My favorite version of the chess one is from the Simpsons when the teachers at the school go on strike. Bart now has a ton of time on his hands and ends up playing chess against 3 people at the same time in the park. A bystander comments on how smart he must be right before all 3 opponents checkmate him. https://youtu.be/zLcAu1VuP0w

Financial literacy

I had a manager who at the end of every meeting (and I mean EVERY meeting) said “go team!” It was especially annoying since he wasn’t actually present in 99.9% of those meetings.

Did they determine the cause of death of that cow? I would think any car that hit it would have received a lot of damage.

A house. Fuck moving every couple of years. Fuck landlords (especially the corporate kind). Hell yea having the ability to make changes and improvements. Obligatory: https://m.xkcd.com/905/

Hasn’t the US government broken every single treaty with Native American tribes?

Takeout Thai

Tomatoes. I disliked them for a long time but a few years ago I tried them again. I don’t remember how I made that decision - it may have been from forgetting to ask for no tomatoes on a burger but I ended up trying them more and came to like them. I don’t like all tomatoes and not in everything, but I do enjoy them in sandwiches, burgers, and a few other things.

I’m skeptical that anything legal will work for very long because they will quickly work to make said legal action illegal.

No one has asked the important question: what do you need the laptop to do on this camping trip? The answer to that will drastically change the answer to your question

Hello fellow Stumpt fan! Huge plus one to Stumpt

When my cat is hungry and I’m at my computer, she will put her front paws up on my chair and then gently tap my leg to ask “food plz”. She increases in frequency over time.

Save money into a retirement fund. Be consistent about contributing to it. Compound interest is very much your friend at this age

I want this post read by Cave Johnson

I sort of agree in that parents should teach in addition to schools. However, this feels like entitlement showing because it makes a bunch of assumptions about parents (that others have already commented on), but just even having parents. There are a lot of people who only have one parent, or no parents for various reasons. What about kids who lost one of their parents to cancer and their remaining parent doesn’t have the capacity to teach the subjects you mentioned? Schools provide an opportunity for common education for everyone.

I always interpret it as “I NEED”

If they came from Asia to the Caribbean via the Pacific, how did they traverse North America? If they came via the Atlantic, how did they traverse Europe, the Mediterranean, or Africa?

These are just the current tech fad that got over hyped just like blockchain did

Delain, Sabaton, and Nightwish. Best concert I think I’ll ever see. I hadn’t even heard of Sabaton at the time and they quickly became one of my favorite bands.

CEO decided to lay off a huge portion of the company. Then he had the nerve to have an all-hands saying that the company’s financials were great and that they were on track to make $X billion in revenue in some years. Most off the laid off people were still in the fucking call.