CORRECTION (9/8/17, 10:15am): An earlier version of this post incorrectly stated that Google was getting rid of Google Drive entirely, rather than updating the app with Backup & Sync. The post has been updated throughout accordingly.
“When any white man in the world picks up a gun and says: ‘give me liberty or give me death’ the entire white world applauds. But when a black man says the same thing, word for word, he’s judged as a criminal (by whites) and treated as one. And everything possible is done to make an example of him, to ensure there wouldn’t be anymore like him.” ~ James Baldwin
My son made this. He called it “Monstrous Moon” and it was presented to me at a parent teacher’s conference this week.
Teacher: “Can we talk about your son’s art project? He made this moon.” Me: “Neat.” T: “He then told the class that it was an evil moon that demanded gifts and songs. People who made it happy could turn into werewolves and those who made it mad would be eaten by said werewolves.” M: “Ah.” T: “He then said we was making the monstrous moon happy and howled, which made other kids howl. They then spent recess howling and talking about eating people.” M: “Oh. That’s a problem.” T: “I’m glad we’re on the same page here.” M: “I’ll speak to him about the importance of the separation of Church and State. He shouldn’t bring his religion to school.” T: “Uh, that’s not what I meant. I have a few therapists that-” M: “HHHHHOOOOOWWWWWWLLLLL”
The Fair Folk: “I can’t believe this. Twenty years I’ve cleaned your house and you DARE to try to REPAY me with GIFTS. This is such an insult. Fuck you, you insolent humans. I’m leaving here and never returning because you have insulted me so deeply.”
Also the Fair Folk: “Remember that one time you pulled a thorn out of a cat’s foot? That was me. To show my gratitude, here is a house made of solid gold, a life-debt, my daughter’s hand in marriage, and a promise that all your children will be gorgeous and successful at all that they do. I can also throw in a blow job if you want. I hope this is enough.”
OK, but look at that face and tell me that's not a cutie
Bats are woefully understudied. Perhaps it is because they are not cute, or because they’re nocturnal and we don’t see them very often, or, as “citizen scientist” Danielle Gustafson says in a Bloomberg report on a new bat app, because they just don’t have good P.R. in pop culture.
The social networking website Care2 opened an online petition letter Wednesday requesting the World Meteorological Association change the name of Hurricane Irma to Hurricane Ivanka, in reference to President Donald Trump’s daughter. The petition, which aims to reach 10,000 signatures, has gathered m...
YOU get a raise! And YOU get a raise. And... I'll see myself out.
Earlier today, Time published its Time Firsts series, a collection of portraits and interviews of groundbreaking women who were the first to achieve something big. Among the subjects: Shonda Rhimes, “first woman to create three hit shows with more than 100 episodes each,” Serena Williams, the “first tennis player to…
Yes, George Orwell was anti-fascism, but he wasn’t AntiFA. The word “fascism” has lost all meaning because you Alt-Leftists keep skewing the definition to fit your agenda.
Not the best url to have while making the “you’re diluting the term ‘fascist’” argument, pal
did i ever tell ppl about the time me and my family thought my older brother was gay and dating his best friend? they used to hold hands and cuddle and shit all the time and cause my brothers super quiet we kinda just thought that was him coming out and didn’t really say anything about it. this went on for maybe two yrs and then one day he arrives home with this girl and is all ‘id like you guys to meet my girlfriend’. at this point everyone is ’????’ and my mom is literally crying and like ‘u broke up with James?!?!?!’ and honestly I’ve never seen a man more confused in his life and yeah that’s the time my family fucked up for like 2 yrs
Why were they cuddling and holding hands may I ask
Congressional Democrats have pulled a fast one on Republicans by striking a deal with Trump to raise the federal debt ceiling only until the end of the year. This will give them bargaining leverage in December to strike a bigger bargain with Republicans: Democrats will agree to raise the debt ceiling then in return for Republican cooperation on legalizing Dreamers (unauthorized immigrants brought into the U.S. as children), making small but necessary fixes in the Affordable Care act, and other things Democrats seek.
Raising the debt ceiling is always a political football, used by whichever party is in the minority to extract concessions from the majority party or from the majority party’s president.
The debt ceiling is how much the government is allowed
to borrow. It shouldn’t be a political football. It should be abolished. It serves absolutely no purpose.
When the debt ceiling was first adopted in 1917, it might have
been a useful way to prevent a president from spending however much he wanted.
But since 1974, Congress has had a formal budget process to control spending
and the taxes needed to finance it.
There’s no reason for Congress to authorize borrowing for
spending that Congress has already approved, especially when a failure to lift
the debt ceiling would be so horrific.
Having a debt ceiling doesn’t discipline government, anyway. The
national debt is obligations government has already made to those who lent it
money. Discipline has to do with setting spending limits and legislating tax
increases, not penalizing the lenders.
Which is why most modern democracies don’t have debt ceilings.
Britain, France, Germany, Canada, Australia – they do just fine without
explicit borrowing limits.
