Screwball

Another view, this one from the Indy Star which has been the go to paper for the Indy since forever, so they probably have a bias to the Indy teams. Michael Andretti's answered every F1 challenge. It's time to green light Andretti Global. - Indy Star (couple of days old)

Interesting, thanks.

There is no solution. We Я fucked.

LOL! Really? You should dig a little deeper, and isn't only Presidents.

I know, that's what I thought when I first hear that line.

Vote blue no matter who

Amash isn't in congress the last I looked. Wonder why? The rest is just bullshit talking points. I think you can figure out what we need if you think hard enough. It really isn't difficult.

If the few who have good intentions when they get there, it is taken from them not long after. You go along to get along, or you are out. The money will not flow, and that's all that matters. We don't have elections, we have auctions.

There are no truth tellers in congress. Only people who get filthy rich by taking bribes while feeding their constituents bullshit like they are "fighting for them." Fuck off with that shit. Whores, the whole lot of them - bomb-throwers or not. And that goes from the White House to the local courthouse.

Keep guzzling the cool-aide, you ain't drunk enough yet.

Some really good stuff in those interviews. I think Justin would be a good Speaker, but that's why it will never happen. These people don't care about us, all they care about is power and money. They are corrupt to the core.

After I watched the video I decided to check their ages. That's a 49 year old Walters and a 31 year old Dolly. Makes it even more impressive.

If they can't get a Speaker, no monetary things can happen, so they don't get paid. If this goes on long enough, maybe they all get pissed off and go home. We can pick names out of a phone book to replace them and be better off. Win OK, I've had a few beers and a doobie (thanks Michigan) so I'm only half kidding.

Or maybe not; there is only one class act here, and it ain't her.

I don't follow F! that close, but I do the racing here (in all forms), but I can't believe this is nothing but good news, in various ways. *** Racing related: next week is what is known as the Chili Bowl. Tulsa, OK, a 440,000+ sq/ft building, half of it is a dirt track (dirt trucked in), and the other half is pits. Close to 400 entries. They race everyday from 9/10 am until late at night. Well known NASCAR guys, sprint car guys, plus the nations best in the midgets all run the week. My two oldest puppies are going along with our other bud (our race team when they are close). Dad's too old for that shit, dammit, but I also have a cat.

Andretti, General Motors team in F1 pursuit - Speed Sport News

The combines are working overtime.

Oh, please. That's about as stupid as some dipshit who told people to learn to code.

I don't agree with some of that article, and I could care less what Mike Rowe has to say, even if he does have a TV show filming him shoveling shit. But: It's all about the bottom line. Living the great life in the hamster wheel Я us.

The draft ended in 1973 if I remember right. I was a year too young but would have been toast as my number was 8. Some of my buddies weren't so lucky. The war was a huge thing to us people as we were all worried about going, not to mention all the stuff that was going on here. Like the 1970 Kent State thing. And of course we had the anti-war songs as well. Wild times, and not so good. I knew people at Kent State, even to this day, on both sides, students and the guard. I also had a bunch of buddies who ended up in Nam. Some didn't come home, and many didn't come home the same. Some are not right to this day, including one of my best buddies who still has flashbacks. Then of course there were others; like the guy in the bowling alley I worked who went nuts. Hid in the back of the bathroom in the last toilet stall thinking he was in Nam foxhole and going to kill anyone who came near him. What do you do with someone like that? And it was all for what?

