I hope you continue to enjoy paying your incredibly high price for insurance and continuing to receive, statistically, some of the worst medical care for the most money in the entire developed world! Better that then someone you might think is undeserving of medical care get it!

Heavily gerrymandered state districts absolutely impact the makeup of the state legislature though - which decides how to appoint electoral college votes as well as setting all the rules for who is able to vote when. Which is exactly what happened in Georgia with majority black districts getting broken voting machines…

It might not be your intention - but it is blaming the contractor.

So - microsoft could hire the people as employees instead of cheaping out and screwing contractors but it’s the contractors fault that they don’t get benefits?

There is enough room to be angry at both the contractor company and Treyarch/Activision who makes the choice to hire a contractor company instead of employees. If the studio gave two shits about their QA people, they’d hire them and pay them benefits instead of foisting it off on to a contractor company and also…

I’m not sure there enough material difference between pan and bi to be able to say that a fictional character, absent any self identification, would be one or the other. Even if you consider symbiotes to be a 3rd gender in their species that still can fall firmly under bi (the generally accepted defintion of bi by the…

That’s a lot of bi people though - gender isn’t super important to a lot of us. Love is love even if one or both of you have changed bodies since the last time.

Did any one of them ever end up actually saying it? Because Piper insisted she was straight a lot.

Never heard that one before. Can’t wait for your riveting ‘attack helicopter’ gender joke next!

I’d like to see Eleanor actually say it. We have lots of ‘word of god’ type bi characters - where the writers say ‘of course she is bi!’, but never say it on the show.

Queer has been reclaimed for decades. You don’t get to hand my identity back to the bigots.

I am the same - everything except my home insurance and my auto insurance are manually paid. Those two are the only ones that auto-pay, and they go on to my credit card just to make sure there is always room to pay them. I had a buddy that didn’t realize his car insurance stopped auto-debiting from his bank account…

It may have been an honest question, but it’s still a crappy one.

Does that matter one way or the other? Or are you just trying to dismiss what I am saying without having to address what was actually said?

It doesn’t really matter. No budget for raises means no budget for raises. Not “Bob is getting 10k/yr more and you are getting nothing”. Also, coworker usually implies someone who is in roughly the same position as you.

I don’t doubt that there are some straight marriages that are happy - likely the ones without kids, as you mention! But so many straight people (straight men especially) seem to loathe their partners and I just don’t get it.

Bisexual people exist, and so do trans gay people. Also, you don’t have to be married to have children.

It’s an exaggerated joke - and I am aware of that fact. However, it’s also an incredibly common one said by straight cis dudes over and over and over again. “Sex stops after marriage” jokes, “the old ball and chain” jokes, “I work late to avoid going home and listening to my wife nag” jokes, “I would but my wife won’t…

Straight marriage is a strange institution that none of you ever seem happy in.

I’ve had a few consumer level NAS’s and found if you want one that you can swap drives in and out of you start with an empty NAS and buy the drives. I’ve got a Netgear one now that is the 2-bay consumer version of their larger small business NAS and it works great. I actually have an iSCSI partition set up and a job…