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Furnaceface posted:My favourite part of thinking into the future is that at some point a group of historians is going to be assigned to reading through the Something Awful Forums during the pre and post Trump era. Actually I bet a sociologist could do a fascinating book or paper on SA or the Goonfleet forums. How the people on the forums aged and became more tolerant over time and stopped the unfunny ironic racism, sexism and homophobic-slandering as they aged and how new sites like reddit and voat appeared to fill the void. We've already seen reddit follow SA to a degree. It'll be interesting to see where it is in five years, and where voat is in five years. Majorian posted:Ahahahaaaaa! Yeah, that would be pretty galling. Why the hell did you live in the dorms for four years? 
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Arrgytehpirate posted:Why the hell did you live in the dorms for four years? Probably a lot cheaper than paying LA rent on an apartment
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Arrgytehpirate posted:Why the hell did you live in the dorms for four years? Apartments in Eagle Rock were expensive as hell and also really lovely when I was there (early-mid 2000's). Also I had a falling out with some friends halfway through, so~
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Arrgytehpirate posted:Where was this? I did pretty much the same thing in Hawaii. It was weird though, like some places closed at 2 a.m. others are 4 a.m. it felt like clubs were open longer than most bars. NYC and the greater metro area. Yeah, usually you can find a kind of "bar/club/after hours" pecking order in some places. I spent a month in England and after a week or so I learned that there was a whole rhythm similar to what I knew. "Respectable" bars til 10, "dive" bars till 12 or 1, skeezy clubs till 2, kebabs from food carts after. But in a most places I've been that weren't really densely populated or more rural its a lot more a case of needing to find the one crappy bar that's open or just finding a house party.
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Fulchrum posted:Okay, but whats the excuse for leftists still saying that her speech was "gently caress all of you, I hope you die in a ditch. I really hate you on a personal level and want to laugh at your pain. Bye." Because it was more condescending dismissive "The people have no jobs? Then let them eat job retraining programs" liberal elite cluelessness.
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A lot of schools, especially smaller ones, have nice dorms and students who live there throughout undergrad.
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Majorian posted:What leverage does a non-binding agreement give them over the US? Botany already covered it, but: botany posted:Those of you who can read German, this is a pretty good article on what exiting the Paris Accord actually means and why it's bad for the US: Basically, the US is going to be the odd man out for anything and everything that comes around as a result of the Paris agreement, which will be considerable. Tibalt posted:When I look at Pittsburgh, I say to myself "There is a city that loves Rust Belt capitalism. There is a city that hasn't embraced the future with a seething desperation, terrified of what it nearly became. There is a city that isn't psychologically and physically scarred by the betrayals of the Reagan years. Pittsburgh isn't a city that maniacally proclaims its bright future, to hide it's collective insecurity and existential dread. They don't watch Detroit carefully, as an omen of what almost was and could yet still be. Also we're the city that hosted the Bassmaster tournament where a bunch of "world class" fisherman get skunked, or find out some/all of their vass were dead by the time weigh-in rolled around because the rivers here are still highly toxic and will likely kill you, slowly and painfully, if you were to eat the fish out of it or drink its water without lots of treatment. Also IIRC, after that tournament a bunch of changes were made because, unsurprisingly, not as many people wanted to watch their favorite fishermen catch the occasional drum or carp. Or nothing at all over the course of several days.  Josh Lyman posted:When you turn 30, 4am becomes a pipe dream. I'm in my 30s and I've been up until well past 4 when out at bars with people. It's not 30, it's you. Phoix posted:Your daily dose of what the gently caress are they doing. No puppet, no puppet. Mr Interweb posted:From the NYT's newest "diversity" hire: poo poo like this is why I'll never pay for the NYT.
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Pellisworth posted:Probably a lot cheaper than paying LA rent on an apartment Are we talking about with roommates? Cause dorms are loving expensive. Moreso than apartments, in my experience.
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Majorian posted:Apartments in Eagle Rock were expensive as hell and also really lovely when I was there (early-mid 2000's). Also I had a falling out with some friends halfway through, so~ Good reasons. STAC Goat posted:NYC and the greater metro area. Yeah. We have the same sorta rhythm here. A Friday here is happy hour for food and beer at 5, nap or pregame at 8, club at 10, bars at midnight or 1. Late night eats at 3. Josh Lyman posted:A lot of schools, especially smaller ones, have nice dorms and students who live there throughout undergrad. Heh. I wouldn't know about "nice dorms." Fake news!
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Mr Interweb posted:Are we talking about with roommates? Cause dorms are loving expensive. Moreso than apartments, in my experience. lol if you aren't stacking 6 kids in a Koreatown apartment
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STAC Goat posted:I always forget its weird that bars around here stay open until 4. It was such a culture shock when I started traveling and found out that bars closed at like the time I would go out at home. what would you do while waiting to go out ? I've never understood that. a nice nap?
