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Tarrant, as someone who has been divorced and is considering it again. Did you have joint accounts in your first relationship? Did you wish you didn't? Do you have joint accounts now? And not at all as a slight but an honest question. Pre-nups and separation of finances seem logical to me...

You keep saying I don't trust women. It has nothing to do with trust and everything to do with being steadfast.

Because you can do everything you've all said a joint account affords with separate accounts, but if you have joint accounts and things go sour is makes separating finances much easier.

So you agree with me

I don't mean splitting everything 50/50. I mean split cost of living (housing, utilities, things like that) and then have conversations about what you want to do together and how to pay for it. We've had these discussions before. I think everyone here knows I think it's bullshit for someone to...

I just don't see how having a joint bank account is a necessity. You don't need a joint bank account to split your bills and costs of living. I've never had joint bank accounts with my roommates and things worked out just fine.

What does sharing a bank account have to do with trust? And "a few dollars"? You naive fool. There's no compelling reason to join bank accounts. None whatsoever. And if it does go south it makes everything that much more difficult. We try to do what's smart and reasonable in every aspect of our...

You'd be a fool to give up the upward mobility that can come with being a good mechanic over the course of a lifetime to go work at a McDonald's that, while it can have some upward mobility, doesn't really have the same type of guarantee. That's very short term thinking. I know that some people...

So you realize some people are "fuckups" because they didn't ever get taught and don't know how to not be a "fuckup". The issue for some of us is by treating them like slaves and never allowing them to have a chance even if they do work full time and at least try to contribute to society we are...

Nice.

Not at all, I just want to see if he was reasonable because it originally sounded like he was saying if he could do it anyone could, regardless of living situation. But he's obviously a reasonable person based on his answer below yours.

Not necessarily because most companies realize hiring overqualified people leads to high turnover. Those overqualified people never stop looking for a job that is more suitable to them and leave as soon as they find one. But this also assumes there are a high amount of unemployed people who...

Joint bank accounts? Forget that bros!

So just for argument's sake, would you still feel secure at that pay level if you had a family with at least one child and needed your own place without roommates? Or rather, would you start a family at your current pay level?

Well you're obviously much smarter with your money than most Americans, but do you feel secure at that income level and is that disposable income amount with or without paid overtime?

That goes without saying. I don't think you and I disagree on a fundamental level, we are just kind of sitting on opposite sides of the table for argument's sake

That's the theory.

I think we're agreeing here. The tax breaks only really help the people who don't need any help.

I don't know man, the larger the user base the more likely you are to get caught if you ask me because theoretically more of your wife's friends/acquaintances would use it and potentially get matched to you. Though that whole out of town thing is true.

Yea I hadn't looked at the chart in a while, so you were closer to the 50% bracket. Still more than you get taxed today but not by that much (because of marginal tax rates).

I do both at the same time. Pound her in the pooper and yank her head back by her hair and plant one on her forehead

Well I was assuming you were close to the ~450k (is that right? maybe that was closer to the 50% bracket and 70% was 1 million or so in today's dollars). Whether or not the poor are better off now than were in 1959 is debatable. In some ways yes they are, and in other ways no they are not...

Arslan is a cringeworthy show. How do you guys watch it? Awful animation, terrible dialogue, lackluster story.

How exactly do you "encourage" a company to pay its employees more when they are having record years? You let collective bargaining do the talking or you "artificially inflate" the minimum wage if it's a company that employs large amounts of minimum wage workers. What exactly do you mean by...

So I understand not wanting to pay a bunch of money in taxes, it doesn't seem fair to have to give up money you've earned to subsidize the less fortunate. But before Nixon started cutting taxes for the wealthy and the trend continued to the point it's at now people in your income bracket were...

Well I can see your point but I would argue that the economy is not growing, wealth is growing for a certain class of people who aren't pumping much of it back into the economy while the lower classes earn less and less each year due to stagnant wages and diminishing buying power. The market...

The economy hasn't been growing since the 2008 downturn, it's been doing what Mist suggests. Becoming top heavy. Only the wealthy are earning money and living better right now. The working class is worse off every year because wages have stagnated while inflation keeps moving along...

Don't know if you can trust these stats but according tothis sitethere are 54 million singles in the U.S. and 49 million have tried online dating. I have no idea how they could possibly pull that stat because I don't recall ever giving a social security number when signing up for any of those...

Looks like Tinder has about 50 million users worldwide and Match.com has about 23 million. OKCupid has about 12. So yea, tinder is definitely the biggest by a wide margin. Match is the second biggest.

We already do this. We're asking for employers to start pitching in appropriately instead of paying and treating low skill job roles as indentured servants. We're asking employers to stop fucking over us as tax payers because they want to maximize profits. We're saying "FUCK YOU WALTON...

I wonder what the user base sizes are for these. I'd imagine Tinder is fairly large but I'd be surprised if it was larger than OKCupid or Match.

Not really because all of them (even eHarmony) have a "tinder" style swipe feature. They can all be used exactly the same way (and pretty much are).

Is there a fast food union? Anyway, yes that certainly can and does happen, but humans kind of suck man. Before unions and collective bargaining were a real, protected thing it was the companies that were holding the workers hostage. Literally... going back to Carnegie again his workers tried...

I always forget about Moe's Monday. I went to Taco Bell today when I should have gone to Moe's... Feels bad too.

20 hour days at no extra pay? Sounds like you got lucky to me because that isn't very smart. Coulda used those 12 extra hours to better your situation in much more productive ways. I can't think of anything more hit or miss than "Well I'll just work more hours to prove I'm the best". In my...

No, I don't want a standard of living for everyone. I want a livable wage for folks who work and make an effort so that our goddamn economy doesn't keep collapsing every 7 years. And yes I will gladly pay for that, we already do. Less people on social programs that we already currently pay for...

He didn't see it that way because he was blinded by bullshit. Which apparently so are you. Ask me to work 16 hours a day for you just so I can eat? Fuck yourself. That's what intelligent people say because they know they are being taken advantage of. And some of those same intelligent people...

I won't argue that there are people who just want to take. They exist. They always have. They did in your grandfather's generation too. But let's not pretend that everyone who isn't as successful as we are is just fucking lazy. Working 16 hours a day and "being happy" even though you never...

Not everyone is cut out for career work. These are exactly what they are meant to be... jobs. And if you have a job, and perform it, you should be able to live without needing government assistance. Some people can't move, they have no means to do so. It's much easier said than done. I agree...

Ya know you can be hyperbolic about this all you want but there are a TON of moronic parents out there who push their kids so hard to get a college education that they essentially force them into crippling debt. A lot of people have lost sight of the fact that not every kid is cut out for higher...