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Old HLSDude Enters his 79th Year - Taking Questions
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Date: December 31st, 2025 1:58 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band I'm listening... (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552402) |
Date: December 31st, 2025 1:59 PM Author: Twinkling tank parlour What would you do differently if you could go back to age 30? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552408) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:03 PM Author: Laughsome preventive strike theater The fuck does it matter to you? You're 53 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552429) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:31 PM Author: Twinkling tank parlour I'm suing you. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552522) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:04 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band Probably not much, as I had committed most of my fuck ups by then. If could experiment with different life courses I would try to avoid doing raw start ups and try to stay in one place. At age 31 or so I left my first start up and began a promising career in bigcorp. I have wondered what might have happened had I stayed instead of bailing to do another start up, or possibly moved into a mid sized corp instead of a gargantua. Certainly corp was a more comfortable life than start ups. Obviously wish my kids didn't have psychiatric disorders, but that seems to be heavily genetic. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552432) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:05 PM Author: Mustard Property Schizophrenia is caused by poor parenting (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552437) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:22 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band Freudians are pretty much gone these days. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552492) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:29 PM Author: Mustard Property I wonder why (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552511) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:30 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band They found out that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. I'm more of a Jung guy. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552517) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:32 PM Author: Mustard Property No they found out exposing pedophilia doesn't go over well (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552532) |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 1:11 PM Author: electric hominid striped hyena your position is that freudians are out of favor because they are too anti-pedophilia? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49554142) |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:23 PM Author: Lemon business firm rigpig LOL (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49554936) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:06 PM Author: Diverse digit ratio brethren have you ever tracked down your wife's kid she had before you met? if so did he/she have similar issues (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552441) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:22 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band No. No idea. She has a nephew with schizophrenia, but there's no clear family pattern. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552490) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:35 PM Author: Crystalline Out-of-control Sanctuary wait, what kid? what happened to him? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552541) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:52 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band My wife had a child before I met her. Kid was adopted. That's all we know. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552635) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:55 PM Author: Twinkling tank parlour That's cool. Who was the dad, and was he black if you know? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552646) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:47 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band The dad was some manager in the firm she worked for. She said it was a date rape situation. Not black so far as I know. In those days you didn't see blacks in corporate jobs. She would never tell me which guy was the pappy. At this point I have zero curiosity and never had much. I thought perhaps there would be a hit from 23andme, but not yet. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552797) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:58 PM Author: electric hominid striped hyena it's wild having your wife never tell you something like this. you just figured nbd not worth fighting about? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552835) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 4:03 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band No, she told me about when we were dating. It was nbd to me. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552853) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 4:27 PM Author: Crystalline Out-of-control Sanctuary “you gave your kid away to strangers, let’s have more kids together” (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552902) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 4:47 PM Author: Turquoise sound barrier market Assuming the kid went to a good family, it is the right thing to do. This was much more common in the 1970s. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552954) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 4:55 PM Author: electric hominid striped hyena (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552975) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 5:38 PM Author: Crystalline Out-of-control Sanctuary but OP is saying he didn’t think much of it and thought it was a good idea to breed with a woman who treats her own children like that
almost as ghoulish as TMF and mandy |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 5:46 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band You prefer abortion? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49553071) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 6:02 PM Author: Crystalline Out-of-control Sanctuary I prefer moms raising their kids (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49553096) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 7:47 PM Author: Vigorous Roommate Hell that's a far preferable conversation to "you aborted your first child" |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 4:59 PM Author: Diverse digit ratio brethren did you do a 23andme too? any surprises? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552995) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 5:47 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band No surprises. I found a few cousins I already knew about. I come from a long line of English/Irish who got here in the 17th century. No famous people at all. I guess I was a little surprised by some of the trace DNA, but that could be an artifact. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49553075) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:14 PM Author: Crystalline Out-of-control Sanctuary JFC (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552717) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:00 PM Author: Know-it-all trust fund national If you had one thing to do to avoid practicing law, what would it be? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552411) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:05 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band I did it. I left very early to do a start up, which I actually began 3L. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552435) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:00 PM Author: flushed haunted graveyard would you come RAGE with us at an xo meetup (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552413) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:06 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band Sure, if the location and timing worked. I am limited in my raging ability, but I can still BS. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552439) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 7:47 PM Author: Vigorous Roommate Hell are you outed to xoxo? people know who you are irl? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49553308) |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 1:01 AM Author: flatulent nursing home What a bizarre autistic question (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49553653) |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 10:58 PM Author: claret hospital lol what a fucking geek he is (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49555507) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:00 PM Author: claret hospital are we still friends? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552414) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:06 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band Sure. Why not? I certainly cannot afford to lose younger friends as all the old ones are dying or getting obnoxious. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552443) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 7:48 PM Author: Vigorous Roommate Hell you can live without that douchebag as a friend (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49553310) |
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Date: January 2nd, 2026 2:05 PM Author: claret hospital whatever, gayclubber (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49556618) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:00 PM Author: ebony crackhouse What do you do right with your kids when they were young? What do you wish you had done differently? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552415) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:08 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band We had a very solid traditional family life. Screwed up as they are, they often talk about how happy their childhoods were. I wish I had moved heaven and earth to keep them away from weed, as it likely precipitated psychosis. Also wish I had recognized early signs and tried to intervene before they were 18. Unfortunately, the early stages of crazy are pretty much identical to adolescence. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552447) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:20 PM Author: ebony crackhouse All your kids are drug addicts with schizophrenia? Did you ever fear getting Rob Reinered? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552481) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:23 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band No, they've never been addicts and aren't taking anything right now. Not even tobacco or alcohol. I worried about being Reinered when they lived with us and referred to themselves as the Menendez bros, but not any more. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552495) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:34 PM Author: slate forum patrolman Your sons sound 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552540) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:51 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band I love and like them. They are good people and I wish they didn't have these impediments to deal with. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552631) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:25 PM Author: electric hominid striped hyena (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552741) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 7:40 PM Author: Thriller drunken tanning salon You're a good man, and they're extremely lucky to have you. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49553297) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 6:27 PM Author: passionate ungodly brunch (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49553135) |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:27 PM Author: Lemon business firm rigpig JFC. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49554944) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:01 PM Author: hairraiser cowardly coldplay fan How do you think your sons are going to use their inheritance (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552417) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:10 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band Just to live modestly without working What they both receive with be through special needs trusts so they don't get their hands on any significant lump sums. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552449) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:01 PM Author: Twinkling tank parlour Great thread so far. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552419) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:02 PM Author: Bat shit crazy magical marketing idea congrats! are you schtick like evan39 or are you really an oldHLSdude? |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:13 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band No, I really am fucking old. Long ago I had to poast proof in the form of my ancient LSAT score and degrees with dates.The LSAT is still on imgur: https://imgur.com/qVfwkPx Note that I had completed a year of grad school and 3 years of compulsory uniformed service, hence the 1972 date. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552451) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:25 PM Author: electric hominid striped hyena i believe you also posted your balls once, as evidence (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552742) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:57 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band It was full dick pic. I must have been drinking. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552834) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:58 PM Author: electric hominid striped hyena (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552838) |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:31 PM Author: Lemon business firm rigpig How many inches? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49554958) |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:33 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band 6 or so. Average. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49554964) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:02 PM Author: irradiated boistinker public bath what was your nw and professional status at age 35?
