re: Hell or High Water,

I find it hard to believe that my hitting the little button and Uber taking a cut of the ride that they don’t pay for costs them that much on a marginal cost basis.

This post would be better written by someone with knowledge of fixed costs and variable costs and contribution margins and other business stuff.

Yeah, but he was our Nazi scientist

Feel like the Hieronymous Bosch doesn’t lay it on thick enough. Need another metaphor combining the color orange and something antiquated to keep up the quality writing.

There is no way Jeffrey Immelt is a billionaire if his pay is in any way tied to GE stock

I mean, if you use that logic, you’ll never go to Munich

So half don’t “support capitalism” and 2/3 don’t support socialism. Good work.

America in the late 19th century?

I think you should read a book about the economy or whatever because that’s not how stuff works

Counterpoint: were you not entertained?

I finally got around to reading Ball Four when I was in my early 20s and, having been a lifelong Astros fan, was delighted that he spends the second half of the book playing in the Dome. Think they ought to retire his number.

Speaking of “doing something”, didn’t you not vote Alex Pareene?

The writing style is like hearing nails dragged down a blackboard,

I doubt that 84% of people identifying as Republicans two years ago are supporting Trump

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Actually I think the President to have a beer with referred to Bush’s fairly good humor—he may have been a pretty bad president, but he never engaged in the dark rhetoric you see from Trump

I bet all y’all really hate Shep or whatever his name is

It was fairly accurate at the national level

It’s possible he was attempting to use a phrase that wasn’t already an established cliche in this context, I don’t know.