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Paul Krugman raving about Argentina's economic growth in 2012. Very distinguished.

https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/03/down-argentina-way/

Ceffer says

73 is a ripe old age for what he put his body through

Edna St. Vincent Millay said:

I burn my candle at both ends,
It cannot last the night;
Ah, but it makes a lovely light.

MrMagic says

There you go folks... Liberal tolerance at it's finest. Why do certain people love to live in their own self-induced echo chambers?

Lame argument - been around since 2013 and no doubt before that - nothing to do with intolerance.

Refer to comments #10 and #17 on this thread: http://patrick.net/post/1322853/2019-03-05-does-social-status-still-matter-at-a-certain-age

At best an ignore list is a slowdown or stopgap measure to try to avoid having threads run completely over run with stupid which is really what the whining is about.

Can't get in at will and upset someone's thread with nonsense and turn it political - whine, cry and allege "intolerance".

The "ban" needs to come back. Then the whining can go into overdrive.

https://coub.com/view/2x507

Twump! Guam!

Tim Aurora says

That is gaslighting. If you look at TPB's Tim Aurora's history all he does is echo right LEFT wing conspiracy theories. Why do I want to discuss anything with someone like that.

See what happens when you change two words. Your post is called "projecting".

And you're right, why would you want to discuss anything with someone who spew radical, Left wing crap all the time?

Since I am too lazy to log off and see what has been typed or take the respondent off ignore to see it, going to guess whatever nonsense has been typed for comment 15 once again confirms comments #10 and #17 on this this thread: http://patrick.net/post/1322853/2019-03-05-does-social-status-still-matter-at-a-certain-age

theoakman says

Paul Krugman raving about Argentina's economic growth in 2012. Very distinguished.

https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/03/down-argentina-way/

Classic Krugman. Wrong on Everything.

The Argentine Economy moved sideways for the next few years.

Kakistocracy says

Since I am too lazy to log off and see what has been typed or take the respondent off ignore to see it, going to guess whatever nonsense has been typed for comment 15 once again confirms

Confirms what, that you'll just continue to spam the forum and choose to hide behind ignore from people who propose a different point of view than you offer? Sounds just like MORE Liberal tolerance on display, if you can't handle an opposing position and choose to live in a echo chamber.

Probably had information that would have led to the arrest of Hillary Clinton.

What are the chances that Foxconn eventually will operate even the smaller Gen-6 plant on the farm fields of southeastern Wisconsin?

"I think it will be less than 10 percent," Yasuo Nakane, head of global technology research in Tokyo at Mizuho Securities Co., wrote in an email. "You can forget about Gen-10.5 in the U.S."

Veteran analysts of the flat-panel industry, which is based entirely in Asia, are openly skeptical that even the smaller cousin of that massive plant — what’s known as "Generation 6" — will be built in Wisconsin

Another career-long expert, Bob O’Brien, puts it at no better than 50/50. O'Brien is president of U.S.-based Display Supply Chain Consultants LLC and tracks the global flat-panel industry.

Struggling to explain the business case for the Foxconn investment in Wisconsin, some analysts have concluded that the company's main interest is political.

All the while, the industry in Asia remains in flux. It's been less than two years since Wisconsin's 2017 announcement, and flat-screen suppliers already are moving onto next-new-thing panels that don't even involve glass. They include flexible screens for "foldable phones" and "rollable televisions."

Harvard Business School economist Willy Shih: "If you are going to play the game, you have to put the whole team on the field."

Shih, a former Asian business consultant who has visited flat-panel manufacturing facilities in multiple Asian nations, wonders how Wisconsin can manufacture panels at prices that are competitive with Asia.

"If you end up in a facility that's not competitive, it does no one any good — the facility won't survive and the employees lose out."

Shih, who grew up in Wisconsin, said he'd have lured industries that already are known to be competitive in Wisconsin, such as industrial automation or medical technologies.

"With $4 billion," Shih said, "you could have done a lot."

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2019/03/06/smaller-foxconn-facility-wisconsin-also-in-doubt/2985167002/

TrumpingTits says

I remember that.

Tim Aurora says

If you want I can leave this forum.

Don't. That is the goal.

My reasons for people on ignore are pretty much the same as Bellingham Bill, Dan and others.

Go back and look at the comment history for some of the respondents - thinly disguised, it at all, personal attacks in one way shape form or another or utter nonsense.