when and how did you make most of ur money? |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:16 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band At 35 I was a corporate director of R&D for a very large company. I headed a lab with about 50 Phds in it. I probably was making around $100K all in, which would be like $350K today. I have no idea what my net worth was, but it wasn't much. Maybe $250K? Equivalent to under $1M now. I made most of my money through stock grants and start up equity stakes, though I have made more with my own investing activities than anything. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552468) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:06 PM Author: Massive Kitchen Queen Of The Night Do you still think that mass non-white immigration is the greatest thing ever or has your "opinion" on that changed since last year? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552444) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:14 PM Author: yapping round eye (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552456) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:17 PM Author: Twisted mewling goal in life (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552471) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:18 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band I don't know where this allegation that I support mass immigration came from. I don't and have not. OTOH, I don't that that all immigrants are evil. It's pretty clear that there was an intentional plan to non-Europeanize the US. They did a pretty damned good job. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552477) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:19 PM Author: yapping round eye Ok, boomer (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552480) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:20 PM Author: flushed haunted graveyard but do you know who (((they))) might be possibly be? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552483) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:28 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band The liberal/Democratic/academic crowd, though even Reagan enacted mass amnesty, though I suppose with him it was a pragmatic political move and not a core philosophy. This of course raises the jewish question. I don't see anything in judaism that should make jews shitlibs. Certainly Israel as a country is not a shitlib place, though they do have that constituency. I blame it on academic intellectualism. I also blame foreign influence. This is easiest country on earth to fuck with on a budget. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552509) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:41 PM Author: Crystalline Out-of-control Sanctuary (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552573) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:24 PM Author: flushed haunted graveyard enjoy some scholarship, my confused boomer friend:
https://archive.org/details/cultureofcritiqu0000macd |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 6:57 PM Author: Deep piazza crotch but this isn't really a puzzle at all is it? one doesn't need to believe there's some super nefarious conspiracy going on, it's simply out of group self interest. jews are a small minority and have a history of being persecuted by the stronger majority, especially along racial/religious lines. so it makes sense that they would advocate for pluralism and immigration and multiethnicity, especially in a way that prevents consolidation of the dominant race/religion. the fact that they don't act like this in israel, which is a country where they are the majority, just proves the point. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49553193) |
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Date: January 2nd, 2026 4:36 AM Author: coiffed voyeur boomers can't bring themselves to admit they were bamboozled (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49555792) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:29 PM Author: Massive Kitchen Queen Of The Night https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5652505&mc=21&forum_id=2
This one where he endorses Nikki Haley for president in 2024 was also a real "banger"
https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5468328&mc=301&forum_id=2#47234122 |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:32 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band Amazing that anyone would care and save these poasts. I voted for Trump 3x. As a result I am now up to 7 people I've know for 20-60 years who will no longer speak to me because of it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552529) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:39 PM Author: Massive Kitchen Queen Of The Night I still remember that thread because it was such an absolute slam dunk on your boomer ass
"The world is better than it used to be" was an amazing line too |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:54 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band It is better than it used to be. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552644) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:02 PM Author: Scarlet underhanded set "My world, anyway" is the line you ended with, which is so fucking insane I still can't process it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552665) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:03 PM Author: Massive Kitchen Queen Of The Night (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552672) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:10 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band No fucking sense of humor here. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552696) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:28 PM Author: electric hominid striped hyena (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552751) |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 10:52 AM Author: Saffron Becky Menage (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49553904) |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 10:48 PM Author: sticky base new version (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49555498) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:09 PM Author: yapping round eye Why do you religiously vote against me in MPM every year? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552448) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:19 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band I don't remember who I voted for. Usually it's random. This year I didn't vote at all. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552479) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:20 PM Author: yapping round eye I didn't either but I just recall that every single year you pop up voting for the other guy. It's not right. You should rethink your actions. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552482) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:29 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band I guess I did rethink and didn't bother voting this year. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552512) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:36 PM Author: Awkward Provocative Rehab Antidepressant Drug you fags can both vote for me in the final. thank. keep in mind i made this thread long before soliciting this vote: https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815765&mc=3&forum_id=2 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552553) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:53 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band Thanks for the Happy New Year! Happy New Year to you! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552641) |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:20 PM Author: Lemon business firm rigpig He's done the same to me. He can be vindictive for no reason. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49554924) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:12 PM Author: hairless mood kitty Do your sons post on social media? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552450) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:20 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band No. I think that's a good thing. Younger son will not use a computer and still has a flip phone. Younger son reads a lot on the internet but does not poast so far as I know. He does text a lot of people, but that's it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552484) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:24 PM Author: flushed haunted graveyard hes a megaposter, friendo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552500) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:28 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band What's his moniker? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552510) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:13 PM Author: Mind-boggling dilemma circlehead Can we get a Free Palestine? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552452) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:21 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band That's too big a situation for an easy sound bite. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552486) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:43 PM Author: Mahogany Startled House Pocket Flask JFC you apologists (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552587) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:45 PM Author: Mind-boggling dilemma circlehead Lol. What do you think about the Jewish influence on the Trump administration? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552599) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:56 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band There is a lot of it. It's funny that Trump is a Presbyterian. When I was a kid the few jews in town were regarded as some kind of Presbyterian. At least one family attend the P church. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552648) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:31 PM Author: Black doctorate cuck Why is your gen so TDS addled and losery. What age did you go through andropause (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552524) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:35 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band Where do you get that? Most of the people I know of my age who will still speak to me are Trumpmos, or at least not afflicted with TDS. Andropause is a very gradual process. I supposed I started noticing it at 70 and it accelerated at 75. I still get boners and want to fuck women, though I would want an ED drug for backup. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552551) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:37 PM Author: Twinkling tank parlour gross (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552560) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:38 PM Author: Black doctorate cuck The "No Kings" crowd are all old af (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552562) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:57 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band My wife has a step sister who is into that. We live in a 98% white county that went 78% for Trump. I rarely bump into a Democrat. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552652) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:32 PM Author: sinister filthy school cafeteria dingle berry how is your prostate health? what are you doing to improve, mitigate? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552528) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:37 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band My prostate is in good shape for my age. My PSA has just crept over 1.0 for the first time and I don't get up to pee 1/2 the time. If I drink a lot of fluids before bed I will have to get up. I credit lots of sex and whacking off. Lately it has been 100% whacking off. Exercising it is key. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552561) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:41 PM Author: sinister filthy school cafeteria dingle berry nice, I suddenly stopped beating off in the past two years
