Tell you what. I’ll pay your share of the taxes raised for loan forgiveness, if you pay my share raised for the defense budget. Or even half of it. Funny how we can’t pick and choose on an individual level what government programs we want to fund.

This turkey begs to differ.

I’m picturing the guy from Dexter...

How is someone hired by the mayor any more answerable to the taxpayers than someone unpaid? He’s not paying his wife a salary, but he is directing funding toward her efforts, so it really is the same, minus one paycheck. If she is misusing that funding, in the eyes of the taxpayers, it will reflect poorly on the…

Hmm, isn’t this just a form of delegation, though? She wasn’t elected, but her husband was, which gives him the authority to delegate as he sees fit. I’m sure he hires people to oversee or head up a number of different things he can’t see to himself. And if his wife is able and willing to do so without a salaried…

Well, OK. But I’m pretty sure my gf would be rather pissed.

Hmm, I wonder if these guys were like me. I would never file my NJ state return, because I used TurboTax, and they charged something like $35 to file state returns, while I’d usually have around a $20 refund from the state of NJ. So, I didn’t feel like paying $15 just for the privilege of filing. Figured the state…

I’m kinda curious if this is the case, myself. Did they survey people who shop at certain stores, maybe? Cause yeah, I get a few new pairs of jeans and polos every couple years and I’m set. Probably comes to less than $25/mo.

You may actually be right... sort of.. but not in the way the guy originally meant. The full quote was “Clearly we are all ACCIDENTALLY in the group TI HR HEALTH WELLNESS. This is an IT fix. Stop replying.”

Thank you. I came to post this. That guy. Fuck that guy.

Exactly. The only reason to rent when you could own is when you value the mobility. There’s really no financial incentive unless your local area is really twisted.

Scenario 2 made me think of an interesting possibility for an experiment. Give the class an assignment with room for subjective grading. Then split them into two halves by something arbitrary like what letter their name starts with. Grade one half normally, and spend a little extra time grading the other half, looking…

Eh, I’m not sure ‘moving left’ necessarily correlates directly to being more against guns. As you point out, Sanders is hugely left, and getting a surprising amount of support (first candidate I’ve ever cared about, myself), but he’s not looking too interested in banning guns. And I think there’s a big chunk of people…

Responsibility may still fall with the show to make sure they are actually dealing with the proper owners to the rights. Imagine you find a watch on the ground and pick it up. You turn to the nearest person and ask “is this your watch, and can I buy it from you?” They claim ownership of the watch and negotiate a deal.…

This is brilliant, due to the fact that thwarting your pursuit of a bazinga free shirt would itself be ideally followed up by Sheldon’s character saying ‘Bazinga!’

Ah, I’ll chalk it up as another reason I should have moved to Canada years ago. My deal now doesn’t exactly suck, as I’m using my brother’s employee discount for Walmart Family Mobile, so I shouldn’t complain. Benefits of friends in low places.

How? Where? Why have I not heard of this before?

All good points. The best laid plans of mice and men, as they say. But yeah, it’s still nice to have predictions that at least factor in the predictable things in life.

I wonder how hard it would be to make something like this that factors in changing circumstances as you move up in your career.

The guys there said that has never happened in the 30 years they’d been doing it.