Probably because you haven’t bothered to look. Taxi drivers in (most, all?) cities go through background checks, are required to apply and pay for a licence (which come with a variety of skills/requirements to fufill), there are numerous local laws (attempting) to reduce racial and other discrimination, in my city all…

I’m like “if your car has ~400k miles and you’re telling me you haven’t turned wrenches on it, you’re full of shit.”

So, basically, non-Tesla carmakers have standards?

Spending hours on this raid and getting some lame-ass drill sounds almost as bad as spending $60 and getting Fallout 76.

Kaelynath got a drill, a simple, nearly worthless tool. “F*** you, Bethesda,” they wrote.

AZ has a law allowing communities to bill people who have to be rescued bypassing a barrier and driving into flood waters. It’s known as “The Stupid Motorist Law”.

Evangelion is, I think, a difficult anime to like in the sense of enjoyment. I said this on another thread, but while I think Evangelion is vastly important and influential...it’s also not an anime I really have any desire to watch again.

Ah, but Soylent is People, you know. And we can’t restrict “people’s” rights.

Am I the only person who thinks that companies themselves shouldn’t be allowed to donate to political figures? It doesn’t seem like this should be a partisan issue. A company wants to donate to causes near and dear to their leadership’s heart (better gay rights, banning gay marriage, whatever), they should go for. But…

My issue with ThinkGeek has always been the dollar store quality of the vast majority of their stuff, especially at the prices they charge. I like the concept of a lot of their stuff, but it’s generally chintzy looking and destined to break in a week.

My issue with ThinkGeek has always been the dollar store quality of the vast majority of their stuff, especially at…

I use kind of a modified envelope system: 3 separate checking accounts with debit cards. One is for my rent, one is for bills and groceries and the remaining one is for ‘fun money’, for things like movies, coffee shops and restaurants. 

It’s a $100 movement, tops.

My inner child says “Yeah!!!!”. My outer adult says: “Nope.”

Although houses don’t seem affordable these days, if you start saving now, you will have your opportunity when house market goes down.

Moving to a lower cost-of-living area can help, but only to a certain point

Depends a lot on context, the “certain point” can be staggering.
Moving from Paris to a small city in west of France got me going from renting a tiny studio in Paris suburbs (the hood kind, not the picket fence kind, my neighbors were a dump…

Why not just buy some dividend stocks? I honestly never get this...lots of good solid companies pay 4-5% dividends and odds are that over time you will do well on the stock price as well...on a longer time horizon you are almost certain to win big.

Or, you know, teach your kids to not spend money they don’t have. Instead of creating a distaste for debt this is going to normalize it instead. This is the worst advice I have ever seen on this website and that’s saying something.

Essentially admitting that exclusivity deals are due to some pissing match between them and Valve rather than being anywhere near an attempt at being pro-consumer.

Remember, Overwatch came about through a cancelled shooter MMORPG called Project Titan.

How is this not basically the equivalent of over serving someone at a bar? I mean, I can get in some pretty serious trouble if i let someone get completely shitfaced and they go out and run someone down cause even though they were visibly way too drunk I kept serving them. No one died here I mean, but it seems pretty…