Second interview is easy it's the third that gets you.

Tanking stock market is good news, well for me and pretty much anyone under 50 trying to build a retirement fund. Heck even inflation has gotten my savings accounts up to 3% up from .5% last year.

I guess you are already retired since it's been so upsetting to you visitor. Don't worry I'm always nice to the greeter at Walmart.

Russia mobilizes a million people to become soldiers while conducting a sham referendum and it's NATO's fault.

Dude don't pull a muscle twisting logic so hard.

Russian law disallows conscripts from being used in an undeclared war.

Russia just announced conscription, they are holding a sham referendum on annexation the goal is clear and terrifying.

The Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts will "ask" to be annexed by Russia. Russia will oblige effective immediately. Russia does not currently control all the territory in those 4 oblasts. The conscripts will be sent to secure Russian territory. Ukraine will be accused of "invading" Russia. NATO will be accused of helping Ukraine attack the motherland.

Justification for all out war has been achieved and Russia is the "wronged" party.

#54

Wait, Chapel Hill? So the 5 conservatives in Chapel Hill all got together to protest this event? Thank goodness most of the people in Chapel Hill ride bikes or walk everywhere or there wouldn't have been enough parking for both attendees and protestors.

Seriously complaining about stuff liberals do in Chapel Hill is a waste of time. Having to driving in Chapel Hill sucks anyway so I just try and avoid the whole of Orange County.

Not even robbing it just trying to get access to the family's money. That's super messed up.

I can not believe that this is even a topic of discussion in 2022.

In 1997 Brandi played Cinderella with Whitney Houston as the fairy godmother and Whoopi Goldberg as the queen, married to a white King with a Philippino Prince Charming. It was a good movie with 74% audience score on RT. I don't recall anyone saying crap about the racial makeup of the cast.

Now, 25 years later, people are bent about a black Ariel?

20 years ago I would have said racism was all but dead in this country. Progress towards equality still needed work but it was mostly correcting historical imbalance not overt discrimination. I mean sure there were pockets but they were the exception not the rule. Yet here we are.

#40
You going to ban pictures of the food also, you commie!

#34

They might get their wish but maybe not in the way they envision it.

5 to 1 baby
1 in 5
no one here gets out alive

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The old get older
and the young get stronger
may take a week
and it may take longer
they got the guns
but we got the numbers

-The Doors

My cursive was/is pretty terrible and it was frequently joked that I would grow up to be a doctor. I uh didn't and cursive mostly died so no harm no foul.

My signature is a hot mess to this day in fact I once had to show the signature on my drivers license to convince someone that it was my legal signature and I hadn't just thrown some connected lines on paper.

Anyway yeah I don't feel like this is a big loss for students unlike math, literature, and history which are important subjects. Less cursive and more reasons for the french revolution taught side by side with the novel Les Miserables, maybe we could save ourselves some beheadings that way. Also for the love of god can we teach some consumer finance and basic investing classes to kids?

#17

A couple years back I found some checks from 20+ years ago the address was 3 or 4 address old and the bank had been bought twice since then. I decided to try and use one just for a lark. It eventually cleared but it took several extra days because while the account number was the same the routing number was a couple banks old. I guess there is some database with old routing numbers cause it got there. When I have to write a check these days I have the bank issue one I don't know why anyone even bothers getting a checkbook these days. Venmo, CashApp and Zelle all work better for both sending and receiving money. I'm trying to get my boss to set up a Venmo for the company since we stopped accepting cash now I have to use my card and pay 3% processing fee. I might threaten to use my old checks if he doesn't set up a Venmo.

#10

This is something I noticed about a month ago but it does seem the current trend is to lump us X'ers in with Boomers. I'm just curious where it's coming from. From my perspective as part of the youngest third of X'ers it seems wholly unjustified but looking at the oldest third of X'ers it makes sense.

I think perhaps that's been one of the reasons X never had much of an identity. Just as an example the oldest X'ers were starting to drive in the midst of the 70's oil crisis the younger ones were still in diapers when it ended. College is another good one in 1983 when the oldest X started college costs were tracking pretty closely to inflation and a year at a public university would cost about 2500 in 2021 dollars for us in the last third the acceleration in cost was underway and it cost us almost twice that. Of course the Millennials got screwed even hard as in the 2000's it accelerated even more but us young X'ers got the first taste of college sticker shock.

