Lol sure, Jan. That’s why we colonized Europe and enslaved all the Anglo Saxons. It was real wild when we committed genocide against the Nordic people too lol 🙄😒

Good. Gee, I hope hassling these people was worth it, unemployed security guards.

Soooo, what type of thief steals merchandise and then casually hangs out outside the establishment? Said thief complies to a search, and STILL remains onsite for subsequent inquiries??  Just goes to show how racism trumps (pun intended) any semblance of basic common sense

everywhere I’ve worked basically says that at some point, it’s just not worth it to try and recover merchandise

Yeah, this is where the “we’re not profiling!” angle stops holding up. (I mean, it never held up, but still.) If you’re badgering Black folks for stolen property and a white person with them says “Check my shit” and you refuse, you’re racist as a motherfucker.

Let me get this straight: security thought they stole a t-shirt then hung around to spend money on alcohol? After being searched?

Retraining?  Nope.  Fire everyone from the head down.  Then hire new people who aren’t racist and train them. 

Most legal professionals will recognise that victims of violent crimes, particularly sexual assault, particularly where the assailant is an authority figure, will lie. They will lie to avoid revealing details about what happened to them (out of avoidance or shame), they will lie out of fear of being trouble (she was…

Unfortunately, not _all_ DJT’s appointees are completely ineffectual. :(

That way, white females would learn to call the cops on white people and to report actual crimes at a very young age.

That’s where I ended up. I allocate funds into what’s effectively a petty cash account, from which spending is meticulously categorized in my budget under “whatever the hell I want to spend it on.”

Don’t buy peonies every day from now til retirement.

Which is... still less than 5% of the $1.25 million that you’ll need to retire comfortably, according to 2015's Forbes (that’s now considered an underestimate by some sources, since Rx/medical costs are rising faster than expected).

It’s funny because I didn’t see “don’t have a budget” and/or “don’t live within your means” in the advice of the article, and yet here we are.

There’s another dimension to this - the constant means-testing and judging of poor folks.

Well sorry about your family issues but you seem to be projecting your situation onto the fairly low-stakes idea of “rewarding yourself for doing a good job every once in a while” I don’t know Steve you might be reading to much into it, maybe tell them no?  

As far as social security goes CPI prices indexes are…

I think this advice ESPECIALLY applies to experiences. I’ve often found myself torn between wanting to do something or go somewhere and wanting to not “waste” the money on it. Maybe it’s seeing a show, taking a weekend trip, paying an expensive entry fee at a museum... At the end of the day, no matter how much money I…

Finances all come down to behavior. It’s important to understand the technical bits that enable us to reach our goals, but those are meaningless next to understanding what we want and why.

“Balance” being the operative word here, and Elizabeth Warren wrote the best PF book about it.

I only do pleasantry-pinching if I have a small goal to save towards. Like, if I bought coffee regularly and wanted to buy a coffee machine to give me a cheaper alternative, I’d go a few weeks buying smaller/cheaper coffees (cause I don’t currently have a machine to make any) and put the difference towards that small…