We are in our suffix-punk arc. We’re such word-pilled portmanteau-maxxers.

weakness of the state in the last year (Prigo’s march, Krokus

That operation was a real ballroom blitz, I tell ya.

Years and years ago at a house party, some woman from Cork and a friend of mine from Belfast were joking and they said, “Because Ulster says”, and I had no idea what they were talking about.

None of the answers I’ve read so far actually answer your question with basic facts.

When you invest then you are buying a tangible financial instrument: a share of a company or a treasury bill or a municipal bond and so on. There is the expectation that over time, the value of your financial instrument will increase in value but this is not guaranteed. The lack of guarantee is the risk. Some instruments are riskier than others. The level of risk does not define gambling.

When you walk into a casino and bet money on roulette, what are you buying? You are buying nothing more than a fleeting chance at winning more money. It is entertainment by thrill. There is no tangible thing that you own from gambling.

Investing is one way that companies can raise capital to expand their business. Business expansion can lead to greater employment and higher standard of living. For investing to work as an economic system there must be liquidity. Someone must be willing to buy your financial instrument later at a higher price or some town must still be collecting taxes to pay back your bond years later.

Hopefully you can see now why investing is encouraged and supported in society and gambling is either illegal or merely tolerated.

You offer an interesting vintage, but I’m going to have to resonate with you. Your ideas are just too methodology.

Even after you do, you still have to find a definition

LOL! 99% of people absolutely do not look up a new word when they hear it. If the listener thinks it makes the speaker sound smart then they get a vague idea of the meaning from context and then start using it – often in the wrong context. All the dummies of the world repeat this process and it spreads like a virus.

And thus, another word with a very specific meaning gets turned into another broad-meaning synonym. If don’t believe me I’ll caveat all over your nuances until you verbiage.

This is a very interesting question because it ignores the way that I wander into subscribing at all

I know of some show I want to watch and then after I already know about the show then I seek out the provider for it. After I subscribe and watch the show until I am satisfied with it only then do I bother looking at other shows available on that same provider.

I usually end up watching one or more shows I never would have known about or watched without subscribing for the original show. Eventually I cancel the subscription because there is no interesting shows left.

My Maltese does not have the physical capability of harming me. No temperament test required.

Not scientific but from observing human behavior in my own weird family genetics mixup, I am convinced that creatures behavior is 80% genetics and 20% environment. And bull-breeds were bred to aggressively tear apart other living creatures.

For anyone confused, they mean Cognitive Behavioral Therapy not Cock and Ball Torture or Computer Based Training.

I can’t initially agree that A+ is better than A. I think A is better. So his argument falls apart right there.

Median happiness is the important factor not average happiness.

In the USA, one term we have for this kind of person is “poseur”.

2nd person singular: ya’ll

2nd person plural: all ya’ll

Using “youins” for second person plural is considered archaic.

Yes to everything you just said.

I have one counter example against proportional representation vs districts that worries me. Harvey Milk won his city supervisor post after San Francisco moved from proportional to district. This was because a lot of gay people lived in his neighborhood. I don’t think he would have won in a proportional election. Will similar minorities now be oppressed by the majority if we move to proportional?

Get involved at the state level to implement ranked choice voting. It is the first and most important political change.

https://fairvote.org/

Audio books + thinking about builds in an MMORPG that I play.

I know you said no substances but… starchy and fatty foods.

I’m not done eating the last batch of pizza rolls that Mr Plinkette mailed me.

You used the word “commerce” when you probably meant “capitalism”. Some commenters are not acknowledging that but are instead tearing into your shower thought as if you truly meant commerce.

I did you the kindness of explaining simply what they intentionally left out presumably so that they could be argumentative and feel superior. And then you reply to me with an attempt to be snide presumably because you took my remark as an insult.

No good deed goes unpunished, I suppose.

Since no one is spelling it out for you.

Commerce is just one caveman trading sea shells with another caveman.

Capitalism is when the caveman with the most shells becomes a ruler over the other cavemen that have less.

I think Stack Overflow was a response to Experts Exchange which teased you with a question but you had to buy a subscription for the answer. Subscribers would answer questions and pay for the privilege of providing that site with content.

Brian Regan, the epi-tome of hyper-bowl. What a great show. Thanks for the in-aardvark-ent reminder