Damn, all the conspiracy comes from some dude misunderstanding “staged rockets to the moon”.

Yes.

It was for the best. Neither man nor beast should ever see the things poor Raggot saw…

This reminds me of one of the OG memes.

“In retrospect, lighting the match was my big mistake. But I was only trying to retrieve the gerbil,” Tomaszewski told bemused doctors in the Severe Burns Unit of Salt Lake City Hospital.

Tomaszewski, and his homosexual partner Andrew “Kiki” Farnum, had been admitted for emergency treatment after a felching session had gone seriously wrong. “I pushed a cardboard tube up his rectum and slipped Raggot, our gerbil, in,” he explained. “As usual, Kiki shouted out ‘Armageddon,’ my cue that he’d had enough. I tried to retrieve Raggot but he wouldn’t come out again, so I peered into the tube and struck a match, thinking the light might attract him.”

At a hushed press conference, a hospital spokesman described what happened next. “The match ignited a pocket of intestinal gas and a flame shot out the tube, igniting Mr. Tomaszewski’s hair and severely burning his face. It also set fire to the gerbil’s fur and whiskers which in turn ignited a larger pocket of gas further up the intestine, propelling the rodent out like a cannonball.”

Tomaszewski suffered second degree burns and a broken nose from the impact of the gerbil, while Farnum suffered first and second degree burns to his anus and lower intestinal tract

Valid points, and I agree that the “packaging” of vices into this format of “7 deadly sins” is traceable to early Christian origins.

You’ve also conceded that this format is clearly rooted on the earlier Hellenistic vice/virtue framework, so I’ll call the 7 deadly sins a “dark age one pager”, meant for monks and other people of simpler minds.

Excellent site for backing up my claim, thanks you.

Consumer spending, as measured by Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis], accounts for 68% of the GDP.

Top 3 items:

1. Housing (33.4% of budget): rent, mortgage interests, property taxes, water, electricity, internet, appliances, furniture.

2. Transportation (17.0%), heavily influenced by commuting habits: cars, fuel.

3. Food (12.9% of budget), includes groceries and food away from home (restaurants)

4. Insurance, Pensions, & Healthcare (20.4% combined)

5. “Discretionary”, everything else: clothing, entertainment, education (!), …

That’s a rather interesting breakdown, and a few items surprised me a lot. In any case, and more to the point I was replying, the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey gives this breakdown:

• The Top 20% (Highest Income Quintile): Accounts for roughly 35% to 38% of total consumption.

• The Middle 60% (Middle Class): Accounts for roughly 53% of spendingg

• The Bottom 20% (Lowest Income Quintile): Accounts for roughly 9% of spending.

It seems like this survey, since it’s based on questionnaires, tends to underreport luxury goods, so in reality it might be skewed more towards the top 20% than what’s presented there.

Even if that’s the case, surely it’s nowhere near the point of “not being profitable to sell to normal people”, as was said.

They can be. The cabin crew will communicate to the flight crew when the interior is ready, they won’t takeoff without it, and someone refusing to sit down or buckle up definitely counts as not ready.

If a passenger gets up and causes a disturbance later, that would also get communicated to the flight crew and, shot of the plane having started its takeoff roll, there’s a good chance everyone is going back to the gate to remove this person.

That’s just ridiculous, unless you’re including stuff like stock, real estate or other investments as “purchases”.

There’s only so much bread and milk and books and sofas and cars that a wealthy household needs to purchase, and sure they will outspent other households in terms of cost per item, but not nearly enough to offset the sheer difference in volume.

Tldr, bullshit.

Perhaps, that’s a good point. It is a green text though, and my bet is that the pic is unrelated.

This sounds pretty typical to me.

They like each others looks, and start talking a bit. She realizes just how many red flags anon is raising, and starts to backpedal.

Fuck women impossible to understand amirite.

Edit: nothing is black and white, especially when it come to people. I was just pointing out one of the likely scenario that hadn’t been pointed out when I posted.