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a year ago
Londonguy: it’s the aging of the population that’s a bigger issue than the shrinking of the population. For thousands of years, age distribution looked like a pyramid with lots of working age people and very few old people at the top of the pyramid.
We already have countries where the age distribution looks like an upside down pyramid. There are more people age 60-80 than 20-40. And, even fewer children 0-20.
That’s a problem. No society has dealt with that before and we don’t know if an economy can function with more retirees than workers.
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a year ago
A place I’ve wanted to try is St Maartens in the Caribbean. It’s a Dutch colony. English speaking. Some great resorts, great beaches, and several upscale FS clubs. Reasonable prices.
I met a 10 in a Prague club years ago. She said she spent summers in Prague and winters in St Maarten. Ever since then, St Maartens has been in my radar.
I’m pretty sure you could fly there, have a great resort, days on the beach, nights in the club, for $5,000 to $10,000.
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a year ago
The HiLiter whale I remember was at least 300 pounds and looked like he got his wardrobe at KMart. He would walk in and have 5 dancers on him instantly. That lasted a few months then I never saw him again.
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a year ago
This post made me realize there was a time when the strippers’ handshake ( rubbing your Dick ) was the universal sign that a dance would be high contact. In more recent times, that seldom happens. I think that change coincides with a drop off in high mileage clubs in Phoenix. Fun can still be had but it’s not as common, or public, as it once was in these parts.
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a year ago
Bad news all the way round. Thanks for posting.
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a year ago
Just wait until government mandates a cashless society so there is a digital record of every transaction. Those proposals are being considered.
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a year ago
Most multi millionaires got there by a combination of hard work over a period of many years, combined with being careful how they spent their money.
This category represents a lot of people who have the wealth to be whales but would never spend money excessively. It’s just not in their nature. More likely, they’ll spend $300-$600 but never $10,000 no matter how rich they are.
There are places in the world where you could have non stop sex with a genuine 10 for 2weeks in a tropical paradise for $10,000. I’d consider doing that. But, $10,000 for one night in the back room of a local strip club. That’s insane.
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a year ago
Speaking of whales
“Davis asked Charles Barkley about his two-year break from gambling, and Barkley shed some light on just how bad it got. Barkley projected that he had lost a million dollars on 30 separate occasions.
"I went to Vegas a bunch of times and won a million dollars. Probably 10 times. But I've also went to Vegas and lost a million probably three times as much," Barkley said.”
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a year ago
The birth rate is so low that, without immigration, the US will have the demographic of a nursing home in 40 years.
The solution is to stop illegal immigration and be selective in who we bring in. Engineers. Entrepreneurs with capital. Young people. English speakers. People who are willing to embrace a culture of family and hard work.
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a year ago
I’ve seen what happens when a true whale is in the club. The dancers immediately gather around him as though no other customers were there.
A lot of them look like they couldn’t hold down a job, let alone become wealthy. Lottery winners ? Spending an inheritance ? I’ve wondered.
I haven’t seen that for some time, maybe because I’m a daytime customer.
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a year ago
I lived in LA in the 70s. Property within a mile of the beach was affordable. The air was incredibly polluted. It was a young population. Lots of drugs. Car culture.
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a year ago
In the 80s, Phoenix felt like a western town. No freeways. Businessmen wore bolo ties. The culture was optimistic libertarian. Anything was possible. Barry Goldwater was the most famous Arizonan.
Now, we are a large LA suburb.
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a year ago
There’s a video of Desantis in a town hall. Not only is he boring, in every answer he talks about Florida. He really doesn’t understand national or international policy.
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a year ago
The billionaires who were funding Desantis have now focused their attention on Nikki Haley.
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a year ago
There’s an old joke with punchline “ I spent thousands on whisky and loose women. I wasted the rest”.
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a year ago
Like any habit, or addiction, the only question is whether your actions are having a negative affect on your life. If you can easily afford it, and your actions aren’t harming those close to you, it’s not a problem.
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a year ago
Why do women strip ?
Some have low self esteem. Daddy didn’t treat them right. Stripping makes them feel desirable and in control.
I know that’s a stereotype, but stereotypes usually have some factual basis.
Saying “no” to them threatens them at a deep, psychological level. So, they decide that anyone who rejects them is cheap because the other possibility, that they aren’t desirable, is too threatening.
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a year ago
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gammanu95My casual drinking is your alcohol poisoning.
Elon is a proponent of nuclear. If we started building new nuclear plants NOW, we’d be fine. I don’t think that’s going to happen.
My guess is that some states ( California ) will be SOL by 2035. They are delusional that wind turbines will meet LA’s needs, they shut down nuclear and gas plants.
As an Arizonan, I’d like to see us build a shit load of Nuke plants on the California border, then charge them out the ass for electricity when they run out.
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a year ago
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gammanu95My casual drinking is your alcohol poisoning.
Elon says we’ll need 3 times as much electricity in 10 or 15 years, as electric cars and heat pumps replace fossil fuel. That’s a tall order. Solar and wind won’t be enough. Neither will our existing transmission lines and transformers.
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a year ago
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motorheadFat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life
I’ve reached a point where I don’t believe any self identified broadcast or print journalists. I get my news from individuals who I’ve learned to trust based on their reporting over the years. These days, most of them post on Twitter.
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a year ago
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gammanu95My casual drinking is your alcohol poisoning.
It takes 10 years to develop a new oil field. Maybe 20.
Now that consensus is that BEVs are the future, it would be stupid to put billions into a new field. Or, a new refinery, for that matter.
Let’s hope BEVs can really replace ICE vehicles. If not, we’ll be screwed in 15 years. No gas.
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a year ago
In my opinion, most successful dancers are attractive, personable, confident, have good social skills, and hustle. That why I think the best strippers could be successful in any type of sales job.
Unfortunately, that’s only about 10% of the dancers at most clubs. At the high end clubs, it might be more like 80%.
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a year ago
Maybe they don’t own a mirror.
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a year ago
Bill Burr does a good routine on gold digging whores. He says someone like Tiger Woods, who had sex with only a dozen out of a possible 80,000 women chasing home, is relatively faithful.
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a year ago
I get the impression that many dancers assume the only reason a customer would say no to them, or cut the dances short, is because they are cheap. I can think of other reasons.