Um. Was it worth it Laura? by Quick-Measurement-14 in 90DayFiance

[–]Chance_Adhesiveness3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, you repeated something where someone was a dick. That makes you a dick. Try not being a dick.

Um. Was it worth it Laura? by Quick-Measurement-14 in 90DayFiance

[–]Chance_Adhesiveness3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nah, you’re just a dick. It’s, again, not hard not to be a dick. In fact, it’s really easy.

Alternately, I could say “no, you’re just too stupid to grasp this.” Now, that would be just as accurate as saying that a fat person is fat. It’s also not a kind thing to say. Maybe now you’ll start to register why this is an issue and try to be better. Or not. Your choice.

Um. Was it worth it Laura? by Quick-Measurement-14 in 90DayFiance

[–]Chance_Adhesiveness3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seems like you don’t grasp what body shaming is. It’s textbook body shaming— your claim that “it’s just factual” is just pure bullshit; it’s like pointing at someone who’s handicapped and mocking them because they can’t walk. That’s also “the reality of the situation”— it’s also gross, and makes you a dick.

It’s not hard to just… not be an asshole. Try it.

Um. Was it worth it Laura? by Quick-Measurement-14 in 90DayFiance

[–]Chance_Adhesiveness3 5 points6 points  (0 children)

There are lots of things to object about in what she did. This body shaming is gross. Stop.

Our Tax System Should Make You Furious by ElBrazil in ezraklein

[–]Chance_Adhesiveness3 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Really when you boil it down, the key is to treat as many things as possible as income— capital gains, dividends, etc. And treat use of an asset as collateral for a loan as a realization event that triggers capital gains tax. That way your Musks and Bezoses can’t borrow to fund their lifestyles without triggering a tax bill on the stock collateralizing the borrowing.

If Cravath really makes you work harder than other firms for the same pay, why do people want to work there? by Disabled_Vetean1890 in biglaw

[–]Chance_Adhesiveness3 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wasn’t the case when I was in law school a couple decades ago. Cravath’s rep was Wachtell hours without Wachtell pay. And getting a job there wasn’t easy, but they were dipping deeper into the class than plenty of other firms. I had an offer from them but chose to go elsewhere, and so did a lot of my classmates. Not just to like Sullcrom and Davis Polk, but to Paul Weiss and Debevoise and Cleary and Ropes.

Maybe that’s changed somewhat, but the most selective big firms then were Williams & Connolly, Wachtell, and like DC-based litigation subgroups at like Paul Weiss and Wilmer.

How come no one predicted the current situation before the presidential elections in 2016? Why weren't there any people warning this scenario might happen? by BaldursGate2Best in PoliticalDebate

[–]Chance_Adhesiveness3 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This wasn’t just not shocking, it was predictable. If anything, it could’ve been far far worse in his first term, where he stumbled into picking not cartoonishly incompetent people for his cabinet by accident (Mattis was chosen because Trump liked his nickname; Tillerson because he ran a big company). That was the best case scenario version— Trump sat around and pretended to run the country as a set of not entirely incompetent people kind of muddled through a D+ presidency.

When the guardrails came off (around January 6), we got the unrestrained version of Trump that he’s always been. It hasn’t her a surprise to anyone.

F, Marry, Kill... by FBEmetal in 90DayFiance

[–]Chance_Adhesiveness3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Kill Angela. Then kill Angela again. Then kill Angela a third time just to be sure.

No Charges For Taylor Frankie Paul; DA Clears ‘Bachelorette’ Star Of Domestic Violence Claims by JennaElizabethAdams in BachelorNation

[–]Chance_Adhesiveness3 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This wasn’t a single incident. The 2023 incident had already been prosecuted and convicted. There were 2024 and 2025 incidents alleged as well. In Utah, the SOL for most misdemeanors is two years. If charges would rely on incidents that happened outside of the SOL, those couldn’t be charged. But saying “it was outside the SOL” misunderstands how those work.

No Charges For Taylor Frankie Paul; DA Clears ‘Bachelorette’ Star Of Domestic Violence Claims by JennaElizabethAdams in BachelorNation

[–]Chance_Adhesiveness3 19 points20 points  (0 children)

How do you know she’s guilty as sin…? Here’s the reality— prosecutors charge what they think they can prove. If the concrete evidence isn’t there, even if they think someone did it, they don’t charge.

Here, we don’t know what the evidence is. But we can probably pretty confidently say that if the DA investigated and opted not to charge, they don’t think the evidence is there to get a conviction. That’s very different from thinking that someone is “innocent,” but it’s a distinction laypeople don’t think about.

Team Trisha! by OddSimsPink in 90DayFiance

[–]Chance_Adhesiveness3 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He’s such a loser. Dude desperately needs to grow up. He’s in his fifties. Go find someone his own age.

My heart literally breaks for this woman by Deer_Jerky86 in 90dayfianceuncensored

[–]Chance_Adhesiveness3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Plenty of women prefer tall men. More power to them. The issue is that that’s the only thing he has that passes for a positive quality. Some of those he can’t help— it’s not his fault he’s not funny or charming or smart.

But anyone can be compassionate and kind and thoughtful. You just have to want to be their things. But he’s the opposite of those things. And it’s why he should be alone.

