links (because wherever one is in the world, there are tabs to be dumped):

[thene]

Kris Ligman, on internet self-esteem.

vi's comic about Tintin.

myz_lilith on moving to London.

...I'll just leave this here with no comment, how about that.

From the 'Why would the future be different?' files: Musicians Wage War Against Evil Robots.

From the 'well duh' files; immigrants living in squalid conditions in West London and not being able to return home.

Banksy, on advertising:

You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy.

Daisy fills you in on the whole Girl Scout Cookies transwank so I don't have to; I bought NINE BOXES on account of this; love the new lemony ones, yay.

Washington Post - A million-dollar mortgage goes unpaid for years while couple fights foreclosure:

“When a bank does all it can to save itself, that’s good business,” Keith said. “When a homeowner does the same thing, he’s called a deadbeat.”

^this. Individuals who made money off the bubble but then got left holding the baby are being treated way less cushily than banks that did the same; the moral hazard is unevenly distributed. In a bubble, everyone becomes a speculator, and moral hazard arises when some of them get rewarded for it. The rest of us all get screwed, though.

Bloomburg via SubprimeJD - Let Them Eat Cake.

“I wouldn’t want to whine,” Schiff said. “All I want is the stuff that I always thought, growing up, that successful parents had.”

^yeah, dude excerpted the most choice comments on this, LOLOLOLOL.

Comments

[pennie_dreadful]

Like I fucking needed an actual reason to BUY MORE COOKIES. I have made it a point to buy a box whenever I can because the far right wing nut jobs have been against them for years, on account of GSUSA refusing to align themselves with either right or left wing causes. Also they provide sex ed that most of those girls will probably never receive from anywhere else.

I just wish I'd thought about starting a dog walking service, jeez. $17 per dog?

[thene]

the new lemony ones, OMG. DUNKED IN COFFEE. DO IT.

I do wish I'd had the balls to TELL the dear twee GA mothers why I was getting so damn many boxes. Oh well, at least I got to feed them to all my British friends.