Sometimes “man” is more of an exclamation than a term of address.

I’ve noticed kids are seemingly using “bruh” this way, funnily enough

Convince them to stay home because the election is a foregone conclusion

With the situation in the US right now plus the pandemic plus the job market plus all the other stuff that’s been bubbling up where I live, the new 20’s have been proving themselves to be pretty bad.

Hmm…if someone spills over onto someone else’s seat, they should have to pay for a second ticket though…

They probably do take credit for their “wonderful” handling of the situation.

They didn’t have an easy shot on the guy, and were to afraid to go get one.

I mean, I would be too. But that’s why I didn’t sign up for a “serve and protect” job.

That makes sense. It didn’t even cross my mind that someone would connect their phone to their car’s audio system specifically to take a call unless they were driving, lol

Ah, gotcha. I was wondering why someone would be sitting in their unmoving car while having their phone connected to their car’s audio. So I figured this was while driving. But I see how I misinterpreted it now.

Isn’t it unsafe to use headphones while driving?

You can still be overly respectful to the teachers – I’m sure they appreciate it!

(Especially when there are parents who seem to treat the teachers as retail workers…)

Linux is a great example, thank you.

You say this with certainty, so you’ve got me curious. Could you show me some successful international non-profits that reject Capitalism?

We live in a Capitalist world, and like it or not, those CEOs know how to make companies thrive in it.

That’s the idea, at least.

I think the point is that she was a child rapist, not necessarily a pedophile.

Some child rapists rape children because of the power imbalance etc., not necessarily out of physical, sexual, or romantic attraction.

I understand the skepticism on society’s priorities.

Athletes are literally 1-in-a-million individuals. They bring in crazy amounts of money from people who want to watch them play.

The real problem is that there are so many people who are willing to pay hundreds of dollars to watch a sports game, but not willing to see teachers properly compensates (in my opinion). Because athletes getting a big share of the pie that they’re bringing in sounds fair to me. The question is why people have that much pie to give them, and not as much pie to give to schools.

Where I live, we’ve been treating…

• Nurses very poorly. Underpaying and overworking them, while not training enough new ones.
• Family Doctors (aka. GPs) very poorly by removing the kinds of services they’re allowed to provide, increasing expenses without increasing compensation, and again, not training enough new ones.

Doctors are paid well, but they also have incredibly high expenses (and often high student debt, too).

I have an Excel file for recurring expenses with dates of recurrence and auto-calculated yearly and monthly totals, and these factor into my monthly/yearly “budgets”. And thus, into how much I need to maintain my emergency fund!

That’s a good idea! I do things differently (basically adding money to different “pools” to use for different categories), but if I need to forecast how much I’m going to spend on things, this would really help.

I tend to assume that something I buy will last forever (unless it’s explicitly replaceable)…but that’s basically never the case these days.

My partner’s family really wanted to buy me gifts before I thought we were that close. So I bought them gifts that same year!

Plenty of people care. It’s a large group, and many members of the group are dangerous. Like Charlie Kirk was.

I have a similar problem when people refer to MTG