As that uncle, let me say there are worse fates.

No disagreement here. Much better than raising the minimum wage. 

Scholarships, military benefits, and state subsidized tuition are all ”just giving people money,” but I digress.

I expect 30 an hour to drive a car. I drive part time and never average less than 30 an hour for the week. This weekend, I expect to clear 40 an hour, probably closer to 50. Because I know the city, i know the traffic patterns, I know where the demand is, I stay where the demand is or I drive to where the demand is. I…

you want $62,400 a year to drive a car or flip burgers.  Eff the mighty hell off.

Nature works very cheaply. Especially for things like diamonds or roses. Hell I can grow roses in my back yard. Diamonds are made from one of the most abundant things on the planet carbon and don’t require any human input to create them. There are plenty of diamonds and we are not in any trouble of losing time…

you’re a remarkably shitty one.

if you’re willingly drinking rail gin?

Yup... expensive wine often doesn’t have much to do with it being that much better to drink. It has more to do with demand that is bigger than the supply (fewer and fewer bottles available as it ages as more from that vintage gets consumed) as well as a healthy dose of snob appeal.

“How about you buy the vodka and I’ll throw in a mixer of your choice and a bag of chex mix for free?”

“And I’ll be old as shit... If I’m even still alive, I’ll be 40 years old.”

It’s basically today’s Democrat in acronym terms.

After at least 207 people were killed and over four hundred more were reported wounded after a series of bombs went off at Easter services in Sri Lanka

Every time the phone was about to ring the TV would buzz. It was like EM prescience.

Every time the phone rang on my desk my computer would drop the wifi connection. A switch to a different phone using a difference frequency range solved the issue.

The process you describe doesn’t sound all that complex and not really that different than any other service.

QI can get around 300MHz for the higher power versions which could interfere with 315+/- MHz range for most key fobs.

On my iPhone, I have all my apps organized in folders and I only have one home screen. All widgets are in a scrollable screen one swipe away.

You are assuming that “Skywalker” is a name and not, say, something that becomes a title. I can see Luke Skywalker having such an impact that the word “Skywalker” comes to mean something like “Jedi leader.”

My guess is that the new Jedi order that will be founded by Rey will abandon the Jedi name and will be called “Skywalkers.”