I fall in that Millennial age range as much as I hate to admit it and I pulled it off. I know a much younger person that just got an engineer job at a defense contractor. He's definitely in that pay range. He's 23. I've known him since he was 12. Only luck he had was having parents that raised him right. Didn't grow up rich. Worked hard and went to a college out in the country and didn't waste it away partying at some big name tranny factory university. I know another that spent his 18-25 years not doing shit to learn anything useful. He works at a warehouse and lives with his parents with no end in sight.
I get it, shit sucks and it's a hell of a lot worse than when I was a 20-something. I also look around and see so many people just make excuses and give up.
Plenty of normal people can afford that. That could be done on a $75k annual salary fairly easily in Oklahoma where you'd net $4,500ish a month after taxes. Take off money for utilities and a car and you're living on $30-40 a day for food, gas, etc. Is it going to work for some guy bussing tables, no, but $75k is well within the average pay for professional or skilled labor with 10 years of experience.
Is the housing market screwed up, yeah sure. It's bonkers. My house would list for twice what I paid for it just 6 years ago.
Still though, I'm quite familiar with the housing market and am well aware of housing prices. Have I bought anything with the current rates? No. I probably will in a couple years though and I can still make money on it.
I'll give a real example I just picked this house right out of the most middle of the country. I've never lived in the area but I know that area a bit and it's pretty decent. 25mins from the OKC CBD where any working professional can get paid enough to afford it. Here's a house for sale, $281k, 1935 sq ft with 3 bedrooms. Doesn't appear old and falling apart. https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/7320-Stinchcomb-Dr-Oklahoma-City-OK-73132/60558162_zpid/?
30 year mortgage for someone who can only scrape up the FHA 3.5% down payment with taxes and insurance is going to be in the $2,400 a month area. That's with today's insane interest rates. If we hadn't gone nuts giving away inflation money to Covid panic, that would be a $1800 house payment just from lower interest alone.
There are loads of examples like this all over the country and in some cases it gets better if you are more remote.
The first answer I have for most of these people I hear going on and on about rent is to move. It's even easier for this chick or dude or whatever, they are a lawyer that's not exactly a service that has no value elsewhere. There are loads and loads of places that aren't $3,600 a month in the country.
The 3 bedroom house I own rents out for $1,350 a month. Yeah it's not the most exotic location and it's in the most boring flyover of flyover country, but it's only 5 years old and while I don't personally manage it I've never skimped my property manager on maintenance money. I also still make money on it.
That's the other answer I have. Landlords are not a charity for you. Buy your own damn property.
I would limit my thought to Dallas proper. DFW area as a whole isn't that way, but it seems like the last 5 years the City of Dallas and the people in it have gone nuts.
I never really looked into it before when I saw those tweets posted. So you're telling me that voice actors are getting up in arms over a young 20s fan fiction project? That's just sad. They should appreciate the ability for someone to finish and follow through a project at that age, because that alone is becoming an issue for many.
I don't understand the willingness to give in is that just how bad we've gotten? If I'm about to get my shit kicked in I'm not going down on my knees. What did it change for this guy? Nothing but making him look like a pussy. Stand up and try to make it a 2 for 1 trade. Maybe you fail but bending over and accepting it is worse.
I would tend to agree, but I've spent way more time there than Austin so that might skew things. Austin comes off more as leftist cool hipster to me whereas Dallas is just leftist psychopaths. Houston is pulled right a tiny bit by its energy industry and San Antonio is just northern Mexico
That's the one I was trying to think of that I like. He also tends to spend some time on more reasonable products. Not someone I watch regularly but theres been a few pique my interest.
YouTube recommended me Gamers Nexus recently and that's just a waste of an algorithm as I don't buy high end PC parts, don't overclock, and have never even downloaded Cinebench much less keep printouts of benchmark results under my mattress for sketchy uses. I guess since I looked up videos on a cheap case I got flagged as supposedly interested in that.
Might have kept her job in Dallas but even the shittiest nearby suburbs are not that far gone yet. Good riddance. Probably need to fire the rest of them too
It must be more of a trend outside Detroit, as I'd always known about Chicago pizza cake and NY style pizza but hadn't heard about Detroit pizza until the last few years. When I looked it up it reminded me of the Little Caesars we'd get when I was a kid. Fitting I guess to be from Detroit. Probably some sort of pizza sacrilege to compare to that, but we're talking 25+ years ago when they weren't known for $5 pizzas you could just pick up without calling ahead.