need to force myself to stay active, even if I've given up hope of ever getting laid |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:51 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band I was never able to go more than 3 days. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552626) |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:37 PM Author: Lemon business firm rigpig 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49554976) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:34 PM Author: sinister filthy school cafeteria dingle berry I'm thinking of leaving my sinecure with reasonably high pay and absolute job security
I'm mostly in meetings and otherwise I'm reviewing documents
I mostly work 10 hours a week
I'm in my 30s
Should I do it |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:38 PM Author: Twinkling tank parlour I'm in my 30s too, haha (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552564) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:41 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band That sounds pretty sweet. Objectively leaving it may be a bad idea, but it depends upon whether for you it's psychologically necessary. I guess it was for me, or I would have stayed in big corp. Do you really have absolute job security? That's very rare. Consider whether it's really true. The three start ups I did with 24/7 marathons. They really, truly mess up your quality of life. I'm a much more capable person because of those experiences, but it was not cheap schooling. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552575) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:38 PM Author: sinister filthy school cafeteria dingle berry yes, absolute
what is a "psychological necessity" to you |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:44 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band Something that if I don't do I will feel miserable about not doing. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552787) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:37 PM Author: vivacious indirect expression You previously mentioned your speculation that UFOs might be an entirely psychic phenomenon. Would you mind expanding on that? Thoughts on the existence of "psi" generally? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552559) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:46 PM Author: Mustard Property holy fuck lmao (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552601) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:50 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band I think there is something there, but I don't know exactly what. My working hypothesis is that we are field creatures of some kind, and the field in which we exist as (nodes?/distributed nodes?/wave functions?) is the mechanism though which these various occult phenomena occur. That's really vague, but I can't do any better. A Jungian shrink I know calls it "The Weather Channel." Sometimes I speculate that there exists a higher dimensional world and these phenomena come and so as that world moves and the projections into our spacetime vary. When I was a little kid I spent a lot of time watching bugs, especially ants. I remain amazed at the complexity of behavior among those little critters with nearly invisible little brains. I speculated then that some of their cognitive bioware was in hyperspace. Of course hive behavior is a much simpler and likely more correct interpretation, but it doesn't explain the occult. The whole field is really messy. It's filled with fraud, hoaxes, misperceptions, gossip, myths, etc. Lots of noise. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552621) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:56 PM Author: Mustard Property jfc (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552649) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:13 PM Author: vivacious indirect expression Thanks for the sincere response. I was surprised to learn that there is real evidence for the existence of "psi", although it appears that the effect (as presently understood/employed) is too weak and unreliable to be of practical value. I agree regarding the noise. My suspicion is that there is a kernel of truth that is being intentionally obscured by the powers that be, but as ordinary civilians it is basically impossible for you or I to determine what is true and what is BS. By the way, I've posted under other monikers before, but my brother has a mental illness with presentation similar to your sons' condition (in fact I was doing year-end work related to his special needs trust last night). You and I have discussed before, and I really appreciate those conversations. I have great sympathy for you--it's been hard having a brother go through this, I cannot imagine two sons |
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Date: January 2nd, 2026 2:29 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49556673) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:51 PM Author: wine international law enforcement agency HBD π₯³ (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552634) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 5:03 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band ty (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49553010) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:53 PM Author: Aphrodisiac Principal's Office Why weren’t you in Vietnam? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552637) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:02 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band Because I got sent to Cincinnati. Maybe you missed the prior threads, so I'll reprise. I drew a low draft number while in grad school and was classified 1-A. I didn't want to get drafted, so I tried OCS. Only the Navy was taking applications. I did very well on the OAR and was physically qualified so they told me that if I promised to volunteer for nuclear sub school after OCS they would expedite my application. Fortunately, I had the discovered the US Public Health Service direct commission program and they were faster than the Navy. My draft board was not to be dissuaded, so I had to go get sworn in by a justice of the peace two weeks before reporting. As a result I used the GI Bill to help with LS costs. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552664) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:57 PM Author: electric hominid striped hyena so you served for a short time in US Public Health Service? i don't think i ever heard of it before today (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552832) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 4:06 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band Yes, it was a sweet gig. I was on active duty for 27 months then stayed on stacking paper for another year as a GS-13 before heading to LS. We were direct commissioned with extra rank and pay, along with full benefits, including VA. I had never heard of it until it came up at dinner one night when I was still in school. It sounded too good to be true, but was real. The downside was the 1% acceptance rate. https://www.usphs.gov/ (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552861) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 4:55 PM Author: electric hominid striped hyena (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552977) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:57 PM Author: Racy mental disorder locale Please describe in a long and meandering poast with lots of sidebars how America has changed over the years. Ideally sprinkle in some odd anecdotes or dicta that will surprise and delight your faithful readers. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552650) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:14 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band I don't think I have time this afternoon to do this justice. I am going to go fill up my tractor with diesel in case I have to plow snow. I want to try out my new battery powered diesel pump. Be back later. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552711) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 1:59 AM Author: Quality Learing Center alumnus (β π) Appropriate response to a snarky post from our in-house snarky call center soiboi (obeezy) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49563237) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:58 PM Author: Mustard Property Do you think your schizoid belief in 'occult phenomenon' had any impact on both ur children developing schizophrenia (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552654) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:04 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band Belief is overstating it and the schizoid label is totally off the wall. No. I don't spend any time on this other than having idle thoughts. My friend who was really into it is det, so I don't even have anyone with whom to engage in whiskey talk. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552674) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:05 PM Author: Mustard Property that feels like a very defensive yes (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552678) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:11 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band Whatever (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552700) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:14 PM Author: vivacious indirect expression I enjoy the conversations. Many people wonder about this stuff and its fun to talk about. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552714) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:06 PM Author: Scarlet underhanded set Are you a materialist-atheist who believes that there is no Satan and no God, or are you just Jewish? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552686) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:06 PM Author: Mustard Property calling someone who denies occult phenomenon a satanist is very stupid (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552689) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:09 PM Author: Scarlet underhanded set Its not stupid, its just the most likely explanation. Ive never met an atheist who accepted the existence of the occult and most theists do believe that Satan interfaces with the physical world in some way (beyond the mind).
