Wow, I am gobsmacked. What’s the fucking point of even ordering restitution. My apologies to the author of that article as well, although I would have added some parenthetical that said yes, you read that right, two hundred and fifty dollars and 00/100 cents. 

Came here for questions about that typo. Also sure she wasn’t ordered to pay two hundred and fifty dollars a month on a restitution order of half a bill- I imagine they meant $250K or $2.5 million. Both make sense.

Thank you for summarizing their conversation- it was interesting, a good real, and I neither had to listen to Bill Maher’s stupid voice or see his stupid face in service of it. Double plus.

I think their best bet would have been to both move to a third country, which seems incredibly unrealistic for a dude making $100 a month. I wonder if you can convert from one to the other? 

Would that be a tiny asterisk or a large one? Tiger butthole size is sorta mysterious 

How incredibly sad, but how incredibly predictable- in that always expecting the worst between two countries with little to no separation between church and state with long histories of animosity and stark religious differences is what one should do. Their best option would have been to get together and live in a…

I was thinking the EXACT same thing. Anyone who can afford one to two day excursions that cost $125K to a quarter million dollars will avoid those grifters like the plague. Absent a name and mission change (e.g. moving away from selling trips to the ocean floor and more towards aquatic ice cream trucks that sell the…

Wasn’t Gandalf the Grey at that point and only became the Gandalf the White after/during the Fellowship of the Ring? It would be amazing if the game got THAT wrong, lol

The money I save on gas alone pays for my membership 2x over. If you’re a heavy Costco shopper but also a mooch you should just get a membership, it’s so much easier.

This can’t possibly be true. Do you know how many old people would basically just quit Costco? Not necessarily because they are technologically inept (there is that) but because a substantial number of them just do not trust electronic payment transactions that involve giving personal/credit info to an app or putting…

You know, you could totally beat this entire thing by taking a screenshot in the app and swapping the photo of the cardholder with a photo of yourself- at least at my Costco, where they don’t ask for another form of ID or actually scan the thing to see if it’s legit. I imagine this might work until one of them reads…

I’ve never had any non-member who was with me stopped, and I’ve walked in with other members who have shown theirs and not shown my card and not been stopped. I don’t think there’s anything stopping people who don’t have cards from shopping with those that do, and I couldn’t care less about that- but it is grating to…

I was thinking the same thing. Maybe dates got squishy after humanity nearly destroyed itself, the same way we can sort of guess about some things that happened in the eleventh century but might miss the mark on the particular decade....

I don’t think it’s that he’s looking down on people that can’t afford stuff, it’s the whole issue with subsidizing people who are making the stuff that we buy there more expensive- I don’t know why he should be okay with people not paying for something and not following the rules when he actually pays and follows the…

I have never had my card requested at a gas pump. Ever. In fact, I’ve forgotten my card, told the attendant “I forgot my card” and dude just scans and lets me fill without doing a thing to see if I’m an actual member.

The gas savings ALONE pay for my executive membership. In less than four months. As the person who pays for the membership, I am all about keeping out the riff-raff who don’t pay- and the fix for them is they can totally accompany a card-carrying member, they just can’t go in by themselves- and it’s $60 a year!!  

Pretty sure “turn your face to alabaster” wasn’t turning someone into a statue as much as shock at the turn of events causing all the blood to drain from one’s face. If one is a lighter-hued human. Never once literally thought it was about turning someone to stone. But fuck, I was 12 when I first heard and interpreted…

As a 12 year old in 1983 I bought Synchronicity and that’s the only song on the entire album that I skipped. For years. As an adult I more appreciate the sonic frontiers Stewart was exploring... but yeah, pretty much still hate it. It’s the flaw that makes the album perfect.

That was wonderful in its terribleness.

All of this makes me all the more amazed by what we have been able to do on Mars- a wonder of human achievement that doesn’t get it’s due from anyone who isn’t paying attention. Which is pretty much everyone.