So find a different way to gamble. It’s not like there’s a shortage.

Education being risky is a feature of capitalism. A sane economic system would not require someone to go into debt to learn a valuable skill.

Maybe those skills shouldn’t be so incredibly niche, then. Almost like we should be encouraging people to develop them instead of locking them behind a paywall.

If those people are actually taking home $300k/year after deducting things like business expenses and student loan payments, then they’re either way overpaid or they seriously need a vacation.

Found the trust fund baby.

Fires are rare in general, and the timing of this one is very suspicious.

I feel the need to point out that there are two zombies in this subthread.

Boomers. The answer is boomers.

I looked up the one for Washington, and unfortunately it looks like an organization I would neither want to join nor be allowed to join because of the type of personnel they need and the legal limit of how big it can be. It has 120 members, all officers.

Jesus Christ. Are we allowed to call it a civil war yet or is that still “overreacting”?

I’m an atheist and I also think you’re a poser.

I think a lot of the classic rock vibe was about being anti-establishment, with little or no care for the actual ideas behind it. MAGA people see themselves as anti-establishment (despite, you know, everything), so it makes sense that a lot of the more superficial classic rock people would adopt it as their persona.

I didn’t think that was the kind of freedom they were referring to.

And “made” is relative. I’m an atheist, so I skipped the “under God” part. I was in a pretty liberal school district so I’m sure I could have gotten away with not doing it at all, but peer pressure is a hell of a drug.

…and then history.

I assume everything you just wrote is based on faith, because it’s not supported at all by facts.

What’s the elevator pitch for Wilson being terrible? All I really remember about him is the League of Nations and some limited involvement in WWI.

Too bad I spent much of my childhood down the street from a private airstrip!

Sorry, we get the Harlan Ellison and of civilization, not the Iain M Banks version.

It’s not complete, though, and most people will only recognize in retrospect that it was happening at all. Kind of like how people are with genocides, now that I think of it.

Most of them now seem to follow a fucked-up interpretation of the Fairness Doctrine that requires them to always give the impression that there are no meaningful differences between the parties, which translates into painting Republicans as a perfectly normal, reasonable political party.