I see your point, but the intent (or spirit, at least) of social security is for it to be a safety net, not an investment scheme. IMO anyone who is still earning enough that they don’t really need it (through work and/or investment income) shouldn’t mind if they get slightly less than the full amount and the…

We could go back and forth all day on this. I do appreciate your thoughtful answers, but I’ll just say that I still believe that any god that chooses to visit punishment on innocent children (or really any other innocent beings) for the sins of others, or (tangentially) punish otherwise good and kind people who happen…

You didn’t answer my question at all. When a kid gets cancer or some other horrible disease and dies from it, no one did anything evil or wrong. How does your worldview explain how a benevolent higher power (or one worth of worship) allows that? Saying “God works in mysterious ways” isn’t going to convince me or…

If you’re the one who first used/made up the name, you do. And, proper nouns names are different anyway, in that each one only refers to a single object or person. All gifs are gifs, but not all [Name]s are the same thing.

And what about all those cases of childhood leukemia or any other disease that makes life miserable (or ends it) for kids too young to have made any wrong choices? What everyone else is getting at is that it is far more likely that no god exists than that all the shit in this world is the result of evil or punishment…

What’s not to understand, or more specifically, what haven’t you been able to get there? We cook from scratch 3 or 4 nights a week and get 80-90% of our food at TJs (less in the summer when farmers’ markets are open) and it’s way cheaper than any of the other places around us (NYC). Their dairy, meat (frozen and…

Just made one, can confirm you are correct.

How much did Cazadores pay for this post? Four months later and it’s still appearing at the top of the page and in the drop-down header articles?

It’s not a costume, but any first responder who has to work on Halloween and deal with the shit that invariably happens every October 31st deserves a discount on their burrito.

Let’s not get ahead of ourselves here. Doesn’t she also complain that because their combined income is “only” $475K or so, they can’t afford a *second* house? They’re both awful people that deserve each other and all the shit that comes with it.

There are (relatively) affordable neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Queens (and The Bronx). Not having to own a car helps. As does having roommate(s), of course. And there’s always the option of not saving anything for retirement!

If s/he owns other properties, they might be using their “losses” on that one to offset taxes on any income they make on on the others.

Yep - wtf is a “spoonable”? They tried to be clever and/or cute but went whey too far.

Look, if Pei-Wei decided to hire a PI they must know something we don’t, either about where to look, to whom to talk, or something else. If they find multiple sauce recipes, it wouldn’t be too hard to figure out which is the one they want. And yes, I’ve used a GC-MS before - even if they wanted to reverse-engineer a…

Dumpsters outside a warehouse where they actually make the sauce, or their corporate offices, perhaps. Higher-level employees (or ex-employees who might know something). Use some imagination.

Sure. And there are plenty of ways to “investigate” without breaking any laws.

There’s nothing illegal about hiring a PI to talk to employees or dig through dumpsters and see if s/he can find out anything from that.

That’s... a very analytical approach. I’m fairly certain that most analytics departments (and managers, including Boone) tell their players when it is best to try to hit for average and when to go for the home run (perhaps Boone forgot to do that in that moment). Whether the players follow those suggestions or Sanchez…

I’m not too familiar with trade secret laws, but there are probably a lot of things you can do to try to figure out a secret recipe without breaking any of them.

I just see them as completely different things. Much more often than not I’d rather have authentic orange chicken. But once in a while fast food Chinese-American orange chicken hits the spot.