i’m sick and goddamn tired of being told i have to have sympathy for so idiots who refuse to do anything to help themselves- i’ve moved repeatedly to first get an education and then find work. i bought a house and ended up losing money on it, sold it, regrouped and bough another one.

i came from a priveleged background…

but man, international trade is going to happen dude! even though its been happening for 5 thousand years, you should listen to friedman because he has a mustache and writes books!

the thing that drives me nuts about the coal miners and the apologists for them is that my great grandfather walked off a shitty farm somewhere in eastern europe, spent the last whatever the hell they had in eastern europe for money that he had, sat in the bowels of some likely crap boat with his (large) family for…

Transition back? Hes never lived a private life- the government paid for his school, he went from that directly into government jobs. Unless he had a paper route when he was 10, this is his first foray into private life. It's just one many reasons to hate his 'small government' bullcrap

i may have missed someone in the comments but i’m shocked that gazpacho isn’t every other answer, let alone very few/none. its cold, its all ingredients that are fresh and likely local and you can toss a dash of hot sauce if you want a little bit of a bit. also, it doesn’t require you turn on the stove/range/grill so…

i didnt know you could irradiate the veggies- my grocery store advertises all of its in store ground meat as irradiated and its a pretty ‘froo-froo’ store (wegmans)

yeah sure, and if i’d wanted to and started training 18 years ago i could be amazing in the MMA! kimbo slice of the ‘10 second knock out to the undercard’ is a weird hill to die on

yeah but couldn’t you make that argument about a lot of people? if they had just been 10 years younger and started training 12 years ealier, they could have made it probably fits a whole lot of potential young men and women

the only tempering thing to me is that billy dee is very old. he is is quite a bit older than even harrison ford (who was significantly older than fisher or hamill- neither of whom are/were all that young either.)

i’m not sure how fun it will be to see the coolest dude in the galaxy now as an 81 year old (and not a…

yeah i think i put the decimal point in the wrong place, so i was off by a factor?

i googled it, apparently it is from the ‘Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Law and Public Policy’ which is part of UCLA. they identified .6% of the population identified as trans in 2016, which is ... 180k..ish? i think i did my initial math wrong, but still, its not a large number

most estimate are that about 4% of the US population is LGBTQ. estimates of trans specifically are under 100k. big difference in numbers

its not pro-life. it is pro-birth. stop playing their game and call it like it is. 

thank you- the ghost ship people were complete idiots, but they were negligent and not malevolent. they didn’t set out to harm any one but they are going to spend a lot of time in jail for their negligence. i compare it to the station fire in rhode island (local to me) where they gave that guy 10 years for 100 counts…

i understand the pain of the families, but 6 and 9 years (i assume they will be eligible for parole before that) is hardly a slap on the wrist. 

i would enjoy discussing these reviews, but i had to give up on the show- the sound mixing is so bad that i can’t watch it. i have a full 5.1 surround sound system calibrated for my living room and the music (specifically the base) is so overwhelming that i can no longer watch it- either i knock plants over when the…

Laos is an amazing country! it’s a trek-even from the west coast- but I highly recommend a vietnam/laos/cambodia trip for anyone with a passing interest in asian travel. Amazing countries one and all

my last flight (shanghai to chicago) they served fish in economy as the in flight meal. i heeded my airplane and did not partake, but it appears they disagree with the assessment here

the people i work with are of the opinion that they don’t try all that hard- china has a relatively small but financially important grey market of tech companies and people in sales and manufacturing that either aren’t official business’s or are moving around the country but still need to be able to communicate with…

i do a lot of work over there and they are not. they will occasionally cause temporary disruptions but they don’t last very long before the VPN maker’s update. you do have to pay for the services though- the free ones don’t really work.