I know. Gods help her.

Eh, I’m more OK with ridiculously rich people spending heaps of money on luxurious consumption than leveraging it to filter more money up to the top. I’d guess that a significant chunk of that 5 mil goes into working class pockets. At least more of it than when it is spent on tax evasion, buying up means of…

Wow. This guy is me. Just had my girl come over to confirm that this conversation didn’t happen between us, but very much could have.

It’s an exploit only possible due to what is almost certainly a bug. If there is an AFK timer that counts down when a player is not actually AFK, that’s almost certainly a bug, not a design decision with unintended consequences. The timer logic needs to be more robust to distinguish between an AFK player and an active…

There was a game called Savage that was similar to what you describe. There was one Commander per team who played RTS mode, controlled workers, gathered resources, researched upgrades, etc, and the rest of the players were the military units. Was a really cool concept, but from what I recall, poor technical…

I’ve always been interested in doing it at least once. I got notices about 4 times while I was in school, and every time I’d have to send the return note saying it would be a hardship affecting my classes and requesting they call me in the summer, instead. And every time, they’d wait about a year and call me during…

Voting is important, but not exactly day-to-day, and not the top priority for people at the bottom. (Arguably maybe it should be). I’d also guess that most people in the ‘public employee, in a union, or otherwise have some sort of retirement’ group aren’t the ones primarily being stomped on by the financial system’s…

Not an expert, but credit score alone is a black box, where they take everything on your credit report and spit back a number that affects what loan rates you get. The algorithm they use to produce that number is their own secret, so it can’t directly be checked. Maybe they don’t use race directly, but they use…

Just think of it this way. The sun sets in the West, right? So if you want to work after the sun goes down, you work for people far to the West of you, where the sun just went.

Should is a funny word. There’s lots of things people should or should not do. But that never seems to change the fact that they do not or do, with little or no regard for the consequences. You can’t control people, just inform them, apply pressure, and mitigate the damage they can do when they ignore all that.

Only marginally better. Then you can still fiddle with your phone, oblivious to the outside world. Basically, no matter what you do, you’re not going to be able to force the driver to actually pay attention to the road and be in a physical and mental state to take over control within a useful time-frame if that person…

Would stop you from getting out of the driver seat, but wouldn’t stop you from taking a nap in the driver seat.

“according to their respective masses, which is measured in mega-electronvolts”

The thing is, what you are suggesting would mean that everyone who is a victim of something horrible should have the right to take their anger out on any innocent bystander and get a pass on whatever damage they inflict. That doesn’t seem healthy for society. It’s one thing to give people some leeway when they are…

Shaming the theater for seeking costs from the families is no better than shaming the families for seeking damages from the theater. Each gets their day in court to determine whether they deserve their claim. Except, in the case of the families, they went after a target that did no wrong to them, and in the case of…

Doesn’t this figure represent the cost to the theater of those families pursuing legal action against them even though they did nothing wrong? I feel like I’m mostly OK with this, depending on how aggressively they seek payment. Anyone who jumped on board trying to get a payout or place blame on what amounts to an…

I think the most reasonable complaint has been against cases where people who were unaffiliated prior to the start of campaigns were not allowed to register for a party and vote for a nominee. It’s a system that fails to welcome in potential new members of the party who are drawn by a particular candidate.

Until you come home one day, open your closet, and find all that shit stuffed in there for some reason...

Those ‘few’ things are rather significant. Voting together 93% of the time says little, since that 93% likely consists of a lot of boring but necessary stuff that nobody would oppose. There’s less of a percentage difference between human and chimp DNA, but that little difference goes a long way.

I don’t recall Clinton having a significantly different platform from Obama in 08, so there was no reason for her to stay in till the end and make platform demands. Sanders is a completely different situation, and there’s quite a few supporters that aren’t going to automatically move to Clinton’s camp unless she makes…