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      07-22-2021, 12:35 PM   #925
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..."The pandemic couldn't kill New York. So why all the doomsaying?"

"What was so alluring, then, about the End of Cities?

Prophecies about the demise of urban life have morphed to match the moment: Surely disease will kill cities, or congestion will, or corruption, or suburbanization, or fiscal crises, or technology, or crime, or terrorism, or this pandemic (unlike all the pandemics before)."

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/13/w...sultPosition=1
I think giving people options like working from home is what will be the demise of cities. Many are realizing now that maybe being a slave to your office job so you can have a tiny apartment in a building you can't leave during a lockdown isn't so great. The pandemic is surely a factor, but crime, corruption, and congestion have always existed.
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      07-22-2021, 02:49 PM   #926
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I think giving people options like working from home is what will be the demise of cities. Many are realizing now that maybe being a slave to your office job so you can have a tiny apartment in a building you can't leave during a lockdown isn't so great. The pandemic is surely a factor, but crime, corruption, and congestion have always existed.
The flipside of that is too much working from home will erode the teamwork productivity at the workplace IMO. People being isolated from one another (see: social media) and not physically together isn't always the best thing. Of course it may depend on the type of work you're in, but strangely (or not) I associate this opinion with what I see happening with today's younger generation in general. We're raising a bunch of pvssies that can't handle real life. Their parents have pampered them and they are unable to cope with reality aka the real world.

Sorry for swerving off topic on this a bit.
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      07-22-2021, 03:01 PM   #927
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I think giving people options like working from home is what will be the demise of cities. Many are realizing now that maybe being a slave to your office job so you can have a tiny apartment in a building you can't leave during a lockdown isn't so great. The pandemic is surely a factor, but crime, corruption, and congestion have always existed.
The flipside of that is too much working from home will erode the teamwork productivity at the workplace IMO. People being isolated from one another (see: social media) and not physically together isn't always the best thing. Of course it may depend on the type of work you're in, but strangely (or not) I associate this opinion with what I see happening with today's younger generation in general. We're raising a bunch of pvssies that can't handle real life. Their parents have pampered them and they are unable to cope with reality aka the real world.

Sorry for swerving off topic on this a bit.
Absolutely this!
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      07-22-2021, 03:29 PM   #928
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From the unedited version of the same article:

"“Anti-urbanism is an American religion, practiced widely and frequently in ordinary times, and passionately when cities are actually in trouble,” wrote Eric Klinenberg, a sociologist at N.Y.U."
"“That people are attempting to process what was an insane year through anti-urbanism is extremely predictable,” said David Schleicher, a Yale Law School professor. “It would be weird in fact if people responded to this the same way that French people did. No one in France is running around going, ‘Paris is over!’”


https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/12/u...sultPosition=2
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      07-29-2021, 06:49 AM   #929
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I've got BP's spam on me!

83 spam emails in my personal email account this morning. I never get spam. As I was deleting emails, more kept flooding in. What the hell is going on? I only use this account for personal stuff and don't give out or register that email address anywhere online.
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      07-29-2021, 07:00 AM   #930
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I've got BP's spam on me!

83 spam emails in my personal email account this morning. I never get spam. As I was deleting emails, more kept flooding in. What the hell is going on? I only use this account for personal stuff and don't give out or register that email address anywhere online.
Jilted lover?

Annoying though, I know. Even though I don't really give out a personal one I've still got at least 20 spam per day so those settings are to only deliver mail to my inbox that matches anyone from my address book and all else goes to junk that I scan quickly.
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      07-29-2021, 07:14 AM   #931
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Jilted lover?

Annoying though, I know. Even though I don't really give out a personal one I've still got at least 20 spam per day so those settings are to only deliver mail to my inbox that matches anyone from my address book and all else goes to junk that I scan quickly.
These days I don't feel as if I upset anyone enough to seek vengeance...outside of the caged pillow fortress, that used to be the BP Thunder Dome. I don't think that I know anyone that even knows what an email bomb is, let alone where to locate and deploy.

I will say the sender was quite creative in their originating domain. A bunch of alpha-numeric text that would vary by one digit in order to avoid from being blocked. Crafty.
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      07-29-2021, 08:35 AM   #932
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Country music is popular with people whose response is, "I don't care" when asked where to eat. (Whatever is good enough)
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      07-29-2021, 10:26 AM   #933
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I've got BP's spam on me!

83 spam emails in my personal email account this morning. I never get spam. As I was deleting emails, more kept flooding in. What the hell is going on? I only use this account for personal stuff and don't give out or register that email address anywhere online.
I'm willing to bet it has to do with flawed security or lack thereof with some of the people or organizations you've communicated with using that particular e-mail address. That's the only thing I can think of.

Also, how many times have you been informed by some organization that your personal information may have been compromised due to some hack or aforementioned security flaw? I've received a few of those and it's concerning.
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      07-29-2021, 02:02 PM   #934
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REAL Country music, NOT Pop Country music (shitty FL/GA Line can suck a you know what) is popular with people whose response is, "I don't care" when asked where to eat. (Whatever is good enough)
As a Native Nashvillian who loves country and also a human garabage disposal of food, I can genuinely say that this is pretty accurate.
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As a Native Nashvillian who loves country and also a human garabage disposal of food, I can genuinely say that this is pretty accurate.
I'm mid-way between Knoxville and Nashville. Old Country music I can take. Anything post 2000 is complete garbage.
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      07-29-2021, 02:58 PM   #936
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I'm mid-way between Knoxville and Nashville. Old Country music I can take. Anything post 2000 is complete garbage.
I'll put you right around Cookeville then lol. I passed through a ton when commuting from Nash - Knox for 4.5 years (GO VOLS).

There were some good ones in the early 2000s, but most of it is pop-BS now.
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Trust me, it's not limited to country music by any means. Music was just so much better back in the day.
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I'll put you right around Cookeville then lol. I passed through a ton when commuting from Nash - Knox for 4.5 years (GO VOLS).

There were some good ones in the early 2000s, but most of it is pop-BS now.
Well done. Very close. I'll not disclose my actual location out of fear that there are some on here that wish me harm.
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Well done. Very close. I'll not disclose my actual location out of fear that there are some on here that wish me harm.
LOL. There are ways....
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      07-29-2021, 10:16 PM   #941
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Some of the Russian I mean "ROC" athletes are doping at this Olympics.
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Well done. Very close. I'll not disclose my actual location out of fear that there are some on here that wish me harm.
Haha understandable. I'm sure I could narrow it down from there, but I don't wanna make it easier on those out to get ya. That's why I don't stay in the same place. Gotta keep moving lol
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Some of the Russian I mean "ROC" athletes are doping at this Olympics.
Its funny - pretty sure I heard CBC refer to them as "Russia" rather than ROC last night when one of their athletes came out.

I think everyone sees right through it and just calling it for what it is.
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Exactly. I mean who do they think they're fooling anyway? It's sad.
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