Does that work in a world where the chain of ownership and management is so tangled, or the gap between bad action and horrible consequence is potentially so long? (View Post)

Yes and no. The thing about long-term choices is that, by the time the foolishness of bad choices becomes clear, the people who made those choices have largely moved on. Choir Invisible and all that.… (View Post)

Couple of hours? Nah. The whole point of the Sunday roast is that the servants could prepare it and still have time to go to church. Most of the time is a big lump of meat doing what it does in an ov… (View Post)

Similar dynamic, don't like the Westminster menu, so NOTA. (View Post)

More likely, the phenomenon @ff43 pointed to upthread. For some demographics, life is very peachy right now. For others, it sucks majorly. It's not quite as simple as "paid off mortgage = happin… (View Post)