I’d go back and read that entire section, and perhaps check out the linked post in that section.

That’s a very measured response to a person who probably believes that all it takes to be rich/successful is bootstraps! Bootstraps and the sense you were born with!

That’s a huge generalization and oversimplification in the first place, but there’s a great book that addresses your point. It’s a really eye-opening read: Scarcity: why having too little means so much. It discusses decision-making (and other behaviors) when you have limited resources (both time and money). Side note:…

They no longer exist, having all having been eaten by a horde of one-eyed, one-horned flying purple people eaters.

So Louisiana is both an open and concealed carry state, and yet this man is shot solely on the basis that he is carrying a gun?!?! And the NRA keeps telling us that arming ourselves makes us safer?!? Oh, right, black. Sigh.

“...officers were usually given “a day or so to go home and think about it get their stories straight” before being interviewed.”

The department’s spokesperson Cpl. L’Jean McKneelytold The Advocate that officers were usually given “a day or so to go home and think about it” before being interviewed.

And both their body cams “fell off.” The rage and grief are indescribable this morning.

I’ve never understood why basic sanitary supplies designed to keep us from bleeding all over everything would still be considered luxury or non-essential.

This breezes right past some of the larger problems, like owning an older car which has a greater need for repairs, living in a poorer neighborhood where there are only small, more-expensive markets, buying clothes that are less durable. Nutrition also suffers because there are fewer choices and less “healthy” food…

Let me tell you about Chris...Chris fabricated a job description, I signed on, arrived to find job was completely different, spent SIX MONTHS being berated daily for not knowing things that nobody had told me I needed to know, lauded my “mentor” who was at work maybe 20 hours a week between all the breaks, three hour…

This actually just sounds like run of the mill bad, not even especially awful.

You’ve been very lucky with your bosses if this doesn’t ring true to you.

How is it not incompetent to think an unfamiliar plant is edible? It’s the very definition of incompetent.

Pretty sure that eating plants that you’re unfamiliar with is a big no-no. I think eating mystery plants would easily fall under ego and incompetence.

To be fair: she totally could do exactly what he did, with the exact same result.

Counter point : we need to stop rescuing those people.

“What was the name of that movie I hated about the total idiot?”

How anyone could watch that movie and not think that McCandless was a giant dumbass is beyond me. Why do people idolize a spoiled brat that killed himself from a mix of ego and incompetence?

“Hey Ted, remember that unprepared idiot that wandered off into the woods and starved to death?”