Gate lice and the queue jumpers are two different things. Gate lice are just the idiots in the high boarding groups cluttering up the lanes LONG before their group is called. Honey, you are in Group *9*, you aren’t going anywhere for 15-20 minutes, sit your ass down.

THIS - so much this. It is so aggravating!

There is nothing wrong with standing as soon as you can - as long as you are not trying to shove your way to the front. After a several hour flight, I am very ready to get up ASAP when I can. But I am also nearly always in the first row of the airplane...

A severe lack of situational awareness as well. It amazes me how often the whole gate will be there, the door will be open to the jetbridge but boarding hasn’t started, and some dumbass will run up and try to scan their pass and are shocked when told that boarding hasn’t started yet.

Because the airlines have monetized early boarding and the seats at the front of the airplane. The back of the (air)bus is for the basic economy proles.

And Toyota will deny warranty claims if the computer sez you drove faster than 85mph, never mind used that launch control mode. Hard pass.

The guy who bought one of these for $1 overpaid.

As a former tax preparer, it is terrifying how many people think a tax refund is a gift. No dumbass, you gave the government an interest-free loan of your money. The financial illiteracy of the average American is astounding.

And given the large standard deduction these days, it takes a LOT of other income to get to where SS is taxable. If you are making enough in retirement that you need to pay some tax on your SS, I have zero sympathy for you. Pay up, Scrooge.

For the vast majority of recipients, it is. You have to have *substantial* other income before SS becomes taxable, and even then it’s a sliding scale to a pretty high level of income. My grandparents had to pay some tax on their SS, but they had traditional pension income of better than $80K a year plus investment…

Your house may or may not be an appreciating asset. In many places right now, they are NOT. A house is a place to live, not an investment. Not that I disagree with the mortgage interest deduction, within reason.

Pretty much ALL interest paid was deductible until Reagan.

Preach!

The regular factory and workers are in no way prepared or capable of doing something like this. I assume that Jaguar has a restoration shop for this sort of thing.

I suspect this was *several* hypercar priced. 

The only thing better would be a brand-new vintage Ferrari, but you need oil Shiek money to pay those wankers.

My modern BMWs and Mercedes have an A/C on/off switch. Not really getting his concern here - this is still very, very commonplace. 

Uh, abortion is a *state* issue - per our esteemed Supreme Court (/s). So why are we pearl clutching that a *Federal* initiative is going to be used to track women who leave abortion banning states to get one? And even with our current Supreme Court, I find it highly unlikely that prosecuting them will pass…

As the Supreme Court has ruled, the *Federal Government* has nothing to do with abortion, pro or con. It is a *state* level issue, and why this *Federal Government* capability is being fear-mongered into abortion tracking baffles me. Nothing here says states have access to this information, and the Feds don’t care…

Wait until he sees how big a whale penis can be!