angrily stare at each other for shite that happened in the past? Yes, at some point everyone has to start letting shite go.
re: Jayden Daniels wants LSU to give back the school's Heisman Trophy copy
Posted by Dadren on 8/15/26 at 9:05 am to wildtigercat93
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They gain nothing by digging their heels in and would give up nothing by coming up with a way to mend the fence and move past this if both sides are willing. This idea that Jayden would need to grovel to move past this is a childish one.
Nobody is saying LSU needs to make Daniels do anything.
It’s your idea that LSU should do something here to “mend fences” that everyone is universally objecting to. Screw that noise.
Daniels and his family lit the dumpster on fire for no good reason. They need to figure out how to put it out.
re: Disgraced Cambridge "professor" Arday found dead
Posted by Dadren on 8/15/26 at 8:47 am to wallowinit
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As for me I just assume anyone who is a minority or female in a position of power in any field was passed along at some point because they didn't have what it takes.
Give me the old white guy who didn't get any breaks - who we can be sure actually earned every bit of his credentials.
I mean…this take is exactly why people initially justified all the DEI crap in the first place.
Maybe we should stop making assumptions based on race either way, take people one at a time based on merit and ability and stop swinging the dumbass race pendulum back and forth?
re: What is your life’s purpose?
Posted by Dadren on 8/14/26 at 1:37 pm to TexasTiger08
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purpose
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I feel like this is a never ending searching for me.
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healthy daughter, a good relationship, parents who can still get around.
Ever spend a ton of time looking for something only to realize it’s right in your pocket?
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Tell us why Billy Cannon #20 jersey is retired... Joe Burrow #9 jersey is out of circulation.. But Jayden Daniels #5 jersey is given out to recruits? ??????
1) calling DJ Pickett a “recruit” is more disrespectful than anything JD5 is experiencing in his imagination.
2) If Pickett wanted #9, they would have (and should have) given him that.
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