It reminds me of the purple ooze from that Power Rangers movie. 

Accounting laws get very tricky when it comes to determining what an “asset” is and how it can be financially recorded. However, it can be very important for companies to properly depreciate their assets and how much revenue they create, or else it would be very easy to lie to banks & investors about how valuable said…

Person who casually uses the term ‘extrajudicial punishment’ accuses me of a dog whistle. Please tell me the last person whose life was ruined by the all powerful internet mob in a way that is comparable to actual jail time.

While it may feel like social punishment has grown, it’s a known fact that famous people do shitty things, get caught, and then face zero judicial repercussions. Nearly anyone who has faced any level of social repercussions has come out just fine, some doing even better. You just found a way to complain about cancel…

When I flew to India there was a big delay with my initial flight that caused me to miss my connection and it got changed up a bunch. As a result, my luggage never followed the new flight path and it took about 2 weeks to find out it was stuck in London, so I ended up buying a bunch of clothes while in India since I…

Can’t believe I never thought of this. May have to modify baseball’s pass the hat style betting for this in the future...

They certainly are. Perhaps I could have specified that it is a more selfish & carefree style of fun. 

The 40s can be a real toss up, especially depending on how well a person treated their body in their 20s/30s. I had my first kid at 23 and now a lot of her friend’s parents are ~40 and it’s occasionally jarring at how physically different they are from me, despite there only being a 5-10 year age difference. They can…

Also why I pre-download some quantity of TV/movie/podcast that will cover roughly twice my scheduled flight time. Then I can kill data once I’m on board and not worry about any signal strength until I’ve left the plane.

You can always tell a broadcaster is over 50 when they start referring to 21-year-olds as kids. I’m certain I’ll be there when my time comes...

Is there a formula for how they weigh the scores? It’s always seemed odd how a vehicle where most categories get the best rating possible can still get the worst overall rating possible. I expect it’s a method to force manufacturers to be good at everything for everyone in the car, so they can’t game the safety scores,…

Make sure you have trip insurance, especially if your trip involves the Southeastern region of the country. 

For every item that has reduced as a regular price (TVs are everyone favorite example), there are many more that remain substantially higher. According to BLS, there have been ~10 times in the last 100 years (using their published data from 1913-2013) in which the CPI decreased from one year to the next. Another few…

The first 3 seasons of the TV show are pretty solid. Well worth your time if you enjoy superhero stuff in general and anyone I’ve talked to thinks Guston is a better flash than Miller. Pretty good villains in those. 4 was okay, but then 5 lost me, along with a lot of other people I’ve talked to about it, so it’s not…

Scan & go is the best thing about it. I liked Costco more, but not enough to give up how much easier scan & go is when it comes to all the giant bulk items and not having to go through checkout with my kids. 

My Sams allows mobile checkout and they never check for cards. The only time the Sams card leaves my wallet is for gas. Otherwise, I just walk in, scan what I want to buy, they scan the QR on my phone at the exit, then I leave.

I’m sorry to be the one to tell you, but our grocery store prices will never go down. Virtually no price hikes on consumer goods get reduced over time. Best case scenario is them increasing less than 2-3% every year, unless there is a massive change in the macroeconomics of our nation.

I got caught up in a ton of delays through Dallas last week. There were multiple flights with delays all going to the same place and by the last flight there were people who started as strangers planning Ubers together when they landed.

Absolutely that. In the last 3 years my house has purchased 3 new cars. None of us could even test drive a Toyota, let alone have any certainty we could get what we wanted at MSRP and within 6+ months. All different vehicles (RAV4, Highlander, & Sienna) and the whole experience almost felt like Toyota didn’t want us…

People trying to create viral moments always brings out the conundrum that I don’t want to advocate for violence, but it seems like some people just need to get punched in the face for attempting stupid shit.