He was in the process of his considerations when Kruger calls him into the office to inform him that accounting noticed that the human fund doesn’t exist. George just didn’t have enough time before getting caught to adequately convince himself to cash it.

Depends. If you’re streaming Dire Staits on a $250,000 stereo. You’ve probably missallocated funds approaching a moronic level from a functionality perspective. However, if you’ve got half a billion in the bank, I’d say it’s a far more wholesome idiocy than for example, real estate. Money inherently means less to rich people. The difference of a few thousand to tens of thousands are, bewilderingly, fairly inconsequential to many people. I’d just assume they put that money into listening to music rather than super pacs or something. Hell, maybe they’ll actually hear what the musicians are saying and they’ll actually grow a little.

The issue with audio is the same issue with all hobbies. Spending a lot doesn’t make you an automatic expert, let alone even know what you’re doing. An expensive bat doesn’t make a bad player good, an expensive stove doesn’t make a bad cook good, expensive clothes doesn’t make an ugly person beautiful, an expensive running shoes don’t make an out of shape person healthier.

I find shitting on audiophiles particularly annoying because it’s smugness on both sides of the equation. The people who buy in think they’re better than everyone just like the people who see the con think they’re better than the rubes. If I had to pick a side though, I’d honestly pick the audiophiles, because at least they’re having fun.

I understand that it isn’t fair and that we don’t “deserve” help, but Trump is a cancer on the earth itself.

The end of your comment was quite the ride for me:

There were two openly gay performers at the Superbowl

They’re probably talking about Brandi Carlile

(Billy Joe, and Ricky Martin),

Oh, I didn’t know Billy…

and one openly bisexual

Oh now they’re talking abou…

(Gaga).

Hmm

Sales down 1.2%? Still profitable on the order of billions? Better cut 7% of the workforce.

Why?

I don’t know why I thought of this, but they make telescoping poles for wasp spray. I wonder if any other type of aerosol can would fit in them, or why you would even want to do that?

I did limit my hopes to “some”, but I agree, introspection is woefully lacking in a America. Peer pressure should also help, though.

As a song, it’s just ok. But you know a huge percentage of ice agents like Bruce, he’s too popular for there not to be, and I have to imagine the surreality of having a truly iconic artist write a song about you has to have an impact. It’s getting harder for these guys to just go through the motions and not think about what’s really happening. Things like this song gives me hope for some of them having a Mitchell and Webb type, “are we the baddies” epiphany.

And my suspicion on the credit card thing is that he knows the average household is broke and wants to make living on credit more appealing. Cleverly this gets the CC companies to cover the deficit and keeps dirt off of easier to obtain stats. That jackal doesn’t have an altruistic bone in his body. If I were drowning, I wouldn’t accept a life saver from him under suspicion of ulterior motives.

Just for a frame of reference for my European friends, the Whitehouse is a 42 hour drive through 11 states for me right now. Each one of those 11 states is politically unique. Organizing this country is not nearly as simple as everyone else on the planet seems to think. Furthermore, preventing us from organizing is one third of the planets billionaires, who’s interests lie definitively in our being fragmented, over worked, and exploitable.

Even in a world where what Bondi says is accurate, that ilegal immigrants are uniquely fraudulent in Minnesota in particular, how does looking at medicaid records, and snap records, and voter roles help? Can illegal immigrants even register to vote? Aren’t they famously, eponymously, undocumented? And besides all that, what the hell does this have to do with the shootings? They were both American citizens, and neither are being accused even by the lie factory of defrauding anyone?

They always play the victim, and spam the debate with red herrings and jingoistic gibberish, which is annoying enough at face value, but I find it really obnoxious how effective it seems to be.

Well they shot a woman in the head and lied about the particulars, even though it was filmed from a million different angles, and the DOJ has done nothing but bend over backwards to avoid any amount of investigation let alone prosecution. And the people have done nothing but get red in the face and jump and down with steam shooting from their ears like an angry cartoon. I would argue that extra judicial killings are already normalized.

Edit: just a half hour after posting this, looks like another dead in a 10 on one dog pile.

To be fair, the puppet is always ignorant of the hand.

Everything, literally everything is “for show”. Civilization is just a construct we’ve all (more or less) agreed upon. It still matters.

Well, not his parents that’s for sure. Which may have gotten us in to this mess in the first place.

Punishment as a deterrent hasn’t worked for the entirety of human civilization. Otherwise we would have fewer murders than other countries as we continue to be one of the few places that cling to capital punishment. There will always be monsters. I won’t argue that murder isn’t justified, but it also isn’t a “solution” in the strictest sense. Fear is what you’re talking about and it is a fickle master.

Probably unpopular opinion, but torturing our current problems wont prevent our future problems.

Conservatives think [it’s] simple, they take [it] apart and can’t get it to work again, liberals fix [it], conservatives get jealous, how complicated can [it] be? I’ll show those hot shot know-it-alls, takes [it] apart, can’t get [it] to work again…

Even if we get the 37% or so of truly burdensome people out of intellectual debt, the best we can seemingly hope for is ~45 years before the entire nation forgets all of the hard lessons it learned and insists on relearning them again.

Here’s the progression: unignorable calamity (inspiration, debt) > society bands together (creation, true wealth) > conspicuously wealthy take unfair advantage (consumption, illusion of gains) > unignorable calamity, ad infinitum. Or to simplify: conservatives break things, liberals fix things, and neither learn a lesson.