It’s called the Great LAKES region for a reason. We have life sustaining natural/standing water. Things are going to live. I understand the appeal of the clean/perfect views/landscape of the west but at the end of the day it’s rugged mtns and desert. Not meant to support the massive population that now lives there. I’ll take the bugs and cold winters…

Yeah lol go live in the southeast. They are bigger and juicier there. Plus the copper heads. And bug season is almost year round vs. maybe 5 months here.

Interesting and important take...and sorry about your friend. Yeah I’ve known of these issues and have close personal experiences with these types of outcomes/worse but most had serious issues going in and it was a last resort. It seems if you go in from a position of strength/with technical skills the outcomes get much better. Some of the smartest/most successful people I know in engineering/tech space came from military (mostly navy, marines, army). But yeah I guess there is many risks to this. But I don’t see a ground war anywhere close on horizon. It all seems air/water more strategic and if it escalates we’re all fucked (nukes galore). Probably need another thread on a 1-2 year of service requirement for this country…too many kids think this is a last resort…it shouldn’t be.

Anything on M22 off Lake Michigan in northwestern lower peninsula. National shorelines, forests, and amazingness! Also use search function for this channel and get a million results.

I’m not sure about this statement. The market is starting to get saturated…we’ve been pushing STEM hard in education non-stop for 20 years. Companies have many choices. If I were being forced to finance my entire education I would be taking a serious look at options in the military to take advantage of the GI bill. Plus if you serve in a technical or leadership role your resume is coming to the top of pile.

Or go into military and get the amazing GI bill/free college and it’s a great resume starter if you do something technical/backend. Tons of companies prefer those that served…esp if you were in a technical role.

Yeah this is a tricky space atm. To get into a Fortune 500/big tech or consulting company it really helps to be coming from a known tech school, have a great internship, hustle hard to get an interview, then nail the interview…then pack your bags for whereever the opportunity is (note: most big growth companies are NOT in Michigan atm…they are in the west/south/Texas). Totally doable but gotta have eyes wide open and be ready for an adventure. I just returned after 17 years away from MI (Eastern business grad now in Tech) and would not even be close to where I’m at in my career had I not left. Good luck!

You could plot this against number of guns per capita and other cities historically. It might support a slightly better story than still being almost 3x per capita from 1966 :-/

Any team in Canada. They are well overdue considering most of the best players in the world are from there. Pretty sure this is where all the hockey pucks are grown too…or maybe they mine them…I forgot…

I do it. But we tend to have an angry victim mentality vibe on the roads around here so I do it when I don’t have my kids with me.

No we gotta own this. I’ve lived in a few other states over the last 20 years…and the level of aggressive blocks here is ridiculous.

Yeah I have no idea what is going on with this. On the way back from spring break this year just south of Louisville coming back north I witnessed an embarrassing scene. The left lane was closing for construction and sign indicated it was two miles ahead. Already a ton of back up happening. As I’m coming up in the left lane sure enough someone in a suburban aggressively blocking left lane…and the cars behind are pissed. I knew even before I saw the plate it was going to be a good ole Michigander…and sure enough it was. Not even in Michigan blocking locals from where they want to go on a Saturday afternoon. I took 2 or 3 lanes the worked all the way back to get back into the left lane…but few were and it was causing a gigantic backup.

Lions version of the Russian 5. Sewell helped Brad see the light. The Honolulu Blue Line.

Yeah doubt they would have done this without Sewell. What a special leader/player we have.

Maybe Brad is onto something…guy we just drafted from Utah and Sewell are Polynesian