A 46 yr old playmate of mine was talking about a 19 yr old and when I said why stop at 19? What about 18? 17? Thats legal here - it’s 16 in pennsylvania. He guffawed, but didnt know what to say

This whole “satisfying” trend is autism-related, right?

1) Nope. You’re white just like every other Root commenter.

Yeah, that’s the big thing. All these people talk about how you’re a rube if you buy new. But it’s like, if I’m planning on driving the car into the dirt for 10+ years, that’s not a bad deal. Say I pay $500/mo for 4 years. My monthly outlay is $250, amortized over 8 years of ownership. It’s $125 amortized over 16…

Oh god, shut the fuck up. Your rhetoric about “the suffering of real people” proves you’re just another white asshole using the comments here to cape for centrist bullshit. If POC didn’t exist to serve as your little totems of “suffering,” you assholes wouldn’t have a shot at gaining any leverage in arguments, would…

That’s precisely what his election has done. There is now far more of a shot for progressive politics on the horizon than there would have been had Clinton been elected. There are plenty of good reasons to not have wanted our current White House situation to come to pass, but “progressive policies would have a better…

But why would you REPEATEDLY GO ON RECORD AS SAYING YOU DON’T HAVE TO DECLARE A NATIONAL EMERGENCY.

Fuck those people. Heres why: They represent the majority. And what happens when the majority gets fucked by their credit? A bailout. These people will fail, but because theres so many stupid people they’ll all get bailed out. Guess who picks up that tab?

Wage growth (and disparity) is a definitely problem, but people buying stuff they can’t afford is the larger problem (and lenders facilitating bad choices).

Cars keep getting more expensive, the amount of money/loan payments are going to keep getting more expensive.

What Amazon was really trying to do with HQ2 was see if they could bring the economic-desperation-level employment reality to a major, thriving American city. It’s one thing to build factories and distribution centers that work people like dogs in bumfuck towns and fourth-tier cities. Amazon wanted to see if it was…

You can try as hard as you want to make every next #MeToo micro-scandal happen, but literally five people on Twitter care about whether Ryan Adams is a creep. This is such a non-story.

Well, and across the entire urban economy—but in tech particularly—nobody is staying put anymore. You put in 2-3 years somewhere, and it’s off to the next opportunity (aka pay raise). Because there’s little economic stability, you’re not going to find anyone looking to make a commitment. Not in their 20s to mid-30s…

No one cares about micro-outrages anymore. Sorry.

Being a C-level executive is the most hilarious grift of all time. You get all the credit if the company does great. And then, if the company fails to meet expectations, somehow the CEO detecting this, admitting it, and “making adjustments” (by firing other people) becomes the measure of his success in the role. The…

Also, girls bully the absolute living shit out of other girls. But hey, I guess there’s probably some grand excuse that ultimately amounts to “men make us like that,” or whatever. In the end, the blame always conveniently falls on “the patriarchy.”

So basically, if you just get really good at engineering “loss of control,” you never have to dribble?

He’s got credibility because he’s an enthusiast and writes about what matters to him. If he starts going back and censoring his thoughts/feelings/impressions of a vehicle there’s a good chance he’s going to leave out some aspects that brought him credibility to begin with.

There was nothing offensive about Omar’s tweet, unless you literally assume that criticism of Israeli policy, and of the lobbying regime (which is very much out in the open, as all lobbying effectively is, not some paranoid conspiracy theory) that gains them influence in our political environment, equates to…

Fuck Nancy Pelosi for giving Donald Trump the ammo he now needs to call for Omar’s resignation. She owed nobody an apology, and none of the people attacking her are doing so in good faith. It is 100% about negating any and all valid criticism of Israeli policy in regards to Palestine and Palestinians.