It’s pretty easy to overlook the vast numbers of people in these high-income, high-cost urban areas who don’t make anywhere near what you’d need to buy a house and live a comfortable life. For every lawyer or engineer making $100k plus, there are probably ten people making a third of that or less who commute from the…

Housing is pretty crazy - my wife and I are half-jokingly waiting for a major recession to swoop in and buy something cheap (we’re both in a pretty recession-proof industry). I just can’t bring myself to pay $600k for 900 square feet.

Man, I wish. My wife and I both make a little over that , but we happen to live in an expensive city and have student loans. I would never say that we’re suffering - we’re definitely not. We manage to go on the occasional overseas trip, sometimes because I travel for work and we make a vacation of it and sometimes…

You owe me a keyboard, mine has coffee all over it now. Also, thanks for informing my colleagues  that I clearly haven’t been working. No one laughs that hard at spreadsheets.

I easily save $50 a month with Fi over what I was paying T-Mobile for my Iphone 7. The Pixel 2's price is pretty much on par with the iPhone, but the cost of ownership is way lower for me. Then again, if I break it I’m screwed. I do miss the sense of security of Applecare and knowing that if something did happen I…

I agree with you 100%. There are just so few proponents of gun control that have a working knowledge firearms that the focus keeps drifting to cosmetic features or specific models rather than what counts - rate of fire, range, and magazine capacity. Semi-auto rifles are military weapons with no legitimate civilian…

I’m okay with people owning guns, just not weapons that have no reasonable use for hunting or self-defense. How does an AR-15 or any other semi-auto rifle fit into that? Or are you going to make the ridiculous argument that the 2nd Amendment is for defending yourself against the government?

Ok, Rubio. You have a point. Cosmetic features like flash suppressors, pistol grips, and bayonet lugs aren’t actually important and they’re a terrible way to identify what class of weapons should be illegal for civilians to own. When the federal Assault Weapons Ban was in effect, gun manufacturers got around it by…

Counterpoint: They now have to vote for another funding bill in three weeks where CHIP is no longer an issue on the table. If Republicans refuse to pass DACA the Dems can force another shutdown, only this time Republicans won’t be able to say they’re holding poor American kids hostage for the sake of “illegal…

I sincerely want to be respectful to people and I have no desire to make them uncomfortable or even worse, insult them, by the pronouns I use. That being said, there is absolutely zero chance that I’ll be using the words Ey/Ne/Ze/Xe or any of their derivatives. I’ve been using “they” as a gender-neutral singular…

After seeing this movie I thought to myself that the next one might end with the closing credits : “with the rebellion defeated, the Galactic Empire reigned for 10,000 years”.

Franks - “I don’t see the big deal. I asked a staffer if I could put a baby in her and she totally took it the wrong way.”

I....I think you just founded a religion.

Lasership (a garbage company that needs to go away) has made this their standard practice for years. They use contract workers who have a number of packages to deliver by a certain time and if they don’t make it they’re instructed to mark them as delivered and get around to it when they can.

We do know that a North Korean EMP attack on the United States would have a very good chance of killing 90% of the population of North Korea.

Houston is literally just a paved-over swamp and it feels like it. I’ve spent summers in a lot of hot places, and Houston is the most brutal.

This is literally the only reason I would ever consider moving out of the city. My wife and I live in D.C., where the issues with public schools are pretty well known. We both make decent salaries, but the cost of private schools in this area are absolutely insane so we’d probably be forced to relocate to one of the…

That doesn’t quite tell the whole story. The military has a guaranteed bloc of seats in the parliament that allows them to essentially veto any legislation. In addition they have the ability to appoint the heads of several ministries, including those responsible for defense and internal security. ASSK has literally no…

Religions are pretty much only cool when they’re irrelevant opinions held by parts of a population. Give them the smallest bit of influence over the running of a society and horror ensues.