Was the Anon-IB user whose IP was from the Executive Office named “BigHands45", by any chance?

Is that a Hooverphonic reference?

Uh-oh, looks like Dutch-land is going to have to say goodbye to all the humanitarian aid dollars that the US is sending their way! Ingrates! SAD!

Thanks, that’s exactly what I felt as well. I’ve only seen episode 1 of this season, but I felt that it - like most of season 3 - wasn’t Black Mirror enough for me. BM always felt like it was about tech, and how humans molded themselves around it. But lately, it’s like it’s more about human traits (as we already…

I’m good, I’ve got a special fridge for this sort of thing.

Not to diminish the plight of homeless people but if people are without heat when it’s minus 40, a whole lotta people could end up dead - even if they have a roof over their head.

So let me get this straight: the house is at risk of “potential dangers such as carbon monoxide poisoning, inadequate light and ventilation, and insufficient exits in the event of a fire,” but it’s fine if it’s children sleeping in the basement instead of homeless adults?

What if I like soggy rubber with cheese on top?

I mean, she looks like she’s kind of a spectacular doctor too. I’m not into the whole popping thing but I showed one vid to my wife and since then she’s addicted (I’ve created a monster). She showed me one where she takes out a lump the size of a grapefruit and honestly the skill involved in cleanly removing something…

Genuinely LOL’d at Sadako lugging around her TV. A+!

Sure. My point wasn’t to go into the specifics of my situation or even France as a whole; it was just that I thought the article (and generally articles on $2c.) were very US-centric and not necessarily applicable to countries with different social security/pension/tax regimes.

I’m just confused that in this day and age someone can still think about publicly making an oven joke* and assume it’s all gonna be fine.

What the fuck happened to this place, where an editor would even entertain the idea of giving this bag of vomit a platform? This empty prose doesn’t even deserve self-publishing. It’s what diaries were invented for: you write all the stupid shit that comes to you in there, and then you lose it or burn it once you know…

Listen to yourself, man.

Well the State of Palestine also claims (East) Jerusalem as its capital, so that’s awkward.

Not unlike edgy tattoos with oriental characters, this is gonna be real awkward in a few years.

It’s France. Technically only ~40% comes from the public pension, the rest is from two additional schemes that I make (mandatory) contributions to. I believe it adds up to 75%, calculated on the basis of the 25 highest annual salaries of my career or something.

Couldn’t the reporter just play back what they’d just recorded?

I actually don’t. In my scenario, 25% of my pay gets taken away to pay for someone else’s retirement while I need to save obsessively whatever I can after that and after taxes (calculated on the pre-social security number, of course) because the system will have failed by the time I get to retire. “Oh you paid all…

The concept that if one doesn’t want all his benefits to vanish, maybe one shouldn’t vote for the guys who keep yelling that they’re going to cancel all benefits, seems to have been lost on a lot of low-income (white) voters.