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razorrozar posted:I haven't looked into it extensively because it's a pipe dream for me until I save up the money to do it, and as long as I'm dreaming there might as well be Cali beaches in it. If/when it comes to the point of actually moving out of state I'll consider my options much more carefully. There's beaches all over the East Coast to go to, and most of them are a lot warmer.   ReidRansom posted:I've never heard it in Texas. It's more like, "don't like the weather? Tough poo poo. Maybe come back in nine months when summer's over, or something." When I visited Arizona, someone told me "don't like the weather? me neither". Thanatosian posted:I mean, it varies widely with what city you're in, but generally speaking, the cost of living in the Northeast doesn't favorably compare with many places. It favorably compares with the cost of living in the West Coast's major metros, and the West Coast areas that don't have that high cost tend to not be places you'd want to be. It's also kinda funny how the Northeast tends to have both much cheaper gas and much better transit than the West Coast. Nintendo Kid fucked around with this message at 18:19 on Jul 9, 2014 |
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Chantilly Say posted:I just figure it's cultural; we make girls write in a way determined to be aesthetically prettier instead of just letting them communicate. It has to be a performance, too. Right but women's handwriting seems to be more homogenous as well. Like if you took ten random women and looked at their handwriting, the different samples would be more similar than if you compared the handwriting of ten random men. How does this serve the patriarchy?
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Chantilly Say posted:Now, what do we mean when we say "mid-atlantic" because there are parts of that that are cool and there are parts of that next to which I would rather live almost anywhere else. The DC-to-NYC corridor of urban development  It includes NoVA (Northern Virginia) too, I guess.
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Jul 9, 2014 18:16
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ReidRansom posted:I've never heard it in Texas. It's more like, "don't like the weather? Tough poo poo. Maybe come back in nine months when summer's over, or something." :thunder: :eight-hour thunderstorm: :beautiful, sunny afternoon: :hail:
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zoux posted:How's the weather in Vermont? Me and my two BFFs were talking about which state we'd want to move to if we ever moved and we all independently came up with Vermont. It depends on where you're comparing it to. If you grew up in Minnesota, it's nice. If you grew up in California, there is weather there that you weren't even aware occurred on planet Earth; it's like something out of the loving Bible.
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Now, it may surprise many of you to know that I also live in Texas, but we had one day this year where the high was forty degrees lower than the day before.
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Jul 9, 2014 18:18
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zoux posted:Here's an extremely low stakes gender question but why do you think that men and women have different handwriting? Like, I bet I could with 90% accuracy determine whether something was written by a man or a woman, just in terms of penmanship. Are girls taught differently in elementary or something? I'm trying to think of a variable that would account for it, but it would have to be something social or cultural, right? I stand corrected v  vNintendo Kid posted:When I visited Arizona, someone told me "don't like the weather? me neither". Well they basically only have the one type... I might also expect "Then why did you come here?" ReidRansom fucked around with this message at 18:23 on Jul 9, 2014 |
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Jul 9, 2014 18:19
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Nintendo Kid posted:There's beaches all over the East Coast to go to, and most of them are a lot warmer. yeah but see, that's exactly the kind of analysis I'm not doing right now because it's a moot point until I can afford it.
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Jul 9, 2014 18:22
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zoux posted:Here's an extremely low stakes gender question but why do you think that men and women have different handwriting? Like, I bet I could with 90% accuracy determine whether something was written by a man or a woman, just in terms of penmanship. Are girls taught differently in elementary or something? I'm trying to think of a variable that would account for it, but it would have to be something social or cultural, right? My handwriting's a scribbly mess no matter what so who knows. I actually refused to learn cursive back in 3rd grade or so because I already knew how to write, why were they trying to force me to write in this weird new way? It was clearly bullshit. Now I can't read anything handwritten from before computers made everyone forget how to use a pen.
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zoux posted:Right but women's handwriting seems to be more homogenous as well. Like if you took ten random women and looked at their handwriting, the different samples would be more similar than if you compared the handwriting of ten random men. How does this serve the patriarchy? I think the roundness and large midsection typical of female writing is more strictly similar to the way we are taught to write as children; very distinguishable and clear shapes. Perhaps women are better at consistency in fine-motor skills based on muscle memory? Or they write well sooner in life because girls mature faster? We could get a grant to study that, no problem.
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MarsDragon posted:My handwriting's a scribbly mess no matter what so who knows. Bro are you even a gilr? There are a lot of districts that want to get rid of cursive instruction because no one uses it and the vast majority of writing is done via keyboard these days but surprise surprise conservatives are agin it because if it twere good enou fer me it's good enou fer all time forever. mdemone posted:I think the roundness and large midsection typical of female writing is more strictly similar to the way we are taught to write as children; very distinguishable and clear shapes. Perhaps women are better at consistency in fine-motor skills based on muscle memory? Or they write well sooner in life because girls mature faster? Whoa turns out girls hand writing is different because women are "nesters" and can see the color pink more clearly because they were meant to be gatherers 
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mdemone posted:Faggy handshakes? Hot pants? They were too.. idk the word for it just weak and weird
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tbp posted:They were too.. idk the word for it just weak and weird "Your posts"
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tbp posted:They were too.. idk the word for it just weak and weird They too refused to ignore you? 
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Jul 9, 2014 18:43
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ReidRansom posted:I've never heard it in Texas. It's more like, "don't like the weather? Tough poo poo. Maybe come back in nine months when summer's over, or something." Peggy Hill makes a "if you don't like the weather, just wait 5 minutes" joke in King of the Hill man.
