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[sdrealtor]

She got into great schools like UCI, Cal poly SLO, almost NYU Tisch (waitlist with acceptance rates lower than Ivy’s for her interests) but flat out rejected at SDSU. Right now there is a big push to grow CSU San Marcos. They want the kids from the top school districts there instead of SDSU to help build its rep. If you live north of 56 in SD county they try to push you there now. She didn’t want to go there, I just told her to apply to have as many good options open as she could. Was told what is happening so not unexpected.

[scaredyclassic]

My little one got rejected by SDSU, accepted UCSB. I was crushed. Big money difference for upper middle class doofuses like me.

At least the other 2 avoided the UC tuition.

Such fucking BULLSHIT that UC tuition is painful for a dude like me. It’s enough to make a guy Republican (if the Republicans weren’t such a bunch of morons). however, if the dems forgive student loans to prop up a corrupt system, after i scraped to pay cash, well then, all bets are off. I’d vote for trump.

I really should stop bitching. I think we’re in the top 5-10 percent or so in the usa. Still feels like a complete life fuckup. i mean, top 10% against all comers? including homeless guys, farmhands, fast food workers… Jesus. that’s ridiculous. I’m really in the bottom 10% for my peers, which is really what matters, psychologically, right?

is it only in america where a guy can live in a million plus dollar mansion and have some money and still feel like a total and utter failure? it could all fall apart so easily, is the thing, when you’re not actually rich. the only thing a bit of success buys you is a little buffer against destitution. and some status. which apparently is very important for health.

the research is pretty interesting on this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitehall_Study

it’s called the Whitehall effect.

higher status males in the uk outlived their similarly situated low status peers, after controlling for variables. status and being a winner literally makes you live longer. probably flyer will live to 135. and then–not many people know this–but when you get to heaven, it’s not like all one neighborhood. there’s nicer parts and totally shitty spots and the losers on earth are still the losers in Heaven, nothing changes, and if you think life on earth isn’t fair, and heaven will be “fairer” well, who do you think set up the rules, Bozo?

How bad is the crap real estate in heaven? Like, locations so bad, you can technically call it “heaven”, but you’re basically bordering the best neighborhood in hell, and all your friends will know you’re a loser when you give them the coordinates.

. flyer will be in the best fucking location, real estate heaven in heaven, absolutely beautiful southern exposure to the Lord, near decently famously angels, etc.

I’ll be in some shitty shack in bumfuck heaven, near a bunch of cutrate section 666 housing, and the lowest grade dirtbag angels ever who basically sing off key and hassle you for drinking money. you can just barely feel the radiating presence of the Lord, barely. surrounded by turd angels the Lord never invites to any fucking gathering.

it just sucks so bad you might as well go to Hell.

[XBoxBoy]

[quote=scaredyclassic]it just sucks so bad you might as well go to Hell.[/quote]

Hell’s probably more fun.

[Coronita]

[quote=scaredyclassic][quote=flyer]Youngest son loved UCSD. He felt he found exactly what he was looking for close to home. Other kids attended elsewhere–daughter, Harvard, eldest son, USC.

You younger parents out there will find, as my wife and I have found, that watching your kids reach for and achieve their dreams is more fulfilling than most anything else you will experience in life, and that all of the work you and they put in is definitely worth it.[/quote]

The truth is, if you can’t pay cash for tuition comfortably, and you or your kid go into debt for a name school, you’re a dumbass. Obviously tuition is pocket change for flyer. But I wouldn’t even let my kids apply to an ivy for fear they’d get in.[/quote]

Interesting. I’m in an interesting predicament… For the longest time, I thought that it was important for my kid to get into the “best” college they could possibly get into and because of that I had financially planned for the worst case scenario: admission to one of these pedigree Ivy League schools, no financial aid… And so I’ve set aside 4 years of undergrad + 2 years of grad school tuition+room and board for that purpose in a 529k college savings plan and am pretty much ready 3 years early.

But here’s the wrinkle…I’ve talked to my kid about this, and despite me saying repeatedly to “aim for the stars”, you know what response I got?

I am aiming for the stars, “I don’t want to participate in a Donald Trump-like white privilege game, where the “best” is a name that can be easily bought by white privileged family for incompetent kids that can’t make it by themselves….”

