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The capital of the Confederacy was in Virginia, but you’ve decided that it’s not in the South. Let’s try Wikipedia instead. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_United_States
Geographically, sure. However, "the South" can mean a lot of different things. e.g. "the South" culturally does not apply to much of Virginia, Texas, or Florida.
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I suppose the culture, politics, and traditions. Bay Area is generally quite liberal and tolerant, even if it is not the most diverse. Tech workers tend to be highly educated, well traveled, and open to new ideas. In contrast, I feel like the South is more xeno/homophobic, resistant to change, conservative etc. I have well educated family members in the South who are low-key racist. As a single data point, most young…
It’s less pretentious and more that you’re just missing out on what the south has to offer. The south definitely has these negative aspects, but I argue that letting bad apples define a whole region of American is missing the forest for the trees. I likewise read headlines of mobs attacking FAANG charter busses, out of control office and apartment rents and employees living out of their cars, pervasive homelessness,…
His alma mater as well.
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If by FULL OF you mean less than a half a percent of the population, then maybe you are right. Seriously, this is offensive and inaccurate and wrong. It is just as bad as saying all Muslims are terrorists. Only people who have never been to the South, and let New York media and Hollywood caricatures inform them ACTUALLY believe this. It is terrible that CNN and MSNBC have followed the Fox News model of peddling fear,…
There’s a statue of a confederate soldier right in front of the Arkansas Capitol in Little Rock. If you think it’s still standing because of the efforts of only .5% of the citizens of that state, that suggests that those few citizens wield disproportionate power, although the more likely explanation is that your estimate is very low. In fact the state of Arkansas has a systemic racism problem that begins at the Capit…
I'm sure you derive immense satisfaction from your moral superiority, but your view of history lacks nuance and is self righteous beyond belief.
You work at Google, right? If so, you are complicit in a monopoly helping the authoritarian Chinese government spy on it's citizens. In typical Google fashion, they protest an executive harassment scandal while ignoring the aid of a human rights violating government. Cuz that would cost money. Quit your job and then feel free to preach morality.
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This would effectively double the cost to DoD of any awarded cloud service contract to Amazon. In the form of higher cost of living for federal employees.
The current locality rate for the DC-ish area (which actually goes halfway to Wilmington and Richmond) is 28.22%; thus, a GS-12-05 salary is $72k in a low-cost-of-living area and $92k in DC. The Federal Salary Council's recommended locality rate is 78.81%, bringing that notional GS-12 to $128k. So there is already somewhat of a disconnect between federal salaries and cost of living. That aside, it's easy enough for t…
A base pay of 72k would be ~82k w/ locality (Rest of US) vs ~92k (DC).
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Edison bulbs, wood, microbrews, and board games on hand. See you at trivia night!
I just involuntarily started grinding my teeth reading this entire comment chain, having escaped one such of those kinds of cities in Central Texas. /walks away from the keyboard to avoid ranting about why I got the ever loving hell out of Austin yet again.
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1. It's a control state. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholic_beverage_control_sta... 2. The politics are still overtly racist: https://twitter.com/haroldpollack/status/1051657219899617280 3. The HB2 saga demonstrates how strong the Christian right is in the state. As does a candidate in a race too close to call insisting there will never be peace in Jerusalem until Jews acknowledge the divinity of Christ: https:/…
So for some context I’m a black male, early 20s who just moved to NC from CT. I’ll address 1,4, and 5 out of order and point out I don’t see their relevance to moving. If NC had particularly egregious holes in its gun laws or something, I’d understand 4, but it doesn’t. It just doesn’t have notably strong gun laws, which puts it in the majority of states. The other two are pretty inconsequential if you’re talking abo…
I mean, this was the topic at hand. I recognize it hurts to hear one's chosen home disparaged, but when you're trying to recruit candidates into a location, you can't exactly demand they put up or shut up. You're not just competing with LA, you're also competing with SF, Portland, and Seattle, as well as Denver and other cities in Colorado. The 'blue bastion in a red state' pitch for specific cities basically relies on the supreme court to protect blue cities from their state governments, and well, we probably need to see a term or two of today's Supreme Court before we understand the full ramifications of recent appointments.
On the other hand, Amazon's HQ2 strategy seems to be 'let's find a lower CoL city to house all the accountants and HR specialists', so nationwide recruiting may not be an actual concern.
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The average (Bay Area?) tech worker likely sees the thinly veiled threat when the very first question their new neighbors ask is “have you found a church yet”?
This is a bigoted generalization of an entire region.
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I just involuntarily started grinding my teeth reading this entire comment chain, having escaped one such of those kinds of cities in Central Texas. /walks away from the keyboard to avoid ranting about why I got the ever loving hell out of Austin yet again.
I’m going to poke the bear: why did you move out of Austin again?
Honestly the city just felt very superficial in a lot of ways. I was there almost a decade and a half, and in that span of time I came to appreciate different things about the city for what they were, but that pervading sense that there wasn't really much substance beneath the surface ever left, and the direction of the city just stopped aligning with my long term personal goals of buying a house.
Once I went from "passively thinking about buying a house" to "making a five year plan to buy a house" I sat long and hard and thought about if I wanted to make central Texas my home. It's gorgeous here, the weather is great, yes The Lege absolutely sucks but find me someone who can't find some gripe about their state government and I'll find you the next Buddha.
I decided to leave and return to the midwest.
Adler's City council fought the state on bathroom bills and bag bans, many teeth were gnashed, garments ripped and sackcloth torn-but aside from a few annoyed editorials and longform pieces from the usual local columnists, when city council abandoned CodeNEXT (a critically needed rewrite of city zoning laws and building codes that would have allowed for greater density and eased pressure on a stunted housing market) once again caving to neighborhood associations that could give a damn about anything outside of their borough and continue to hold council hostage at the expense of development and well design urban planning, I threw up my hands and left.
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To be fair, pro sports are an obvious waste of valuable time and attention. Personally, I’d rather actually connect with someone (or not) than use such mindlessness as a social crutch. I don’t find the extremely common phenomenon of people who don’t like sports forcing themselves to pretend they do for career-related reasons to be particularly healthy, either.
lol man. I don't watch sports but I guess you don't play video games, watch netflix, etc.? All are equally wastes of time.
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To be fair, pro sports are an obvious waste of valuable time and attention. Personally, I’d rather actually connect with someone (or not) than use such mindlessness as a social crutch. I don’t find the extremely common phenomenon of people who don’t like sports forcing themselves to pretend they do for career-related reasons to be particularly healthy, either.
Good reading for people with this worldview (which at one time included myself): “Cultivated Disinterest in Professional Sports”[1] “ https://mako.cc/copyrighteous/cultivated-disinterest-in-prof...
All that said, pro sports culture is basically a social cancer for various reasons, including some that are illuminated directly in that article. The “but how will you relate to the working class” argument is weak, and gives the reader permission to use social crutches rather than useful, generalizable social tools. Indeed, the idea of “becoming” a pro sports fan to be able to socialize with a certain class of people is rather condescending.