In other news (apolitical thread)...

[MrNubbz]

Must be a pretty light boat. It's floating, and it's not even in the water!

It's a hydrofoil, DUH! I'll show myself out

[MrNubbz]

Have I mentioned that I gave up my 100-ton USCG Master Captain license?

Even Capt. Stubing had to hang it up eventually

[utee94]

Lee Corso's last hurrah will be at Texas-tOSU in Columbus.


https://twitter.com/CollegeGameDay/status/1932482894653509799?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1932482894653509799%7Ctwgr%5E5431335655c036a1357616d1b9786eecc7cbac0e%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.surlyhorns.com%2Fboard%2Findex.php%3Fapp%3Dcoremodule%3Dsystemcontroller%3Dembedurl%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fcollegegameday%2Fstatus%2F1932482894653509799%3Fs%3D4626t%3Dw1JGYCpwyyl6OPC9Jk41gg

[FearlessF]

good

[MikeDeTiger]

I'd watch that, except it might mean accidentally seeing Pat McAfee.

[MikeDeTiger]

In other news, campus was evacuated at 12:30 yesterday afternoon because some dude dressed as a construction worker entered the library construction site and was caught with flammable materials and accelerants.  When apprehended he threatened to blow himself up and said he'd placed a bomb elsewhere on campus.  Police eventually found a bag in the chemistry building which turned out to be harmless.  Details didn't say explicitly that the bag belonged to the suspect.  

Pretty weird to get an email simply stating to evacuate immediately with no details.  The weather was very bad so I thought we were under a flash flood warning.

Anyway, nobody was hurt and I got a half day off work, so this basically probably belongs in the What Made Me Happy Today thread.  

[Cincydawg]

[medinabuckeye1]

[img width=273.619 height=394]https://i.imgur.com/kR3O15s.png[/img]

Is it me or do some of these seem implausibily high?

Specifically, what jobs in Montana pay enough to be able to afford a half Million dollar house?

[utee94]

Yeah that infographic doesn't track.

[Gigem]

https://twitter.com/80s_channel/status/1933227228604871073?s=46&t=EHozF964Pc_xZmTZKPCcEA

[Cincydawg]

Maybe it includes ranches in Montana?

[utee94]

[Cincydawg]

I'm moving to Montana soon ...

To become a dental floss tycoon.

[betarhoalphadelta]

Obviously you have to look at the methodology...

But one key aspect is that it says "median" rather than "mean". That can sometimes be a more intuitive and useful metric; sometimes less. 

Also note that this site says 80% of all Montanans live in or within 50 miles of their 7 largest cities. We might think of Montana as rural--but rather I think it means it's mostly empty, and clustered around those cities. 

However another google search shows median Montana home prices being in the >$500K range. 

It's probably caused by a bunch of rich Californians who saw Yellowstone moving in and buying things up and ruining everything in the state, tbh...