It wouldn’t be as bad if it were “amazing poet”. Then it looks more like a quote.

I get that this is standard for journalistic quotes, but don’t most people colloquially use quotation marks for sarcasm or “allegidisms” or other not-completely-proven-to-be-true thing?

Interesting point about cameras. Why doesn’t the footage usually help?

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.

It sounds like he’s from your country though

Pretty advanced! Before it was modern, it wasn’t quite as advanced

Edit: strange 30 plus of y’all are in favor of fascism…

That’s not it. At least in my case, I’m not a fan of the way you are choosing to be.

I think the commander dude gives you hints if you keep losing a particular fight though. He’ll get explicit about the trick for Psycho Mantis!

I played MGS for the first time recently, and it felt like a PS2 game with older graphics. Would’ve blown my mind as a kid if I had it back then…with a guide, too. Otherwise, I never would’ve figured a bunch of that stuff out, haha

Bob Dylan probably doesn’t have long, lol

LOL! Typo. I do 60-20-20.

But I do get pension matching to the tune of nearly 10%, so arguably I am saving nearly 30% instead of 20! Haha

I do a lot of budgeting, and I use the “pool” method.

A lot of people recommend the 50-30-20 rule: 50% of your money goes to fixed expenses, 30% goes to discretionary spending, and 20% to savings.

I tweaked that a bit and made it 60-20-20*, with the 60% being for essentials…things like clothing is included.

That 20% goes towards any guilt-free spending. I’ve covered everything I need, and this is money I’m allowed to spend on whatever I want…guilt-free.

EDIT: I accidentally said 60-20-30 instead of 60-20-20.

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!

My mother brings in less money than that before taxes, and my parents believe that this money is essential to their household income.

Did they actually become healthier? It sounds like their beak shapes just changed to adapt to what they needed to eat

This makes me think “new file”

I still use folders to organize paper documents. Taxes and medical stuff mostly.