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I think the good times ended in March 2000, right when the dot coms crashed. All that late '90s optimism faded away and was replaced by endless rounds of layoffs, gratuitous patriotic gestures, and one recession after another. I suspect that the zombie genre's enduring popularity is related to...

I think it's because Boomers have built a reputation as ladder kickers. If you're unfamiliar with the term, they climbed the ladder of success and kicked it down so nobody else could join them. They benefited from thirty years of post-war prosperity and seem set on denying that opportunity to...

And the elderly are just scared in general. Why do you think they're such easy prey for scammers? Every year around tax season, scammers call old people and warn them that "an American police officer" is going to arrest them because their taxes weren't done right. The only way they can avoid...

My PC is sputtering so I can only play low-memory games. Life is Feudal: Forest Village is pretty good but the developers abandoned it even with a lot of flaws that needed correcting.

By the transitive property, yes.

I was also wondering how societies would deal with all those newly reunited and blended families. Five years is a long time. Plenty long enough to mourn spouses or children who got dusted. Many of them would have remarried and started new families. In Britain, there is a genealogical...

There's a scene in Ant Man: Quantumania where Cassie complains that post-Blip housing is so scarce you need to be a trust fund baby just to live. I was thinking, "oh honey, the Blip had nothing to do with that." Especially in San Francisco.

So many of them work vaguely in fashion or some artisanal craft. If they weren’t always trying to buy houses in a major city they could be Hallmark characters.

The wife watches HGTV shows when she’s stressed out. I understand why she likes them, but I am starting to develop a seething hatred for the couples on the shows. It always seems like one of the pair is insufferably picky. One person absolutely NEEDED space for three Christmas trees. Another...

My students had their first major assignment due last week. I found one paper was 94% plagiarized, and it was copied from a previous student's paper. This cheater is one of those students who habitually stumbles in half an hour late (it's a one hour class) and either sleeps or sneaks out ten...

I stayed up late in the living room last night because I was emitting lethal nerve gas. I don't think the wife would have appreciated having our bedroom turned into a biohazard. At least it's gone now. I just have no idea what caused it. I guess I'll avoid Walmart birthday cakes from now on.

I don't know your situation, but you could try government work. Even if there is nothing full-time in your area, they might have some temp jobs that could tide you over. https://www.usajobs.gov/

I've had a cast iron stomach since my teenaged years. I hardly ever get food poisoning or stomach viruses. Anyways, last night we went to a birthday party with lots of rich food and desserts. I went to bed feeling fine. When I woke up, my stomach felt like it was boiling with acid. I then ran to...

Wow, I remember that voicemail was posted here well over a decade ago. Cajungal was so creeped out by it. Every girl I know who listened to it wanted to punch Dimitri in the face.

Yeah, you don't need to be poor in order to be white trash. It's a state of mind.

Even if he does get fired, he'll just move to some jerkwater town and run someone else over.

Nope, although they have had issues with players taking steroids.

:D Oh that would be a sticky situation. I wouldn’t want there to be a fuss from the other set of parents every time our kids beat Vijay or Sung-Un at ping pong, and the wife doesn’t think a sport is truly a sport unless you’re covered in dirt and grass stains when you’re done. When I lived in...

A feral cat and her kittens have been hanging around my building on campus. The Mom is quite young and fairly well socialized. She will actually walk up to me and say hello. I feed them when I’m on campus. A TNR group is also there to take care of them.

This is a multi-part whine. Jesus tap dancing Christ, I just can't with some of the student-athletes this semester. And this is coming from someone who tutored student-athletes for several years. The vast majority of my students are fine. Most of my student-athletes are good students as well...