I think Eric might be the son with some notion of his limits. He seems to know that he’s not going much further than he has right now, and he’s comfortable with just inheriting a bunch of money, keeping busy doing rich guy shit, and letting interest and capital growth carry him through.

Is it? History is replete with stories of the dipshit heirs of competent rulers and movers/shakers failing legendarily, quietly white-knuckling through with tons of advisors, or just falling through the cracks of time into obscurity. Having mentioned England, I’m sure you can go back through and recall a few of those…

I’m definitely going to go spend 2.5 hours watching that disappointing movie now so I can figure out how anti-gravity rock is affecting America.

I had the same thought, and that was why I was excited to see it. 

If you do that, you have created a different food item than what I’ve now decided to call “burger mulch.”

You’re not alone, either in being empathetic, or feeling lonely in that. 

“I’m for minor tweaks in select areas that don’t cost any money or carry any risk of failure, because I like things more or less how they are, and I think you should, too.”

I don’t know that it’s actually horrifying, but it really landed with me. So, I lived with a couple of friends who were a couple. She would occasionally cook dinner (for them). Then, one night I was invited to stay for dinner. Dinner was a dish whose name I forget, but whose ingredients have stuck with me for most of…

I’d be shocked if anyone would trust this guy with a weapon. No, better to drop him in some kind of office-supply logistics unit and just tell the sergeant to keep an eye on him, because he’s bound to try to re-interpret orders, and then fuck up whatever he actually does.

Sure, bud. That’s what it is.

I think everyone’s just trying to say it’s obviously not the specifics of anyone’s performance that’s your problem with that movie.

Not a lawyer, and not sure about New York state, but the federal law allows for private suits to collect stolen wages. Go to the legal clinic and see if they have referral or advice, but you can also search “Fair Labor Standards Act attorneys” and probably come up with some phone numbers.

She’s just excited for the anticipated purges and ethnic cleansings in that photo. 

Well, shit, we can’t keep ‘em here. Maybe we can set them up on a nice oil derrick somewhere, like that one micro-nation in the North Sea? They can all social Darwinism each other to their hearts’ content.

The punishment is that he’s miserable forever. He’s done. Not even going to get to stand in the sun and talk to anyone, because they’ll have to have him protected. Likely until he dies.

My understanding is that the guys who end up in those kinds of gangs don’t really hold with the kind of scrubby cry-baby this guy is. 

“We don’t actually dispute that all this is true, but we’re going to characterize the problem as ‘leaking.’”

Yeah, that’s super dangerous, people knowing their rights, and verbally chastising people for coming to snatch up their neighbors by spending hours running Constitutionally-iffy checkpoints and detentions. Somebody might get told they’re an instrument of terror and oppression and suffer the harm of realizing that they…

To my guy in the grays, talking about how Republicans are definitely still pro-cop because they’re telling the cops they’ll kill them - first, off, troll guy, go kick rocks.

If they were anything like these guys, they got up a petition to demand that all performances of the poems of Aesop, who famously wrote beautiful lyric poems about women in love with each other, be cancelled. And then they went around quoting the morality tale fables of Sappho.