Should the personal attack not be an option or someone is pressed for time - hysterically scream TDS, Orange Man Bad etc. and wait for the "likes" to roll in

1. I don’t surf, but it’s nice to take the kids to the beach now and then.
2. Don’t drive a bike, and I am super wary of the lane splitters.
3. Plenty of jobs! Just don’t expect to keep much of your income.
4. Mexican food, sure. But also every other kind of food there is in the world! Favorites are Thai food, Indian food, Mediterranean food.
5. Never go to mexico since the cartels took over. I work with some Mexicans tho.
6. Weather is mostly great here. Best place in the world to work outdoors which my job is.
7. Landscape is pretty cool. But lacks in Forest land which i prefer.
8. I’m married to a woman who is hapa. So I get it.
9. Socially liberal mostly, except some places are socially conservative. Like universities and tech, education and many businesses. Very conservative, don’t tolerate different opinions at all. Just try wearing a MAGA hat to work at the local college and tell me who is liberal?
10. Prop 13 should be abolished. Pay your taxes, slacker! No reason I should pay four times your rate because you “got there first.” Prop 13 keeps ghetto schools poor also, as slum lords aren’t paying much property tax so the schools in those areas are underfunded.

1 in 5 Californians is Evangelical. That means more Evangelicals in California than the entire population of Alabama and Mississippi combined.
http://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/state/california/

Oh, and Lefties - about a third of the Evangelicals in California are Hispanic. Evangelicalism is the fastest growing religion in South and Central America by far.

As for people voting with their feet:

https://lao.ca.gov/laoecontax/article/detail/265
The people coming to California are the very well off (particularly from New York) who can isolate themselves from the unwashed; the desperate unwashed from abroad ready to sign for benefits; the middle and working classes are abandoning ship.

Interestingly, the people coming to California are mostly from other high tax, high and unsustainable debt states: NY, IL, NJ.

I know. It really speaks volume as to how little Hillary was liked outside of rootless urbanites.

steverbeaver says

I know. It really speaks volume as to how little Hillary was liked outside of rootless urbanites.

Oh man, spot on! ROFL

California is fucking crowded and has smoke in the air two to three months of the year, now.

7. Diverse landscape. Beach, mountains, desert, forest, lakes, streams, ocean, all in one day.

You must have a time machine back to the 1950's.

2. Lane splitting. I ride a motorcycle and California is the only state that values freedom enough to make lane spitting expressly legal. I never wait in traffic and never have a problem parking :)

I always wonder when I am going to witness somebody getting doored and becoming a bloody smudge on the tarmac.

9. Socially liberal. I need to worry about some barking crazy tax hungry LibbyFuck delusionary telling me what I can or can't do.

There, fixed it for you.

10. Prop 13. My property tax for my 3/2 house is was $2200 last year and will remain predictably affordable.

This would be nice if the real estate weren't also multiples of the American average around the population centers where you can actually live without being mugged. So, you bought a 3/2 home for less than 180K that allows you to run down unemcumbered to the surf before work several days a week? That means you bought it sometime in the 60's or early 70's? What are you, 80 years old? Either that, or you inherited a house from somebody 80 years old that kept the prop.13 advantage, which I would dare say is not the typical Cali experience.

6. Weather. Duh.

Did I mention that smoke? Weather can be nice in stretches, and there is no snow in the flats, but it is not 70 and sunny every day except in San Diego by the beach. The Central Valley is like Ohio without the snow, really hot and humid in the summer 24/24. Benefits of Cali weather are exagerrated, and the offsets if you are a worker bee are legion. Californias crow on and on about the weather EVEN when they are choking on smoke. It is like a mantra "Well, so many things are fucked here, REMEMBER THE WEATHER. Yeah, that's the ticket, it's the WEATHER!"

1. Surf. Good waves from the cold empty NorCal rivermouth breaks to the SoCal reefs and points. I can and do surf most days either before or after work.

It's been surprisingly flat for almost a year and a half, or stormy and tossy around Santa Cruz. They actually had better surf on the East Coast last year. California surfers are known for being territorial, aggro and violent. Most surf spots accessible to population centers are chronically crowded and full of the latter. Unless you have one of those multimillion dollar manses on the beach, you are going to have the same crappy, crowded commutes to surfing spots that you have to everything else. A guy I know who moved to North Carolina had a house in Huntington Beach on the water, where he just had to walk over and plop his board in to paddle board to the break. He said four months of the year he couldn't find parking anywhere except his own driveway, and often had people block the driveway of his house with their cars. I know a guy who retired in south Orange County. He says it takes three and a half hours to drive to visit his son in Studio City.

