That’s a great point and I’m sorry for your loss. The legal regime my wife and I are under - which is the default where we live - essentially states that from the day we marry, anything we earn belongs to us in equal parts, and all of it goes to the survivor if one passes away. In that sense, the division of accounts…

I make a bit over twice what she does. We tried to strike a balance between contributing a similar “effort” (i.e. share of how much we make) and having comparable “play-around” money left (i.e. how much each of us gets to keep in his account).

Reason tells me that we’re better off together in this increasingly multipolar world. Having said that, and speaking as one from the rest of Europe, I’m not sure I want the UK to abandon Brexit. They shat all over Europe before the vote (going back decades, to be honest) and always refused to actually be in. No, they…

You’re right, I forget that this isn’t a thing everywhere but we live in a country with mandatory public pension contributions. They’re taken straight out of our paychecks and never even hit our bank accounts. In that sense, retirement’s already taken care of.

You make a lot of assumptions on the country we live in and the terms of our marriage contract. Without disclosing any details that are none of your business, for the sake of any readers let me confirm that there are definitely cases where, even when married, separate investment accounts are legally a thing.

My now-wife and I started a joint account when we moved in together. Each of us has his own bank account where salaries go in. Each of us moves an agreed amount in the joint account automatically every month. The joint account pays all shared expenses: rent (now mortgage), food, holidays, etc. Any extra goes into a…

As a Parisian I can assure you racism is alive and well. My wife is Moroccan and holy hell, the stories she and her friends could tell...

I love how at first he’s like “ZOMG liberal LIES!!” and then he’s all “Okay sure, he wanted to fire the guy, no big deal.”

What depresses me so much is how little it matters. If Obama had paid off a pornstar to keep quiet about their tumbles while he was married, it would have been the Apocalypse. But for Trump, it’s just Tuesday. The story didn’t last 3 days on the news. How is that even possible?

It is also the sickest public burn I’ve seen any institution inflict on this maniac.

To be fair, get in a random match with russian players and you better hope they speak in a language you don’t understand*.

I now understand that Aaronofski’s issue with his and JLaw’s age difference was that it wasn’t big enough.

Or

Try to get some paper trail or at least the name/badge of the officers. This guy’s might keep insisting you didn’t pay him (lesson learned: get receipts or at least pay by bank wires) and at some point you’re going to need to have people there to confirm that he lied about not knowing you and about you never living…

I mean really, if you sense layoffs coming, that’s the only thing you should have in mind - unless you’re absolutely positive you’re going to get a great severance package. Don’t be like the guys at my previous firm(s) who waited until it was too late.

How is it even possible to be a jazzman and a racist without self-combusting from hypocrisy?

I’ve only ever seen one dead body and found it remarkable how you know that person’s gone. There’s something completely unmistakable about it that isn’t the stillness of movement or the pallid skin tone.

Aw man you beat me to it. Flake, sit down and shut up until you actually do something against Trump and his administration.

Gonna be interesting to see how (or if) the other senators (all 5 Repubs) are going to respond. Especially Graham, who apparently reacted in-meeting.

It does seem a bit far out!