I surf with showdead on and often find myself upvoting grey comments that don't seem factually incorrect or rude, perhaps just espousing an unpopular opinion. But man, a lot of grey comments are correctly moderated. I'd leave the most downvoted ones alone for sure.

Are you able to downvote stories?

It's not illegal to own fake currency. It's only illegal to possess with intent to defraud: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/472

Probably, but if you want to make a second one you'll have all the stuff right there still.

I dunno, you could build a "smart playmat" that keeps track of your board state and helps a bit with the math.

If moving to Saudi Arabia to teach English is an option in your life then you are already in the top 10% by wealth.

You mean worldwide, by nature of being an English speaker? Probably. But people don't really care about that. They want to keep up with the Jeffersons and Saudi Arabia allows a means to do that, at least relatively. On the off chance you somehow meant something else, relocation costs including airfare/etc are included as well as a return ticket.

This is like when you're working retail and the scanner glitches or the barcode isn't registered and the customer says "I guess that one's free then!" and you have to say "ha ha, very droll sir" as if you didn't hear that same joke yesterday.

> you have to say "ha ha, very droll sir"

I completely support the defensive adoption of a sardonic butler-persona for everybody on the other side of a cash-register. :p

I haven't read the book but I always try to incorporate people's names into many sentences when they are a new acquaintance as it forces me to remember their name.

Actual pawn shops already do this, though.

Yeah, but now with a brand