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Well if they wanted people with degrees to have kids they could have made getting white-collar jobs more like the skilled trades where you just show up and they show you how to do the job over the course of a year or two instead of requiring you to have already done that exact job for 15 years then add a coding requirement like white-collar ones do. That's what they did before the dot com bust.

If AI really takes off nearly 100% of jobs will be blue collar.

I remember in the early 2000s it was the thing to give boys cowboy names influenced by Western locales. Yet when I was in the gaming industry I heard those names over and over with customers wanting indoor activities such as video games and trading cards. I remember seeing so many tan frustrated dads with buzzcuts sighing as their kid demanded another expensive Pokémon card.

I bet they wish Connecticut Republicans were back

I remember being able to watch the OU TV station when I lived in Lancaster which is very different than OSU's. OSU may have students working behind the scenes in editing and whatnot but the OU station had fully student-made content.

Students today are far more pragmatic about that kind of stuff as compared to our generation who was far more likely to pick schools that sounded cool, had "good vibes", cutting-edge marketing departments, were far enough from home to keep their folks off of them and their blue-collar high school friends from pulling them away to ride their jet-skis every weekend. Unfortunately OU has gone in the opposite direction enrollment-wise from OSU and UC due to this.

Indeed, people don't want anything to do with the small town schools anymore.

^First Strike is Deadly

Yes, I don't understand the target being 2% when historically it is 3.2%. I know 2% or less is what people are used to from the 2000s and 2010s but to me it seems like a ploy to bring back the near-zero interest rates that Wall Street insists on to push out other asset classes.

I feel like if you go that long with very little inflation you're going to have to pay the piper at some point. Then again, the 1800s had very little inflation.

On the other hand, if you want to shop without any other customers around this time of year get thee to a video game store. Ask me how I know.

I always think "Whoever decided to paint this building black wasn't old enough to remember when everything was dark from being covered in pollution and acid rain"

Cops lie, cops lie, cops lie.

In many cities, minorities live close to arterials which are indeed dangerous roads for all users including even people walking on the sidewalk. So the roads have both high crash incidence and severity. Putting up a bunch of red light cameras may not have had racist intentions but the results were. The real way to fix arterials is with design but the cheap way to attempt to reduce danger is with cameras.

We already basically have this with car-sharing services. The profitability of them seems to be pretty iffy and they haven't changed much about city life. Sure a self-driving car doesn't have to wait for an attending pair of drivers to drop the car off but the question would be is that the game changer. There is also Turo where individuals rent out their cars through an app.

Trucks are sized for Texas now since that state is by far the largest truck market. People in older, tighter states don't ask themselves if the truck fits their landscape or not. They just buy it anyway.

I get the feeling that one was on TV late at night listed as just "Movie" in the paper around 1985.

Then there was the massive mink massacre in early 2020 when people thought minks were spreading COVID.

Mink is starting to grow on me

When I shut down my last store in August of last year our prices for those items were: NES (no game) $99.99 Super Mario Bros. $14.99 Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt $9.99 (yes, less because it's less collectible than Mario by itself -- it was the market rather than we that made this decision) Zapper $5.99 Power Pad $14.99 Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt/World Class Track Meet $9.99

Granted it has been a few years but Cincinnati had $1 park signs all over the CBD when I lived there. You got 2 hours in a garage for a buck. One effing dollar right in the middle of a city. How do you run a business off of a buck?

People insist that surface lots are money machines but garage rates are that low. Garages cost actual money to construct while off of Park Street we were parking on gravel.

Oh Circleville's got bars

It's especially impressive considering what a tough time it is for B&M retail.

There's one bar there that is the primary sponsor of a NASCAR team.