For every example like this there are a million examples of poor people staying poor.

Social mobility is much less than we like to pretend it is.

Everybody works hard. If hard work is all it takes to deserve billions, why aren't all the rest of us billionaires?

Because she got help, that's why.

"Wage" is rather poor wording then.

Pretty sure the people insisting on using Japanese names on English websites designed for English-speaking audiences are the ones gatekeeping.

Both the bread and the circuses used to be free.

Now people pay out the nose for all of it, and think it's a great time.

It speaks to everyone. "I'm messed up because I'm smarter than other people" is a seductive fantasy.

The UK using the lion is the funniest shit to me. It just seems like such a sad cope.

You know what uses three times the amount of water per acre? Corn. And almonds use about ten times more water than corn.

And we get food out of that input, unlike a golf course where you get nothing of value.

And people have only just started caring about lawns, that use two orders of magnitude more water, fertilizer, and land than golf courses.

Have you seen a golf course before? They're literally lawns.

Why are we still doing this? Stupid and unnecessary. Just get rid of it already.

Too bad this isn't tech support and it's the landlords job to show up and troubleshoot it himself. The tenant bears no responsibility here besides informing the landlord there is a problem.

Shunning the school canoe? You'd better believe that's a-shunning!

Well first you take a picture of lightning hitting a building. Then you put it next to a picture of an exploded toilet.