I liked how he kept talking about how awesome the death penalty is to remind any stray liberals that they were no longer on home turf.

Aaaaaah I work Sunday nights! And Monday nights! But it’s ok, the io9 speculating crowd predicted this anyway.

Ok, everything is in Mountain View, CA apparently. I live in fucking North Dakota. I don’t even see anything for Minnesota. Bloody hell. I hate you Ticketmaster.

I’m just not a fan of strict ratios of that nature in general because like I said, they don’t reflect reality for a lot of people. But if I had private loans, I wouldn’t have a choice. I know people in that boat. There’s poor life choices involved, but it still sucks. Actually I suppose there’s a choice to default and…

That’s insane :(

Private student loans are evil and I mercifully don’t have any. I know about IBR, etc, but I make enough that 50% after tax is a comfy lower middle class living and I want it all paid off in 10 years. I just got a higher paying job and I’m planning to dump the excess into paying it off even sooner. I’m really glad to…

I know, but I want them paid off in 10 years. I’m glad to have that option in my back pocket if the going gets tough though.

Yeeeesh. When I had rent control it was limited to 1% raises. 4% seems barely-controlled!

I agree with you in general but some of us are saddled with student loan debt. There’s a range of opinion on the subject of whether and how much of this to take on, but the reality is if you want a decent paying job that calls for a degree, you’ll end up with some. Unfortunately a lot of people don’t look hard enough…

I just moved away from Oakland and our apartment went on the market at $insanity per month. Oakland now is what SF was a few years ago. You’re lucky you caught the housing market like you did. I’ll admit I’m rather jealous.

You certainly need a cash cushion, but over a certain amount that makes sense to you (a few thousand dollars I’d say), it makes little sense to keep a lot of money in savings. I’m presuming that’s what he means.

I dunno, I have this terror of moving to a subdivision and listening to barking dogs and screaming kids all day. Actually I recently moved somewhere with a lot of these noises and I’d take my former loud sports watching neighbors back to get rid of them. To each their own I suppose.

House out in the country wins for…

No rent control?

50-30-20, eh? I love these “rules” that only loosely correlate with people’s realities. Fully 50% of my after tax income goes to service my student loan debt. I’m sure there’s many people who’d love to have 30% of their income available for discretionary expenses; I remember a time in my life when $20 a month for…

Good and/or lucky investing can take people from well-off to truly wealthy. But he’s probably involved in various unsavory activities to generate the cash to stash offshore.

I haven’t lived in Russia in 25 years, but in the Soviet era at least, professional symphony musicians were very highly respected. I don’t know if and how much that translated into earnings, but they were very important culturally. So it actually doesn’t surprise me for a cellist in Russia to be wealthy, although it…

But it had to be said. HAD TO.

I scrolled through this whole thing to make sure no one had gone for this low hanging fruit before I did it. Although someone in the comments was saying he’s actually a good family man despite being an douchenozzle to everyone else. Whatever, don’t take our joke from us!

It kinda looks like they’re about to make out there.

The closest I’ve come to a Trump supporter in the wild was a very young lady at work whose parents are voting for him. Because the whole family has been in the military, and he supports veterans, you see. I had a little explosion about Bernie’s record on veterans and Trump’s lack thereof, then calmed myself and asked…