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:10 PM Author: Mustard Property ur weak mind would cause schizophrenia in ur children if u had any (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552697) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:14 PM Author: Scarlet underhanded set Wrong, i went through all kinds of abuse as a child Today i make awesome money, have a beautiful gf and multiple children. Youre way off about weak mind |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:27 PM Author: Mustard Property Ok we're cool (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552748) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:15 PM Author: vivacious indirect expression edited (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552719) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:17 PM Author: Scarlet underhanded set What did you edit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552722) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:12 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band You guys are not entertaining. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552704) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:16 PM Author: vivacious indirect expression Why are you being a dick? This guy is one of the best posters here, and does great threads. In fact, you are in one such thread right now (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552721) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:19 PM Author: Scarlet underhanded set Tbf to this guy, OldHLS used to poast waaaay more shitlib boomer garbage and is walking back a lot of it here. His previous views were little different than straight up open borders (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552729) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:20 PM Author: Mustard Property ty (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552733) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:22 PM Author: Scarlet underhanded set 100% (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552736) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:38 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band Horseshit. To the extent you believe that you've been trolled. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552773) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:45 PM Author: vivacious indirect expression no idea if that's true but who gives a fuck? he's a good poster. disagreeing about politics is not a good reason to run off one of the few remaining good posters (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552789) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:59 PM Author: Scarlet underhanded set No real poa would be run off for political disagreement, and OLDhls has tough skin... if you knew him- which i do- you would know that I also kniw his political views and he is die hard egop including third base coach waving |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 6:32 PM Author: passionate ungodly brunch stop drinking (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49553147) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:01 PM Author: Pink Talented Abode Liquid Oxygen How do you feel about winning the xo Special Olympics? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552660) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:05 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band I was so honored I jizzed. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552677) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:03 PM Author: maniacal halford My wife invited over family to celebrate my kid’s birthday. 4 extra kids and 7 extra adults. My job made me so stressed out that I nearly flipped out. I had to grab the axe and go out and chop wood for 30 minutes to ground myself. I feel like I can no longer do this. The deleterious effects of playing the game you can never win for nickels and dimes seems less and less worth it. Do you ever regret hanging it up when you did? Do you think people thought less of you after you stepped away? |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:09 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band No. I have never missed the office. I really don't know what people think. I'm pretty sure I get talked about behind my back, but it's not on my list of things to worry about. Being stressed like that will suck the life out of you. The conundrum is how to pay the bills. I was lucky to have other options. I had an OCI experience with a firm during which the partner told me that his firm would not hire me because I had too many other options. He said that practicing law was a terrible life, and that I would soon bolt since I had other ways to earn a living. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552694) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 4:46 PM Author: fragrant travel guidebook telephone cold hard truth (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552952) |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 11:03 AM Author: Saffron Becky Menage Damn, Daddy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49553922) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:14 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band Taking a break to go fill up my tractor with diesel in case I have to plow later. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552716) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 7:41 PM Author: Thriller drunken tanning salon we just got nailed by today's storm (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49553302) |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 10:42 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band You probably got it worse. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49555489) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:36 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band Back from filling up tractor
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:38 PM Author: Bright Point I am worried about what society will do when boomers can no longer carry it. Almost all top level component people are boomers. I think we need societal changes to keep them in the work force as long as they want to work. They idea that you can lose social security benefits by working is ridiculous.
At the same time, millennials seem uniquely unambitious, lazy, wasteful, frivolous, and resentful of success. I am worried about our future. What are your thoughts? |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:44 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band I am so far removed from the world of work I don't have confidence in any of my opinions. FWIW, I heard the same arguments about my generation and then the one right behind me. I have been around a long time and have seen a lot of stuff, so I can often be helpful. I find that on the boards I serve on. Some things that are to me really easy look like insurmountable difficulties to those who are encountering them for the first time. I guess in a perfect world each generation would hang around long enough to transfer its know how to the next. One problem is that the next generation often thinks the old folks don't get it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552784) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:46 PM Author: plum stage can you objectively rate your wife as a human being? she sounds kind of terrible (abandoning a baby, etc.) from what you describe. what drew you to her? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552792) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:53 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band I don't think it was abandonment. She was single, not making a lot of money and would have been ridiculed and shunned in those days. She went to a Catholic home for unwed mothers and the baby was adopted by a screened Catholic family through a private adoption. I thought it was pretty heroic myself. She is a 180 human being. I often wish she would turn down the piety a notch, but it's better than the country club. She was smart, lively, tall, and attractive. In those days she was more flirty and more sexual, but I thought she was great wife material. I think her deep association with Opus Dei changed her personality some beginning about 40 years ago. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552815) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:56 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band How was everyone's holiday? My college roommate came to visit for a week. We had a small (12 people) family party while he was here. 4 of my wife's siblings and spouses/spouselike persons, my friend, and a priest friend. Had another couple over on Christmas Eve. Made salmon oscar and drank Manhattans and wine. Friend was happy to have his Tesla drive him home. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552828) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 4:11 PM Author: Bright Point Company for a week seems like a very long time.
I have been visiting my in laws since the 24th and I am going to lose my mind if I can't get back to the office soon. Times like this really make a person appreciate being a partner at a law firm. |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 12:40 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band He's a low effort house guest. We've known him so long it's like having a family member around. I think being a visitor is worse than having visitors. When we visit others we have taken to staying in a hotel in order to get away. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49554082) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 10:14 PM Author: Aquamarine site toilet seat Up and down. Kid found out he was going to be a big brother Christmas morning. My oldest uncle died the next day. It's been cold. Thawing a rib roast for tomorrow. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49553464) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 4:10 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band Thread is fading. Will check back later. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49552871) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 4:44 PM Author: Slap-happy Mad Cow Disease I always enjoyed your posts and did check xoxohth to see if you were doing your NYE special.
Xoxohth is its last gasps. It's hard to have a frank and intelligent conversation on here these days as most people with an ounce of sensibility drifted away a long time ago. The racism and bigotry and antisemitism bothers me. Someone needs to administer death rites.
My father died not long ago from PSP. Poor man, he was only in his late 70s and never had the life expectancy of his parents and all four grandparents and all his aunts and uncles by blood, who lived into their 90s. That's life for you. Now dealing with a widowed mother who wants me to take over all her finances and pay her bills and give her an allowance so she doesn't have to think about it. I'm also in the process of starting up a trust for her assets. And it's making me much more cognizant of what I need to do for my own wife and kids. Definitely feel like I've aged a lot in the last year. And my dad's passing has also made me wonder if I spend too much time working and not enjoying life, money really isn't an issue at this point and I could contemplate an early retirement in 10 years or so, the one thing to keep an eye out for is that youngest would only be 16 at that point (boys are currently 16, 14 and 6). And I also worry about getting the boys properly launched in life, in a good and productive way. Or maybe I worry about it too much as I can't control everything. I've watched some families and it's interesting how disorganized families no matter how loving they are tend to have kids who end up with more disorganized life progressions, while super organized families tend to have kids who follow a pretty predictable route to better outcomes re jobs and relationships. I guess you can say I want to herd my boys away from the dangers of ending up a tattooed pierced metrosexual hipster. If they end up a dull financial analyst or consultant with a pretty girlfriend, job well done. But they do have their own burgeoning personalities and I've learned from it as well.
Will say, partly because of dealing with reorganizing my mother's finances after dad's death, that the a key observation I have of the changes in society from the past is that organizational structures seem to be significantly less competent in getting things done efficiently. Is it a coincidence that as white men are replaced with DEI people, everything only gets more bureaucratic and less efficient? I don't mean to say that only white men are capable of productive leadership but the culture generated by white male leadership is results oriented whereas DEI leadership is process oriented and cares less about actual outcomes as long the process is followed and the process needs plenty of DEI managers. I like to look at how ruthlessly efficient Amazon is versus government and healthcare. Just a speculation. Any thoughts? |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 5:33 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band I dread going into a place with obvious DEI staff. It's not 100% bad, but the probabilities are there. Our area is all white, but things like the DMV can be a problem depending upon which agent you get. Any government office is likely to be a mess. Strangely, Medicare has been great. I expected disastrous bureaucracy, but it has functioned very smoothly. One thing government does well. Ditto with the doctor/clinic side of healthcare. No hiccups so far, at least for us.
