Comments by From978 (page 5)

@Ski:. You win

Well, my point is that nobody is actually regulating the sex. I think if Mike Pence could somehow get a job with the licensing board, the headline would not be, "Strip Clubs Deregulated."

Hi, Skibum. Am I understanding you to say that progressives are over-regulating Providence clubs with regard to violence? I assume the anti-progressives would say they were being under-regulated with regard to sex.

"I have made this longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter." Blaise Pascal, 1657

What I don't understand about today's market buying panic (up 5% as I write) is that it's entirely in response to something that happened 12 months ago. Month-to-month, October 2022 looks exactly like September 2022, but because prices jumped a lot in 2021, the headline number of year-to-year inflation looks a lot better now than it did before. I would sell this market today, except that people can be even crazier tomorrow.

Lots of math problems have more than one solution. (X squared equals 4 has two, for example.). The first one I thought of was A(B+1), which gives 96, but that certainly doesn't prove that 40 is wrong. If you can explain how you got some other answer, it also is a solution.

According to the betting markets at this point, Trump has a better chance of being a candidate in 2024 than Biden has. (You can buy a dollar's worth of Trump for 42 cants. Biden as candidate is selling for 30 cents on the dollar.)

$20 at the door, $24 + tip at the bar, and $50 worth of lap dances. How did you manage to spend $300 to $500?

What I gather from reading this discussion is that it's getting really hard to distinguish between Republicans and crazy people.

I can think of a couple, but I don't think they did it on purpose.

What you mean "best"? And, for that matter, what do you mean by "northeast"?

Mrs. Kraft is obviously hoping to be his widow.

My considered answer is that it beats the hell outta me, and I'm investing accordingly

Cabaret in Peabody Massachusetts. I haven't been to one in years. The amateurs are dancers from other clubs, plus maybe an actual amateur who shows up by mistake.

Despite the complaints that the review is light on details, she nailed it. She says in two sentences what it took me twenty years to learn.

On my map, the airport is 15 - 20 minutes south of where the clubs are. The clubs are generally about 5 minutes from one another. Just start somewhere, and if you don't like it, go somewhere else. This won't work with Mickey's, which is practically in Massachusetts. There's a non-zero chance you would have a great time there, but there's a bigger chance that you'll spend your whole evening in travel and not come home with a story to tell.

Somewhere between one and four million dollars

I know we have experienced divorce lawyers who are frequent contributors here. I'm assuming there's a professional reason none of them have commented. Don't do anything until you've talked to one of them, even if there's a fee involved.

I agree with George; she's in the uncanny valley. Too human to ignore, but not human enough to relate to.

I just remembered that Woody Allen already made this movie. Mighty Aphrodite (1995).

(1). At the start of the story, she has no guarantee that you're not the Tampa Police Department (2). At the end of the story, the "friend" could have been another guy who thought he had an exclusive deal.

Here's a complete guess. Imagine you're selling your old car, and you have no idea what it's worth. You offer it to the first buyer at $2500, and he says, "Yippy! You got a deal!". At that point it's obvious that you got the price point wrong. You should walk away and ask the next buyer for $4500. She's been on the job for two days. The price for what you wanted was probably not explained in the HR orientation briefing, and she guessed wrong.

So far this year, these separations have been running 1.2 to 1.4 million per month with, as I say, no particular trend. I see my mistake: when I asked for "a number" I should have specified "relevant number". In an economy this size, there are always going to be firms adding and subtracting workers. If you think there's something special going on in IT, in January there were 84,000, and in June 38,000. If you want to claim something unusual is happening, you can't generally prove it by listing examples of things that happen all the time

Aside from anecdotes, I see no evidence of trends in layoffs and involuntary separations. Show me a number before you speculate about either cause or effect. (I'm looking at the JOLTS series in the St Louis Fed.)

The premise here is that you're limited to one club "in the country," which a lot of us have rejected. I'm having trouble imagining why one would spend unlimited funds on a person he intends never to see again. I once had an offer of a year's unlimited exclusive OTC if I paid off a $14,000 debt. Admittedly, this was back in the days when $14,000 was a lot of money, but still, "unlimited" should get you a pretty interesting deal. One of the few things I've learned is that money can definitely buy happiness, but not if you spend it on yourself.