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I hate covfefe for making the olds feel like they get to be hip.
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Evil Fluffy posted:Botany already covered it, but: That's all true, but I still think people are overstating the importance of this - not that it's not extremely important, because it is, but we were already a ways down the road of isolating ourselves diplomatically through really stupid unilateral decisions.
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Mr Interweb posted:Are we talking about with roommates? Cause dorms are loving expensive. Moreso than apartments, in my experience. Jaxyon posted:lol if you aren't stacking 6 kids in a Koreatown apartment Yeah, even with roommates. I haven't gone apartment shopping in like four years but just spitballing, a one-bedroom apartment is gonna start at around 1100-1200 per month and that's probably in a slightly lovely neighborhood without parking. Right now I'm in a pretty lovely 2br in a decent neighborhood and it's $1500 between me and the roommate. It's rent-controlled and the original lease was signed like eight years ago so if I were to sign a lease on the same place tomorrow I wouldn't be surprised if it's like 1700-1800. Undergrads at USC were paying like $800-1000 to share a room and it's not a good neighborhood at all.
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Confounding Factor posted:How much sleep do you get? About 8.5 Assume roughly one hour to fall asleep and get up at 6:45. Bring an old man owns. Except everything hurts.
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The Glumslinger posted:Hillary was too centrist for me, but sign me up for Joe Biden Joe Biden is pretty close to actually being the corporate centrist that a lot of people accused Hillary of being, but he's an old white dude who's charismatic and also his Onion character is a lot of fun so it's okay. But seriously, Joe Biden is going to be close to 80 in 2020. There's no way he runs. I mean I'd still vote for him in the general if it came down to it, but holy poo poo would I be disgusted with myself afterwards.
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Pellisworth posted:Yeah, even with roommates. I haven't gone apartment shopping in like four years but just spitballing, a one-bedroom apartment is gonna start at around 1100-1200 per month and that's probably in a slightly lovely neighborhood without parking. Jesus man, I'm paying less than you for a 2300 4 bedroom 3 bathroom house
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Good lord does this man have a goofy face but Jon Bel Edwards has won two national elections in blood red Louisiana. He might be a good person to get on the ticket.
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Al Borland Corp. posted:Jesus man, I'm paying less than you for a 2300 4 bedroom 3 bathroom house rent's too drat high LA is bad but not nearly as bad as SF or NYC, the Bay Area you're looking at more than $2k for a 1br https://www.apartmentlist.com/rentonomics/national-rent-data/ there just isn't an incentive to build new, affordable rental units international students at USC were pretty literally stacking in 5-6 to a 1br apartment at USC, I had a friend who lived with five other Chinese students and her room was three beds squeezed in with barely any floorspace to actually walk around
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Al Borland Corp. posted:Jesus man, I'm paying less than you for a 2300 4 bedroom 3 bathroom house Yeah but you have to live near Detroit
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Al Borland Corp. posted:Jesus man, I'm paying less than you for a 2300 4 bedroom 3 bathroom house My apartment in D.C. was a 435 square foot studio apartment in Dupont Circle for $1,935 a month. That was with a 3% discount.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:My apartment in D.C. was a 435 square foot studio apartment in Dupont Circle for $1,935 a month. To be fair, that was in Dupont.
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Mr Interweb posted:Are we talking about with roommates? Cause dorms are loving expensive. Moreso than apartments, in my experience. That depends on where you go but more and more schools have also been turning dorms into just another revenue stream. The school I went to started mandating that students live longer in the dorms. When I started I think it was a new-ish policy but you were required to live in the dorms for one year if you didn't already live within like a 30 mile radius. Like a year before I graduated that mysteriously went up to two years. Which also happened to be the year before they built some newer, fancier, belligerently expensive dorms. They were also pushing suites that, if you did the math, were bug gently caress expensive. We're talking $700 a month per person to get a bedroom in a four bedroom apartment. Mind this was in rural PA; you can rent entire houses for less than that. So enrollment tanked, nobody wants to live in the dorms if they can help it, and the school is going "WE NEED TO INCREASE ENROLLMENT! SPEND MORE MONEY ON STUPID poo poo THE STUDENTS DON'T ACTUALLY WANT/CAN'T AFFORD AND RAISE TUITION."
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Lote posted:Good lord does this man have a goofy face but Jon Bel Edwards has won two national elections in blood red Louisiana. He might be a good person to get on the ticket. He basically won because David Vitter pissed off so many people that other Republicans refused to endorse him. He's having a really tough time trying to get anything pushed through in Louisiana right now. As it looks right now, he's probably going to be voted out in 2019 if the Republicans run anyone mildly palatable.
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Pellisworth posted:Yeah, even with roommates. I haven't gone apartment shopping in like four years but just spitballing, a one-bedroom apartment is gonna start at around 1100-1200 per month and that's probably in a slightly lovely neighborhood without parking. https://la.curbed.com/2017/3/27/15078610/cheap-neighborhoods-santa-monica-los-angeles-rents-map
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Pellisworth posted:rent's too drat high News in LA today was that homelessness is way the gently caress up as well as rent We just passed a bunch of homeless housing funding but that's going to take years to happen.