I might have to try it. I just don't think about going to look for AI things to help me
Insane. What is that like maybe an hour of work a day? I assume it's just stuff like "hey look what project Linus and the tranny is working on, click the link for the whole video. Oh and here buy some shit!"
Even if the expectation is a high presentation value that's nothing. I bet I do more work on a single day-to-day project than she does on that stuff in a week, and I'm expected to deliver a couple hundred such items a year on top of other work. I have a pretty cushy job too where I rarely require an 8 hour day.
Lots of red flags with this chick that make me think it's all exaggerated.
I've gone on about that for a decade. Especially hate it when it replaces something like written instructions. No, I don't want to just watch a YouTube video. How does that help me when I'm under a car or have a computer half apart and just want to make sure I'm taking the right bolts out or plugging in the right wires? Printed instructions I could have right there and look at a diagram or read. Video I need a device that's large enough to see, with fine enough control to be able to move around to a specific point, and it's in a situation where it's more likely to get broken. No thanks.
I've also told people just as long when they try to tell me about Fox News, CNN, whatever screaming agitation propaganda outlet or not...I read the news not watch it.
I don't think I've ever been a consistent watcher of any of these type videos. Why? They go on and on and on about the same thing. I've seen things posted here "good video about X" but it's a 15 minute point that they managed to make a 2 hour video about. An example that is not exactly on topic but has been talked about lately is the whole Gamers Nexus / LTT thing. You're telling me watching almost 45 minutes of Youtuber soap opera is a valuable use of my time? I could read everything I want to know about that in 10 minutes.
I’ve read about this guy before in Genesis. Except back then instead of being called a bishop back then the word they used was serpent.
If I'm looking correctly it's this https://billetlabs.com/products/monoblock where I don't see anything about a prototype but it's asking me for $905 reduced to $840 (as a preorder discount) to buy one.
All I get out of this whole situation is a bunch of Youtubers acting like children over a fucking $900 water cooling block. You know what, I'm going to call out this water cooling block too. If you spend $900 on a PC water cooling block, you're a fucking idiot. The end.
I grew up in Arkansas, have a bit of family there still and I didn’t put the name to the guy until I saw your second link. I remember this guy now and back in college he was known for being a really cool chill guy. Definitely not a troublemaker. Damn. That’s two former star players from Arkansas recently.
Oh no! Anyway…
They forget the main point. If one doesn't buy in to your climate propaganda then there's no motive to eat less beef. Replacing beef with fake soy and corn beef imitation is just like replacing a combustion engine car with an electric one. More expensive and not as good.
Haha every lefty I've heard go on about hating grass and wanting stuff for bees and butterflies is just code words for "I'm one lazy piece of shit who can't be bothered to do anything to my yard." They aren't curating a bee habitat or growing fruit or any of that. It's just let whatever the hell was out there grow so uncontrollably that it's covering the sidewalk and pouring into the street.
the summer of 1619
I seem to remember some important event between this and the Constitution in 1787. Oh yeah, that's right, the people overthrew the government. Do you think they did not know about some gun laws of the past? American gun rights are rooted in protecting the people from the government.
No surprise. How can you design dungeons if you don't really know how to play the game? I don't mean you have to be an insano competitive min-max twitch streamer no life at it. I'm not by any means even in the ballpark of that with those type games, but I use abilities. I've not touched and am not interested in touching that game, but that dungeon looked boring. Like rectangle room to rectangle room.
I'm so glad I stayed out of game or any sort of software development when it was time to go from programmer kid to adult with a job. I'm pretty sure I would have hated it.
Yeah I'm not a fan of school at all. If I think back I bet every teacher I had a good rapport with is 5 or 10 years into retirement by now. School is a toxic environment and it's not just the students causing it. I scraped my way through a bachelor's degree but I didn't like a second of it. I don't think everyone should do that. If anything a lot fewer should go to university. I'd never suggest anyone go to a university that anyone has heard of. No one has ever asked me about why I went to generic city university since about the first year I was employed. They checked off a box that I have the legit degree and that's it. Maybe the name matters in a few fields, but I'm still skeptical.
The zoomers worry me. I'm really close with my cousin's kid in that barely teenager age. He feels like an outlier to me, not tethered to a phone, has parents, is homeschooled and still seems like "what is this kid turning in to" at times. I'm hoping his aimlessness is just early teen stupidity. He's smart as shit but I just can't ever get him to do anything that is actually productive. A victim of growing up too spoiled I guess.