these two women came to my work today to buy movie tickets and one of the women was paying and she sighed in mock exasperation and said ‘you’re an expensive date’ then quickly looked at me to clear up the situation and said ‘i’m allowed to say that. she’s my wife’ and honestly i was blessed the rest of the night
Trump has a long history of racism and a long history of floating eugenic theories, repeatedly insisting that he must be a genius because of his supposedly good genes. Trump is a stupid man who believes whiteness makes him smarter, and Obama’s actual intelligence upends everything Trump thinks he knows about the world. This induced an obsession that happened to dovetail with the racist anger of a large proportion of white Americans.
That’s the simplest explanation, but it also happens to be the one that fits the evidence. The insistence that it must be something else — some other explanation that has no real evidence behind it, but is more comforting than believing that the country is being run by a white supremacist — verges on denial. You’d think that after Trump lost his temper and defended swastika-waving white supremacists as “fine people,” we could all accept our grim reality for what it is and start dealing with it honestly. And yet.
shoutout to the person who cared enough to save the burrito bird bois from a major hurricane
They trash talking in this pic. One of them just said “you better be gladd i’m wrapped up like this. Soon as they let me out you a KFC meal i swear on my momma”
Recently, The Atlanticpublished a piece titled “Are You Sure You Want Single Payer?,” by Olga Khazan. The article details the “potentially big downsides” of single payer, supported with four experts, one of whom consults for insurance companies.
In case you were worried that you might have to experience joy again...
We already know from the movies that at any moment, we will wake from our cozy reality to discover ourselves geriatric prisoners having spent our lives at the hands of robots who force feed us ice cream to an ironically chipper 1950's jingle. Do we really need a reminder?
this is legitimately what i’ve been saying as someone with an eating disorder
I see so many stupid fad diets based on only consuming juice or tea or uncooked vegetables and the only thing I could think of at the time was “this sounds an awful lot like anorexia.”
Unfortunately it seems that isn’t far from the truth.
This is insane. There needs to be a law that prevents a company like Equifax from doing this. How many millions of affected people, who are worried about Equifax’s failure to protect their information, will go to Equifax to see if they are at risk? How many of those people, who are freaking out about the very real possibility that their identity is at risk of being stolen, will just click past these things, because they want to just know as quickly as possible if they need to take action?
Equifax failed to protect the sensitive information of over half of all adults in America. Now that same company can force victims of its failure to give up their right to sue or participate in a class action, just so those victims can try to find out if they are in trouble or not.
This is wrong, and is yet another reason we need strong consumer protections codified by laws.
On Thursday, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announced a partial overhaul of Obama-era guidelines for how colleges and universities must address incidences of sexual harassment and assault, saying, “the system established by the prior administration has failed too many students.”
From mid-May to July 2017, Equifax exposed the financial and personal identifying information of 143 million Americans – 44% of the country – to hackers, who made off with credit-card details, Social Security Numbers, sensitive credit history data, driver’s license numbers, birth dates, addresses, and then, in the five weeks between discovering the breach and disclosing it, the company allowed its top execs to sell millions of dollars’ worth of stock in the company, while preparing a risibly defective and ineffective website that provides no useful information to the people whom Equifax has put in grave financial and personal danger through their recklessness.
Equifax is in the business of helping employers and financial institutions punish people for making oversights in their business and financial affairs. Being late with a single payment or missing a single bill can constitute a black mark on your Equifax records that lasts for years or decades, affecting your ability to rent or buy a home or get a job.
Really good piece on Gizmodo about why RSS is the best way to get news. Basically you see what the news orgs publish, not what's popular or what Facebook wants you to see (for whatever reason). Gizmodo lists popular RSS readers. Let me put in a plug for my own Electric River, which brings the power of River5 (a server app) to the desktop. You get even more control when you run the aggregator.
Just days after dismissing panic over oncoming mega-storm Hurricane Irma as nothing more than an agenda-driven effort by climate change believers to demonstrate that global warming is having an immediate and catastrophic impact on our planet, sentient mashed potato snowman Rush Limbaugh admitted that, yes, he’d…
How to take care of a cat stuck in a tree the russian way.
I’m 85% sure the subtitles are accurate.
The chaos, the gross negligence, the completely unnecessary destruction of property, the massive do-not-give-a-fuck attitude, and yet it all paid off somehow, I have never seen something so Russian in my entire life!
БАРСИК БАРСИК ИДИ СЮДА
the new adaption of master and margarita looks great
[image text: Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but because out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed.
