Exactly. If the product is “free,” then the real product is you. This is the FB system, not a glitch.

This. I’d also take a Second Age political pot boiler about the fall of Numenor.

“If you’re Irish, or just white and violent...” How can you not laugh trying to say that?

We refinanced last year for the same reason.

Thanks. I was just going to bed...

Sorry about your divorce. I hope it ultimately was for the best. Yeah, I can’t imagine the emotional toll it takes. At the same time, if someone can muster the strength to keep their emotions in check and even dare to appear to be a little generous or magnanimous, it’s probably better than fighting for scraps and…

Chatting with a former student who is now a lawyer, he said his advice to clients going through divorce is always to go through mediation and just settle for something. He has numerous sad stories about couples going at each other and spending thousands of dollars on him to fight over a few grand in a savings account.…

Debra Neiman is spot on about his partner needing to think about her own security. If this guy kicks the bucket, she could be out on her ass with nothing to show for her half of the mortgage payments. People can get weird about money and property when people die, especially relatives. Better to have it all figured out…

I’m excited to read people’s tips. I really love Paris. I’m sure others will have better tips than mine, so I have only a few pieces of advice:

I’ve always found this to be the case in Paris. Once upon a time I was pretty fluent, but over the last twenty years I’ve lost most of my spoken French. Still, I do my best when I am fortunate enough to be there these days, and people seem to appreciate the effort.

I make about $75k a year right now and live in a flyover state, so yeah, it’s more than enough to be “happy,” if by that we mean having the financial and material security to have a nice life without much deprivation. That being said, I think I’ll be even happier when my wife is done with graduate school and making a…

In college, I once had a bad situation brewing and ducked into the Volcanology building to cop a squat. I couldn’t find the bathroom and asked a professor sitting in his office if there was one on the floor. He showed me to an unmarked door. Behind it was a small, sunny, neat and clean little bathroom, complete with a…

100%. I’ve always felt the internal logic is the same for why homophobes freak out about LGBTQ people (“I ogle women and harass them, and if I have to share an office with a gay guy, he’ll treat me the same way!”).

You’re my new favorite.

Can’t stand her security state bullshit. I hope she loses. She probably won’t, but I hope she does. We need new and better Democrats.

Definitely see your point, but firemen can and do refuse to enter structure fires. It happens all the time, at least according to my uncles, who are firemen. There’s usually a safety officer on the scene or in the department that determines when the situation is too dangerous. Then it’s just “surround and drown” time,…

None of those are any better given the basis of your argument. For example, there are naturally occurring enzymes and chemicals in fruit that you probably “couldn’t pronounce,” but that doesn’t make them bad for you. And the cookie bars I make at home using whole grains and other unprocessed foods have more than five…

I do this, too.

You’ve nailed it, I think. Same goes for Alabama. I suppose it’s good news for Team D that Team R can’t stop nominating child rapist fucksticks as candidates.

Sigh. You know that’s not what he meant. Bagged spinach or bagged carrots =/= bagged potato chips or a Chik fil-a lunch.