Sweet congrats Ms White!

Oldest person I ever met was 105 I hope Ms White beats that.

One thing a lot of us are ignoring in the college debt equation is the rate it has outpaced inflation.

I know plenty of folks who worked their way through college and were able to graduate debt free. Now that is a lot more difficult and probably impossible in 4 years. On NextDoor we had a kid trying to earn money for a Nintendo Switch, after 2 weeks of offering to do any odd job and getting 2 responses, he then asked if anyone had an old one to give away (yeah right). A bunch of boomers jumped on him one even saying she paid for college by babysitting and walking dogs. You will not pay for college (even community college) walking dogs and babysitting these days.

Otto it depends on your trade and skill level. I do fireplaces in the winter and stone in the summer. Make a boat load in the winter, make enough to cover basic costs in the summer and have savings from winter to cover emergencies. I am working on getting my stone skill up to my fireplace skill so I could make boatloads year round but stone is pretty physically demanding, and I have MS. I don't know that I could handle the pace I keep during fireplace season doing stone. Also having slow months is good for me to reintroduce myself to the wife and kids.

I dropped out of college to become a dad and a couple times went back for a semester or two but never stuck with one thing long enough to get a degree. Result: If you ever find yourself in need of a jack leg database programmer/manager, web developer, or code debugger let me know. I liked the money from an IT field but I couldn't chain myself to a desk for the requisite number of hours a week. I like hitting multiple jobs with different challenges and different people (or no people) every day. Also at this point entry level computers would be a pay cut.

So to answer your question you can get away with it in NC also. It helps that like Alaska we have more jobs than workers at least in the trades. I'm booked out 2 weeks right now and that's after the past week in the 70's. I'm almost afraid of what next week will bring in terms of calls when we have highs in the 40's.

Nice Snoof.

Daddy worked like a mule mining Pike County coal
Til' he ------ up his back and couldn't work anymore
He said one of these days you'll get out of these hills
Keep your nose on the grindstone and out of the pills
-Tyler Childers : Nose on the Grindstone

My sweat and my wages they don't seem to weight out
I'm gettin' more aches than I'm gainin' in gold
Whoever said you could raise you a family
Just a'workin' your ass off knee deep in coal?
-Tyler Childers : Hard Times

"If I'm ever President, which I hope will never happen"
-Pete Buttigieg

#96

Even with Yangs numbers which I think are too high I know I wouldn't quit working for 2k a month (wife plus me) while I could live on it I wouldn't want to. I don't think many would quit working for that little and the ones that would probably don't contribute much if anything to the workforce.

As far as 2 goes yes inflation would eat up some but not all.

#85

Nope but have fun paying the gift tax on it.

#70

That was a unique situation where housing demand far outstripped supply. If you have an area with standard rent vacancy rates just because the tenants have more money does not mean rent will go up. If you were to try and raise rent 1000 bucks in most markets the apartments down the street would keep their rates and you would end up with their vacancies plus your own.

Basic income is the way to go forward, it gets rid of the trap eberly brought up where at a certain point a raise costs more than its worth. I would even propose a basic income and abolishing the min wage.

So money doesn't buy happiness, but it may help alleviate depression.

Being broke never depressed me but the stress, that was a different story. I was never suicidal but I could see how being broke could lead to it in someone who was that stressed.

Also if you are a father who can't provide for your children and have life insurance that could cause thoughts of I'm worth more to my kids dead than alive. I didn't have life insurance back then so even if I had been suicidal I wouldn't have done it, because as little as we had it was more than my family would have had with me dead.

#7

Maybe, maybe he's broke, either way why would you want to screw Secret Service agents? You know Trump would refuse to pay the bill and then sue them.

I wish I had some good recipes to share but for the past two months I've lived on snacks, microwave meals and frozen pizza. When you work 11-13 hours 6 days a week your food priorities change from good food to, if I don't eat I'll starve so shove a couple handfuls of peanuts in your mouth while driving to the next job, take a handful of vitamins in the morning and do it again.