I was shocked, and I was like “you can’t think that way”… And she was like, but it’s true…Look how dumb Donald Trump is and dumb George Bush is, and they got into those Ivy League schools. And look at all the hoops that Asian kids have to jump through. Why would you want to spend money to participate in this White Privilege game? We’re not white, we’re Asian, we should play our own games.

I swear I had nothing to do with this. You know how asian parents are. Always wanting their kids to get into the pedigree colleges…I mean, honestly, I don’t really care where my kid ends up going since based on my experience, having an Ivy League degree in engineering doesn’t really matter versus any state school… In fact I don’t see many people throughout the 20+years of my career with such a pedigree degree and the ones that had one, a lot of them suck in what they do. With the exception of Cornell Engineering, Ivy League schools aren’t known for their engineering programs and state school with their large corporate endowments prepare their students way better than Ivy Leagues. So with the exception of maybe MIT, CalTech, Harvey Mudd, and Stanford Engineering (who has some really bright kids), you’re just spending money on a brand that frankly in tech doesn’t make that much of a difference.

Also, to my kids point, Ivy Leagues do disproportionately punish asian american kids with those admissions quotas. So my kid did make me think about it and say, do I really want to support a system that supports this. I mean I would boycott a business that does this, why would I want to support a school that does this.

So I think the conclusion is, I’m going to ask my kid to apply to an ivy league school(s) anyway…And if my kid gets in with a full ride/scholarship , great…But otherwise, I’m not going to spend a dime more than what I would spend on a good public school to support this system.

[scaredyclassic]

why is no one selling real estate in heaven?

Maybe I should get into this huge opportunity on the ground floor.

Televangelist Jim Bakker Is Now Selling Real Estate In Heaven!

problem is once people buy they tend to really stay. hard to get churn.

[scaredyclassic]

[quote=Coronita][quote=scaredyclassic][quote=flyer]Youngest son loved UCSD. He felt he found exactly what he was looking for close to home. Other kids attended elsewhere–daughter, Harvard, eldest son, USC.

You younger parents out there will find, as my wife and I have found, that watching your kids reach for and achieve their dreams is more fulfilling than most anything else you will experience in life, and that all of the work you and they put in is definitely worth it.[/quote]

The truth is, if you can’t pay cash for tuition comfortably, and you or your kid go into debt for a name school, you’re a dumbass. Obviously tuition is pocket change for flyer. But I wouldn’t even let my kids apply to an ivy for fear they’d get in.[/quote]

Interesting. I’m in an interesting predicament… For the longest time, I thought that it was important for my kid to get into the “best” college they could possibly get into and because of that I had financially planned for the worst case scenario: admission to one of these pedigree Ivy League schools, no financial aid… And so I’ve set aside 4 years of undergrad + 2 years of grad school tuition+room and board for that purpose in a 529k college savings plan and am pretty much ready 3 years early.

But here’s the wrinkle…I’ve talked to my kid about this, and despite me saying repeatedly to “aim for the stars”, you know what response I got?

I am aiming for the stars, “I don’t want to participate in a Donald Trump-like white privilege game, where the “best” is a name that can be easily bought by white privileged family for incompetent kids that can’t make it by themselves….”

I was shocked, and I was like “you can’t think that way”… And she was like, but it’s true…Look how dumb Donald Trump is and dumb George Bush is, and they got into those Ivy League schools. And look at all the hoops that Asian kids have to jump through. Why would you want to spend money to participate in this White Privilege game? We’re not white, we’re Asian, we should play our own games.

I swear I had nothing to do with this. You know how asian parents are. Always wanting their kids to get into the pedigree colleges…I mean, honestly, I don’t really care where my kid ends up going since based on my experience, having an Ivy League degree in engineering doesn’t really matter versus any state school… In fact I don’t see many people throughout the 20+years of my career with such a pedigree degree and the ones that had one, a lot of them suck in what they do. With the exception of Cornell Engineering, Ivy League schools aren’t known for their engineering programs and state school with their large corporate endowments prepare their students way better than Ivy Leagues. So with the exception of maybe MIT, CalTech, Harvey Mudd, and Stanford Engineering (who has some really bright kids), you’re just spending money on a brand that frankly in tech doesn’t make that much of a difference.

Also, to my kids point, Ivy Leagues do disproportionately punish asian american kids with those admissions quotas. So my kid did make me think about it and say, do I really want to support a system that supports this. I mean I would boycott a business that does this, why would I want to support a school that does this.

