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The way things are going, might just be 5 years.

The week after I graduated high school, my father stayed charging me $150/week in rent. Moving out and splitting a place with two other roommates allowed me to actually save money.

The threat has been there since Trump said he wanted to resume nuclear weapon testing even though every expert said it was an absolutely terrible idea.

He wants to order a nuclear strike on something. He’s been trying to find the right excuse.

Halfway Post is a satire site. This is not true.

Justice Roberts sowing: Hahaha! Holy shit, this is awesome!

Justice Roberts reaping: Oh, what the fuck? This fucking sucks.!

I’ve got an uncle who made a fortune during the initial dotcom bubble decades ago. He got out before it burst, and started his own charity that built plumbing in Chilean villages.

Turns out he mostly wanted to retire somewhere cheap, make sure it had the modern conveniences he was used to, and appoint his children to high-level paid positions of his non-profit.

For all the American hate against socialism, the military is our biggest jobs program.

The problem is construction. America needs millions of new homes to meet demand. And this bill doesn’t stop venture capital from building new homes; it just mandates that they sell those homes within seven years.

So, yes, they’ll be building barely-affordable shit boxes, but those shit boxes will be designed to last exactly eight years.

Edit: correcting autocorrect-induced typos

Ha. Hahaha. Haha. That’s cute.

…his wife is in a coma.

My position is that the Schumacher Batman films are better than any Batman film that’s come out since, and it’s because of a fundamental ideological question:

Nolan, Snyder, Reeves, all of these guys, have continually asked, “What would Batman look like in the real world?” And the answer has meant grittier, darker reboots all inspired by the same couple of Miller books. They need to constrain Batman to things that “make sense” and find ways to make him “seem realistic.”

Schumacher, and Burton before him, asked the much more entertaining question: “What would the world need to look like to idolize a vigilante in a furry costume?” And that opens up so many more possibilities, so much more fun. The Riddler made elaborate pop-up clues rather than staging brutal crime scenes. Two-Face didn’t mourn his almost-relationship with an assistant DA because he was too busy macking on a different girl for each face. Bane? Doesn’t matter if I could understand him, because he doesn’t have any lines anyway. He’s still the evil lady’s main henchman, but now he’s actually monstrously big.

The '90s approach says yes to every wild idea the directors had, every silly gag from the comics or other TV that it wanted to steal, because it wasn’t beholden to a sense of the real. It was okay to enjoy the silly superhero movie on its own terms.

Unfortunately, we’re stuck in a world where each decade brings a grimmer, darker reboot of Batman.

Reminds me of a guy I used to work with. Any time he got frustrated with our manager, he’d mutter to himself, “Everyone gets one.”

The way he explained it to me is, everyone is allowed to murder one person. You might suffer some real bad consequences as a result, but if you can stomach those consequences, no one can really stop you from doing just one murder.

The quick and dirty way to check your usage is to replace “who” with “he” and “whom” with “him.” If it makes a functional sentence, you’re probably right.

“Whom is quicker?” becomes “Him is quicker.” Not good.

“Who is quicker?” becomes “He is quicker.” That works.

By contrast: “This graffiti was done by whom?” becomes “This graffiti was done by him.”

We just need to go full Harrison Bergeron with all sports/athletes and never talk about this shit again.

Same. Mine didn’t even give me the courtesy auto-reply.

Isn’t that because Utah has weird laws about how many drinks you’re allowed to order? I seem to remember hearing that bar patrons are only allowed to get one drink at a time, so bars just started getting bigger mugs.

still live in a state thats good

The pipeline of regulation usually goes California Law -> New York Law -> Federal Law because once companies have to do something for two of the biggest states, they start lobbying the Feds so they can standardize. California already passed their law, and NY’s is in committee right now.

Yes, but it’s because of subsidies. Your taxes pay for healthcare; our taxes pay for fuel. Which we also then pay for.

OP didn’t back up their assertion with data. They don’t see kids; I do see kids. It’s all anecdotal.

Quick searching shows a CDC survey from 2017 estimating that a little over 15% of American kids walk to school. More recent data would require more time to find than I have right now, but even if it’s as low as 1 in 10 now, that’s still not nothing.

Kids don’t walk to school anymore

What am I passing when I drive home every afternoon? Geese?