While that is true, people in China get around that system ALL THE TIME. Mostly to look at porn (which is illegal there), but also to skim uncensored news and find out about stuff they can tell their government is trying to hide. They’re not stupid.

“The Nightfly” by Donald Fagen.

For me, financial independence is reliant on several points:

You don’t have to be rich to like wine. That’s some bullshit we Americans invented back when all of our wines had to be imported.

Gallo wine is straight garbage. We always have to cut it with cranberry juice just to make it drinkable.

Sorry, but any day that involves free/discounted chocolate is a good day. These guys can go suck it.

Unfortunately I believe we are going to see a major internet celeb murdered at some point soon.

Except when people do it to pop stars, they’re usually looking for a souvenir or to (forcibly) talk to their idol. This guy was planning to fucking kill them.

1. If you have anything good or meaningful to say, it’s going to piss SOMEone off. Doesn’t matter how or when you say it - somebody out there thinks it shouldn’t be said at all. That’s just a product of living in a diverse society. Do you let them silence you? Or do you shrug and say “tough titties”? There really is…

Years later, when she heard the cheers again, something clicked. I get it, she thought. I know how this could be intimidating to someone who’s not me. Kocurek considered how the cheers could make her Southern Baptist friend or her Muslim friend feel unwelcome, like the college wasn’t a comfortable place for them to…

My “If I Ever Win the Lottery” plan is to actually leave the country for a while.

It did. Robin William’s suicide caused others to take their own lives. “Correlation =/= causation” does not apply to things like this. People don’t just up and commit suicide en masse for no good reason; there needs to be a trigger, and celebrity deaths are common ones.

Welp, this is it. This is the black race now. Because to be so proud, we can sure churn out the dumbest, pettiest, shit-picking, most irrationally vain niggas I have ever had the displeasure of mistaking for well-reasoned individuals.

Fashion likes to keep itself closed off as possible, so people at every level only get jobs based on personal references. That means lots of networking, lots of schmoozing. These guys get in good with everyone who matters and their behavior is allowed to slide, whether because they’re personal friends with the…

Regular jobs try to make you feel like that, too. It’s not just modelling, it’s gaslighting on a societal scale.

The irony is Africa is the only place successfully trading this crap, because decades of scammers left them pretty savvy to it all.

A “get-rich-quick idea” is what investing is. Buy pieces of a company in hopes they suddenly do super well and you make a profit. The only difference between Merrill-Lynch and the poker table is one takes more skill and the other takes more patience.

What’s up the “?!?” for Pink? Especially considering that she’s a direct influence on acts like Lorde.

They’re catchy as hell, but that’s about it.

Exactly. Aren’t happy with who’s in the Grammys? Stop paying attention to the Grammys, then. They must have a hell of a PR team to get people to forget that they’re home to more obvious politicking than Washington; that shit used to be common knowledge, to the point where getting snubbed was a badge of honor.