Morrowind, Fallout, and Dragon Age are all quality contenders.

People get lots of tax breaks. But tax breaks are helpful proportional to your tax debt.

A 10% tax reduction on $1000 is a pittance compared to $1M

Or the woman that opened the national pocket book time and time again to finance his campaigns.

It’s one hell of a choice. Shame only one of them has expressed an ounce of remorse.

Spending ten hours of spamming resumes to get one hour on an interview call sounds like a bad way to make money

I would love to support Zack Polanski, but the British Press just told me he is being puppeteered by Jihadi Extremists, the Yellow Menace of the Far East, and the insidious hand of the Radical Transgender Communist movement.

Dragging my tongue over ice-cold saccharine cream tainted by biter cacao seeds as grainy bits of sand dig into my exposed flesh and the roar of the ocean assaults my tender eardrums.

Every moment at the beach is unspeakable anguish.

We definitely do a lot of gossip.

Okay, so here’s the thing. My wife and I have been doing this to each other for nearly 20 years. She’s a philosophy major. I’m a math major. This was probably one of our first big arguments. Any time either one of us stumble on a proof or a study or a tangential bit of theory or semi-relevant meme, we will immediately reignite the struggle session over free-will for the rest of the week.

Really is gross that Brits will be 100% on-board with home grown racist bilge, only to shit themselves the moment they get a whisper that an Evil Foreigner might be involved.

Knee-jerk terror of foreigners is the reason Robinson’s running roughshod over the whole fucking country. But of course the only antidote these fuckwits can come up with is more of the poison.

I’m more annoyed at how many Brits seem unaffected by Robinson’s brand of mob violence right up until they think a Russian might be involved. It’s nativism coming and nativism going. Nobody seems to want to grapple with the problem of local white Britons being absolutely out of pocket.

Crazy that he was back in it, given that walked away way back in '05-'10 to pursue a Hollywood career. Shame, too, because “The End of Time” was a solid capstone to a rebirth of the franchise. His return (along with the return of Tenant and Piper) just felt like he was running the Greatest Hits. Nice to see Ncuti Gatwa get a hand on the batton, but distressing to see he had the fewest episodes outside Eccleston.

Just feels like the BBC is giving up on the show like it’s given up on so much else.

If you’ve got enough money, and you don’t step into any big scams, sure.

But the first is hard and the second is arguably even harder. The Tech Sector was flush with greenwashing under Obama, for instance.

Carney dodged a bullet when a much more popular Conservative party took a tumble in the face of US tariffs.

Now he’s trying to placate a bunch of Trumpy Albertans on the on hand and tech sector landleeches on the other, which is roughly the place Biden found himself two years into his term.

Canadian politics is fully in the grip of the oligarchs - many of whom straddle the border.

• Very difficult for an outside investor to gauge the ethical practices of a business outside the broad brush stuff (war bad, solar good, etc)

• The volume of cash you’re investing is likely a rounding error on a rounding error for the business, nevermind the industry as a whole, so you’re unlikely to shift behaviors with your choices

• Ethical investing is riff with affinity scams.

• It’s hard to gauge long term net benefits of an investment decision, which can lead to “Longtermist” style behavior.

Very normal for folks out of work to go back to school and pick up another degree.

That wasn’t really the Jedi council’s fault.

I don’t think anyone can seriously argue that Anakin’s skills were below the level of a master by Episode 3. They were being stingy in no small part because they hadn’t wanted him trained as a Jedi to begin with. They definitely didn’t want him as a peer.

They were doing their best to appease the Chancellor, not knowing at the time he was a Sith playing them.

Sure. They were playing a game of compromise, because they were too fixated on incremental victories and blind to the end game. That’s what ultimately spelled their downfall.

The council were a bunch of fucking idiots (Windu especially), but this was one of those times they actually chose the best, worst option.

I don’t think it would have made much of a difference. The Jedi were doomed as soon as they started surrounding themselves with Clone Troopers on active battlefields.

But even beyond that, the ultimate sin of the Jedi council was the (attempted) extermination of Sith Lords. They reaped what they’d sown. While Anakin was absolutely a whiny little shit, he wasn’t wrong when he proclaimed “From my perspective, it is the Jedi who are evil”. The Jedi held dominion over the Old Republic. The Jedi policed the Galaxy and imposed their orthodoxy at saber-point. The Jedi persecuted anyone who used the Force heretically, in no small part because of their own fears and megalomania.

It was the Jedi who unwittingly created the Galactic Empire entirely because they could not conceive of a Galaxy that wasn’t firmly under their control.

I spend all my sick days and a non-negligible number of vacation days on the kind of chores you can only get done during work hours. Back when we had “Work From Home”, I would also squeeze these tasks in during my lunch break.

I don’t want to burn sick time for a doctor’s appointment (I need to save those for when my kid is actually sick), and I sure as hell don’t want to use up a “vacation” day for it.

Well, good luck with that. My retired mother-in-law helps a lot with my son when he’s ill. And we can juggle my son between our individual sick-day allotments such that I haven’t run out yet. But yeah, eventually they’re all just “hours to spend that my boss won’t gripe at me for when I use them”. That’s meant dipping into vacation days when I needed to justify not being on the clock.

Fidel Castro survived over 600 assassination attempts, primarily orchestrated by the CIA, showcasing a bizarre and extensive campaign against him.

getting denied a promotion he did not deserve

Not deserve? Listen, Anakin was on a lot of bullshit. But how can he be put on the council and not be granted the rank of master? This is the Jedi equivalent of telling you to teach six classes but denying tenure.