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The Insect Court posted:Because it was more condescending dismissive "The people have no jobs? Then let them eat job retraining programs" liberal elite cluelessness. And, you know, creating actual jobs there. But that doesn't fit your narrative, so gently caress it.
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People familiar with their thinking. People familiar with their thinking. Hey guys I've read enough Hitchhiker's Guide to be familiar with Douglas Adams' thinking, let me tell you what he'd think about Game 1 tonight.
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Silly Burrito posted:He basically won because David Vitter pissed off so many people that other Republicans refused to endorse him. He's having a really tough time trying to get anything pushed through in Louisiana right now. As it looks right now, he's probably going to be voted out in 2019 if the Republicans run anyone mildly palatable. The budget was a disaster going in. It's gotten a lot better. The Medicaid expansion saved the parish hospitals from going bankrupt. Sure he's going to have trouble getting stuff pushed through but the state is bankrupt and needs to find the money from somewhere. The federal funding for New Orleans was running out in 2015 so a bunch of new buildings are starting to finish. That's good because there's 50% less abandoned buildings now. The only downside is they are condos.
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Lote posted:The budget was a disaster going in. It's gotten a lot better. The Medicaid expansion saved the parish hospitals from going bankrupt. Sure he's going to have trouble getting stuff pushed through but the state is bankrupt and needs to find the money from somewhere. The federal funding for New Orleans was running out in 2015 so a bunch of new buildings are starting to finish. That's good because there's 50% less abandoned buildings now. The only downside is they are condos. Hell, the budget is still a disaster, and they can't find ways to pay for it that anyone can agree on even though everyone knew that this was the year to straighten it up. Everyone wants new roads and TOPS tuition, but I'll be damned if anyone thinks they should pay a cent in taxes to pay for it at all.
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Arrgytehpirate posted:Actually I bet a sociologist could do a fascinating book or paper on SA or the Goonfleet forums. How the people on the forums aged and became more tolerant over time and stopped the unfunny ironic racism, sexism and homophobic-slandering as they aged and how new sites like reddit and voat appeared to fill the void. We've already seen reddit follow SA to a degree. It'll be interesting to see where it is in five years, and where voat is in five years. Hopefully doing 25 upstate. But yeah, I do often think about how SA became largely more left leaning. Significant moderation is certainly a factor, but given that the leftward bent largely came from LF self-radicalizing, it's not the obly factor. Flip Yr Wig fucked around with this message at 01:49 on Jun 2, 2017 |
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im posting from ten pages back but goddamn fojar is stupid
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https://twitter.com/thehill/status/870439851044335616 https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/870403671393263618 https://twitter.com/cwarzel/status/870396195562074114 https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/870406662582136832 https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/870410293805015040 https://twitter.com/cwarzel/status/870393967619096577 https://twitter.com/AnnTelnaes/status/870401227514826753 Party Plane Jones fucked around with this message at 01:52 on Jun 2, 2017 |
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Arrgytehpirate posted:Actually I bet a sociologist could do a fascinating book or paper on SA or the Goonfleet forums. How the people on the forums aged and became more tolerant over time and stopped the unfunny ironic racism, sexism and homophobic-slandering as they aged and how new sites like reddit and voat appeared to fill the void. We've already seen reddit follow SA to a degree. It'll be interesting to see where it is in five years, and where voat is in five years. I've lurked here fora bit but mainly this forum and DIY stuff. I didn't realize this forum had a lot of racism and homophobia happening, that's why I liked it
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STAC Goat posted:NYC and the greater metro area. NYC it was, pregame from midnight to 2, a club either near Hell's Kitchen, downtown or Dumbo until 10AM and then Afterhours until 7PM. Or you just showed up at sound factory at like 3 and stayed until midnight the next night. I had actually encountered some of the people from MTV's True Life: I'm an afterhours clubber, specifically that eastern european chick, can't remember her name. TyroneGoldstein fucked around with this message at 01:53 on Jun 2, 2017 |
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I really hope none of you ever have to live in Boston. Good 1brs run ~$1900 to start depending on the area.
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Pollyanna posted:I really hope none of you ever have to live in Boston. Good 1brs run ~$1900 to start depending on the area. Check out the map I posted. LOL if you think a good 1br at under $2k is bad when talking to people in Cali
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So it looks like the CA Senate passed the single payer bill. Does the CA house have to approve it now? When should I move there?
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Pellisworth posted:Yeah I ride the LA Metro rail pretty often, it's actually quite good it just has really lovely coverage. The stretch through Highland Park is insanely slow due to the track being where kids play and kinda makes it unusable for me. Never forget   The Pacific Electric system also is a pretty good symbol of Trump's infrastructure plan
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