Nah, this doesn’t wash to me. Your evidence is really that Daenerys is *vengeful and ruthless*. Sure. We knew that already; we’re not stupid. And it’s always been possible that she could become a Big Bad in the final shakedown; people have been speculating about that for years.

The problem is that the route from A to…

While burning my own house down would strike fear into my children and perhaps ward off future discipline problems, I probably wouldn’t do it. 

I can always see it. I just can’t work out which way it’s pointing.

Then why have her army in position at all? It’s like mustering your mobile divisions and infantry to invade Hiroshima, then nuking it anyway as they advance. Why have her torch the city precisely at the point where the conventional forces have it under control? She is basically just torching her own capital and all…

But she *didn’t* finally lose it atop the walls of King’s Landing. That’s part of the problem. All the contributory factors took place over the preceding days. There was no major emotional trigger on the day of the battle. And that’s why it reads so poorly. If Drogon had been killed during the battle, or Missandei in…

I always buy sheets with dazzle camouflage to confuse burglars. 

It’s not a very *good* parallel. The Lannister forces had already surrendered. Truman dropped the A-bombs precisely because Japan’s leaders had *refused* to surrender, and because extending the (conventional) war would have promised an even higher toll in lives.

Last time I remember seeing that was at school thirty-two years ago.

Brokerage accounts are essential for anybody with liquid assets above $50k, especially if you need to use more than one currency. 

Hooray for rentiers. 

“Safety net” also implies “emergency funding for those in really bad shape”. But the really key advantages of properly-administered tax and spend systems are in ensuring that human capital is not wasted. Injecting an element of redistribution turned out to be a ramjet for productivity in broadly capitalist societies,…

But that’s really Gates acting (independently) in such a way as to achieve something closer to what proper fiscal policy ought to achieve. And good for him, but it’s not really the optimal way to go.

On the flipside of that, higher (federal) taxation in the USA might just mean higher military budgets. It’s not exactly…

Can you have the employer pay money into your brokerage account, then do the forex conversion yourself?

But his opening sentence implies that we’re all obviously familiar with Lent and with Lenty behaviors. Whereas, these days, probably not.

See my other comment elsewhere. 

Oh. I skim-read the article and then read gatorbait’s comments, which used somewhat sloppy tenses. It should really have been e.g.
“you’ve had up to 15 years worth of additional earning”. 

Err...hmm. 45, around $300k of retirement savings. I guess that’s alright, if nothing stellar. Total net worth is around $700k, though.

Umm...isn’t this completely backwards? Somebody born in 1981 has the *least* amount of time from the Millennial cohort, and somebody born in 1996 has the *most* amount of time. 

That is true. I suppose my intended point is that Muslims seem unusual in the modern world by actually having religious periods trigger observable changes in their daily routines. This is something we don’t encounter very much otherwise in modern secular societies. The “it’s just like Lent, really” comparison could…

With the one key difference that most nominal Christians make zero changes to their daily behavior over Lent.