Trying to secure a living wage=biting the hand that feeds you. Sure. just be grateful you’re not a slave, you filthy line cook.

The GoFundMe thing is sort of dumb, but even ~$157k/year for 20 years in DC isn’t getting you to a net worth in the millions.

A federal employee in this sense is very different than your typical elected or appointed official. His post-FBI employment/book deal prospects are very good, but while serving, he probably didn’t have any side gigs or anything (FBI isn’t big on that). And $157k is high, but still a (higher-end) middle class salary in…

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Righteous is different than right. Most decent people are able to reflect on their beliefs, question if they are doing their best, or struggle with moral ambiguity. A rule of thumb: the more right you know you are, the shittier you are.

These people sound awful, but are you really a psychologist? I would expect a little more nuance than “those people are just fucked in the head, nothing else.” Even terminally fucked up people are worth understanding clinically, right?

It’s okay to make fun of Italians. Or Irish. Or any European, really. My mom is Polish and I don’t mind Polack jokes.

I think you understand the difference. Throwing around the word terrorist is really unhelpful. It’s the same inflammatory bullshit that enables people to abandon due process, conduct extrajudicial killings of Americans, etc. Just because you’re reframing it for a cause you support doesn’t make it better.

Causing terror doesn’t make someone a terrorist. Definitions of terrorism are difficult, but some religious/political/social/ideological component is necessary. Psychopath jilted lover doesn’t count, and random mass-murder, absent some wider perspective, doesn’t count.

This is bad, but “chanting the n-word” is misleading. They are (stupidly) singing a song with the word, not chanting it, and not directing it at anybody. Still really fucking stupid, but I was expecting some hate crime kind of harassment or something.

Is it weird that defense contractors have challenge coins? Like if someone showed me a Booz Allen coin, I’d be less than impressed.

I had a motorcycle delivered from Indiana to Baltimore in 2011. It was fantastic. So efficient, he made the delivery and I got to work on time that morning.

Same--I was in high school, and the whole thing was so obviously predicated on bullshit. All politics aside, I still don’t understand how anyone had any confidence in the Bush administration. Like, even if you could see a case for war, did you really think that crew was competent enough to prosecute it?

Tricks are what whores do for money. (or candy)

The headgasket on my wife’s Outback failed on the highway and within the few miles to the next exit, the engine was toast. I don’t know how this happened.

Is it common for dealership service departments to have limited staff who can actually work on engines? This seems odd.

Does anyone not old enough to receive social security actually consume local news? Seems like they’re mostly preaching to the choir.

My brother’s 240sx had the same door handle thing.

Is having a year’s worth of income in savings really the marker of poor/not poor? That seems high. We make okay money, so we should have ~$150k in savings before we get a cat?