That’s usually about health insurance. Keeps their premiums down if they offer health as a benefit. Doesn’t make it right, but it is not a morality thing on the firm’s part.

Did you ever drink Baileys from a shoe?

I’ve heard soccer’s pretty bad with it too. Maybe badminton is the answer.

7754 is the PIT count of people homeless at one given point in time. Many, many more cycle through homelessness in any year.

The media is avoiding it…like all the media cited in this post? Or the NY Times article today discussing many of the points in those articles? Or the OP article? I’m so tired of news outlets reporting on news outlets. The news isn’t news, I want actual news about events.

WTF is life coaching? Have a facebook acquaintance who did some class and calls herself one, after being a yoga instructor. Like–why would you take advice from a person of middling success? Is it just another MLM where people calling themselves life coaches teach other people to be life coaches so they can teach more life coaches?

He never had to take the stand in the first >place. He didn’t even have to be in the courtroom.

I thought he did have to take the stand, but didn’t have to be there for the rest of the trial. AFAIK he’s compelled to testify (or take the fifth, but he and the kids have to do one or the other).

Oof. I wonder how that will work in the case of infrastructure like roads and bridges–long term tolls? At some point it has to eat away at whatever good will the Chinese were trying to buy.

What happens if countries just default? Do non-Chinese lenders care? Does it trash bond ratings across the board?

I figured it out and it was still a huge disappointment. Only worse game was Journey: Escape.

How are you adding the designs?

“Flood the internet” apparently means making shit for other trolls and posting it on an image board for trolls.

Came close with Ken Lay.

At least he’s got a New Glarus.

They’ll stop fishing soon anyway when the natural stocks have completely collapsed.😭

Until the prions get you.

“Stadtliche luft macht man frei” is an old German saying. City air makes you free. Life in a small town can be stifling. That close-knit family wants you to be just like them. God forbid you want to do or see anything new. The moving-to-a-big-city trope is as old as cinema, and has strong roots in reality.

Look for used tools at garage sales and flea markets. The only people who should be buying $160 braces are rich retirees. I built a pretty great collection of tools in a year or so of hitting sales pretty regularly, and you end up learning a lot about what different tools are like, and how they work, and for pretty cheap. There’s still tons of quality pieces out there from Disston, Stanley, etc.

Bar charts for long lists of nations are …long. And pretty hard to read. I’m not sure this is the best solution, but it works OK.

It’s one of those things where you only hear about the bad ones, because stories like yours aren’t clickbait worthy. But a lot of the HOA laws are set up in ways that allow people to do some shifty things, so keep an eye on your board and their finances.