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Oh wow. I was behind on that one. Didn't know it was time.

A quarter million square feet and the only place to sit and eat is your car.

Maybe that's why Bimbo bought Sara Lee. Harder to sue a foreign entity for it

What he's describing sounds like the Army Corps of Engineers.

Some schools ended legacy admissions on their own, presumably because they didn't want to deal with it or perhaps more conspiratorially, ended them to spite the Republican party's anti-intellctualism. Healthcare especially gets separated from the others since such a large portion of them are commuters.

So STEM is now not or was never subject to admissions rules to achieve a certain diversity standard, only the liberal arts?

"Freedom" people love making us have to drive rather than choose from among multiple modes.

I don't see why white Republicans think taking race out of the equation helps them get their kids into Ivies. It made schools end legacy admissions (which are the main way white Republicans' kids got in) and removing the "maximum Asian percentage" in favor of meritocracy effectively means fewer white people and more Asians.

Republicans try to do everything with tax breaks since they know actual poor people pay little to no tax. They are suckers for trickle-down 40 years later. Somehow people who make 500k a year will just hand it over.

I forget, what was Connect called before?

They didn't before bad suburban ideas came along in the 1920s then started getting applied to the city. Everything was natural and instinctive before and zoning wasn't required. The only zoning needed was to keep industrial pollution away from residential.

Yes. Lack of auto techs, expensive parts and even if you have a cheap easy to fix car the liability that you might hit Buzz the Overpaid Boomer's $90k aluminum F-150 that are all over the place is still there.

Auditors' offices can't win. Value goes up = people pissed off. Value goes down (2008) = people pissed off.

We don't even know what in-car touchscreen liability will ultimately be yet. All people wanted to do was turn their wipers on due to a sudden downpour but it was buried in a touchscreen menu so while they were looking down to do that they hit a kid.

Stuff inside the house isn't worth anything anymore except guns and jewelry. All the money's in the garage.

2008 Laid the Smacketh Down as The Rock would say. Immediately the thrift store became cooler than Macy's and the 2001 Ford Focus became the Coolest Car on Earth.

The worst thing that happened was people who didn't go to college having money all of a sudden in like 2003-2005. College OR having not much money with blue-collar work in the '70s-'90s taught thriftiness but that time period was the exact opposite of that. Didn't matter the racial or geographic background. It was all bling even if it was a Dirt Late Model in Kentucky, a Donk in Charlotte, a Land Rover in L.A. or Magic cards in Seattle.

We need to get away from this system where an industry/discipline is solid for a while so everybody goes into it, then it lays everyone off, then nobody will go into it for 10-15 years, everyone that manages to stay in during the downturn or not retire gets filthy rich for the first time in their lives 10 years after the downturn then the industry has to beg or overpay for people for the next 10-15 then it stabilizes to what it was before the layoffs started. First it happened to unskilled labor, then semi-skilled. People said "Oh thems the breaks, you should have leveled up. You knew this could happen" Then it happened to skilled labor. "You should have gone to college. Everyone else went" Then it happened to white-collar jobs "You think college was going to insulate you from that?" It used to be college jobs were solid for the longest time then even those dried up and now people have stopped going because you'll still wind up with the same crappy jobs whether you went or not since the skilled trades are not easy and take time to learn. And everyone who did go gets told to retrain for jobs they weren't supposed to train for because they were always laying people off! Ask any skilled trades hiring manager how many dolts they have to put up with as compared to when they got started in the '80s or '90s. Too many of the non-dolts went to college. Thank god I inherited a self-sufficient business and am still considered credentialed to do ONE type of popular white-collar in-office job that I actually like if I have to get out of my business. This system is not working.

That's what spurred the '70s inflation. Having to buy a second car, buying twice as much gas, Hamburger Helper, Rice-A-Roni, fast food, pizza, Kindercare, junk food for the 2-3 hour gap between the end of the school day and getting home from work. Of course people wanted to reward themselves with a Lincoln Continental after dealing with all that. Then you couldn't just have a Sears bike like in the '70s, you needed a Mongoose. Superman and Stretch Armstrong are totally out of style, you need a ton of Transformers and a Tyco Super Cliff Hangers set. But you'll never need that many white-collar people again because of computers, the internet and AI. So the one time gain of people only saved companies money a few years before they laid everyone off again when they could fully trust their computers. As things stand right now there will always be an unlimited amount of blue collar work available in the U.S. in relation to the population in non-declining areas.

The idea behind crap wages for childcare workers was that women naturally wanted to take care of kids anyway so it was like boys taking a job where they could play video games all day or something. Today, like many jobs, childcare requires so many certifications that the pay has to reflect how much training has gone into the worker. Office jobs get so many applicants now that the only young men they have to "bother with" are in IT or engineering.

The two income household wasn't liberation, it was companies wanting to depress the value of human labor.

Yes this was developed at a time when that was considered unimportant because "everyone drove".

Also while that one friend's game store at Mill Run only made it a couple years another opened one on Cemetery that ended up being a banger an is still open.