Even more basically, the nation’s debt is a meaningless figure
without reference to the size of the overall economy and the pace of economic
growth.
After World War II, America’s debt was larger than our entire
Gross Domestic Product, but we grew so much so fast in the 1950s and 1960s that
the debt kept shrinking in proportion.
Today’s debt is about 77 percent of our total national product.
The reason it’s a problem is it’s growing faster than the economy is growing,
so it’s on the way to becoming larger and larger in proportion.
This
is what we ought to be focusing on. Fighting over whether or not to raise the
debt ceiling is a meaningless and dangerous distraction. So abolish it.
The 6-foot-4 defensive end says he was handcuffed face-down on the ground after one officer held a gun to his head saying he would blow his head off if he moved.
I loved this show. Honest shocker, my mom loved this show. I'm pretty sure it's the only science fiction this she really enjoyed. It kinda weirded me and my dad and my brother out.
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos announced that she plans to dramatically retool the Department of Education’s guidelines for investigating and responding to cases of campus sexual assault—and she emphasized that she thinks the alleged perpetrators of assault have been mistreated as much as their alleged victims.
They'll find a way to blame Wonder Woman, have her killed off off-screen and go on to make dozens of more bad all-male movies
Greetings and/or salutations, people! Welcome to io9's (occasionally weekly) mail column, where I solve the mysteries of the world of nerd-dom to you, both fictional and otherwise. This week: What was Elektra’s deal in The Defenders? Is an evil BB-8 droid a good thing or a bad thing? And, most importantly, who’s to…
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I'm gonna start with cavity searches on the side of the road.
Right up front I’m going to say: It’s easier for a white nurse than a black motorist to say no to a cop. In a video released last weekend, Alex Wubbels, a nurse at University Hospital in Salt Lake City refused a cop’s orders to draw blood from an unconscious patient. Wubbels had hospital policy on her side as well as…
Rocio Fuentes weighed up the cost of getting some new sofas for her new apartment in Pasadena, Texas, and decided the family budget could just about stretch to it. Just one month after moving in, Hurricane Harvey swept through and the Fuenteses were left not only with the ruined furniture but also an ongoing rental demand for a dwelling they had to flee.
“At first we didn’t think it would be that bad, but then the water came through the wall and up through the carpet,” Fuentes said. “Once we saw the water wasn’t going to stop, we left.”
Fuentes, her husband Jaime and their five children, ages ranging from seven months to 14 years, were plucked from the floodwaters by her mother, who arrived in a truck. They are now crammed into her sister’s apartment and with no insurance have little idea where they will live next. Jaime is unable to earn money because his construction job has been paused due to the flooding.
But while everything has changed for this family, they are still expected to pay for their abandoned home.
“Our landlords say we have to pay rent and late fees and every day it is going up,” Fuentes said. “We are paying rent for somewhere we can’t live in. They said ‘you aren’t the only ones in this situation’, but what are we supposed to do? We don’t have any money. We don’t have anything.”
Capitalism is evil.
Like some of the other comments in this are saying, legally a lot of landlords can’t actually charge rent in a situation like this, so if you find yourself in this situation, you do have legal recourse.
In Texas, the tenant law dictates that you have a right to demand that the landlord repair any condition that materially affects your health and safety. Under Texas law, by renting you the property, the landlord guarantees that the unit will be a fit place to live.
So if it’s dangerously flooded and unhygienic THEY have to fix it, not you, and you can break your lease with no penalty or have the landlord court ordered to repair it. Most states have laws like this, so actually the landlords here are risking lawsuits and people legally nailing them to the wall by trying to charge on units that are unfit for habitation.
These landlords are really stupid because apartments that are flooded out and growing black mold are going to be impossible to prove as healthy and safe. They’re just trying to take advantage of people not knowing their tenants’ rights to eke rent out of them for as long as they can before the tenants realize they actually can’t do that.
They’re probably just counting on the tenants being too poor to afford lawyers.
The next time I see one of those “millenials will be photographing the end of the world” posts I’m gonna scream because let me tell you, I just went through a natural disaster and Snapchat literally saved people’s lives. Thanks to snapchat I knew exactly what roads were flooded, what stores were open, what my HOUSE looked like (since I wasn’t there), and which shelters I could go to. People were snapping/tweeting asking to be rescued and THEY WERE. I didn’t get my news from the tv, I saw it in real time on social media and I will never not be grateful for that.
Ripley has a very good grasp of the word “touch” and we often use it as a command word to get him to try to be less afraid of new things or to ask his permission to pet him. He knows if we ask him to “touch” a person or object, he’ll be praised for gently tapping his beak against it. He also knows exactly what we mean when we ask him not to touch something,
Today I yelled at him for biting the wall and he did probably the pettiest thing I’ve ever seen him do: he went around touching stuff in the room and saying “no” and staring at me to make sure I was watching him do it.
guys please observe my friend’s salty toddlersaur.