I must respond to this - good stuff and well said. I'm not good with words - they are not my bag - numbers are. But I'm going to give it a shot... What Del said above is spot on, and much of what I think is missing today and have for quite some time. Let me put it this way; I'm old (66) so I grew up in an entirely different era - my parents grew up through the Great Depression so they knew the economical pain - and they were frugal. Very frugal - and I was brought up the same way. I was taught - like so many my age - if you don't have the money to buy something - don't buy it. You did what you had to do in order to accumulate enough money to buy what you wanted (bike, car, house, etc.). It doesn't work that way anymore, and I get that, for better or worse... This is about our kids - or you might say - our youth (no matter how these survey's break them down). Our youth truly are our worlds raw materials when it comes to our (their) future. I've always believed that, and taught my kids with that belief (among other things) in mind. To take it further, in my experience, as a retired engineer by trade, now teaching our youth in a college and high school setting - I am the one who is getting the education. I admit, I am a fish out of water, not trained nor have experience in teaching young people. I did do a lot of training to fellow co-workers in the shit show known as Corporate America - the cesspool of bullshit that it is. So the only thing I have going for me is I know the material - which is a good start IMO. I've already watched the alternative where we have teachers who know jack shit about how the "real world" works - but teach school and author books. I came to the conclusion after teaching school for fun money after retirement - our educational system is a complete mess - ran by the same clueless greedy pricks who run our corporations. Huge and stupid money spent on (in the trade school setting along with the college) administration bullshit while the kids still slave away with 10 year old computer equipment, robots, CNC machines, and welding equipment . IT staffs at a bare minimum, clueless as well (they hate me), and the administration should get an Oscar for Marketing Bullshit. They treat it like an invitation to Harvard - watch for your acceptance letter - then let them play games on their phone all year. The high school kids figuring out what they want to do next year say hey, let's go here so we can fuck off all day. Truly Sister Mary Elephant - I could write a book on the daily mayhem. College will get there - I can already see it. Bad. I don't know how much longer I can last. I am not a babysitter, and will not be, even if it makes me some beer money. It's about the teaching. Our companies cannot hire good people (or enough of them) - I know because I was part of it. It's not getting any better. I don't like what I see but it is what it is. What do we do? At some point the entire shithouse is going to blow up. We don't have enough people to do what needs to be done so all of us eat. We now have HR departments so inept, they couldn't hire an ant to play in sand. But there is nobody to hire even if they knew what they were looking for, so there's that... Let's start with the kids - it is their future after all. Del's right - they are not lazy (some really are though - that can be fixed) and and they want someone to teach them. I can't stress that enough. So many of these kids are begging for attention, guidance, and love. The system (along with their parents - it all starts at home) is failing them - and they know it - but they don't know how to fix it. I don't either, but maybe I can help them. I love my classes and my kids, no matter how old they are. I really do this because I think I might be able to make a difference, and we sure as hell need that. Invest in our young. I had a kid last semester who came into class the first day when it was 95 degrees outside with a hoodie so you could only see his eyes, nose, and mouth. OK, let's see where this goes - you never know. A few weeks later he wore a hoodie with a baseball thing on the front. I asked him if he was a baseball fan. Yep. The rest is history. We eventually had a baseball in class so I could show him a curveball that would make him a 20 game winner. He did, I did, and the class got a big kick out of it. We even made a drawing of a flattened baseball cover. Turns out he was from the Bahamas. As the semester went on his hoodie ended up on the back of his head, he was asking questions, and having a ball. Really came out of his shell. Great kid, and we became buds. This is why I took great interest in this survey. People need to get into people. Fuck all this other bullshit.

Totally agree on the costs of a home. Once people couldn't buy homes, they jacked the shit out of rent so you can't afford to rent either. And how many can/do save enough to come up with a down payment on a house? At least one that helps them afford it. When you have no savings, that loan isn't happening. The age of NINJA is over (thank goodness). If you follow the markets this topic (due to interest rates) is usually a hot and widely discussed topic - so I am not unaware of the problems. But I'm still bewildered to have watched people go out and buy an overpriced house with interest rates at all time lows and think they got some kind of a deal . People that bought a house in the last 2-3 years (maybe longer) are now underwater (adding on edit; unless they put enough down) with the current interest rates. Maybe that won't matter if they want to live there for years, but they are going to get hosed if they sell now, if they can sell at all.

My attendance records this last semester were as bad as I've had. I tell them the very first day "if you want to pass this class, you have to do this" which includes showing up for class. I flunked about 1/5 of the students, and all were because they didn't show up, which got them behind, and they couldn't catch up (even with tutoring). Why would you sign up for a class, 2 times a week for 2 hours, then show up for half of them - then wonder why you fail. Because you deserve to, and how about that $XXXX you just pissed away? And taking notes isn't against the law either - especially in my class - but they show up with a phone. No paper, no pencil, no nothing. Amazing! And they are not very good at following directions either. Many of these kids not only flunked my class, they are going to flunk life.

I'm not trying to boil it down to one thing - as I don't think it is a one thing problem - nor exclusive to age groups. I know plenty of people my age (late 60s) who are also terrible at money/budgets/spending/etc. I also understand it is getting harder and harder to make ends meet. I have argued that for years - and it's not getting any easier. But these are the cards we are dealt - so we must play the had we have. Or eventually you starve.

I can't speak for everywhere, but the educational system around here is a complete mess. I don't know what my college does for financial stuff, but the high school kids I had for 3 years were clueless, and I'll go on record the lock downs and zoom meetings during COVID didn't help one bit. I had some down time one day waiting on a kid to come back from a trip to the office. I asked the kids if they knew how to make change - not a clue (this was a STEM class with a room full of so-called wannabe machinists). They didn't have much of a clue for a lot of other things either. Now I think I am seeing these same things with the frosh in college. Last semester was one of the worse ones I've had. I gave up the high school stuff because I was tired of playing Sister Mary Elephant.