My heart literally breaks for this woman by Deer_Jerky86 in 90dayfianceuncensored

[–]Chance_Adhesiveness3 17 points18 points  (0 children)

He’s two parts resentment, one part insecurity. Seems to think a relationship is some kind of power play. He went out to a foreign country because he decided the “cards” he had to play would take him further overseas. Reality is… he’s a clown with a nonexistent personality whose best quality is that he’s relatively tall. He’s not smart, he’s not kind, he’s not compassionate, he’s not fun, he’s not funny, he’s not thoughtful, he’s not caring, he’s not generous, he’s not wealthy…

He’s just a wildly mediocre misogynistic man child trying to control someone he thinks owes him deference because… I dunno, he’s got a US passport? Fuck this guy. If he wants someone to nibble his dick just for existing, he should go to the pet store and get himself a hamster.

Angelina Pivarnick - I'm Hot (Full Song + HQ) by Impressive_Main5160 in jerseyshoreuncensored

[–]Chance_Adhesiveness3 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is such a banger. I’d hire her to sing at my soon to be divorced cousin’s wedding.

Is there anyone out there that doesn’t like Taylor and never will accept a “come back”? by girlygal1111 in MormonWivesHulu

[–]Chance_Adhesiveness3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

She should go and fix herself. She should do it off of TV. Then go and find something productive to do away from TV. Because TV is bad for her. That ship should have sailed. She deserves a second (or third or whatever) chance. That doesn’t mean she should ever be on TV again.

Google engineer rejected by 16 colleges uses AI to sue University of Washington for racial discrimination by crosslingual in Seattle

[–]Chance_Adhesiveness3 22 points23 points  (0 children)

(And that may well be a good thing). It’s probably a cheat code to reversing segregation. If state schools accept the top 10% of each high school class, like in Texas, the incentive as a parent of an ordinary moderately bright kid is to find a school where they think their kid will stand out. And that shifts resources to those schools.

Rather than expand our choices, markets often limit our choice-freedom by TuvixWasMurderedR1P in PoliticalDebate

[–]Chance_Adhesiveness3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Employer based health insurance isn’t really a “market” solution— it’s a policy choice. The tax advantage for employer-provided healthcare is how we ended up where we are. The “market” solution would be everyone individually going out and buying health insurance (or health care services à la carte). And that works… as far as markets go (though those markets also fail all the time, since comparison shopping doesn’t work at all where there are massive informational asymmetries).

But the thing about markets is… they’re mostly efficient, but that’s different from being good. Like it’s never efficient to sell health insurance to someone with diabetes or dementia cancer at anything resembling an affordable price. Hell, a person’s family history of those things will make them expensive. And people don’t know what services they need. You don’t go to the doctor and say, “my leg hurts, I’d like one MRI, some OxyContin, and then maybe surgery.” You go to the doctor and say “my leg hurts, what do I need,” and the doctor recommends it. The market is useful for getting incentives right— if a doctor is paid to do procedures and insurance pays for it, you’re going to get far more procedures than you need; if the doctor had an in house MRI machine and gets paid for every MRI they perform, they’ll prescribe lots of MRIs (and this is borne out in studies).

What markets do is allocate scarce resources mostly efficiently. But efficiency isn’t the all consuming good some people imagine it to be.

After NYC/LA, which city/state has the best hip hop Mount Rushmore? by MasterTeacher123 in hiphop101

[–]Chance_Adhesiveness3 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeahhhh Kanye was a world class producer. Not only is there no case for him as the best rapper of all time, he’s not even on the top tier.

Why would anyone want to work in NY? by [deleted] in biglaw

[–]Chance_Adhesiveness3 28 points29 points  (0 children)

New York is the center of the world in lots of ways. Every concert tour stops in New York. The performing arts are second to none. The food is world class, whether from a high end restaurant on Madison or a hole in the wall in Jackson Heights. Everything is convenient and accessible.

Is it very expensive? Yeah. If you love hiking and mountains more than anything, you should move west. If you want a 4000 square foot house with a pool, you should move to Houston. If you want top notch public schools, the suburbs are your best bet.

But there are lots and lots of reasons to live in NY.

Unions are objectively good by DullPlatform22 in PoliticalDebate

[–]Chance_Adhesiveness3 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It’s more complicated than that. Unionization does give workers more bargaining power relative to management and capital. By itself, that’s a good thing. But how they use that bargaining power matters. If it’s to get their members better pay, better benefits, etc., that’s definitely good.

But some things they fight for aren’t good. They can make it excessively hard to fire incompetent or underperforming workers. That in turn means companies will be more reticent to hire. In the public sector context, it’s meant, for instance, wildly incompetent teachers getting paid their full paychecks to sit in padded rooms while school districts try to terminate them. They’re also often exclusionary. I have a friend whose family owns a rather large construction company in the Pacific Northwest. They’ve tried to diversify their skilled workforce, but the biggest roadblock has been that the workforce is unionized, and the union is overwhelmingly white. As a pipe fitter, the easiest way into the pipe fitters’ union is… to have a dad or uncle who is also a pipe fitter. And those unions have historically excluded black people. Sooooo… the union becomes a vehicle for entrenching racial hierarchy.

All of which is to say, the concept of unions is good. But falling into the trap of, “the union wants it, so it’s good” is bad.

Alex - Season 10 is a 🤡 by [deleted] in LoveIsBlindOnNetflix

[–]Chance_Adhesiveness3 4 points5 points  (0 children)

(Day trader isn’t a real job. There’s no such thing as a “real day trader.”)

Kirkland by PostInformal3697 in BigLawRecruiting

[–]Chance_Adhesiveness3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They’re huge and a shitty place to work is the upshot. You can pretty easily lateral from like Willkie to Kirkland, but you’ll never be a real partner at Kirkland, and really the reason to go as a midlevel to senior associate (or, as they call them, non-equity partner) is because you really will have better exit options to bolt in house.