Meaningless.

I lived with a bunch of vegans in college. Their attitude was, “Our cooking doesn’t have to be good, it’s vegan!”

No it isn’t.

It’s the laboring jowls that get to me. Dude is gonna Chew. His. Pizza.

“Hi, Progressive: Can I take my $150 credit in the form of a romantic evening with Flo?”

I dunno, is there a game where you can pilot the Enola Gay? Or patrol a Japanese internment camp? If so, I’d imagine it’s pretty unpopular.

Way to go, your comment has HALF the stars of ANY of the replies!

We do at least seem to be finally sorta kinda maybe halfway moving beyond the era when every FPS game was a GWOT Simulator. That’s something anyway. Probably because of how the GWOT actually turned out. Now it’s all these sort of semi-near-future post-apocalyptic scenarios. Or thinly veiled wars against China (usually…

I’m the treasurer of a small nonprofit that raises most of it’s money from small individual donations. Before 2017, we were averaging $25,000 a year. After 2017 it’s crashed to about $18,000 a year. 

Between this and the stimulus check, I just view this as my Refund for Propping Up Israel/Pakistan/Saudi Arabia’s Military check.

Maybe if cruise lines were better there wouldn’t be so much outrage.

I mean buying failing companies is better than just giving out handouts

The destinations would be better off. These companies shake down destinations to waive docking fees (we’re talking normally millions of dollars per berthing) with threats just to stop showing up there and so the local chamber of commerce gets in on the act and demands the local port authority back down so they can…

Don’t forget the effectively enslaved Filipino workers whose passports are confiscated for the season and are paid maybe $400 a month.

Saudis are so great with their money. Billions on WeWork. Billions on cruise lines *now*. Wasn’t there a story here about a western woman who works as a driver for Saudi women and she had to teach them about the idea of ‘getting change back’ after buying something at a store? Like these Saudi princesses would buy a…

Sounds like exactly as thorough as it should be to ensure safety. These companies are pretty rich; why do you think they don’t want to go through with it all? Do they not care about peple’s safety?

There are no construction location requirements.

A ship does not need to be built somewhere to be owned by that country and fly it’s flag. We build military ships for the Philippines. France *used* to build military ships for Russia before 2015.

I like to fantasize about what we might do with all the ships when/if the companies fold (mark my words: Trump will find a way to funnel these people money). I mean Carnival alone has thirty-five of these boats.

Probably wasn’t a mistake; they just accidentally pulled out the big manila envelope marked “2022" instead of “2020". It’s like when the Georgia legislature in 2010 briefly introduced then hastily withdrew a law making having a miscarriage a felony and nobody could seem to track down who’d actually introduced it.