PSP is awful. My cousin's husband died of that. Terrible disease. My dad had ALS which was not cool either, but at least it didn't affect his cognition.
Our kids went off the rails at about 19 in both cases. We didn't see it coming, and when it happened it happened very quickly. Before that they had both been good students and athletes with lots of friends.
The worst place I ever worked for DEI crap was the university. They worship process. I spent about 5 years after my first retirement in a senior admin position in large well known school. The president told me one day that "The purpose of the university is diversity." I'm not sure that's even grammatically correct. Later I did a lot of university consulting and saw some really bad DEI things in almost every place. The one exception was Caltech where I taught for 5 years. I used to think MIT was immune, but I fear wokeness that crept in there, too.
A young friend has just taken a teaching position in a prestigious private liberal arts college. She is aghast at the environment. It's all super woke. She's so upset about the lack of rigor (she's in the sciences), entitled students, and As for effort that she's going to leave when her two year contract is up. Her chair made her regrade exams in order to increase grades, specifically noting that one student deserved a higher grade because "she wrote so much." My friend says that she did indeed write a bunch of drivel on a take home open book exam. Moreover, my friend the teacher is black herself, but Nigerian. She was a top sciences undergrad in a small private university and has a Harvard Phd in same. She's conservative and just blown away by the awful academic environment. I guess her hard sciences grad department at H was still back in the dark ages. One funny comment about my Nigerian friend. She does not want to be identified as a black. She has no respect for American black "culture" or uneducated African culture for that matter. Her husband is a white Phd math guy.
I've set up trusts for the wife and kids, but as I handle all the finances I know things will be a little rocky when they have to deal with the bank trust department. For the kids I have younger family members installed as trust advisors and a side letter of instruction to the trustee, but I know they won't do everything I do.
I think you're right about the organized families. I can't claim that we were ever like that. I'm not a super disciplined person myself and often just go with the flow.
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Date: December 31st, 2025 6:22 PM Author: Slap-happy Mad Cow Disease I think about colleges all the time. I went to Yale in the late 1990s-early 2000s and at the time was effectively a Jewish school, meaning the ethos that dominated Yale was 1990s liberalism with its ideals represented by the Upper West Side and the New Yorker. The faculty were mostly men who'd come of age in the meritocracy of the 50s and heirs to the New Deal progressivism. It was, on the whole, a strongly intellectually honest place. It was not a good time to be a conservative, for conservatism in those days meant the fringes of evangelical wackadoodles who hated gays and trumped creative design over evolution, impeaching a president for a blow job. The Reagan revolution had long been won and coopted by Clinton and the New Democrats. I went to a few campus conservative group events, they were mostly Catholic dorks. The official Republican club did have some of the remnants of Reaganite Republicans, tall blond girls from Texas or Manhattan whose daddies were hardcore Republicans of the old school. But everyone got along, liberals and the conservative minority. Politics wasn't important to most of us.
It's astonishing how much has changed at Yale that would have been unthinkable at the time, although in looking back I could see the emerging warning signs, the younger faculty members, recent hires who were ideologically more rigid and hard, the rise of the safetyism among new female faculty and especially administration, who were averse to challenges to their beliefs and ideas, even in classroom debates. And the creep of unserious academic subjects, leading to courses on decolonizing transbinaryqueers in Latinx! But hindsight is hindsight. And now the college world of the 1990s is as remote and strange as the college world of the early 60s, of single sex and visiting hours in the dorms and dress codes and in loco parentis, was to us by the 1990s.
Will say the prestige of elite colleges have taken a huge battering in the last decades. My kids don't view them the same way we did when I was their age, their perception of the Ivies is that it's for Asian grinders and not a place for fun. They are already skeptical of professors and the courses they'll find in college. Because they already know it's indoctrination, not a serious quest for truth. They're bright boys, who at my age would be great contenders for the Penns and Cornells and Northwesterns, or even Amherst, and what now interests them and their friends are the big flagships as they're seen as saner places. Get a business or econ degree, take a handful of interesting classes on the side once you've sniffed out the saner professors. Their maternal grandfather went to Chapel Hill and right now that's my oldest's first choice, despite competitive out of state admissions. So we'll see.
But I'll also say the world of colleges may be changing dramatically as we speak, once again. Past year has seen major shifts in admission stats away from DEI and a much larger intake of Asian students. Which is fair to me. But will the replacement of weaker DEI students with stronger Asian grinders change campus cultures and even the teaching itself? A lot of the mollycoddlying your professor friend mentioned is because of the DEI intake. We'll see!
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Date: January 1st, 2026 12:03 AM Author: Fishy supple twinkling uncleanness bawdyhouse What do you mean by organized/disorganized families? There is something to that, but I don't quite know what it is.
I have 4 young kids. In some ways, my wife and I are doing well with them. They're all at or above grade/age level in those various metrics and do lots of good activities (Sunday school, sports, museums, art class, camping, skiing, travel...). We read to and with them a lot and limit screens.
But, I don't exactly feel "organized." For example, I don't stay on top of the older kids' home work and tests. |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 8:26 AM Author: Slap-happy Mad Cow Disease Put it this way, notice how Republican country club families don't have trans kids? And the trans kids pop up in certain types of families? People can nitpick and show me the exceptions, but it's a good generalization and speaks to different types of home environments. It's not about providing lots of activities and a rigid schedule but the parents' capacity to build strong foundations in their children's minds of what's real, what's not real, what's right, what's wrong, learning how to be skeptical and when to believe. It takes a lot of organization of a certain type to provide that kind of structure for your kids. The families that are the more "free spirited," to put it politely, are far more likely to have kids going off to weird places. And I've noticed the parents, especially the mothers, seem to like having oddball kids, despite the social costs the kids always pay sooner or later, so they subtly facilitate it happening over time.
Some people want to say how kids turn out is all due to genetics while others say it's the blank slate and culture around them. It's going to be both. Some families definitely have it easier with great genetics but building the right culture for your kids goes a very long way. It is hard in the safetyism that dominates our societies and the indoctrination of school administrators (teachers are a mixed bag) but as I've long observed, there's a great deal of indirect cruelty hidden within the "be kind" mantric prevalent among liberal progressives, which is why so many of them have anxiety and mental health problems.
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Date: January 1st, 2026 1:15 PM Author: electric hominid striped hyena agree with a lot of your thoughts in this subthread. agree with the way you are thinking about colleges for your sons. and interesting to hear you talk about yale in the 90s/00s - i didn't go there but i had enough experience with it to comment, and that rings true in a way that i haven't heard anyone describe before - tyft (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49554153) |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 1:30 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band MIT was heavily jewish when I was there, as was HLS. MIT is now nearly half asian and maybe 6% jewish. I don't know about HLS. It seems very non white/asian in pictures.
