Jim Dalrymple II

Journalist. Editorial director for @Inman. Occasional commentary in @Deseret & @famstudies. Formerly @BuzzFeedNews and Salt Lake Tribune

[Jim Dalrymple II @Dalrymple]

@dieworkwear It ore the impact of clothing on your career advancement at your own risk. If you actually need a paycheck to survive, you might be wise to just dress like your bosses

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@scottew A couple months ago I found an awesome chair at DI for $10. I stepped away to call my wife but by the time I retuned someone else got it. Oh well I thought, it happens. A week later I found it on FB marketplace for $80. Resellers have seriously degraded the experience

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@Boenau The problem is road design trumps speed limits. They made 20 mph the default in my city and it really didn’t change anything. No one drives 20 mph bc our streets encourage faster driving. You can redesign the roads, but that takes decades to effect the whole system

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Never heard of “bike camp” but why would it take a week to learn? I’ve taught most of my younger siblings and now my daughter to ride a bike. Should take like an afternoon. Maybe two

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On the super-specific topic of bike camp, I’ll just say the one week “learn to ride a bike” camp we sent my kid to when he was five was *extremely good at teaching him how to ride a bike* — featuring a whole method I didn’t know about, etc.

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@wanderingdave Doesn’t help that some places (eg Germany) turned off their nuclear plants and went back to fossil fuels smh

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@PatrickKearns @TaylorWAnderson That’s crazy!

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@DanFriedman81 I thought wonder man was pretty decent, though I don’t know a single person who has watched it

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@RichardHanania This is the kind of heterodox thought leadership for which I followed you

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@wanderingdave @sharounporat Yeah it def is messy haha.

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Tried McDonald’s fried apple pies. I expected them to be better than the baked pies, but they were astoundingly so. Realized I’d forgotten just how good they used to be. Made me wonder if this true for a lot of stuff. We know it was better in the past but can’t tell by how much

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@busblog Do it!

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@sharounporat @wanderingdave Yeah I’m not normally a huge McDonald’s guy but this was def worth it

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@bethanyshondark Goblin Valley is a very cool state park 3.5 hrs from SLC. Otherwise, Alpine Loop and Timpanogos Cave are cool. My hot take is things like the zoo, thanksgiving point and a lot of other local stuff will feel mid if you’ve been to any other city

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@mikekofoed 100% agree. Whatever anyone thinks of the monuments/sizes specifically, executive order is a terrible way to do this that will ensure permanent instability

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Some personal news today: After 7+ years covering real estate and housing as a journalist, I've taken a new role at Rocket. https://t.co/ilzt1MNbnS

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So many good responses but my firsthand research suggests the real answer is that too many Seattle restaurants serve Pepsi not Coke. This will forever keep Seattle in the JV leagues

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Spent a few days in Seattle and wondered: Why isn't this place New York City? Temperate weather (compared to the East), a big port, plentiful natural resources, big tech sector, etc. Seems the PNW should be a tier A global economic powerhouse.

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@colinmarshall lol

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@clearSNR I’ve been to Seattle in every season (my dad’s fam is from there so we go up pretty often). I get that it’s gloomy. I bet I’d personally struggle with that. But so is London and it ran the world. East Coast weather is miserable in both the summer (humid) and winter (brutal cold)

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@pfiddy Right. Many global cities have terrible weather. London has very similar weather and dominated the global economy for centuries. If the economic conditions are right people will def tolerate some clouds and drizzle