Yup. This chart doesn’t include room and board, which has *also* skyrocketed. Also keep in mind, it’s *per year* (remember to multiply by 4!).

Right, but you don’t need extra history to understand them; it’s a straight reading comprehension exam.

Wait, what? Is she taking the history SAT? 

More than that! Several others dressed up as “Mexicans”!

Not that roundabout, either. It’s a pretty direct thumb on the classroom scale, even in wealthier (sorry, I mean “higher scoring”) districts that don’t have their life and death determined by test scores.

Seriously! Even if you liked her politics, she’s stiff and aggressive. Which is a fine thing for a person to be, but not a morning show host! Add in the politics, and you have a terrible, terrible idea.

...but...logically...there could only really be one...

I mean, that sounds like depression to me, a non-doctor.

I dunno; I haven’t really ever been betrayed, but I can imagine it sucks, and I don’t love entertainment that makes it “heroic”.  

I was reacting more to the comment than to the movie, here. You were talking about your own life, and I was responding that, in real life, that’s an unreasonable expectation for a normal job. For a high-pressure job in a movie it’s pretty reasonable/normal. 

Totally agreed! My husband got his bike as a cost-saver (he could fit it in my parking spot) but it wasn’t exactly a “four seasons” kind of ride.

Oh, agreed! I think having SOME boundaries are good for work and life, but being responsible is good. I tended to have about 1.5 days per week that were MINE in my first year of work, then worked pretty much every other waking hour.

Aw, thanks! It has its advantages, too, particularly in my line of work (it’s easier to teach kids with ADHD when you have it yourself). 

Ha- it’s pretty much every other article on this site, so that’s why I’m trying not to complain. “HEADLINE TELLS SOMETHING!” is pretty much tailored for my attention span.

Yup. Failing to properly finance R&D seems to be a running theme among failing companies...yet they keep firing R&D people to save money...

Things Americans seem to care about, with motorcycles:

Yeah, the image of the Harley Rider isn’t super popular these days- they sold a lot of Tee Shirts to these beefy old dudes, which isn’t really something young people are all clamoring to be. If you say “Harley” to a younger person, they’ll imagine “fat old man with beard,” not “Easy rider cool guys!”

Yeah, it feels very self-indulgent. She touches on it in the article, but, as someone who has had some depression, ennui seems like someone is putting on the clothes of depression almost for fun. I think that’s what I disliked about the movie. The whole “purposeful melancholy via semi-intentional disconnection from…

When she reference Teju Cole, I went, “YUP that is the writing she’s trying to emulate here.” I think she hit it well, but I also hate that style of writing. It feels like trying to dress up depression in pretty clothes (the literal version of this being something she hates), to hide real points amid quotes and…

I think it’s about the same, honestly. It takes a while to warm up, but then once it’s warm it’s good to go. Rice Cooker was just SUPER reliable and easy, so if you do a ton of rice and don’t do much with meat, I’d go in that direction over an IP.