Particularly if your house is fully or mostly paid off by the time you retire.

But you could move to Bali for retirement and live well...

Exactly. Depending on how much you contributed, a married couple could draw $4k-$7k per month from social security. If you own your house, cars, etc. and live in a low cost of living area, it is more than enough.

One thing that isn’t clear from the article... Was Yuzu giving access to the Nintendo online network for online play or was it providing an alternate way to play online with other Yuzu users?

You absolutely should not do this. 

“So economically speaking, wouldn’t it be most prudent to keep people from getting sick in the first place?”

It’s crazy that we went through a global pandemic a hundred years ago and we’re actually doing WORSE this time around.

Herd immunity requires upwards of 70% of any given population to have been exposed to the disease. So in the most general terms, let’s do some math.

They. Don’t. Care. About. Us.

You don’t know much about the Empire, do you?

Guess this surprises me. I adore it. Maybe it’s just all the practice I put in before I turned 10.

Like? I’m not necessarily saying you’re wrong, but who fits better in your opinion?

there are so many better characters they could have picked.

“Concentration camp”

I interviewed Andrea Pitzer, author of One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps, last year. She literally wrote the book on what is and isn’t a concentration camp. She says the U.S. is operating concentration camps.

Yeah, the US’ immigration system has been a mess for a very long time. But there’s a big difference between keeping detained immigrant families together in sanitary, humane conditions while their cases are resolved and jamming people into completely unacceptable conditions while their kids are sent elsewhere, and…

A couple of years ago, they pivoted to almost exclusively African American reality shows like Black Ink Crew.

What people (in this instance Matt Novak) get angry about is separating children from parents and not allowing contact between them.