You don’t seem to understand how job mobility is really hard for people, especially people dependent on employer-based health care. Your “solutions” pretty much put a very heavy thumb on the scale for people with the capital to start their own business at the expense of people who don’t. You blew off the “capitalist…

OK, so you keep saying there are other solutions to the problem unions exist to address, but (again unless I missed it) I haven’t seen you mention one other than “trust business owners to treat employees well”.

Nobody is saying it is not *possible* for an employer to treat employees fairly and respectfully, but it is also certainly possible that they do not. Unless I’m missing something, you don’t seem to be making any allowances for that possibility.

Just wanted to say I’m with you here. In my experience as soon as the flight takes off like 90% of the people (including me) recline their seats. I’ve never had a problem with it and I just wouldn’t know what to say to someone who did.

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Mostly because San Jose is basically “San Fernando Valley North”.

Getting defensive doesn’t really help you. You called the fact that he identified his kids as “American Indian” as “totally unacceptable” and compared him unfavorably to an “ignorant redneck” for doing so.

Counterpoint:

I’m sorry, are you telling this person how he is allowed to identify himself?

When you do, can you wear a t-shirt that says “I am VABlitz” or something so we can identify you?

Ironically: One of the escorts named “Ole Miss Phone”

“Yeah, U.S. Americans study world geography in school.”

Lolwut? You mean like rivers in Africa?

...not the point. The point is that it is possible this person knows about as much about baseball as you do about cricket.

Because you get into a rhythm in Jeopardy trying to time Alex’s cadence and figuring out when the ring in is allowed (most contestants report that waiting to react to the light is too slow), which leads to sometimes buzzing in too fast.

Better yet, someone in Cricket had a record 256 of something. What was that thing?

Fairly sure that was Scotty Nguyen, not Men the Cheating Douchebag Master.

Yep, this. First of all Rounders preceded the boom by several years. Hole-cams making the game watchable + Moneymaker’s great cinderella story + online poker blowing up in a legal-gray-area-but-still-easy-to-do space all kind of coalesced into a big self-reinforcing surge.

Bracy was entirely on the moral high ground until he for some reason decided to drop right down to Hernandez’s level by calling him fat. Talking to the dealer or the floor is absolutely the right thing to do.

And on top of the marginal value of a dollar being less than the marginal value of being part of what has a chance to go down as a historically great dynasty, being part of that team could possibly, in the end, even be worth more financially to Durant than the extra 9 million with advertising, sponsorship, etc., etc.