#3

After 2 decades as a vegetarian countless recipes and chefs I have become convinced that there is only way to make eggplant taste good.

Take an eggplant chop it up, throw the pieces in the compost heap. Allow to compost 1 year, use the compost to grow literally any other vegetable. After carefully following these steps your eggplant will taste great.

Thanks for the efforts AU I don't have time to research.

Victorian Koalas are a bit richer now, maybe they can pour some eucalyptus leaves out for their homies.

Mark 10:1-12 for context.

Jesus then left that place and went into the region of Judea and across the Jordan. Again crowds of people came to him, and as was his custom, he taught them.

2 Some Pharisees came and tested him by asking, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?"

3 "What did Moses command you?" he replied.

4 They said, "Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce and send her away."

5 "It was because your hearts were hard that Moses wrote you this law," Jesus replied. 6 "But at the beginning of creation God made them male and female.'[a] 7 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife,[b] 8 and the two will become one flesh.'[c] So they are no longer two, but one flesh. 9 Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate."

10 When they were in the house again, the disciples asked Jesus about this. 11 He answered, "Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her. 12 And if she divorces her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery."

That passage is about divorce not gay marriage. Given full context it could be argued that the gender pronouns used are used in the general sense and not specific to "a man" this is reinforced as the correct reading by the final passage which provides disambiguation by clarifying that a woman who divorces her husband is just as guilty.

Makes you wonder how many divorces have used the passage that condemns their actions to condemn others.

There's nothing about giving Uber drvers minimum wage that harms the Uber driver. That harms Uber.

I have no idea the standard take home of an Uber driver, I have heard some stuff but most of it is questionable. However I can't believe too many of the drivers are making less than min. wage. I know I sure wouldn't be messing around with it if I wasn't making even 10 bucks an hour.

Lets be real here 95% of Americans didn't know who he was 3 days ago. I doubt many of the other presidential candidates did either in 2015. Clinton likely would have been the exception.

If you aren't responsible for national security or diplomacy you aren't likely to know the names of too many foreign military leaders.

#114

CC processing is easy. Rates a driver already has a good idea of. Loss of business would be large but only if Uber still plays in the space. If they decide to pull out then you aren't competing with Uber if Uber says in then you keep working for Uber.

Nice to see a social media challenge that isn't about acting like an obnoxious moron.

If I were an Uber driver in CA as soon as this law was passed I would have swung by Staples and gotten a bunch of business cards with name, cell and email on it. Handed it out to every rider I got. Then when this hits you are set up as a true IC people call you directly, you set the rates. Get a few other drivers together and if you don't want to drive give them another drivers number.

If you have been driving for Uber close to full time you know what you make on a ride and what Uber charges, you either make more, charge less or land in the middle and everyone wins. I mean except for Uber and the state of CA.

Dont let the GOnP know you drink tea.
They'll kick you out.

#9 | POSTED BY ABORTED_MONSON

Not if it's proper southern sweet tea. It should be sweet enough that you can taste the diabeetus in every sip. That's what they serve at GOP mixers around here.

So I read it over and if I were in CA it wouldn't affect me.

That said as a guy who derives a significant source of my income from side hustles I would hate it if I were affected. As was mentioned the tax aspect would be brutal, the loss of freedom of being an employee, heck the hours I work probably wouldn't even be allowed as I frequently work over 40 just on the side.

Other leaders better not upset me
Or I'll send a million troops to die at war
To all you Republicans, that helped me win
I sincerely like to thank you
'Cause now I got the world swingin' from my nuts
And damn it feels good to be a gangsta
-Geto Boys

T-Shirts and Hoodies? Where is the tac gear? Seriously missed opportunity there Cheif Gallagher.

If you are going disgusting displays I guess limiting it to cheap crap is a good way to stay on brand though.