I spent 15 years working in social services. The amount of hatred towards the poor is absolutely amazing. “They have a cell phone!” Well yeah, they need a phone to do basically anything in today’s world. How can they take calls from work to cover a shift, how can they take calls about job interviews, how can they…

especially when you roll up on the cockroach swarm....

FWIW I’ve installed headsets with wood blocks and rubber mallets. Make sure you’re hitting the bearing shell and not the bearings themselves. But otherwise fine.

OK, so here’s what you do. Get the shorter headset. Don’t want to shell out for Chris King? Get a Ritchey Logic for $14. Been around for AGES.

just wait until you have to find a good 26 inch wheel

These aren’t the jokes we’re looking for. Move along.

Hell, even if it was a real gun, she’s a Storm Trooper, it’s not like she would have hit anything.

this is exactly how i play it. 

Amtrak, maybe.  Greyhound, nope.  Greyhound is a UFC Octagon on wheels.

Unless you can afford first class, just don’t fly. Period. There really is no good reason to be anywhere that bad. If you need to be there that bad, then you can afford first class.

Ventilation, FTW

Wedges for the people!

... which will maybe make your company re-evaluate sending you on all those flights, which is the point. I don’t know about your job, but at mine a lot of the flying people do is for purposes that could pretty easily be done over videoconferencing.

Pantheism doesn’t predate the 1600s. It’s a modern philosophical position. There are some historical faiths that you can describe with the term, some versions of Hinduism for example, but the Greeks and Norse were explicitly not pantheists. They were hard polytheists. There’s been a conscious effort by modern soft…

Do the richies want guillotines and a Reign of Terror? Because this is how you get guillotines and a Reign of Terror.

The old ways are sometimes the best ways.....

Sounds like the kind of legislation enacted by the local car shop owners. Just like the mortuary owners had laws passed making it illegal to burn your own dead in the back yard. Next thing you know, you won’t be allowed to worship your pagan gods in the home but will rather have to go to an established house of…

Being Christian is to follow Christ’s teachings.

It may be irrational, but in any sort of battle the last place I’d want to be is in a tank (topped only by a submarine).

Contrast this with the Caucasian people of New Zealand joining in the Hakas after the mass shooting.