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Jul 9, 2014 18:45
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I'm startin' to think this guy ain't a real Texan...
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Jul 9, 2014 18:47
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 I have the boots to prove it. Full of all sorts of unmentionables.
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Were you born here?
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Jul 9, 2014 18:52
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zoux posted:Were you born here? There was also a King of the Hill episode that addressed this issue.
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Jul 9, 2014 18:54
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Yeah KotH pretty much nails it, Texaswise.
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Jul 9, 2014 18:56
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zoux posted:Were you born here? In the hot Texas autumn in Houston, thirty some odd years ago. But I have left both the state and country at times. Maybe I was infected.
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Jul 9, 2014 18:57
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You also spent several regrettable years in College Station where the weather, like the gene pool, doesn't change. #JFF # WreckingCrew #12thMan
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I grew up in B/CS.
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zoux posted:I grew up in B/CS. #Nell
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I hung out in the Bay Area a bit in the late 90s and it was like a giant version of a sleepy college town in a way. Lots of cool idealistic young people and well-integrated immigrant communities, punk shows and the still nascent DIY scene. Returning there in 2007 it seemed like a lot of the character had been priced out of the area, and everyone who didn't have an umbrella of generational wealth was struggling at best. White male libertarian monoculture seemed to be the order of the day. An anecdote I realize, but a decade seemed to change my opinion of the area completely, and I don't think it was just me.
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Swan Oat posted:Peggy Hill makes a "if you don't like the weather, just wait 5 minutes" joke in King of the Hill man. Yeah the first time I ever heard anyone use that line to refer to a place that wasn't New England (where I'm from) they were talking about Texas. I called bullshit then and I'll call it again  That said if I could sum up New England weather in one blurb it'd be "long cold-rear end snowy winters followed by muggy, humid summers." This past year we've gotten a pretty extreme example of both of those things, too. Vermont is beautiful country but it doesn't have a big enough city for me. If you don't need that, and you can put up with the summers and winters long enough to experience the region's beautiful springs and autumns, you could do much worse in terms of which state to live in.
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I grew up in one of the rich Asian enclaves of the Silicon Valley and whenever I see yet another person from my high school grow up to be a FYGM arsehole I think about how my 21st can't come quickly enough. To some extent it feels as if we've enjoyed a limited amount of honourary white status here and absorbed plenty of the racism and classism to go with it.
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My assumption is that E-verify could be improved though. I mean, my guess is if I moved to some other first world country (the ones we praise for all that sweet sweet socialism) I would find that they probably have strict hiring policies and use something like E-verify. Also my guess is that E-verify should be the last step in the hiring process. OK you made it through the interview, etc, etc and now you're hired. On the first day of work you go through the E-verify system and there's an issue. Obviously at this point you would be given a month or so to fix the problem and your employer would have to work with you to resolve it. Simple. As I said before I only agree with using something like E-verify and strict hiring practices if we granted Amnesty (green cards) to those already here, and then fixed the legal immigration ssytem. edit: poo poo this was supposed to go in the US politics thread guys my bad. Sephiroth_IRA fucked around with this message at 21:26 on Jul 9, 2014 |
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ReindeerF posted:You also spent several regrettable years in College Station where the weather, like the gene pool, doesn't change. Spent? I'm still here...  But I work for the university. It's not all bad.
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Is there a way to appeal E-verify if it falsely reports you are not eligible to work in the US? Like can I bust out a birth certificate and passport or am I just poo poo out of luck?
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I'm guessing looking like me is a good start!
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Randler posted:Why did people settle there in the time before A/Cs if it's so unbearable? They can't have oil and gold everywhere, can they? One of the first inventors of A/C, John Gorrie, has a statue in the Capitol Building's main hall for a reason.
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ReidRansom posted:I've never heard it in Texas. It's more like, "don't like the weather? Tough poo poo. Maybe come back in nine months when summer's over, or something." What? I live in West Texas and people joke about it all the time.
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We've already established he's a huge liar who's probably from NEW YOURK CITY!
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Swan Oat posted:Is there a way to appeal E-verify if it falsely reports you are not eligible to work in the US? Like can I bust out a birth certificate and passport or am I just poo poo out of luck? Sorry that post was supposed to go into the US politics thread. I don't know how it works now but if it were to become a mandate my guess is that if the system would probably force the employer to give you a reasonable amount of time to resolve the issue or appeal if need be. To me it only makes sense if E-verify is used after the employee is hired or else a false positive could really gently caress someone over. Anyway, how do other countries go about handling it? They have to have stricter hiring practices and a system like E-verify there or else they would have an "immigration problem" as well. I get the impression if I managed to get across the border into Canada for that sweet sweet socialist healthcare I wouldn't last very long. Even if I got a hold of some dead persons Canadian equivalent of a Social Security Number (I know someone that did that here in the US) or if I just stayed with friends and tried to work under the table. At some point I would get pulled over or I would apply for a job and someone would run my information and I would be sent packing to the USA, probably after serving a period of jail time and paying a hefty fine. Sephiroth_IRA fucked around with this message at 21:42 on Jul 9, 2014 |
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zoux posted:We've already established he's a huge liar who's probably from NEW YOURK CITY! Get a rope.
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and a sour apple tree.
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Hey Texans how do you like the idea of a state that's 9 miles wide and has two senators just like you do?
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King of the hill is the best I tell you hwat.
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King of the Hill gets Texas pretty well but Squidbillies is the superior southern culture parody cartoon.
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