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In this particular case a starter home is specifically an average of the bottom third of the housing market. Zillow recently reported that, using that as the metric, 242 American cities now have starter homes costing one million dollars.

The nationwide average for a starter home is about $200k, which is still a lot, but not the huge figure that’s been making the news this week.

My partner absolutely loved Lost Records. I thought it took way too long to get going, so I fell off pretty early on.

My workplace has a corporate-sponsored advocacy network. Basically, they organize little fundraisers and events throughout the year, and march in the pride parade while wearing the company logo. It’s… fine, I guess. Certainly the most inclusive gesture of any company I’ve ever worked for. But the entire network is straight, white women who identify as allies.

I tried going to a few events when I first joined the company, but it’s real weird being the only queer person at the Lunchtime Dance Party Charity Fundraiser. Like, they didn’t even play any Kylie Minogue. WTF?

I did a 100ft free fall into a net once. When the adrenaline is going, you have plenty of time to think about it. Mathematically, I know the drop took about 2.5 seconds, but it felt like a full two minutes. My perception of it was 30 seconds of “Wow, this view is really nice” and 90 seconds of “What the fuck? Where’s the net? Why am I still falling? What the fuck?!”

So, yeah, she probably had plenty of time to panic.

Antibiotics attack 100% of everything. The snap very specifically only targets 50% of everything.

LinkedIn got me into my current company about four years ago. I’ve snagged one or two interviews with it since then.

In my experience, it’s only really used by recruiters for Fortune 500 companies looking for specialists.

Bubba Ho-Tep is the winner for me. Elvis, still alive and kicking in a retirement home, needs to team up with JFK (who the CIA dyed black) to stop an Egyptian mummy that is eating the souls of the elderly.

I knew exactly what I was in for, and I had an absolute blast. I took my father with me, and his response was, “What the hell did I just watch?”

Still wish we’d actually gotten the prequel Bubba Nosferatu: Curse of the She-Vampires.

Every single millennial homeowner I know managed to get their house one of two ways: get married in 2008 to a Gen-X doctor who can afford to buy a foreclosure when the market tanked, or get massive financial help from their parents.

That’s it. Those are the options. And unless you’ve got a time machine, I think the first one is off the table by now.

a little tedious at times

I almost snapped my controller in half after about fifteen attempts at the last proper boss of the game.

I haven’t been able to see a doctor in twenty years now. For most of that time, I couldn’t afford insurance. Now that I have it, the closest doctor accepting new patients that my insurance covers is over an hour away.

That said, I still don’t go to podcasters and influencers for advice. I just rely on things I learned twenty years ago and hope nothing new breaks.

God bless America, am I right?

The tone on this show is so fucking weird to me. Like, the jokes are usually pretty juvenile, but then they try to shove in occasional emotional beats, and Anthony Mackie hasn’t got the talent to pull either of those things off very well. So I just sit there watching explosions and edgelord murder jokes and poignant, glassy-eyed stares between characters, wondering how I’m supposed to feel about it all.

Okay, so you are more able-bodied than some people. Awesome for you. Not everyone is capable of what you are, even with extensive support. Telling those people to get off SSI, go to school, and get a job isn’t helpful. In fact, it mostly just further erodes their self-worth because everything in our fucking society is tied to what value a person can produce for capitalism.

Everyone deserves to be able to live, even if they can’t work.

Trump is a lot more generous when it’s not his money. He’ll pay.

“If you’re disabled, you’re better off getting a job that pays $10k over the US median annual income than collecting disability.”

What a worthless take.

But even Player Piano gave the masses UBI.

Shops make their budgeting decisions with an expectation of a certain amount of loss. Theft, spoilage, and damage are all estimated and included in the calculus. There’s no reason to risk your own safety or well-being for a loss they’re already expecting anyway.

I’ve heard Chris Christie tell an anecdote about the 2016 campaign a few times:

To hear him tell it, Christie was watching the live interview where Trump said McCain wasn’t a war hero because heroes don’t get captured. When Christie heard that line, he picked up the phone and called Jeb Bush, and said, “Looks like it’s down to just you and me. Do you want to be my VP?”

Because any other candidate at any point in modern history dismissing a veteran like that would’ve been immediately unelectable.

to put it another way, a group of people who uniformly sold their souls for material gain and access to power is resolutely refusing to entertain the possibility that in their midst and under their noses, one of them is a person who also sold the rest of them out for material gain and access to power.

When you put it this way, there’s a universe where Trump himself was the leak, and he just forgot.

No idea if you’re joking or not, because UPS legitimately refers to their warehouse personnel as “industrial athletes.”

I lived in Albuquerque for years, and I absolutely hated it the entire time. Somehow, the way this motherfucker shoots it had me going, “Maybe it wasn’t so bad?”