So I think the conclusion is, I’m going to ask my kid to apply to an ivy league school(s) anyway…And if my kid gets in with a full ride/scholarship , great…But otherwise, I’m not going to spend a dime more than what I would spend on a good public school to support this system.[/quote]

VIVA LA REVOLUCION!

[Coronita]

[quote=scaredyclassic][quote=Coronita][quote=scaredyclassic][quote=flyer]Youngest son loved UCSD. He felt he found exactly what he was looking for close to home. Other kids attended elsewhere–daughter, Harvard, eldest son, USC.

You younger parents out there will find, as my wife and I have found, that watching your kids reach for and achieve their dreams is more fulfilling than most anything else you will experience in life, and that all of the work you and they put in is definitely worth it.[/quote]

The truth is, if you can’t pay cash for tuition comfortably, and you or your kid go into debt for a name school, you’re a dumbass. Obviously tuition is pocket change for flyer. But I wouldn’t even let my kids apply to an ivy for fear they’d get in.[/quote]

Interesting. I’m in an interesting predicament… For the longest time, I thought that it was important for my kid to get into the “best” college they could possibly get into and because of that I had financially planned for the worst case scenario: admission to one of these pedigree Ivy League schools, no financial aid… And so I’ve set aside 4 years of undergrad + 2 years of grad school tuition+room and board for that purpose in a 529k college savings plan and am pretty much ready 3 years early.

But here’s the wrinkle…I’ve talked to my kid about this, and despite me saying repeatedly to “aim for the stars”, you know what response I got?

I am aiming for the stars, “I don’t want to participate in a Donald Trump-like white privilege game, where the “best” is a name that can be easily bought by white privileged family for incompetent kids that can’t make it by themselves….”

I was shocked, and I was like “you can’t think that way”… And she was like, but it’s true…Look how dumb Donald Trump is and dumb George Bush is, and they got into those Ivy League schools. And look at all the hoops that Asian kids have to jump through. Why would you want to spend money to participate in this White Privilege game? We’re not white, we’re Asian, we should play our own games.

I swear I had nothing to do with this. You know how asian parents are. Always wanting their kids to get into the pedigree colleges…I mean, honestly, I don’t really care where my kid ends up going since based on my experience, having an Ivy League degree in engineering doesn’t really matter versus any state school… In fact I don’t see many people throughout the 20+years of my career with such a pedigree degree and the ones that had one, a lot of them suck in what they do. With the exception of Cornell Engineering, Ivy League schools aren’t known for their engineering programs and state school with their large corporate endowments prepare their students way better than Ivy Leagues. So with the exception of maybe MIT, CalTech, Harvey Mudd, and Stanford Engineering (who has some really bright kids), you’re just spending money on a brand that frankly in tech doesn’t make that much of a difference.

Also, to my kids point, Ivy Leagues do disproportionately punish asian american kids with those admissions quotas. So my kid did make me think about it and say, do I really want to support a system that supports this. I mean I would boycott a business that does this, why would I want to support a school that does this.

So I think the conclusion is, I’m going to ask my kid to apply to an ivy league school(s) anyway…And if my kid gets in with a full ride/scholarship , great…But otherwise, I’m not going to spend a dime more than what I would spend on a good public school to support this system.[/quote]

VIVA LA REVOLUCION![/quote]

I think you’re right though. I’d much rather see my kid achieve what they achieve through their own merit through their struggles and overcoming their struggles, rather than easily buy my kid’s way into something.

It’s like the same concept. I don’t really have a desire to buy a lottery ticket to win a lottery so I can be “rich”… For me it’s not the money, it’s the journey getting and building it. Granted it doesn’t have to be built completely with my career tools like engineering, or stock options grants at a company… It could be investing and doing a side hustle, but at least it’s still something I did…

I don’t understand this generation that well and am trying to understand them. There’s this other thing going on about being anti- Fast Fashion. I don’t get it that well, but I think what it means it’s a going trend about some younger people be anti-corporations that exploit overseas paying them substandard wages and living conditions to make clothes that we consume here….

So it’s almost like a cult like trend to prefer to buy second hand, reused cloths from places like Poshmark… Or to buy hand made clothes from individuals like places like Etsy… I guess it’s this generation’s way of being anti-Walmart??? So it’s weird. My kid makes her own dress and clothes…which probably costs more than if she bought them… She wanted an embrodiery/sewing machine, so I said sure, why not…

[scaredyclassic]

i buy almost exclusively used clothing for environemntal reasons. growing cotton is a fucking nightmare. we have enough rags on earth to cover everyeone for the next century. Every suit i own now was bought used

Veganism is growing among youth for similar reason, also because farming practices are disgusting and immoral.

