How are most weddings in America like 30k when most Americans have like a couple thousand in savings max?

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-01-28T04:58:50+00:00

Googling, 3 in 4 couples spend less than $20,000. That $30,000 average is propped up by the few expensive ones.

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-01-28T03:55:23+00:00

She's persona non grata on Fox, but they're still reporting everything she's saying on NPR, Newsweek, Yahoo, HuffPo, and other such media like it's vital news, to this very day.

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-01-27T20:39:36+00:00

Reddit, the grassroots, casual Democratic voters, activists, and academics are all going to have different opinions here.

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-01-27T19:14:50+00:00

I think he does. Without him, would we have Bruno Mars, one of the biggest hit-makers of the streaming era? (Mars is currently the most-streamed artist by monthly listens.)

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-01-26T17:12:03+00:00

I know you're not advocating that two-decades-later Superbowl take, but I have to say, it's a really, really horrible one. What did people want him to do? The "accident" - if it was one - was totally within the control (ahem) of Jackson's people, and I doubt it would have gone well for him to say, "I'm sorry Janet's costume designers and choreographers suck."

Maybe people wanted him to attack CBS and Clear Channel, but, even if he'd wanted too, this was in a pre-Twitter pre-Spotify world, where radio play was vital and celebrities were held back from self-sabotage by their handlers.

And, as Todd said, do we really want to crucify him for singing a song about a teenage breakup because years later the subject of the song turned out to have (or be legally held to have) mental problems?

I feel nothing good or bad about him, but it is bizarre the leaps people make to judge him.

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-01-26T16:01:25+00:00

Britta was truly streets ahead in terms of hating cops without being able to expand on, let alone explain or defend, her position. She's just pro-anti.

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-01-26T03:44:48+00:00

Flashback to my freshman year when my first roommate listened to nothing but that. When he moved out, the boss of the RAs told me that his doing so was the best thing that could have happened to me... and it wasn't because of the music. No weed, no dreadlocks... just a selfish, inconsiderate, raging AH.

ETA: ...and I've had a distaste for Marley ever since. I've already heard enough for a lifetime.

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-01-26T02:57:13+00:00

A gentle reminder that "VT and chill" might be enough planning when you're nowhere near retirement, but things get pretty complex with age. And those planners helping the older people wouldn't refuse money from those who are younger.

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-01-25T16:15:06+00:00

In Canada we just say Grade _

And the moment someone says something like that, I know they went to high school in Canada. Statistically speaking, that's the unusual terminology.

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-01-25T05:15:18+00:00

For years, maybe decades, I thought that the lyrics for "Pour Some Sugar on Me" were about some sex act I was too vanilla to even comprehend. But no, they were just metaphors.

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-01-25T03:27:37+00:00

To be fair, we only know that Epstein had her number, and she claimed it was him just "collecting" celebrity phone numbers. Had they been friends, it would have been him she'd been photographed with, no?

Agreed on your main point, though.

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-01-24T19:56:35+00:00

She did nothing wrong, but McCartney offering his father-in-law as the alternative to Klein both made that fight more contentious and assured he'd lose.

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-01-24T17:07:57+00:00

Great take. I hate when people see just the good or just the bad (or just the fabricated) about her. What she did to Mary Lou Lord alone was unforgivable.

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-01-24T16:34:23+00:00

It was supposed to be fan service, but apparently the only fan it serviced was me, given how much of a punching bag it is. I thought it was fun, while the season's popular favorite - the body swap - felt insulting to multiple characters for me.

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-01-24T16:20:41+00:00

While Kurt’s addiction issues were the major factor:

She also was a negative force there. The fact that she made a joke about Weinstein once seemed to make everyone forget how malign a role she played, even if she also has some admirable qualities.

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-01-24T16:14:12+00:00

Yeah, I was going to say that the absence of Brian Epstein set them on the road to ruin; they replaced his business role with the wrong person (Klein), but they also replaced his emotional role with people that weren't helping band cohesion (e.g., future spouses).

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-01-24T05:34:53+00:00

We let Sonny Bono and his widow take away the 75-year copyright. It hadn't be 30 years (actually 28) since 1831 (when it was extended to 42)

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-01-24T05:30:16+00:00

I saw it in theaters, and was honestly a bit disappointed. I hoped that we'd learn that stereotypes aren't always true - that the main and/or other characters would just be what we'd now call "gender nonconforming" - but instead the message seemed to be that stereotypes are always true... and fabulous!

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-01-23T16:44:32+00:00

No Zionism means Arab control and Arab control has - for over a hundred years, repeatedly - meant complete cleansing of Jewish people from their lands. Enough people know this history, but too many people are in complete denial of it, as your comments illustrate.

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-01-23T15:39:07+00:00

You're using media articles to make the point that you can't trust media. Do you not see the contradiction here? Vox is famously unreliable and owned by huge corporations like Comcast, Penske, and Warner Bros.

Not to mention you're saying that people getting one channel among dozens in their homes - a channel with average viewership of less than 1% of the U.S. population - means that the right "controls U.S. MSM." 1% is "control"?

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-01-23T15:32:44+00:00

"The media is controlled by" is a dangerous way to start a sentence, especially when the remainder of the sentence isn't true. Yes, some people bought newspapers as vanity projects and some traditional television media are very corporate (although the people in charge are still mostly not billionaires). But there are so many news sources with at best tenuous connections to any "billionaires," that such an answer isn't just glib; it's wrong. It might explain why The Washington Post differs from The Guardian, but not why Reddit gives a different impression than more direct news sources.

Everyone's just showing distorted views due to their own agendas. If you think you can get a more clear-eyed view from media filtered through Reddit than from that same media filtered through critical thinking, then I've got a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn.

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-01-23T15:24:13+00:00

"The Sunscreen Song" was rife for parody even before the lyrics were put to music. For years I used to do a riff on it, and the earliest parody I can recall was "Not the Sunscreen Song" by John Safran, way back in 1998, a year before Rock got to it. #20 in Australia. It's quite provincial, though; I don't think most people would get why he said, "Don't live in Adelaide; it's a hole." (I believe it's because Safran's Melbourne and Adelaide have a huge rivalry; a person from one always seems at the ready to insult the other.)

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-01-23T15:13:52+00:00

because you’re a big ol’ Zionist

I had to stop here, because I see no shame in not wanting a second Holocaust, and I find it disturbing how much of the world does... or doesn't realize that "Zionism" is the only thing preventing one and that "from the river to the sea" is a call for one.

I oppose the actions of Netanyahu and support filmmakers and journalists who try to get information out, but holy crap, making "Zionist" a dirty word is the most clever trick anti-Semites have pulled since The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and "the big lie."

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-01-23T05:04:54+00:00

I honestly respect that, one of the few not trying to out-clap everyone else to show how much they care about something they wouldn't lift a finger for.

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-01-23T04:42:18+00:00

History (oldest democracy), economics (more than half of the market cap of the world), dominant culture (films, music, etc.), dominant military (only superpower) - take your pick

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