3. Plenty of jobs! Just don’t expect to keep much of your income.

Wait until the next recession. I hope you're happy being a gardener with your Latin American friends. Also, any really good job, you have to be vastly overqualified, just because, everybody has to try Cali on for size.

Did I mention that California is fucking crowded? Everything that used to be good, free and spacious is now regulated, something you have to reserve far in advance, something whose cost takes your breath away, or something you have to compete for on a daily basis. Get your elbows ready. California has some of the most densely populated places in USA now. It has actually taken me 45 minutes just to drive around a block in Cupertino where I went to high school as a kid.

Plus, California is full of whackos and alienated assholes and narcissists. Finding loyal friends is nearly impossible. If you find people you like, they usually move away somewhere else. People move around for no other reason that I can tell except they are chronically disgruntled and think somewhere else will be better.

Maybe some of the stuff you mentioned existed almost through the 70's or so. Since then, it's been downhill. If you are going to make a list, at least keep it real instead of recycling tourist brochures from the 60's.

Patrick says

steverbeaver says

I know. It really speaks volume as to how little Hillary was liked outside of rootless urbanites.

Oh man, spot on! ROFL

She was so crooked says the orangemangood cult except all his charges proved over time to be gaslighting her.

Still the cult doesn’t care and glorifies his daily disasters.

1.Your average real Mexican food isn't very healthy. Lots of carbs and lard. Tasty, of course. And there is Mexican food everywhere in the USA.

2. Lots of poor, uneducated Spanish Indians that residents are forced to pay for.

3. Related to 2 - shitty public schools.

4. Yes, beautiful, diverse scenery from beaches to mountains, and micro-climates, if you can swing it. But plenty of shit hole areas too, that aren't very scenic. Related to 2.

5. Underfunded state employees pension fund with joke management that all residents are responsible for.

6. Racist policies that are anti-meritocracy. OK if you are a Spanish Indian, tho.

7. Asian babes be everywhere.

Recommendation - visit as a tourist. You can vote, too, if you want, in local elections.

Kakistocracy says

Don't. That is the goal.

I want far more diversity if thought in the discussions. I would like to see the best case for contradictory opinions.

Unfortunately the left today has echo-chambered thenselves into thinking their argument is de-facto made for them via the press. Trump is apparently a liar, tyrant, etc... and this much is so obvious to the left that the base criticisms for which all other arguments are launched have never been supported or properly argued.

https://quillette.com/2018/03/10/psychology-progressive-hostility/

Reducing the right to "racist" fosters an ignorant echo chamber in the left, which is not found in the right.

If California is so great, why do so many people want to leave it?

I'm guessing that the beaches are nice if you don't want to go into the water. Too fucking cold. Even the northeast has warmer ocean water.

Quigley says

Just try wearing a MAGA hat to work at the local college and tell me who is liberal?

Try most of NorCal going north, northeast of the S.F. Bay Area - never know you were in California at least politically and a few other ways.

Booger says

If California is so great, why do so many people want to leave it?

Kind of got burned out paying for privilege and the experience of living there after 20 years and the California that I first experienced 20 some years ago is gone and never ever coming back. The change has not been for the better.

Booger says

I'm guessing that the beaches are nice if you don't want to go into the water.

Going into the ocean water in NorCal is not for the faint of heart unless you are into numbing pain from cold temperatures

CBOEtrader says

I want far more diversity if thought in the discussions. I would like to see the best case for contradictory opinions.

Unfortunately the left today has echo-chambered thenselves into thinking their argument is de-facto made for them via the press. Trump is apparently a liar, tyrant, etc... and this much is so obvious to the left that the base criticisms for which all other arguments are launched have never been supported or properly argued.

That would be nice if it happened - unfortunately that is not the case and not every thread has to be about politics and or Trump but that also seems to be the de-facto case on the forum.

Only to be outdone by the enticing someone to look for supporting data to back up there position which will immediately get attacked as a nothing burger etc. while escalating the attacks on the position and now going after the person themselves.

When all else fails and attacking the position or person isn't working - make the thread political and turn it into one more political shit storm totally devoid of what ever the original topic was about.

CBOEtrader says

Reducing the right to "racist" fosters an ignorant echo chamber in the left, which is not found in the right.

Reducing the left to Commies, SJWs, Liars, Libbies, Libruls, Losers, Snowflakes, Socialists, etc. - those type of comments from the regulars on the forum in the echo chamber of the right ?

