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think im going to periodically pop a good news sub thread into pubskis moving forward. those were some really nice comments from yall last week! going ice climbing montana for the weekend. definitely nervous for the flight after the reagan thing yesterday even though i know that was a very very different situation.
Welcome back! What kind of volunteering have you been doing? I’m going to have to reread that post by AF.
awesome! probably the best way to get a job right now…
that sounds like great news!!!
good news: my bonus pays out this friday
this is now a good news sub thread of pubski
the Instagram thing is even worse, a lot of people are now following POTUS without having made the chance to. allegedly it’s a “glitch” impacting “random” users, and some of these people haven’t been unable to unfollow POTUS.
cliffelam, if you still check here ever, you weren’t far off on it being a dying problem, in some ways…
wow, how the heck did you come across this very old post?? i mean, going back to 2013-ish! my views certainly have developed since then, reading back on it…
Yeah it’s exactly the context of the stuff like this that I’m interested in: One of the hard parts about this is you can’t very well ask a Vietnamese person “hey, what books should I read” because you’ll largely get a blank look back. Because, you know, it’s what they lived! I’ll have to checkout the bookshops around the Wing Luke Museum and the rest of Little Saigon. Will send you some photos of titles if anything stands out! The General laughs and points out that they'd fought two wars with the Chinese since then and the Chinese were their biggest trading partner.
I think all three? I’ve recently been reading a bit about Vo Nguyen Giáp, the Sino-Vietnamese war, and have had The Sympathizer and a few other books on my to-read list. I think what I’m interested in is the cultural and political context of Vietnam during the 20th century, preferably not from just a Vietnamese War context. Been trying to wrap my head around how this people were in war and conflict for so much of that century both with themselves and with others. This seems like a very complex, very way-too-large-of-a-scope way of coming at this, so apologies if this is not a useful reply. I’m working it out.
spent 90 minutes today with the partners family, listening to their first and second hand stories of how they escaped Vietnam starting about a month prior to the fall of Saigon leading to getting on a boat out of Saigon at 3am the morning of surrender, through escaping to the Philippines, Guam, and eventually, the United States. Deeply, deeply sobering and humbling shit. Anyone have any nonfiction book recommendations related to Vietnam?
Yeah I was noticing some of that re: December too. Was wondering if it could be bonus / vesting / etc. related timing around here.
ive been looking very casually at duplexes and triplexes recently and the odds and ends on market and definitely feel like im missing something. in the < $1.5 million range in seattle, on redfin, there’s: - twenty four homes listed total of which - five homes listed less than 30 days of the remaining nineteen - eighteen have been listed for more than 90 days - ten have been listed for more than 180 days im assuming something is pretty fucked with the houses, zoning, or they’re just way, way overpriced for what they are (i have no idea what im doing)
lol ive been thinking about the pelosi tracker and autopilot thing! im in schwab, fidelity, and some cds with goldman (oops)…so that could be a nice way tie everything together yeah somehow a friend bought a new build in madrona area where their first floor is zoned for mixed use? so shit i could go make snowboards over there, too? fun fact, they had to sue the builder for not laying the water bill before they closed on the place
queuing this up for the next commute to and from the office! thanks for sharing, never heard of that podcast.
working through 2024 recaps / end of year list but mostly digging that the living members of soundgarden reunited with shaina shephard for a set this past weekend pretty cool!
that's a fuck around and find out move, that is hilarious. not the tree falling part, but... good to hear! wasn't sure how bad it got further north. eastside got in a pretty bad state, had some friends without power for a week, minus the one who ended up using his tesla to power certain things in his apartment.In fact, one of the trees that fell sat there so long that the neighbor told the guys I bought the house from that he'd put a lien against it if they didn't do something about it prior to sale.