If your rent is 50k a month it's difficult for me to say you have a mediocre salary if you include benefits, you are probably easily over a million dollars a year.  Which, like how many people make in sectors that aren't basically government graft at this point...

Well, that’s just the federal income tax though. Include payroll taxes, which surpassed the official income tax a while ago, and is capped for high wage people, and avoided entirely by investors like Bezos (other than whatever wage he received capped at like $100,000), and you have a much different story.  Add fines…

Thanks, that was hilarious.

Maybe they just give it to Ronan Farrow?  That's what I would do...  Maybe write for the inquistion on the check.

Isn't this kind of crap what RICO is for?

I think UBI is a better way to get poor people more money than minimum wages. Price controls are supposed to help people, but they have a long history of not working well in reality. Supply and demand for labor set wages in a way that isn’t helped that much by criminalizing working for low wages. Minimum wages favor…

I think this post is trying to show the exact degree that fixing economic inequality would have resulted in progress on racial inequality, which is substantial. Sacrificing that gain to intentionally not help poor white people has real costs, even though helping poor white people does make racial inequality worse. I’m…

The North fought in self defense, but it was attacked because it wanted to abolish slavery.

To my understanding it sounds like Grimes told Azealia she wanted to do something together, so Azealia went to Musk's house and hung around by herself for a week, got increasingly irate and then left.  It's unclear to me how solid the plans were, so who is in the wrong is difficult to say, it could be Azealia showed…

In defense of engine braking, it starts making more sense as your vehicle gets bigger and the time braking gets longer. Slowing for a stop sign, brake. Slowing for a situation, brake. But for a long, steep downhill there is no reason to wear your brakes for minutes instead of the clutch for a second. With a very heavy…

Everyone seems to be hating on Musk these days, but it seems to me like he is trying to do the right thing most of the time. Like, his factory used to be unionized, and weren’t those dudes literally auctioning chicks to fuck on the shop floor during shifts, and doing a legendary amount of drinking and drugs until they…

Oh, worse to than raw, so well done they rock on the plate...

I think that they fired the guy if that helps.

But not enough to put Bernie in the White House, sadly.

Ad Nixon, can't forget him

Saying that you owe someone something isn’t the same as giving it to them, especially if you weasel out of what you really did and minimize it when you admit wrongdoing.

If there is a shortage of immigration judges, why waste their training?  After you teach the three year old how it works, why not put him on the bench to help clear the backlog?

Bernie would have mopped the floor with Trump.  You know that but still blame the people who wanted a too progressive president rather than Trump.  You guys won, almost all Bernie supporters voted for Hillary.  This is what you get....

Harley getting abused by the joker again?  It's a crazy kind of love...

I’ll slightly stick up for Walgreens, their policy is clearly stupid and wrong but it seems like the least stupid and wrong policy allowed by law. They could stay out of Arizona and states with such laws but I don’t know who that would help...