ryanlsu

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Read his Farewell Address. It's incredibly isolationist.

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It was pretty easy to be an isolationist in 1796. It took 2-3 months to cross the ocean back then. It is incredibly intellectually dishonest to think isolationism in 1796 and 2025 are even remotely comparable.

I left school for a great job with about 18 hours left to graduate. Didn’t like what I was doing any more in my 40s so went back to LSU to get my undergrad. It was much easier this time around. It seems the kids in school now do the absolute minimum that the professor requires. Became friends with my professors and did any extra work for credit that they allowed. Got above a 4.0 for those last 18 hours and then decided to go to law school.

Now I’m an attorney making more than I was before with a much better quality of life. I would recommend going back to school for anyone who is unhappy with their career. Life is too short to wake up every day hating what you do.

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For crying out loud, we saw videos of Tianeman Square and that was 35 years ago.

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Tiananmen Square protests lasted 7 weeks and had over 1 million people in the square at some point. Some factory workers demanding back pay, no matter in how many places, is not the same.

China does allow some protesting to blow off steam. I took a couple of Chinese history classes a couple of years ago and we watched some videos that were smuggled out. They let them protest for a little bit, then round up the leaders of the protests, claim that they are corrupt (usually corrupted by capitalism), then shoot them for being enemies of the state. The protests kinda dies down after that.

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Wow I didn’t know this. Do you remember the exact year that you heard that?

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I think I started working there in 98. Seigen was already open and some of the corporate managers were doing some kind of “audit”. One of the younger managers came out with us after work and was talking about how far our sales had fallen percentage wise and that triggered corporate to take a closer look at the store. He said no one was getting fired bc we were still in the top 25% of stores but we used to be number one. He said they were looking at how adding chilis within a certain distance affected high performance locations.

Also the GM had plaques on the wall of his office that said #1 in sales. We routinely had an hour+ waits on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights and the old-timers said it used to be like that every night before seigen opened.

Another thing I just remembered was when I was waiting to move up to bartender, we had a guy graduate in engineering but stayed at chilis to bartend for another year to save more money to buy a house before he started his career.

Didn’t read the whole thread so maybe someone has already said this but the online school at LSU used to be run through LSU-Eunice.

I left college for a real job about 25 hours short of graduating. Around 2018 I looked into getting my degree bc I had promised my mom I would graduate and was going to do the online option so I could continue to work. I read the small print and asked the counselor about it. I was going to be paying LSU prices for tuition but my degree was going to say LSU-Eunice.

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There's a great documentary from the late 1990s called "Balkans in Flames" that lays it all out from ancient history to modern times.

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Thank you for your service. If you decide to read in your retirement, The Bridge on the Drina is a great book with a lot of history of the region.

I had heard that they had filmed some of the sex and had admitted to it but said it was consensual. And that lines up better with the things the defense attorneys are leaking. If the defense is going to be that nobody had sex with her, why are they leaking that she grabbed somebody’s junk or that they asked her if she wanted to have sex and she said yes, or that she called one guy a fig for not having sex with her? Wouldn’t she be calling everybody in the car a fig if everyone refused to sleep with her?

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I think the videos show she clearly isn’t blackout drunk

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So you even know what blackout drunk means? It is when you are so drunk that you don’t remember anything. Tell me in your expert opinion how from that video you can say she would have remembered that?

That was my point. Burbank is much more dangerous than tigerland. Someone was arguing with me saying tigerland was more dangerous. I agree you may be more likely to get hit around tigerland but you are more likely to die getting hit on a dark highway where people drive 60-70 mph.

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People here are trying to make decisions and form opinions using probably 35% of the pertinent information involved. It’s crazy to me

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It’s a OT message board. If nobody had opinions then it would have shut down years ago.

And way more than 35% of the pertinent info is out there. Usually in a rape case the issues will be did they have sex. (Here it’s on tape) and in the case of lack of informed consent, was she actually intoxicated (here her bac was .319).