I don’t know that the results are all that shocking. If you think about a college-educated individual in their early-to-mid 30's with no kids, who’s had a a decent job for most of the past 10 years or so - and if we’re including their 401k and any various and sundry other investments they may have - having $100k total…

This would be my ideal shopping experience. No lines, no taking out my earbuds to have to make awkward small talk with a cashier I probably didn’t want to talk to anyway, all the payment and processing taken care of automatically via my phone.

Someone has to be the bigger person and try to make it all work. Because once both sides dig in and say, “Fuck it, I’d sooner burn this place down than give you anything you ask for, ever!”, the next step is pretty much just civil war. And that’s going to end poorly, no matter how you cut it.

Why are so many people freaked out? CHIP is secure for 6 more years, and there’s another round of negotiating in three weeks on a longer term budget and the DREAM act. It’s not a full win, but that’s kind of how compromise and negotiating works.

At 6.9%, there’s not a huge sense of urgency in paying off the card, especially when they’ve got that much in the bank. That’s pretty cheap money (seriously, who has a credit card with a 6.9% rate that isn’t a short-term promotion?), especially if they have the cash flow to knock it back down in a year or so.

Ugh. That photo makes him look more than a little like Arseface, from Preacher.

We’re not even a full month in. Wait until election season.

Oh, to hell with it.

If you’ve worked at Walmart for 20 years, chances are pretty good that you’re already dead inside. A $1000 bonus is in no way sufficient compensation for that.

Which is a polite way of saying it was in senior management’s best interests to throw the peasants some more scraps before they get restless enough to finally storm the Bastille.

Yeah, they should hush their mouths because those $500-$1000 one-time bonuses so make up for 20 years of stagnant middle/working class wages.

That doesn’t mean much for insiders and control persons (senior executives) that can’t sell their shares without a lengthy and highly visible process that would cause the stock to drop even faster than it is already.

I’m just glad I’m not single anymore. It was difficult enough back when the world was a simpler place.

As a current resident of northeast Florida, I can confirm the Jason Mendoza is actually the epitome of a Jaguars fan.

Oh, just wait until “emails forwarded from my brother-in-law” overtakes The Economist and Science in the poll.

As much as I love the novel Dune, I have to admit that it doesn’t lend itself to cinematic interpretation easily. David Lynch’s Dune was a decent movie in its own right, but I always saw the story more as a miniseries, or a TV adaptation ala Game of Thrones.

You just have to create some foreign subsidiaries, book a large portion of your income to those subsidiaries, and then the federal government will give you a sweetheart deal on your tax rate to bring that money back.y

Mostly the latter. It’s the logical conclusion of a long-term shell game large corporations have been playing with the US government for about 30 years now.

When I was younger and believed myself invincible, I had that “nah, I’m cool without the vaccine - how bad can it really be?” attitude.

It could be a cleverly coded message to his colleagues indicating that he’s being held hostage, and that everything is definitely NOT ok.