Comments by From978 (page 7)

1. "Changed" can be anything. You can't read "changed or cancelled" and think "cancelled." 2. Plans are not actions. In my experience doing surveys, even after-the-fact reports are often not actions.

@Mark has it exactly right. The one policy supported by Democrats and Republicans is, "If we just stopped giving money to those other deadbeats, and gave it to me, the country would be fine."

My default is one dollar every time she does something I like. You'll be surprised by how fast that works.

I was a math major in college, but I'm mystified by the inflation statistics -- at least as reported above. The average price of things urban consumers buy is a bit over 8% higher than a year ago, but all the examples are of prices that doubled. As I understand "average" that means stores must be giving something away. What I want to know is, where are those stores? On a related note, I drive a hybrid car at the speed limit plus 5 mph. I'll be sympathetic with the gripes about gas price inflation when the people driving 18 mpg SUVs stop passing me. Gas prices contribute about two of the eight percentage points in current inflation, and in my view that's a good thing.

@Loper:. Vênus or Uranus?

I've never been asked, but I sometimes provide the answer to open negotiation. On really special occasions, I may even tell the truth.

I looked at the website containing this story, which is 100% clickbait in identical format. I was going to guess the author was not a person with poor English, but an AI. On reflection, I think maybe we need an acronym for artificial stupidity.

I think Shailynn is on to something here. I checked steak prices at my local grocery, and they top out at $28 per pound, so perhaps 25% of the dinner price was for ingredients, and the rest was for the establishment and employees. Basically, what we have here is a guy who eats $300 meals complaining that the workers who prepared them are overpaid.

Wikipedia thinks the last print edition came out in 2007, and the main Google results are nail and hair salons. Does somebody have an actual location, or is this just a low-tech example of those old threads that keep bumping to the top?

I also was there on Thursday, and had four dances with Brooke. I handed her $100, and she offered $20 in charge. After reading the review above, I spent some time making up theories about how dancers make up prices, and eventually decided I'll never know.

My initial guess was that it was the kind of thing that might happen in Tony Soprano's Bada Bing club. Except in that scenario, people generally know who did what to whom.

Bitcoin and antivax are the only social ills I know that have exactly the right victims.

You do understand that the business model for "free" trading markets like Robinhood is that they make a lot of money by selling professional securities dealers the right to bet against you, right?

Spreadsheets At one point, the company I worked for had a few unused offices, so we leased them to a small startup named Lotus. They went on doing mysterious things for several months, until one week the parking lot filled up with Ferraris, and the next week they were gone. The product was 1-2-3, and they sold it to IBM

Reminds me of a friend who crewed on a French yacht one summer. He greeted each woman passenger with, "tu baises, medame?". He would wait for the reaction, and then say, "I am zo zorry. Ze Capitan tell me do zay ziz."

Two minutes ago, on the thread below this on how long strippers stay at clubs.

There's another thread above this on how often we use algebra. The question of how long strippers stay on the job is an example of where you need it. If you walk into any club, you're most likely to see the people who are there the most, and very unlikely to see someone who works exactly one day. In the clubs I frequent, I would say half the dancers I see on a typical day were there at least five years ago, and half the people I never saw before tell me they started last week or last month.

I'm with Whodey. It doesn't matter if I notice it, as long as Mrs. 978 doesn't.

@ Techman: Yes, and yes @ Loper: it depends on the time of day @ Scrub: no, unless you're Robert Kraft

I started a prison riot

I never heard of it until you mentioned it. Now I'm hooked. I hope the link below works. It looks strange. https://www.washingtonpost.com/tv/2022/03/05/90-day-fiance-ukraine/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F363c868%2F622398b09d2fda34e7bcd9aa%2F5e1ad247ade4e25a93c8b17a%2F59%2F70%2F622398b09d2fda34e7bcd9aa

@Blah:. Definitely take that safari. I worked in Nairobi for a while and took a weekend off to go to Masai Mara. It's definitely amazing. Sleeping in a tent with the lions outside sounds like adventure, but keep in mind that Kenyans have been in the eco-tourism business for a hundred years. You'll be safer than you would in most American cities.

I don't much notice shoes, but I do remember a Brazilian friend who showed up for work one night in a t-shirt that said, "Will Work For Shoes.". I think she also had a pair that had live goldfish in them. (I'm trying to think of a word for the opposite of seasick.)

Third world countries have lots of people richer than I am. India has 700,000 millionaires (2021 net worth in USD). And practically everybody in India has had more income this year than I have. I've had a 7% loss from January 1 to yesterday, so anybody with zero is way ahead of me.

I never until this moment realized what a bunch of old farts we have become.