At my 50th reunion I chatted with the MIT president who said that students arrived there now lacking life experience and coping skills. He said the university has to do a lot more hand holding. In the 60s they basically threw you in to see if you could swim.
I was a member of the young Republicans as an undergrad. It was a Reaganist organization and did not discuss crazed alt right stuff, although the leftists were constantly sniping at us and making silly accusations. The faculty originally seemed apolitical except for Chomsky and his orbit, but as Vietnam rolled on things became more charged politically. Finally the faculty went on strike and there was some confusion and disruption. We had no graduation speaker my year, but instead a "moment of silence."
Things seemed pretty left wing at the 50th several years ago. Mike Bloomberg was the commencement speaker and got an undeserved round of applause for his announcement that he was going to spend half a billion dollars to block new fossil fuel burning facilities. I sat there not applauding wondering now all these smart kids could be so stupid as to think that was a good idea. At dinner that night the only person at the table who agreed with me with was somebody's hot Ukrainian wife.
HLS was pretty much careerist. I didn't notice politics at all. I was married and lived a normal life off campus, so maybe I missed it. Also, I didn't take a lot of policy courses. I was under the delusion I was going to practice law so I mostly stuck to stuff I thought would help me do that.
MIT had some bad experiences along the way with affirmative action. They started AA near the end of my time there. The AA admits had a lot trouble academically, so they started enrichment programs before freshman year that seemed to help. In the 90s they decided to double down on it, and the faculty got up in arms about too many admits who couldn't handle the work, so they retreated some. The no SAT Covid era was also a disaster. It's not really possible to BS your way through math intensive courses, which most of them are outside of humanities and maybe some business courses. Rumor is that the influx of grinders, asian and otherwise, has diminished the hacking culture.
I don't know that I would go to MIT now, or any other elite school. I couldn't stand a leftist environment or a grinder environment either. I'm thinking that as your kids think that a big state honors college would be my best fit. Fortunately, I don't have to do it.
I'm on a foundation board here in Republican country. One of the things we do is award scholarships. Most kids in this area are choosing a strongly vocational track. We've also set up a program that guarantees free tuition at our local community college to any student whose family makes under $65K. The story of how we created the endowment to do that would make an entertaining business school case. |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:14 PM Author: electric hominid striped hyena enjoyed this and agreed.
also At dinner that night the only person at the table who agreed with me with was somebody's hot Ukrainian wife. |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 4:37 PM Author: Pink Talented Abode Liquid Oxygen My M1 16” MacBook Pro won’t boot. Won’t charge, either — MagSafe LED does not turn on when plugged in. Typical keyboard resets for M1s have not done anything. Why did this have to happen as I start a four-day weekend? Most likely need a new logic board from Apple. Can you buy me a new MacBook Pro?
Your son,
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Date: December 31st, 2025 5:49 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band It's in the mail. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49553079) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 5:52 PM Author: Pink Talented Abode Liquid Oxygen Thanks,
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Date: December 31st, 2025 5:01 PM Author: lime free-loading gaming laptop native Happy Birthday, fren.
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Date: December 31st, 2025 5:48 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band ty (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49553078) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 5:11 PM Author: Razzle Chapel How would you advise someone to think about retirement spending? a lot of us are a ways away but for those who have been financially fortunate, how do you think about the following (1) how to invest retirement funds (eg total index funds vs QQQ); (2) how much you take out of your portfolio (eg is 4% rule right, will we get historic returns); and (3) most importantly, what have you seen of folks who retired early bc they saved better vs those who had to work to eg 70 in a job they hated? How do you think it impacted those folks. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49553020) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 5:45 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band I've invested mostly in stocks. I have mix of index funds and quality stocks, more of the latter. The stocks are pretty diverse, but I have some concentrations I have been trying to thin down. From a diversification standpoint the trouble is that the strong performers just keep performing, albeit with some volatility.
On the ETF side I like QQQ and MDY especially. My portfolio allocation is probably a little bit aggressive as it's very tilted toward equities. My experience with bonds sucks, except for the cash I keep in short term bond funds. I do keep quite a bit of cash in those. It's under performing but allows me to avoid worrying about market volatility. I like to keep about 5 years' expenses in cash. I have used the 4% rule, and have never pulled that much out until lately, partly because I'm being forced to by IRA MRDs. I think it's far better to retire early than not unless you really love your work. I actually retired twice. The first time I was 51, but went to a university, then retired again at 56. After that I did gig work which I pretty much enjoyed. I got to do a lot of interesting things that I could not have afforded to do otherwise. That includes my 5 years in university/wonderland and my additional 5 years teaching part time. I think I would have died if I had tried to keep up my working pace into old age. It was a terrible grind and there is no part throttle setting possible.
I have experimented with letting a "professional" manage a small part of my portfolio. His performance has not been terribly impressive. |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 5:49 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band I'm signing off for dinner and football. Will check in tomorrow. Happy New Year to all! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49553081) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 6:29 PM Author: Laughsome preventive strike theater Do you think spaceporn should be banned? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49553140) |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 11:57 AM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band No. xo is better wide open. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49553999) |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 12:04 PM Author: Laughsome preventive strike theater Rasqie got banned for less and it felt like a decent move at the time (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49554015) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 7:02 PM Author: Lemon business firm rigpig Will you take BBC in 2026? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49553211) |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 11:57 AM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band Unlikely (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49554000) |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:21 PM Author: Lemon business firm rigpig Your not making the most of your life, bro. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49554929) |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:34 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band But my asshole will thank me. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49554967) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 7:11 PM Author: Deep piazza crotch now that we're a few years removed from it, what is your assessment of the pandemic and its significance for our society?
as a millennial i feel like my young adulthood was bookended by 9/11 and the pandemic, and the experience of those two events couldn't have been more different. both were seen as crises but there was a real sense of solidarity and groundswell of energy after 9/11, whereas with the pandemic there was only deranged division and a near-total collapse in institutional faith.
going through the pandemic was extremely disillusioning in many ways. we all affect cynicism here, but i was not aware of just how much implicit trust i'd been putting into the system simply out of convenience, just so i don't have to think about it. but something like covid was a real emperor has no clothes moment.
did you feel similarly, or have you been around for so long that it doesn't even register? |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 7:18 PM Author: Lemon business firm rigpig Great question for the old man. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49553250) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 9:54 PM Author: sticky base new version This is a great question and I see echos of my own experience in it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49553438) |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 12:13 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band I agree with you about the difference between 9/11 and Covid. After 9/11 there was fear and panic about terrorists, but it faded and was replaced by purposeful action. My initial feeling was energized outrage.
