Comments by From978 (page 4)

Surveys don't measure stupid but they do ask about education. Not going to college is a very good predictor of being a Trump voter.

It's all Joe Biden's fault. Unemployment for young women is at record low levels, and immigration is a lot harder than it was in the good old days. Women work in strip clubs because they don't have a better alternative. With fewer people blocked from legal employment, what we have left in strip clubs is the bottom of the barrel.

King Arthur's in Chelsea MA. Chelsea is an immigrant-friendly city, and KA was the first stop for a lot of Brazilians looking for work. There were approximately zero extras inside the club, but I got some pretty memorable OTC offers, including one I won by betting on a soccer game.

If you like the dancer, "ruining it for everybody else" is kind of the point. She'll dump you and come sit with (or on) me. A zero tip from me means "I definitely don't want to see you again.". 20 to 40% means "think of me as a customer," and more than that means I'm interested in moving past the customer zone.

It's over on the right of the line below the title

You're probably not going to read a headline that says, "Guy goes broke following advice from AI chatbot.". That's not because it never happens; it's because it usually happens. If you base your view of the world entirely on "news," you're going to overestimate the rate of surprising events. The classic example is crime, but getting rich quick is similarly biased.

I gotta say, "went did not expect much and got so" strikes me as a pretty good review. Succinct, funny, gives the essence.

I'm with Jimmy. It depends on the club. One Providence club gets reviewed every two or three days. The parking lot and interior layout haven't changed in recent memory. One reviewer solves this by saying "skip down to New Information," which is helpful. But I would be fine if most of the reviews omitted the boilerplate entirely. Under the new site design, anybody reading your review has unlimited access, and probably should be reading more than one review anyway. For clubs like these, I definitely approve reviews that prioritize new information. On the other hand, there are clubs that nobody reviews. If you're reporting on one of these, sure, tell us everything. For clubs in either group, what I most look for is vibe and atmosphere. These are a lot harder to characterize than floor plans, and they have a subjective element, so your review is more likely to make a real contribution.

Yeah. I have been noticing a lot more of these under the new format. (Or maybe I'm just becoming even more of a curmudgeon.)

@CJ:. who is this "Google" of whom you speak? And where did he get the idea that "leftist propaganda" would be giving travel advice?

The haughty American nation ... makes the Negro clean its boots and then proves the moral and physical inferiority of the Negro by the fact that he is a bootblack. (G B Shaw)

ATAC dawg says his system has never let him down. I say he's not taking nearly enough risks. My theory is that I learn half of everything I'm ever going to learn about somebody in the first 15 seconds. If she makes a good first impression, I'll spend enough to find out the other half.

I also had trouble getting to the reviews. First it asked me to log in, then it said I needed to be VIP. So I wrote a review offline, and logged in again. I went to the club page to submit the review, and was asked to log in again. I did that, filled out the review, clicked submit, and confirmed on the "are you sure" button. The response was, "There was a problem submitting your review." Given that it's a free site, Founder can run it any way he likes, but I suspect this wasn't intentional.

I deliberately randomize my wallet because my wife treats it as an ATM, and I'm hoping it's harder to notice fluctuations that way.

I like almost everything, especially the response speed, but at my age I have slightly impaired vision. The small font used for reviews and discussions is nearly unreadable for me.

I did. It was a long time ago. I can't remember the best trades, but I absolutely remember a lot of the worst ones. They all started with me paying a few hundred dollars and getting back zero. I understand that that's how options work, but in my experience there were about enough winners to cover the losers. I couldn't see the point of taking on extra risk just to break even, and as a statistician I was pretty sure I wouldn't beat the house in the long run. It's a perfectly reasonable form of entertainment, but it's not an investment strategy for money you need.

Everybody seems to be assuming "criminals" and strip clubs are on separate teams. Without being too specific, I'm pretty sure a lot of clubs have access to Tony Soprano's style of law enforcement. I certainly wouldn't rob one.

What the manager meant was, "I can lie to you, and there's absolutely nothing you can do about it." Let us know if he runs for Congress next year.

I would absolutely drive a half hour or more to avoid a club where I might meet someone I know. Most dancers I know follow the same strategy.

A little more than a mile off I 80, but worth the detour: There's a stretch of I 80 in Pennsylvania that used to be marked by a sign reading, "No services next 87 miles.". Lewisburg is about 8 miles south of the highway in the middle of that section. When I was at the US Prison in Lewisburg (don't ask) I discovered Country Cupboard, a nice hotel attached to an Amish restaurant. Simple food well prepared. On the eastern end of Indiana is Shipshewana, which is Mennonite, rather than Amish, but again simple food made well. You will not be surprised to learn that the Amish and Mennonites are not big fans of strip clubs, at least in their own neighborhoods.

Back in the days when computers were powered by steam engines (maybe 1972) my roommate worked for a company that sold route mapping software to trucking companies. The maps were stored in the form of connected city pairs, with time and distance for each pair. They noticed that every route in the eastern United States want through Aardmore Pennsylvania. It turns out there are two Aardmores in Pennsylvania. The trucks would go into the one on the eastern end of the state, get a 218 mile free ride to the other Aardmore, and come out on the west side.

And, in today's Onion: https://www.theonion.com/police-team-building-scavenger-hunt-challenges-officers-1849797280

When Google profiles me (and I'm sure they do) I don't get shot or stopped in the street.

For the record, in this case I agree with Skibum. Medeiros still might win, however, unless the police department is prepared to admit that the real problem was that Medeiros was behind on his graft payments.

@Ski:. You win