Matt

Lots of folks dismissed these guys from Michigan as a Led Zepplin rip-off act when they first came on the scene, and those criticisms weren't without a degree of merit... but these guys have grown considerably since then. They have a much more mature, and unique sound these days, and you can tell that Josh the lead singer has been getting vocal coaching. I'm so kicking myself that I missed them when they were in Tempe a few weeks back. Reviews of their live shows say they're unreal good in person. Do yourself a favor and watch with headphones. Ignore the silly video even.

The whole thing was on video. Pretty clear he should walk.

Biden just flipped AZ blue without lifting a finger. Roe overturn is the gift that keeps giving for Dems.

I got $7500 off my lease of my new EV. I don't see it as robbing my fellow citizens. I see it as the federal government giving me back a tiny fraction of the taxes I paid in 2023.

Gas is at $4.50/gal here this morning. My HD truck and my ski boat will still be gassers, but it's looking like we timed it well picking this up last Friday. Loving it so far. It's our first EV, but probably will always have one EV in the fleet going forward. My wife's car never goes more than 100 miles from home. Perfect use case.

I've seen that a dozen times and it still slays me every time. He's one who will continue to be more appreciated in death than he ever was in life.

Never been, but NM is freaking cool. Politics are a mess, but the scenery is epic. Spent some time camping amongst dormant lava flows there last year. It's amazing what you can see when vegetation doesn't completely over-grow the geology.

Everyone floors it in Nebraska to get through that state as fast as possible. Bearings let go.

ownership != employment bro When you were a dev making $400k/year and get laid off while living in an incredibly expensive area, that has huge downstream impacts. Nationwide, you need to be making 46% more in 2024 than you did in 2020 to afford an average home.

Shit is EXPENSIVE. I make very good $ and haven't ever had the misfortune of needing to aggressively budget, thankfully. But my purchasing power and liquidity is WAAAY down in the last 4 years. With the ridiculous amount of layoffs in tech and the number of people unemployed, wage growth hasn't kept up with inflation. The layoffs across the tech sector are a huge and underreported story. Hundreds of thousands of $200k+ earners currently not earning, not paying taxes, etc. It's been a bloodbath, especially at the FANG companies.

Jeez... I'm 6'5" and had a GF who would be eye to eye with me when she was in heels. She seemed like a giant to me. 7'1" is crazy. This girl I was dating had two brothers. 7'0" and 7'2" they were. I felt like a midget at family events.

Matt Cameron. Solid drummer who's been around a lot of huge acts. Been drumming for Pearl Jam for probably close to 20 years now.

Wisconsin has open primaries. People vote "against" their candidate as much as they vote for. Lots of that 21% are Dems giving Trump the finger.

Suppose if she were talking about Biden, she'd have added "frail" too...

Remember when the screeching idiot left lost their collective shit when Bush said the best way to protect Social Security for future generations would be to privatize a portion of it? Hillary even lied about this in 2016 during her campaign against Trump. The left brings it up every so often as a "look how stupid the Repubs are..." That was in 2000, sidetracked by 9/11, but then again in 2004 and 2005. Workers would have been able to carve out some of their SS payments to put in their own private accounts, where investment options would be limited to certain large scale, low cost index funds. In January of 2004, the Dow was closing around 10,500ish. It's now around 40,000ish. Even with the catastrophic dip we saw in 2008, that's around a 6.8% rate of return. That's quite a bit better than what's in the SS trust fund, which the Boomers are set to drain. An investment in VTSAX, or the Vanguard total S&P index, is returning closer to 8% over that period. I don't imagine SS will be around for people my age. I'm 44 now. I can't imagine SS is still there in 20 years without major major reforms. I sure wish I could have been putting some of that SS $ into a private, SS IRA and just letting it compound instead... Something is better than nothing...