My direct experience with the pandemic shut down was only minor inconvenience, but more broadly it hurt a lot of people. During that period and right after I was interviewing MIT applicants. Their lives were massively disrupted. The world response (except for Sweden) I believe created more damage than the bug would have. It was completely wrong headed to shut everything down like that. There was some similarity between the shutdown era and what happened during the Vietnam war, in the sense that many people discovered that government was lying. It seemed not only incompetent, but also malign. OTOH, hindsight is perfect. I strongly suspect that intel knew from the outset that it was likely a Wuhan lab leak and there was some concern the bug might be really bad. There was an element of panic in the response which just kept rolling in spite of evidence that it was not the end of the world. One progressive former acquaintance who now won't speak to me proposed that people who refused to wear masks should just be left to die without treatment. People like that were a big part of the problem. To me the difference in response to 9/11 and Covid was an illustration of how the left and right deal with emergencies. |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 12:54 PM Author: electric hominid striped hyena agree with your description of the question and also OldHLS response. it was a huge vibe shift to the negative, with high stakes on both sides (essential freedoms from the conservative side, and death from the liberal side), the feeling that other side did not care about me and my interests, and an incompetent government. just very much destructive for national unity (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49554111) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 7:20 PM Author: passionate ungodly brunch What do you think is the most common negative personality trait amongst xo poasters? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49553255) |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 12:17 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band There is a meanness evident in many poasts. I suppose it's the same as any other anonymous internet forum. There's an old saying that if you want to see a person's true character look to see what they do when they think no one is watching. There's also a certain amount of whining and self pity. Some of it is trolling I suppose. Overall, there is a lot of 7th grade behavior. It also makes the place fun. I'm still Beavis/Butthead at heart myself. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49554035) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 8:02 PM Author: Vigorous Roommate Hell two ways to ask the same question 1. how do people from your generation support biden/kamala in 2024 2. why did so many people from your generation support biden/kamala in 2024 |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 12:38 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band 1. no idea 2. no idea
I suppose for the same reason people from your generation did. What they have told me is that "I hate Trump." and "I hate Trump." They also said, "I hate Bush" and "I hate Bush." Maybe EPAH can shed some light on it. |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 9:48 PM Author: swashbuckling garnet casino immigrant 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49553425) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 9:51 PM Author: Mustard Property Jung was a loser btw (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49553430) |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 1:00 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band Oh, probably, but I have enjoyed reading his essays. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49554121) |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 9:42 PM Author: Mustard Property because you're a sadist that intromissioned schizophrenia (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49555390) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 10:02 PM Author: sticky base new version You need to add a codicil to your will, providing your login to a trusted friend who will post your memorial service details and a final letter you’ve written to the boart. But hopefully you’ve many many years to make those arrangements (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49553451) |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 12:53 AM Author: puce bateful windowlicker (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49553645) |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 12:18 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band I have a letter of instruction to my attorney which includes notifying xo via a trusted younger poaster. I don't know about the final letter to the bort. That depends on whether I outlive the bort and whether I linger or check out abruptly. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49554037) |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 12:47 PM Author: Opaque Marvelous Personal Credit Line Regret 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49554100) |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 10:14 PM Author: sticky base new version You're 180. And the notion of you out living the boart never even occurred to me, but I'll bet you're correct. Can I interest you in a Twitter account... (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49555458) |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 10:37 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band I have one but I’ve never poasted. I read things sometimes. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49555485) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 10:02 PM Author: infuriating stage prole What advice do you have for people who have a middling career and hate authority but craves to be in a leadership position but no one wants to give them the chance? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49553452) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 11:39 PM Author: Vigorous Roommate Hell this is an easy one. we all know the advice for such a person. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49553549) |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 12:21 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band I'm going to sound like that Grok version of me extolling bootstrapping: nobody is going to give him a chance. He will have to do his own thing. What I did was start companies. Sadly, there is no free lunch. You have to suck somebody's cock, even if it's just the customer's. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49554044) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 10:06 PM Author: Ruby Cracking State Shitlib Just wanted to wish you a happy birthday and to say that you’re 180. Happy New Year. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49553454) |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 12:22 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band tyvm Happy New Year! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49554045) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 10:07 PM Author: slippery magenta office friendly grandma I saw Hitchcock's 1935 "39 Steps" for the first time. I realize that it predates you, and that it's Hollywood, but did men and women behave like that to each other once? Was everything sexually charged between the sexes? What made everyone change? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49553455) |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 12:35 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band I don't know too much about m/f relations outside my generation. I spent most of my working life in places where women were scarce. If they were there they were in secretarial/clerical roles. There was a lot of Madmen type flirtation and innuendo. Outside work there was always sexual tension with women. It's the old "Harry met Sally" conundrum. In general it took a lot of courtship behavior to get into bed, and M/F friendship without a sexual component was rare. I think the rise of feminism changed M/F relations drastically. Women became more interested in careers and independence, which displaced marriage as their primary goal.I started to see that transition during college, but in my age cohort many women still tended to define themselves by their men. I was right on the cusp of the feminist transition. My wife is of the old style SAHM mentality which seems to have worked OK for us. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49554070) |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 12:05 AM Author: charismatic harsh theater stage lettuce You’re in Phoenix right? Meetup? Give me an email to contact if ur down. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49553592) |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 12:41 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band Sure! Should be there after the 12th. Email is moniker at gmail. Would enjoy a meetup. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49554084) |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 12:54 AM Author: pearly up-to-no-good incel odds you make it to 85? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49553648) |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 12:42 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band 60% - a little better than average. Don't have any serious maladies, but entropy is doing its thing. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49554088) |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 2:00 AM Author: adventurous karate ape Do you notice people aging out here? I had an interesting observation...my grandfather that passed at 73 had a packed funeral. My grandfather that passed at 93 had nobody there, just family. I think most of his friends were dead.
My father will pass soon. I'm here with him now but I know he wants to die. He's in an amazing amount of pain with a cancer bodysuit. You don't have answers for me but you've probably had more deaths than most here. My dad wants to be cremated ans his ashes dropped off the canby ferry. I will do that but it's not a formal service. I want people to come share their feelings, he was a popular fella. Where does that leave me? |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 12:59 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band We're all aging. With no new blood on the bort we will suffer the fate of the Shakers.
Most of my family and many close friends have already died. If you want to do have a formal service, do so. When my good friend died without family, we had him cremated and interred his ashes in our family plot. When the stone I ordered for him arrived, I invited some of his other friends who came from all over the country. Most of them stayed with us and we had a nice memorial dinner with an empty seat and plate for him, then had a memorial gathering at the cemetery. My wife arranged for a Catholic Mass to be said in his name. We all attended that in lieu of a formal funeral service. I had an Apple photo book made up using pictures of his life and distributed it as souvenirs to all who came.
