10 mil. Enough to absorb all but the worst shocks to the stock market, continue to grow if desired, or pull $500,000/yr interest at a conservative 5% growth. $500,000 year means you could afford the Lamborghini, but you still gotta make payments.

IMO $2-3 million today is about the “millionaire” of yesteryear, someone we used to call rich but not crazily so. $10 million is actual passive wealth that is enough to live very well without touching the principal.

You’re the ATM card.

They had their goosestepping orders.

Reading a book once in a while instead of burning them helps quite a bit with understanding pronunciation.

You’ve just been lied to, or so beaten down that your expectarions for middle class have declined.

The OP’s math should be middle class.

Agreed on both counts.

My quote wasn’t intended to be a solution for people with genuine problems. It can be a reminder to take a step back if one can.

Yeah, trauma or other defensive behavior can be like wagon ruts. That’s the well-worn path the brain defaults to and it can be really hard to lift that heavy wagonload of trauma out of that deep rut. Creating other roads and lightening the load is a job for therapy.

Had to input what the nanny told her about her kid.

“Just because you got burned doesn’t mean you get to go around setting everyone else on fire.”

A quote I remember often.

Damn.

Another great one gone.

Condolences to the family, and all the fans too.

I generally don’t get too emotionally invested in characters in entertainment that make it personal, but Bester was one of the few that made it through my guard. WK did such a good job. I despised Bester, that smug arrogance and position that made the character essentially untouchable really ground my gears. I knew he was going to make me vicariously angry when he showed up. He was the Nazi that remorselessly killed people in camps by day and went home to a family at night like nothing was wrong…just another Tuesday. Good writing and great acting.

This and they use a national average. I get they need some sort of yardstick, but I never saw prices this high under Biden. I’d be really curious to see what State actions have been taken under both administrations to modulate energy costs, especially those at the pump, that are affecting numbers. 100% agree that everything else on top of energy prices is a squeeze this country has never really felt before.

Law & order = whatever orders they make up are the law of the moment.

Need to give Zelenskyy a few more drones to take out Russian datacenter troll farms.

If you’re the one supporting ripping up the forest of Ents to make room for a datacenter…yes, you lose your nerd card. You are now Saruman, corrupted to the will of evil to further one’s own power.

If only.

Do they still qualify as nerds if they’re the antithesis to the morals in the story they nerdrd over?

Great name for an anti-gas pill. Fart tomorrow, not today.

Republicans aren’t real good about showing up when subpoenaed to testify.

Banks preparing for the catastrophe they gladly helped fund.