WhitinsvilleWX

I tried to like it but couldn’t do it. I restarted the sopranos again. Problem is now I have a craving for some gabagool.

You’re right. It’s has nothing to do with generations. It has to do with world view. Dot-rat and a few others are leftist, and Phin, myself and others are conservative and somewhat libertarian. It’s been that way since 1789. Adams and Hamilton would love the current political climate. Jefferson as an anti federalist would be appalled. Nothing new here.

Not really. I have 3 millienials working for me. Theyre fine. All us bad old boomers will all be gone in 30 to 40 years and it’ll all be yours.

Exactly. All that. 100%

Really? Come on dude. That kind of stuff is why some people don’t take millennials seriously. Toxic masculinity. Lol Thats just made up BS. TM is just a plain old a-hole. You ever think he does it just to get under your skin? And you fall for it every time.

The 40’s through the 60’s working class did well because of the end of WWII and the economic boom of people coming home and building modern society we know today. That was in spite of taxes. And for the record, nobody paid those high rates, and I mean nobody. There were so many deductions the actual tax rate was nowhere near 70%.

I dunno. New Hampshire dropped their indoor mask requirement, looks like CT is going in that direction. Businesses and people will start to raise hell.

Again, that’s not been said. No one knows. What’s been said is that at the 6 month mark, there is still evidence of immunity. No mention of a decrease. I’m not sure how much clearer I can be.

What was actually said was that so far, of the 6 months of real world data we have, that immunity was still measured. I’m not blaming you for misunderstanding. The media has been AWFUL with messaging. Some how this got misconstrued as the vaccine only lasts 6 months.

Who said it was only good for 6 months?

Just aggrevates me people can be conditioned to do stupid stuff, that’s all. I had a lady cross the street today to avoid me since I didn’t have a mask on. She gave me a shitty look. I could even tell under her mask she thought I had lepersy.

^This times a thousand. Intersting that we have this huge lockdown/mask experiment going on where we actually have controls where we can test a null hypothesis. And I don’t think the p value is going to get under 0.05.

I don’t know. Depends on where you live. I swear 90% of people on the street in Boston and Cambridge are still covered up like their fighting off a flesh eating plague.

It was so much better under Carter. Lol But I suspect you weren’t born yet. Reagan wasn’t perfect, but the late 70’s were a hot mess economically. Between ditching the gold standard, interest being 15% and inflation through the roof, there wasn’t much choice. And I’m afraid we will see inflation return just like the 70’s, only on a worse scale. Normally to curb inflation you raise interest rates. But that’s not a viable option at this point. We have 30 trillion dollars of debt to service. You can’t do that with a 5% plus prime rate.

I just read where Newsome in California is opening everything up in mid June. Even indoor mask mandates are going. A recall petition does wonders. I may have to revise my 2022 unmasking schedule. Once a few states do it, they’ll fall like dominoes.

It's called inflation. Before the mod 70's, the dollar was back up by $30 an ounce gold. Pries were relatively stable. You could by a new ford F100 for about $2000. A new Ford LTD loaded would run about $4K. Then the fed decided we didn't need gold anymore and we could print money. That's when you get inflation. Its happening as we speak. What did everyone think was going to happen when we spent 4 trillion by just printing it.

My 4 years of medical school was around $50,000. Now it’s around $220,000. And that for in state tuition.

Where my son is going if he does the electrical program, it cuts 3000 hours off that 8000.

Student loans were one of the worst things ever. And I’m not really talking about the debt kids have. I blame the ease of getting all that “free money” for the obscene tuition increases over the last 15 to 20 years. When I went to college (a major state school) the tuition was reasonable. Tuition was $18 a credit hour.

Man, how do you pull 12/2 by yourself from the basement up to an attic thru a chase tube by yourself? I did that in my master bath remodel. Pulled a 12/2 and two 14/2. No way I could have done that by myself.

My sons number one shop pick he wants is electrician. If he does the electrical shop, when he graduates he only has to do half the number of hours to get a license as someone who just goes to work as a helper.

That would help too. I don’t see how they do that 6-7 hours a day. At least I have a private office I can take it off some. My folks in cubes are supposed to wear them at their desks, but I don’t police it.

Even the work thing would help.

I honestly don’t care about much else but getting rid of indoor masking. Wearing those things kills me. Cant stand them.

And I thought only blue states would be so silly. Massachusetts reported 472 cases and 0 deaths. That probably means about 250 legit cases. Close to half the eligible population is fully vaccinated.Time to end the madness and accelerate opening up. Move august 1st up to July 1 and end indoor mask mandates like New Hampshire did.