#5

If your business cannot afford significant pay increases then you're probably then your business likely isn't economically viable.

Part of the issue for a lot of companies is the speed it's happening. If you have budgeted 1M for payroll for the year then in 6 months find that you have to increase that you have to find somewhere to move that money from. With almost all other costs rising simultaneously that's tough to do right now. Customers will only absorb a certain percentage of cost increases before they start looking for lower cost alternatives. So next year you can budget for 2M in payroll and fiddle with the numbers but you are boned this year. That doesn't necessarily mean the business isn't economically viable it's just locked into a multi-year plan that will take time to adopt.

#11

As a lawyer that had to be one of the best bits ever. How many other comedians do you get to study in law school.

The results of FCC v. Pacifica had a fairly outside influence on my childhood although I wasn't aware of it at the time. Growing up in a post-pacifica age I sure became aware of censorship before I even knew what censorship was.

#44

Yes but globally worth more.

we enter a death spiral as the US dollar becomes worth less and less

Interesting you think that as the USD is up vs most global currencies right now.

#57

No I'm pretty sure Bill assumes that not starving is eating like a king. I suspect had he been Peeta and me Katnis he would have expected me to worship him for the muddy piece of burned bread.

#56

Where did I say it wasn't appreciated?

I was responding to you saying they "eat like kings" heck yeah 430 is better than the 0 we would have had and every time we got food on it it was food we otherwise wouldn't have had but it was a far cry from "eating like kings".

Having been on food stamps I take issue with the eat like kings. We got 430 a month for a family of 5 that's less than 1 dollar per meal. Not sure how that translates to eat like kings.

As for learning a trade not paying off there is a risk especially during your first 5 years or so when you are the low man but after that the earnings potential is pretty solid. Probably not lambo money but a decent life and a white picket fence can happen.

#21

They are charging per OZ and the foam doesn't represent many OZ's so while it will save some foam runoff I don't think it would save more than 10% on the high side probably less than that.

#16

Yes it makes being informed much easier however I note you didn't call your great grandfather uninformed or stupid.

Learning to read is darn near a life hack that makes just about everything easier however it is not a requirement for staying informed or being intelligent it just makes those two things much easier.

#6

The only adult I've know who couldn't read was the guy who trained me. He was smart and well informed but he grew up in a a farming community and dropped out of school to work on a tobacco farm at an age that would be illegal theses days.

Trying to tie the ability to read English with a level of intelligence or being informed is either stupid or uninformed.

#28

They actually make a valid point and came back to apologize for making assumptions. Let's not get too nasty with each other.

I have some sympathy with their original position the co-pay on my MS drug is near 8k a month and if I hadn't spent a good amount of time figuring out how to deal with it there is no way I could afford it. So frustration from people having to deal with their own expensive drugs is somewhat understandable especially if they are unaware that this is reversing something that has been covered for years. They took the time to inform themselves and reversed position based on new information.

Miranda I'm pretty sure my email is in my bio if you want to email me I can outline what I did and now I basically get my drugs covered as well as the rest of my treatment and don't pay any more than the insurance premiums.

Sauron ... it's in the eyes, well played sir.

#54

This whole thread has me a bit weirded out.

BillJohnson, Tor and Mod8 on the same side while Willowby is siding with the woke set?

#23

Yeah it's hard to picture a bunch of deadheads storming the capitol.

You know what blew my mind and frankly gave me hope for the future was a Korn concert. Never have I seen such a concentration of LGBTQ+ people mixing with rednecks in my life. A third of the cars in the parking lot were lifted pickups a third beaters and a third hybrids it seemed like.

Also on a somewhat related note I ate some shrooms for the first time yesterday and tried to read a right wing link my mom sent me and I had to stop and come back after they wore off, I seriously could not tell if I was tripping so hard that my mind was making up the article or if it was really that out there. Turns out it was the article but I'm not convinced it wasn't a big troll on the kind of people who would read it.