The New Coffee Room

We've been acting like budgets and spending your money wisely doesn't matter for the past decade. The debate over Obamacare seems quaint now - at the heart of it was a discussion about affordability and efficiency.

There's no real policy debate any more about healthcare, a responsible level of tax, education costs, debt, etc.

If this has to happen (which I hope it doesn't) - I'm glad it's happening during a Republican administration. It's the conservatives' responsibility to bring these sort of grown up topics to the table... not ignore them.

I think loved ones can contact FB to get a page "memorialized".

Huge fan of the BMW. I have an X7. The B58 engine (their inline 6) is bulletproof. Very reliable. That doesn't mean their electronics are reliable or that the maintenance is cheap - but that particular drivetrain is very proven (don't get a BMW V8).

Personally, I like small sports cars (think Miata, GR86, low-end porche, etc.) with small engines and manuals. I'm not going to the track and these whizbang Mercedes and BMWs, and if you gave them full throttle, their 400HP engines would mean you're breaking the law by the time you shift from 2nd gear..

With the small cars you can actually push the gas down a bit and row through the gears on normal streets.

It seems like MAGA might be getting over this. If I go onto X, MAGA related accounts are now largely ignoring this. That wasn’t the case a few months ago.

Doesn’t everyone already know he’s morally bankrupt. Not sure what the emails could have that’d change minds.

That's huge. Very high investment and very steep learning curve. Glad someone is doing it.

JD's riding Trump's coat tails. He's completely inauthentic.

I don’t understand how it’s acceptable to be this loose with policy that goes to the heart of American capitalism.

I think we're past this. Culturally we don't have much respect for authority anymore, so why would we have respectable authorities?

One thing a hockey locker room teaches you is that body odor is unique and distributed on a wide bell curve.

He likes to lead with an air of objectivity, research and facts. But I remember a few years ago he had a polemic against a topic I understood very well. It became really easy to see the distortions and lies through omission. Haven't seen his show since.

We have 3 kids.. no intention of having more. If we had started younger, we might have tried to squeeze in a 4th one (Jon's other thread on sperm age validating this).

I think it's time for me to get snipped. Seems like nothing but upside.

But can't quite pull the trigger on scheduling it... I guess my question is, any real downsides to doing it?

I have a basic gym in my basement: rack, bench, dumbbell set and barbell set. And there's a janky, but functional, gym at work that I go to in the mornings. At this stage in my life, with young kids, I find it hard to work in another commute to a gym on top of everything else.

Jon's rotation is pretty similar to mine, except my legs are split into squat days and deadlift days.

I bike to work a few days a week and have a peloton at home for hiit classes.

43 - most of them I watched over 10 years ago. I don't watch that many films these days.

It's interesting. I think my wife and I have more of an emotional connection to the mouse and Disney movies vs. my kids.

Disney has lost a lot of mindshare already.

The economy is going to be stuck in 3rd gear until these guys can decide whether to shit or get off the pot.

Doesn't the almost make private equity public equity?

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Children are largely to teach you the meaning of terror. Before I became a father I wasn't really scared of anything or anyone. Once she was born, I was scared of all sorts of things.

I've been trying to practice an Indian form of detachment / stoicism for the last few years. I find it to be a helpful perspective - but I can't get it to work when it comes to the kids.

Just wait until the little shits are older and give you something really horrendous to worry about Yes, that can be difficult.

Oh - I think exactly about that. They haven't given me much grief yet, but it's certainly coming.

@Mik said in It takes 10 seconds:

Children are largely to teach you the meaning of terror. Before I became a father I wasn't really scared of anything or anyone. Once she was born, I was scared of all sorts of things.

I've been trying to practice an Indian form of detachment / stoicism for the last few years. I find it to be a helpful perspective - but I can't get it to work when it comes to the kids.