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I was horrible at baseball, stuck in RF until I focused on sports I was better at. My main regret was not playing basketball as that's one of the few sports you can get a pick up game to now. I'm going to let my kid know that.

That's terrible Greg. I'm so sorry.

Sure is nice to have Anderson forcing the issue.

I should add that what makes me upset about the attitude of "I just worked hard to compensate so you should work hard to compensate" is the things we are talking about (tuition, housing costs) are affected by policy. And if people view any attempts to improve them as just accommodating whiners, things are only going to get worse, and the amount of money being sucked up into unproductive places like land and administrative university costs, will affect growth in your industries.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ May 26, 2016 -> 10:07 PM) I never said I was anything special. I get tired of the loudest voices coming from those who expect to have things handed to them. I don't think studying for interviews is a unique or novel idea. I feel like it's a requirement. I am shocked at how many people don't do that. My point also remains that these kids just keep staying in college longer with no real purpose and act like the people graduating the last 15 years didn't also have student loan debt. It's very confusing. The government only just started tracking time to graduate, but I would bet large sums it has not shifted a significant amount since you went to college. But you know what has? Tuition. A student entering Missouri now, where I went from 05-09, will have an additional 20k in debt than I had. That was probably the entirety of student debt that someone paid from 90-00, and that's just in addition to MY debt (though I had a scholarship). This thread just seems rife with a lot of examples of cognitive biases, like confirmation bias and fundamental attribution error, to anecdotal evidence. Things I learned in my courses without a purpose. We had generation coming into the workforce into largely a middling economy with suppressed wages, more student debt than any previous generation by a lot, high rental costs in the most productive parts of the country, yet smoked less, drink less, have less sex, are better educated than the previous generation...and live at home in larger numbers. And the answer is that they are coddled, and didn't work at mcdonalds to pay off their college (my minimum wage job as a dishwasher could barely pay my rent in a college town with 3 roommates). For the record, I've only interviewed probably 25-30 recent graduates for entry level positions, and my experience has been the opposite. I've been impressed by how many had intern experience in college, participation in professional meetups and events and handled themselves in interviews. I do wonder from my experiences whether the drop in employment for 16-20 year olds in traditional places like restaurants has hurt their customer service abilities. It's a decent hypothesis , I've only worked with 3-4 people who had trouble in those situations, and I'm not going to draw broad conclusions based on those. In general, this generation checks all the boxes of success. High labor participation, well-educated, lowest rate of teen pregnancy, drugs, and is getting married later to start their careers. SO I have a hard time believing that they are a bunch of coddled babies who can't do anything for themselves. It's equally likely that you are just older and crankier, or run into terrible people at a higher rate. Our company is having a more difficult time finding great candidates. It's because we are at full employment in our demo, not because the generation involved.

QUOTE (illinilaw08 @ May 26, 2016 -> 04:40 PM) Alpha - cost of education is significantly higher now than it was even a decade ago. When I was in law school (and tuition was a lot less than it is now), I worked at law firms in Champaign during the school year (and in the summer), had a scholarship that covered half my tuition, lived in crappy houses with a bunch of other dudes paying minimal rent, and still exited school with an amount of debt that I will call a "crapload." I was fortunate enough to not have any undergrad debt, but my law school debt is basically a second mortgage, and it's a second mortgage because of the astronomic cost of education - an issue that my parent's generation didn't have to deal with... Here's a good macro report of this, including tuition. https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/fi...ials_report.pdf Money quote: This cyclical relationship also holds at the state level: states with the largest increases in the unemployment rate relative to their averages before the Great Recession registered the largest declines in headship rates on average. With parents helping their children in times of labor market adversity, the majority of young adults living at home report that their own financial situation has improved.59

QUOTE (Nixon @ May 26, 2016 -> 10:37 AM) I expect there to be a very high body count as they clear the payroll for the next two seasons' fx budget. RIP House Tyrell, High Sparrow, and anyone not named Jaime or Cersei is pretty much what I expect. I think Tyrells for sure as I imagine Margaery is getting more expensive to keep.

