Honestly, you’re both right. It was one of my big sticking points with the original, and is keeping me from diving into this one.

You have officially made my day. FFXII is my favorite since VII, and even that is probably more out of nostalgia

Cabron James is a very good Twitter handle

This is pure poetry

Wait . . . his feet are covered though . . . they also don’t look disproportionately huge.

HOLD THE PHONE. Is this a dwarf WITHOUT a beard?

All great points. That bit about unskilled labor as a ladder for a short period is SO TRUE, but probably FELT more inclusive because absolutely everybody used it to elevate their economic standing.

As a desk jockey myself, I have absolutely no idea. The easy answer is to bring in union leaders from other sectors and figure out what you need to organize from there (if I’m not mistaken, this is what Gawker did)

A. I do! Think of the people in Congress that have no business sense whatsoever (i.e. the Tea Party, labor-affiliated Dems, etc).

A. You’re gonna have to explain a bit more how this doesn’t ALSO prove my point. It can be both!

Hey Keith, question for you. I’m looking to make REALLY simple financial decisions: I want to put a small percentage of my income into straight up Vanguard S&P funds and forget about them for a few decades. What’s the best way for me to do that? I’ve already got my 401K on that track, but that’s tied to my company,…

Doesn’t that turn into a chicken-egg scenario? Union members are organized by the trade in which they work; if there aren’t any jobs for them to grow with, their membership gets smaller. Protectionism is possibly the only way that they see to make this work, since manufacturing isn’t coming back to the US. It just…

A. I pity your bottom line. T Bill yields aren’t in line with corporate bonds, period. Corporations are expected to do better, but most bond purchases are immune to deregulation promises, because deregulation =/= solvency. Plus, every single type of sovereign bond has jumped: 2 years are >1%, 30 years (when you would…

Ham, I agree with the basic thesis of this argument. But think how much of Trump’s plank was built around things unions are theoretically for: stopping NAFTA and the TPP, bringing manufacturing/coal mining back to the US, etc. What’s the impetus for the unions to ignore the individual members who were swayed by the…

That’s not what I’m seeing. Corporate bonds are showing TINY yields right now, while T Bills just took a leap. In short, financial markets don’t trust the returns on the US government. I wonder why that is...

I mean, that’s MY theory on his comment. Could be wrong!

I think Bal is saying that it’s past the point of theory, it is GOING to happen.

Same with the Mini SNES. I bought a REAL SNES for $60 a few years ago and haven’t looked back

I’ve been having the same issue with this. I like to think of the protests as being simple refutations of Trump’s proposed policies, but the way they’ve been titled is something I really don’t like.

Yeah, I’m the same way. This is a really cool idea but I didn’t realize it was limited, so I don’t get why people are freaking out about it. My Christmas present to myself is going to be building a Raspberry Pi so I can emulate classics like NES games.