I think it's important to mark death with a ceremony of some kind. The dead don't care, but it's really helpful to the living. Humans have been doing this our entire history. No reason to skip it, IMO. |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 2:34 AM Author: Sadistic kitty cat Why are so many boomers f'n insufferable? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49553686) |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 10:27 AM Author: Bright Point This is what I was talking about regarding resentful millennials. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49553875) |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 12:45 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band I don't know. Why are so many people insufferable? Let be be finale of seem. The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream. A prior generation's version of red pilling. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49554096) |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 8:32 AM Author: Lascivious chartreuse place of business My father has dementia - how do I obtain conservatorship without destroying the remaining time we have together? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49553778) |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 11:29 AM Author: Saffron Becky Menage I have done some of this work. How bad is it? Is he mobile? A physical danger to himself or others? Actively being scammed or giving away his estate? Does he know/admit he has a problem?
General advice: try everything else first. Do you have a POA? Health care POA? Forge them if you have to (not legal advice). Ideally he has a trust, or you settle one for him, move his assets into the trust, then remove him as trustee. Physicallytake his checkbook and credit cards if necessary. Driving is a big one, you may have to take his keys and/or sell the car.
Will he accept help in the house?
The conservator process is terrible and dehumanizing. You'll have to get up in front of a judge with your dad there and describe all the demented shit he does. This is a very ugly process, avoid except as a last result. |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 12:47 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band This is good advice. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49554098) |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 1:37 PM Author: Lascivious chartreuse place of business (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49554213) |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 12:57 PM Author: electric hominid striped hyena (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49554116) |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 1:45 PM Author: Bright Point (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49554233) |
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Date: January 3rd, 2026 8:49 AM Author: Salivary Stoned (xoentlaw@gmail.com) Really appreciate it. Any chance we can set time to briefly discuss? Being referred to a lawyer soon but would like to chat it through a bit.
It's pretty bad tbh - he refuses to admit he has a problem. Have been dealing with this for a while so me and my aunt have some safeguards in place (nurse 2 x a week, aunt has visibility over his bank accounts and has been helping coordinate his medical care for years)...but at a point where that's not enough. Unfortunately (and I love him dearly), my demented dad loves his psychotic scamming gf. So I'm going to have to extract him from her, and ideally get her arrested.
Anyway, appreciate the note. And thanks to OldHLSDude for being OldHLSDude. |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 9:26 AM Author: Pink Talented Abode Liquid Oxygen My net worth is around $800k liquid, all in index funds. How can I use this money to get rich? I’m a software engineer who’s lazy and hates working. Thanks. Thank. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49553811) |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 12:50 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band Time is your friend. If you keep it in the market and we avoid global catastrophe it will compound and grow. Index funds are great. I don't know of any way to get rich more quickly except by taking more risk. $800K is a decent nut. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49554106) |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 1:31 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band I am going out to plow snow. Hope I didn't miss responding to anybody reasonable. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49554193) |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 1:32 PM Author: cobalt titillating garrison wagecucks Boomers suck. Thanks for flooding the country with third world immigrants and doing everything to destroy the country. Glad your retirement funds are doing well you bald faggot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49554197) |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 1:34 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band The xo mythos rolls on. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49554206) |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 1:36 PM Author: cobalt titillating garrison wagecucks Thanks for raping the economy for your cushy retirement you stupid nigger (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49554208) |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:19 PM Author: Lemon business firm rigpig (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49554921) |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:31 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band You're welcome. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49554956) |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 1:45 PM Author: Bright Point (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49554234) |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 1:46 PM Author: Bright Point Boomers built America you ungrateful loser. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49554236) |
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Date: January 2nd, 2026 4:57 PM Author: Vigorous Roommate Hell boomers aren't to blame for that, democrats are boomers are to blame because they vote for democrats in order to protect ss, medicaid, and other bullshit for olds |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:28 PM Author: Lemon business firm rigpig My wife is a full blown alcoholic and addicted to marijuana at 35. We have absolutely nothing in common. What should I do the rest of my life? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49554947) |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:32 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band Goomar? Divorce? Work 24/7? Killself? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49554960) |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:43 PM Author: Lemon business firm rigpig Our daughter is only 13 months old and I don't want to ruin her life by leaving my wife. Do you think buying a 2nd home, like a unit in Kangaroo Point, is a smart idea? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49555000) |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 10:36 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band If you use it I guess. No idea what kangaroo point is. Sounds jumping. Seriously, addiction is not a good indicator of a happy future. Be good to get her into treatment. Making a big change like a second home may not be a great idea if there is lot of relationship stress. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49555483) |
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Date: January 2nd, 2026 2:07 AM Author: Lemon business firm rigpig I feel like an apartment in Kangaroo Point can salvage some of the difficulty living together. I think I have to accept she's not going to change if she's still hooked on substances at 35. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49555751) |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 6:52 PM Author: maniacal halford How do you know when you’ve maed it? Four kids? Walk with faith and acceptance of God’s grace and try to do the best you can? Married for decades? 4+ bedroom house? $2.2m net worth? Reconciliation with long estranged parents? “Making partner” at the law firm? Criticizing RSF in his silly travelshrewlogues? What's the “it” sauce that lets a man know he’s arrived? |
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Date: January 2nd, 2026 2:28 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band As RLS said, it’s better to travel hopefully than to arrive. I think making it means impacting others positively as you move along to our shared final destination. How many people love, or at least like (tolerate?) you is a better measure than how much is in the till. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49556667) |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 9:41 PM Author: embarrassed to the bone area Thank you for doing these threads and for your contributions to the board. I only knew a single grandparent, and for a relatively short period, and it's nice to read the thoughts of a remarkably clear-thinking person, especially from an older generation. Wishing you and your family all the best in the new year. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49555382) |
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Date: January 1st, 2026 10:40 PM Author: Vibrant Sable Meetinghouse Elastic Band tyft (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49555488) |
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Date: January 2nd, 2026 2:07 PM Author: Apoplectic psychic (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49556624) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 1:41 AM Author: Quality Learing Center alumnus (β π) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49563229) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 2:20 AM Author: Fyre festival founder (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49563243) |
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Date: January 3rd, 2026 1:15 AM Author: Christoph Waltz stare (πΎπ£) oddest superstition you believed back in the day that you still kind of think might be true? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49558075) |
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Date: January 3rd, 2026 9:55 AM Author: OldHLSDude I suppose it would be my theory of conservation of misery. If something good happens it will be followed by something bad and vice versa. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49558390) |
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Date: January 3rd, 2026 11:28 AM Author: Christoph Waltz stare (πΎπ£) you must be Scottish (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49558725) |
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Date: January 3rd, 2026 11:42 AM Author: OldHLSDude Some of my ancestors were. Scotland, Ireland, Wales, England. Came over starting in the early 17th century. 1630 is the earliest one I know of. Edit: Do you know the definition of a Yorshireman? He's a Scotsman with all the generosity squeezed out of him. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49558789) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 1:13 AM Author: American POTUS Are you still active on ham radio? Any chance of arranging a qso? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49563213) |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 9:59 AM Author: OldHLSDude Sure! We're about to go to AZ for the winter, but I can operate the rig here remotely. Also have a setup in AZ but the antenna is stealthy and not great. Email me at moniker at gmail and we can set it up. Will have to be after 1/12. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2Reputation#49563563) |