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 26, 2016 -> 03:45 PM) The person that wrote that on here did work harder than everybody else. And he hired six millenials who were prepared for their interviews and also WORKED HARD. Maybe the participation trophies aren't so smart after all. Why write a post like this? If you work hard you SHOULD be rewarded more than those freeloading. The people that tend to scream at how hard they work tend to be those incredibly out of touch with the efforts of those around them. Not surprised you are drawn to that.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 26, 2016 -> 02:39 PM) I don't think there was a separate thread for it, but a few months ago, Gawker lost a huge case against Hulk Hogan and was ordered to pay him $150M in damages for releasing a sex tape without his authorization. The New York Times had a story yesterday revealing that this case was the culmination of an almost decade-long war against Gawker by tech billionaire Peter Theil. Theil threatened to 'destroy' Gawker in 2006 if they revealed that he was gay; they did so in 2007. Since then, Thiel has spent millions of dollars scouring the country to find and fund lawsuits against Gawker with the sole intention of destroying them. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/26/business...p-news&_r=0 Merits of Gawker and that specific case and award aside, it's pretty troubling if we can have billionaires use the court system to wage personal wars to shut down media companies. Honestly was more shocked that I apparently completely missed that Thiel funded James O'Keefe.

I work harder than everyone else so everyone else should be PUNISHED! Everyone else probably had it EASY to get where they were, unlike me.

If nothing else, I feel like Anderson is the type of player that will finally take advantage of soft throwing lefties by just getting out there and swinging.

QUOTE (kevo880 @ May 26, 2016 -> 12:33 PM) I can totally understand people living with their parents initially after graduating high school or college. I didn't have a job lined up when I graduated college so the plan was to live with my parents until I found something and saved a little money. I'm from a really small town and ended up being bored to death. After about a month I moved to Denver, where my sister lived at the time, and took a sales job at a car dealership to pay for my living. Hated that and ended up leaving about 6 month later. Waited tables at Red Lobster until I finally started using my degree about 2 years after I graduated. If my parents had lived in a more urban area I definitely would have stayed with them so I wasn't constantly struggling to pay my bills. To be honest though, I appreciate what I have so much more now than I'm sure a lot of my friends that lived with their parents throughout most of their 20's. I wouldn't consider myself extremely frugal, but I think it has caused me to spend my money much more wisely than I would have if my 20's wouldn't have been a financial struggle. I'm fairly certain living on my own after college and struggling prevented me from racking up some of the CC debt I see some of my friends fight.

I think we had that, but especially in AP classes, the focus was on getting us credit.

QUOTE (Nixon @ May 26, 2016 -> 10:46 AM) I'll jump in on the next round. I just started re-reading Red Harvest, but this'll be my next one more than likely if you're open to suggestions. http://www.amazon.com/Ostend-Stefan-Joseph...ooks&sr=1-2 Is it just a bunch of letters back and forth?

I never lived at home either. But we did have a moment where we considered moving home for a year to save up for our house. And had we ever lost our jobs, we definitely were moving into the house.

Just a reminder that the modern generation has overcome basically every major actual deficient behavior yours did, to the point that you are now complaining that their main problem is they aren't loading up on debt to buy a house sooner: http://www.vox.com/a/teens

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ May 26, 2016 -> 01:09 AM) It's not losing Noah but that free agents aren't going to want to play for this front office even more then before and some of the other players are going to want out. Correct. You don't want your face of the franchise leaving and trashing the org.

Yuck that is awful.

They are indeed awesome. I think I'd rather just splurge on a coozy. In the future, they will be great for camping if they ever cut down their price or become so popular they are stolen less.

Cool. Well feel free to weigh in on any of the discussion anyway. Glad to hear its interesting. Caulfield - if you could do that to all of your posts that would be appreciated.

QUOTE (Ezio Auditore @ May 25, 2016 -> 09:41 AM) Yeah, I'm not really gonna be one of those hater fans. If OKC pulls this out and then actually wins in the Finals, that's much more worth talking about than about GS losing. But that's just kind of what the modern sports fan does, I guess. Plus it will shut up all of the idiotic Westbrook hate.

Would any mod with access mind adding the date for round 1? I keep googling and getting disappointed how far away it is

I'm absolutely shocked at the OKC run, more of this is about them than GS right now. This is what we all thought about OKC but never ended up getting to see post Harden.

Doing all of that offensively in Birmingham is super impressive.

Very frustrating update - this only applies to the places zoned for dense development: http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac...snap-story.html