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I'm almost forty and regularly hosted parties like this all through high school. So mileage must vary.

I've literally had my home broken into and stuff stolen from it. It was the one time in my life that I ever called the police. They trampled through my place, made a mess and broke more things, and then decided I was reporting a suspicious amount of electronics and accused me of trying to do some kind of insurance fraud.

Fuck cops.

Hard disagree on the jump button. That thing has fundamentally altered how I play so heavily that I struggle going back to Dark Souls games.

NPR as a national organization might be fine, but regional stations have smaller operating budgets and also get funding, and their programming gets picked up. Member stations will suffer or fail under this update, and that will feed back to national programming when something like WAMC's On the Media or WBEZ's Wait Wait gets axed.

I was paraphrasing both OP and yourself to create a farce, yes. Because farces are funny. It was a joke, not a clever and cutting rhetorical maneuver.

So, yeah, sucks a little that you took it so personally, but I do feel pretty good about it.

"I think the system is unfair and could be dramatically improved."

"This is the improved version! No further progress shall be made! Work your 9-5 and be glad you're not locked in the shirtwaist factory for twelve hours a day!"

I've definitely had English essays that were like, "read the short story presented below and then explain how the author used literary devices to express their purpose."

I know a few millennial homeowners, and almost every one falls into one of two categories: they were gifted the home (or down payment) from a family member; or they married a Gen-X doctor in 2007 and bought right after the market crashed in 2008 and they've watched their home value quadruple since then.

That's it. Have family that's well-off enough, or marry someone that had money at the right time to exploit a financial disaster.

Clinton didn't endorse the incumbent. He endorsed Cuomo, New York's former governor who resigned in disgrace several years ago. Apparently Cuomo feels that enough time has passed since he resigned in disgrace that he can try starting up his career again.

I don't know why you think that. Giuliani and Bloomberg were both Republicans. Republicans have run New York for more than half of the last 30 years.

And even when we get Democrats, we end up with conservative Dems like Eric Adams out here promising to lock people up.

never mention it in relation to My Chemical Romance

But "Vampire Money" is an absolute banger written specifically to make fun of all the other bands lining up to be on Twilight soundtracks while MCR turned down offers multiple times.

We read very different books. I thought the first half was hilarious, but it lulled me into a comfort of the absurdity and the banality that set up an absolutely devastating second half.

I think it's one of the greatest books I've ever read, but I don't think it was a comedy.