Yes - but when you buy them, you own them. Eat them, keep them, do whatever. Microsoft want to rent you the peanut butter and the bread, getting the same money off you as they did before except now you just get to sniff them occasionally.

“just noticing the needs of those around you and prioritizing them”

This method has never seen me pay interest in the 5+ years I’ve used it. I treat the card as a rotating “debit” line that constantly gets used and paid.

Every parent learns this eventually. Leaving a child that’s just lonely to sort themselves out in a crib, where they’re safe, clean, and fed is perfectly fine... important actually if you ever want to sleep again.

When you realize that people are scared of authority figures, and that those same authority figures perpetuate that fear... it’s not so surprising. Otherwise the case of the girl working for McDonalds would never have happened, nor would the fake FBI scam sites, etc.

Plenty of funding, personnel, and technology to catch you out when you’re 10c underpaid though....

So few people get what SciFi or Fantasy is, it’s not surprising. Libraries get it wrong, movie critics get it seriously wrong, no shocker really. The fact that SciFi and Fantasy get muddled together at most bookstores (online and brick-and-mortar), should give you a good indication of how much suck there is in…

Agent 47, around the game Hitman, was more on point than you give credit for: “painfully bland” is unfortunately the correct way to consider the character when done right...

I always found that funny. Like, what, because I have an extra 25 bucks I’m not a risk? Because “bad people” don’t have money? Sure...

Reagon’s time was different all round. Nowadays you can’t fire a public employee, not without an act of congress at the least.

I’m intrigued. What would you define as a bad tipper? Someone who tips poorly regardless of service, or someone that tips based on performance? Tipping is a gratuity for excellent service that goes beyond “what you want to eat”, “here’s your food”, “here’s your bill”.

You’ll end up firing a lot of people before you’re done... it’s human nature to judge someone on specific criteria, and quite often most candidates will fill the slot. It’s up to who the interviewer likes at that point.

Lately companies go with telephone screens... which screw a lot of this up.

Be careful of groin attacks. In defence classes for women, they normally advise against this as a first resort as men tend to expect an attack there. Instead, go for things that are not only incapacitating, but permanent - eyes, soft tissue like the nose, lips, ears, etc. If you must go for the groin, make absolutely…

But... you are already doing that. First, your rates are higher - second, you get billed every month ANYWAY.

Doesn’t really matter who wins really. The presidency doesn’t have any power regardless of what they’re spinning; capital hill still makes the decision for all things “change”, and they’re all dinosaurs that have had their jobs for decades.

I think it was evident long before the long lines... the actual benefits are far from clear. I don’t feel any safer boarding a plane than I did before the TSA nazi’s took over.

Long enough to get value for the suing to make money...

Awesome, what cars can I purchase that show the design for comparison? Oh... none? Hmm. So you’re saying Mercedes is breaching a patent for... something that isn’t even used?

One thing I learned (almost by accident really): pay often but don’t pay in full. Leave at least a few dollars owing each month. So if you owe $150, pay $145. Obviously do not ever pay less than the least, but using that as a guideline I went from a 680 credit rating to 755 in a little less than 10-12 months doing…