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"First rule of American government spending, 'Why build one, when you can have two for twice the price?" (Contact, Zemeckis, 1997)

If I were as snarky as you, I'd mention that Virgin Galactic is a company, not a plane, and I'm sure you were referring to the flight-ending anomaly of SpaceShipTwo. :)

Obviously you don't sext the same dudes I do...

I work in the cruise industry at a high level and I'm surprised they made this decision from a financial perspective. It really is a guest-first mentality and I give them kudos, its ballsy. And in a general operations sense RCCL and where I work are polar opposites in pretty much every way, so I'm not biased (in…

I work in the cruise industry at a high level and I'm surprised they made this decision from a financial perspective. It really is a guest-first mentality and I give them kudos, too.

So, I happen to be very involved in the cruise industry at a high level and while I haven't been in the test cabins myself to say for certain, I will tell you my colleagues who have seen it universally said it's executed perfectly. The risk they're taking, financially, to do this on their lowest yield cabins, it has…

Yeah, same here. I also work in the travel industry and even though things evolve, there's an attitude of "if it ain't broke..." that seems more pervasive than in other industries. Black screen/green text is still very much a part of my world so clicking is still not something I do if there's a keyboard shortcut…

uh, me! I do database work not CAD/CAM, so obviously there's a difference, but switching between systems that either use function keys or shortcut keys to using point-and-click is jarring and frustrating. Even in Outlook, I send e-mails with alt+S. I never touch my mouse when I'm working with purpose. My mouse is…

The widespread use of this tactic was the #1 reason I stopped using Twitter. Might have been during #SandyHook. Don't fucking sell me Scrubbing Bubbles with an hashtag referencing 20 dead children. Fuck you gently with a chainsaw, marketing department at Johnson & Johnson.

My mind goes straight to Tia from Saved!

I just love your turn of phrase, lady. Hope he gets some of his prance from you! :)

This kid reminds me of the mini-me Jack met in an episode of Will and Grace.

Dude. Sorry about the trumpet. There's a karate studio above my friend's apartment which is the only thing I can imagine being worse. I would die. Just die.

I understand that. But that's $100k they can't do something else with that has more value. That's all I'm saying. I've made a lot of comments so you're probably not seeing everything I said, but I take no issue with spending $100k on a massive vacation or two mid range cars or a downpayment on a starter home,…

Ideally?! YES! That would be awesome if we, as a society, could be cool enough to sit down with our best friends at IHOP and say, "Hey y'all love each other and we love you and you're gonna be together forever and make little humans, congrats!" and call it a day.

I'm not advocating for a life without possessions, I live a very comfortable existence, myself. I'm advocating for a life without waste. Bill and Melinda can live in that multimillion dollar home for the rest of their life together. When they die, someone else can live there after that. What do you have to show…

Did you consider that it means a huge amount to every non-profit and NGO in the world that could have used it to save or improve lives of people less fortunate than you or I? Listen, this isn't me hating the middle and upper classes— I am blessed to have what I can only assume is a fairly similar financial situation,…

Because spending over $100k on a wedding, regardless of how much "money my family has," makes you a shitty person. It makes you the kind of person who values a party over a life. It makes you the kind of person who could exert financial influence on the world to change it, and it also makes you the kind of person…

Wait. You spent six figures on a wedding? You're a fantastically huge fucking idiot.