What part of this is not comprehensible? That they give a shit about the effects of their actions?

[Coronita]

[quote=scaredyclassic]i buy almost exclusively used clothing for environemntal reasons. growing cotton is a fucking nightmare. we have enough rags on earth to cover everyeone for the next century. Every suit i own now was bought used

Veganism is growing among youth for similar reason, also because farming practices are disgusting and immoral.

What part of this is not comprehensible? That they give a shit about the effects of their actions?[/quote]

i didnt say it wasnt admirable i just wasnt aware of how aware this generation is. i think its a good thing… i havent bought any new clothes in probably 8 years. im going though all my college tshirts and shorts right now since i can fit into them and since we are all working from home…i forget sometimes and go into grocery stores, and theres holes in some of them which embarasses my kid because i look like a hobo. but at the same time, this generation seems to be into crypto, which is a fucking environmental issue too with all the computing resources dedicated to processing virtual currency.

[scaredyclassic]

Ah yes. Young people suck as much as us.

Props for the hobo look

[an]

Pandemic Sparks a Rebound in Residential Migration, Survey Finds

Similar points here

[sdrealtor]

[quote=Coronita][quote=scaredyclassic]i buy almost exclusively used clothing for environemntal reasons. growing cotton is a fucking nightmare. we have enough rags on earth to cover everyeone for the next century. Every suit i own now was bought used

Veganism is growing among youth for similar reason, also because farming practices are disgusting and immoral.

What part of this is not comprehensible? That they give a shit about the effects of their actions?[/quote]

i didnt say it wasnt admirable i just wasnt aware of how aware this generation is. i think its a good thing… i havent bought any new clothes in probably 8 years. im going though all my college tshirts and shorts right now since i can fit into them and since we are all working from home…i forget sometimes and go into grocery stores, and theres holes in some of them which embarasses my kid because i look like a hobo. but at the same time, this generation seems to be into crypto, which is a fucking environmental issue too with all the computing resources dedicated to processing virtual currency.[/quote]

Not you too? Thats gonna cost me. Crypto baby!

Oh and I live in 10 to 20 year t shirts. Some older

[The-Shoveler]

“Crypto baby!”

I heard somewhere there are 60.000 different block-chain crypto currencies out in the wild, (probably dozens being launched every day).

IMO so much for the scarcity argument.

[Coronita]

[quote=sdrealtor][quote=Coronita][quote=scaredyclassic]i buy almost exclusively used clothing for environemntal reasons. growing cotton is a fucking nightmare. we have enough rags on earth to cover everyeone for the next century. Every suit i own now was bought used

Veganism is growing among youth for similar reason, also because farming practices are disgusting and immoral.

What part of this is not comprehensible? That they give a shit about the effects of their actions?[/quote]

i didnt say it wasnt admirable i just wasnt aware of how aware this generation is. i think its a good thing… i havent bought any new clothes in probably 8 years. im going though all my college tshirts and shorts right now since i can fit into them and since we are all working from home…i forget sometimes and go into grocery stores, and theres holes in some of them which embarasses my kid because i look like a hobo. but at the same time, this generation seems to be into crypto, which is a fucking environmental issue too with all the computing resources dedicated to processing virtual currency.[/quote]

Not you too? Thats gonna cost me. Crypto baby!

Oh and I live in 10 to 20 year t shirts. Some older[/quote]

crypto sucks, crypto sucks, crypto sucks… There, you have 3 more orders to place on Tuesday.

wine sucks. wine sucks. wine sucks..

[scaredyclassic]

[quote=flyer]Don’t be so hard on yourself. You have a great family, a great career and a great life. Just enjoy it.[/quote]

“The Full Catastrophe” first occurs in the 1964 film Zorba the Greek. It is spoken by the character Zorba (played by Anthony Quinn), a colorful Greek with a zest for life. Zorba has insinuated himself into the employ of Basil (Alan Bates), a bookish Englishman who has inherited a mine in Crete. In a boat on their way to the island, Basil asks Zorba if he is married. Zorba laments, in accented English, “Am I not a man? And is not a man stupid? I’m a man, so I’m married. Wife, children, house–everything. The full catastrophe.”

I did recently buy this t shirt new. Felt it was perfect for hackysack.

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