Alternate theory: He has the self-confidence to believe he can achieve whatever he sets his mind to, fuelled by his basketball and business successes. He also has the self-awareness to recognize when he isn’t actually good enough to do a job, and doesn’t feel obligated to stick around and be mediocre.

“Charity is good.”

Meh. Lots of horn to go around. Horn aplenty, in fact. So horn on who you wanna, I say.

“...You slice a stale loaf of nice bread into cubes, fry the cubes in a shitload or oil and butter, add a bit of salt...”

At the risk of derailing the thread before it starts: Lost.

Chances it’ll find black people - 30%?

You’re conflating your terms. “Helpful to Trump” does not mean “Wrong.” He answered the question that was asked after pointing out that he was not in favour of opening the borders.

Not American. You’ve been online too long.

Good point, and thank you for sourcing your numbers. I would point out that the number would probably change if the US adopted an open border policy, reducing the barrier to entry. But that’s a hypothetical I don’t need to haggle over.

You’ve been online too long if you don’t.

Umm... what did Sanders get wrong? There are literally billions of people who would gladly come to the US if there were open borders, and they would absolutely overwhelm social services when they arrived en masse.

Something about this jersey is giving me pause.

Yeah, I get what you’re saying, but as a Jets fan who came of age when the first two rounds were Smythe/Norris/Adams/Patrick division battles, I got to watch my team get beaten by the Oilers dynasty every year. Sometimes we’d get lucky and lose to them in the second round!

Sports arguments are frequently about hypothetical questions and topics we don’t really understand. Every conversation about “Who’s the greatest [X] of all time?” is comparing things that really can’t be directly compared, but that never slows down a sports fan. Neither does not understanding the principles of a zone…

Your ideas about “the market” are undermined by the article you’re talking about.

That’s weird, you must have those advanced reading skills I hear so much about.

He honed a skill through more than a decade of tireless work, and became one of the best in the world in an incredibly competitive field. When on the cusp of seeing all of his effort pay off, his body broke down and he became a public laughingstock.

...a game shy of the *Stanley Cup final

This is not a heartwarming story.