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Nanny state foolishness. It’s just crewed spaceflight, not rocket science.

I think I can speak for everyone that this would be the ideal arrangement.

I hope he’ll be okay. With $2 billion liquidated, his cash on hand is only the average lifetime earnings of 1,176 Americans.

Assuming the average American starts working at age 18 and stops working at 67, that’s just 57,624 years’ worth of American wages.

It’s a shame he’s considering exercising another $6 billion of his stock between now and the end of the year just to get by.

He liquidated 12 million Amazon shares for approximately $2 billion last week. It’s the capital gains on that sale that OP’s article is referring to.

Unless you meant cash, in which case you’re probably right. I don’t think his brokerage settled the sale with briefcases of $100 bills.

Jokes aside, I would murder a coworker with my bare hands on the third instance of this.

I am loathe to praise any entity benefitting from student loans, but I will say that Great Lakes was competent. The website functioned, they had [mostly] enough customer service people, their customer service people could answer your questions, and they billed you the correct amount at predictable intervals.

It’s a sad bar, but it’s more than MOHELA can manage. Godspeed, friend.

I was moved from Great Lakes to Nelnet a couple years ago, and then almost immediately transferred to MOHELA.

It’s astounding how shitty MOHELA is. It’s almost impressive. Literally every single aspect of the experience is godawful. The only way it could be worse is if they actively tried making it worse, and even then I think they’d probably accidentally improve a few things.

Here’s why that’s a [evaluative adjective] thing.

I can understand having 2 or 3 to make sure you’re drinking out of something clean without having to disassemble the whole thing every day, but a friend from work showed me how some people have like 20 of these things. Defeats the purpose of a reusable cup when you have a couple dozen.

Like you said, though. These aren’t being used for their initial purpose. They’re decor for lots of folks.

…which honestly wouldn’t upset me so much if this automotive o-ring I’m using on my lid right now didn’t leak and/or they’d keep their hands off the other less twee Stanley stuff. I like my mug.

This Stanley cup thing is pissing me off because I have one of those green trigger coffee mugs that needs a new lid. You can’t get replacement parts for practically any Stanley cup.

I could get a different coffee cup, but why should I change when it’s these TikTok water cup weirdos that suck?

I read the whole article about this case, and I know this is generally an anomalous situation. Still… The only way I’ll ever go to any assisted living place is inconscious and after a fight.

I’d probably still be at the emerald grove if they hadn’t limited the number of Scratch’s pets per interaction.

I mean, they do that every year, but they did it this year, too.

Two of the derailed cars were carrying molten sulfur, which caught fire after the cars were breached… it is believed that the fire is releasing sulfer dioxide

Sulfer dioxide is pretty nasty on a person’s throat and sinuses to breathe and can make fluid build up in the lungs, and it can have longer-term effects if the exposure is sustained.

A little molten sulfur never hurt anybody!

We’ve done that for 70 or 80 years. Like the saying goes, “do what you love, and you’ll eventually become a global hegemon, weilding your influence like a club and keeping your boot on the neck of the majority of the planet, both economically and militarily.”

Mom always said that.

A hail damaged car that was totaled out by the previous owner’s insurance, making it technically a salvage title vehicle.

Late model vehicles tend to be readily totaled out since body work is so expensive. Insurance companies don’t want to dump >30% value of the car into repairing cosmetic damage, put it back on the road, and then risk having to throw more money at the same vehicle again if another incident happens. They’d rather cut their losses, replace the car totally for their client, and then get what they can out of the damaged car at auction.

In mid-summer, after thunderstorm season, you can even get totaled dealership cars with like 70 miles on them. Mechanically pristine, but cosmetically banged to hell.

Back in the day, you could get them at nearly half their sticker price. Nowadays, it’s not that cheap, but they’re still a great deal and I swear by them.

I’ve bought hail vehicles exclusively for about 15 years. The savings aren’t what they used to be in the current used car market, but you can still save a solid 20% on the price of the car.

I’ve been able to own lower mile/better quality/higher trim cars that I otherwise wouldn’t have been able to afford by doing this.

Don’t forget postal workers!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/05/14/half-of-evangelicals-support-israel-because-they-believe-it-is-important-for-fulfilling-end-times-prophecy/