That's the type of shit Potus engages in on twitter.

Does anyone from the base find it curious that any time Trump is criticized for something, his immediate response is not to answer the criticism, but instead to start calling the critic names. It's like he never left the school yard.

Almost as if Potus was following along with some of the threads here....

Tarantula says

Nice. None of the bizzaro right-wingers ride? Not surprising, as they are too afraid and hate FREEDOM!

Stupid to say people don't ride because of politics. Their are a lot of things people don't do when they are responsible for others especially kids. Almost every long term rider I know has had a serous accident, including my father that was tboned by red light runner. Even when I ride a bicycle I have to watchout for crazy drivers here even in the bike lane.

2004 ZG 1000 Kawi Concours. Has the Ninja engine. Old mans crotch rocket. Bought it new. It just turned 50k.


This is my 9th motorcycle. When I was young and dumber I rode my KZ 1000 to Florida and back to California. I averaged 500 miles a day, got two speeding tickets and a really sore butt.

Tim Aurora says

CBOEtrader says

Unfortunately the left today has echo-chambered thenselves into thinking their argument is de-facto made for them via the press. Trump is apparently a liar, tyrant, etc

It is very hard to have a discussion if people have different facts. Opinions and even spin can be argued against. Facts ( wrong ones) and conspiracy theories , I do not have time to discuss them.

That's fair. I also havent seen you try to make the point that Trump is behaving [racist, sexist, liar, anti-gay...] enter your generic ism.

If you do, you should make the case w facts.

Unfortunately too many leftists just resort to the predominant MSM opinions as too obvious to challenge, AKA the washpo Trump lie list. Smfh.

Kakistocracy says

Reducing the left to Commies, SJWs, Liars, Libbies, Libruls, Losers, Snowflakes, Socialists, etc. - those type of comments from the regulars on the forum in the echo chamber of the right ?

Did you read the article? The right may label the same as the left. That's called communicating as a human.

However people on the right are forced to hear and understand the left's arguments. The left doesnt even try to understanding the right. This is due to the default propaganda setting in high school/college/MSM/Hollywood being leftist.

" conservatives see an unfortunate world of moral trade-offs in which every moral judgment comes with costs that must be properly balanced. Progressives, on the other hand, seem to be blind to, or in denial about, these trade-offs, whether economic and social; theirs is a utopian or unconstrained vision, in which every moral grievance must be immediately extinguished until we have perfected society. This is why conservatives don’t tend to express the same emotional hostility as the Left; a deeper grasp of the world’s complexity has the effect of encouraging intellectual humility. The conservative hears the progressive’s latest demands and says, “I can see how you might come to that conclusion, but I think you’ve overlooked the following…” In contrast, the progressive hears the conservative and thinks, “I have no idea why you would believe that. You’re probably a racist"

Tarantula says

Nice. None of the bizzaro right-wingers ride? Not surprising, as they are too afraid and hate FREEDOM!

Wow, when did riding motorcycles become a political event where people hate freedom?



Oh wait, how many Liberals do you think were riding in that group?

Kakistocracy says

That would be nice if it happened - unfortunately that is not the case and not every thread has to be about politics and or Trump but that also seems to be the de-facto case on the forum.

If your posts aren't negative about Trump or #OrangeManBad, then they are normally anti-American. America Bad, America Evil, Capitalism Evil.... the pattern is clear.

Kakistocracy says

CBOEtrader says

Reducing the right to "racist" fosters an ignorant echo chamber in the left, which is not found in the right.

Reducing the left to Commies, SJWs, Liars, Libbies, Libruls, Losers, Snowflakes, Socialists, etc. - those type of comments from the regulars on the forum in the echo chamber of the right ?

Have you been paying attention to the left echo chamber comments by the regular radical Left wing posters here? Doesn't look like it. They are definitely a lot worse.

Even worse, those same left wing posters hide behind ignore so they don't have to engage other posters. That the clinical definition of Living in a Echo Chamber.

Tarantula says

If you support Trump you are NOT a conservative.

What if you don't support Trump, what are you?

Tim Aurora says

+1

Why do you deny science?

I had a couple bikes in my youth. One was enduro another was a yamaha 400 I had in college. Never owned a bigger bike.

The times I have rented one, or borrowed my brother's for a short ride, I'm reminded of who I was back then. That is on the feeling level. I really should get a bike again before I'm too old. One of the reasons I don't is because of people I know that have been in bad bike crashes, and also some scary dreams that made me quit way back when. But being in California is a great place for it.