I don’t think SNL has ever really earned anything approaching an “outlaw rebel comedy spirit.” They certainly haven’t been at the forefront of biting political satire (sharp? often. smart? sometimes. biting? rarely). SNL has always catered to a pretty broad audience, albeit with an absurdist bent, and their political…

You’re an unbelievable asshole.

Lol, I agree with this take in general, but here I can easily see some value for people trying to maintain a vegan diet who may nevertheless need to get a quick meal at a fast food place (which are pretty notoriously focused on meat products). 

I mean, almost no one thought what happened in 2008 could ever happen. I think maybe your confidence in people’s smarts and ability to learn from past mistakes to prevent future crises is overstated (look at the wild overconfidence in this thread, of which you are a part). Also, I think it’s important to note that the…

I don’t think subprime mortgage borrowers were getting “cheap” mortgages either. The problem was that MBS with a bunch of subprime mortgages were being rated as safe, AAA investments, because of the idea that packaging them together made them safer because it was diversified, and also because of the idea (AGAIN) that…

Not sure what your point is. What I’m saying is that the argument you’re making now—people will prioritize their car notes above all else—is literally the exact same argument people were making in the run up to the crisis. It didn’t prevent the crisis (also, most people who were underwater on their mortgages did not,…

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Huh? I think you’re missing my point. To be clear, the argument you made was that people will prioritize paying their car note. The point I’m making is that before the financial crisis everyone assumed mortgage defaults would not become a problem because the thinking was everyone prioritizes their mortgage payments…

Also add that the ease of repossession and the need to get to work means people will skimp on everything else first to pay the auto note in most cases.

You’re right that auto loans and mortgage loans are different things. I also would be surprised if any issues in auto lending led to anything approaching the 2008 financial crisis. However, there are a couple of things to keep in mind.

Love Musk fanboys. 

If you make a mistake at your job, do you still expect to get paid your full wages for that period?

Yep, 100%. In a former life, I worked as a helper on construction projects. Once, somehow, I got a bunch of cables nearly irrevocably tangled, and had to spend like an hour untangling it. That hour represented a total loss to my employer. I still got paid for that hour...in fact, I think it would have been illegal not…

Farming is not the only job, and also plant-based foods use plants that need to be cultivated.

I mean, jobs sometimes go away.  That doesn’t mean people can’t work (I also think we’re a ways away from farms going away or being completely unprofitable).  It also seems like a pretty big stretch to suggest that the endpoint of us figuring out more ways to meet our needs while protecting the planet must be getting…

Lol, were you CEO?

When things start going well for Kendall, he gets way overconfident in his own abilities and destroys himself. It happened right away in the very first episode, which began with him tremendously confident he was buying Vaulter, and saw him utterly humiliated at every turn.  It happened when he first tried to take…

I’m not sure what you mean by “We have always separated facilities by SEX.” If what you mean is that we have always separated facilities according to biological criteria, that’s definitely not true. For one, not that I think there is a meaningful difference, but they are typically labeled “Women’s Room” and “Men’s Room…

It was sarcasm, because you seem to be conditioning the basic equality trans people are asking for on what you perceive to be their lack of suffering compared to black people.

She did it because she disagreed with the stance the company was taking on Chappelle!  That’s a protest.  You may disagree with the substance and/or methods of the protest, but that doesn’t make it not a protest.