If you all manage to get reconstruction up and running again, I hope to God you ramp it up x10 and see it completely and utterly through.

These past few years have convinced me that "freedom of the press" is a grievous human error.

You don't hate the media enough.

This is why gay liberation is only possible under communism, we need to team up with the communists to summon a hyper-hurricane to wipe out our oppressors.

(I wonder if there's another way to put that...

Loom of Hell?

At the very least, the ones in Grand Cayman are really docile and friendly to humans.

News title editors get the wall.

It's basically acting as a bond; no matter how unlikely the scenario actually is, the yield for equivalent fixed income instruments acts as a floor due to market shenanigans.

So, basically, larceny with just-in-time characteristics?

payment in kind (PIK) mortgages

Gonna dig up my front porch and send it to my bank for my interest payment, dawg!

Edit: PIK Loans are an actual thing, it just means that you add the interest payment onto the existing debt rather than pay it over time. Which I'm sure would be great for a mortgage and not at all portend a crisis big enough to send us back to the stone age.

I ended up finding it a bit wonkier when learning it for the first time (e.g. 'shui' rhymes with 'wei', 'jiu' rhymes with 'you'), but it's just as consistent once you accept the orthographic idiosyncrasy. Edit: with respect to pinyin, only took a brief look at Wade-Giles and it feels a lot less sensible in comparison.

Gonna ignore the main question in favour of doing some vapid gatekeeping. You either a) fry/boil the plantain and have them as is a side dish with your main meal or b) make tarts out of them. I don't know what this is.

(I'm sure it was quite good, but I am going to be reactionary about just this one thing).