That’s the fun part of our current economic system I guess, your previous employer can treat you like shit and then still gets to hold power over you even after they force you out, with the threat of a bad reference. You could work at, say, a well known website for years and years, publishing many very good pieces and…

Did anyone else see Madeleine Davies’ twitter chain about Univision?

she is totally complicit if not supportive of his bs

Those fruit snacks are a life saver, all subway cars should have kids selling snacks in them.

+1 for using a McElroy gif

Doesn’t help with the crazies though. I see lots of conservatives out there who now just consider Fox News to be “main stream media” and having a “liberal bias”. Fox News has fully lost control of their wildfire.

I desperately wanted the guy from NBC to just smoothly hand his mic back over to Acosta for his turn. That, or ask the same question Acosta was going to ask. All with a shit-eating grin. I’m glad he did at least verbally try to defend Acosta.

I mean she used to write a lot of misogynistic lyrics, is that what we know and you don’t?

Hence why it only “almost” made me wonder.

If you read through Kohn actually gives a lot of suggestions of positive things to say that aren’t praise! It can definitely feel really daunting at first to re-frame how you talk in such a fundamental way.

That’s what I find weird about their collective non-reactions, like they’re all pretty used to faking strong emotions for the camera, with varying degrees of success. This was so “Tristan’s cheating...meh” that I’m surprised it’s what ended up in the final cut.

Alfie Kohn has convinced me that praise and punishments (corporal or not) really are mostly bullshit, which was radical to me when I first started in education and child development but now seems totally intuitive.

The Bible is indeed none too charitable with rich people and adulterers, to say nothing of unrepentant liars.

A lot of christians believe that the chaos Trump creates is good and a sign that we are entering the end times (which apparently is a Good Thing when you’re evangelical). Google “god’s chaos candidate” if you have the stomach for it.

Have you ever criticized Kanye West/ do you think it’s wrong for a celebrity to criticize Kanye West?

Everyone’s reactions are surprisingly chill...like they’re upset, but not “my almost-BIL is cheating on my pregnant sister upset.” Almost makes me wonder if the reactions are genuine, because I feel like the other drama clips I’ve seen from the show are much more dramatic, if that makes sense.

It’s so weird, I absolutely don’t get it. And it says a lot when the AV Club crowd is less gross than Jez! Like, are all these people regular commenters? Where did they come from? Why do they all talk like they know the two personally, talking about “Pete” and “Ari’s” respective emotional states??

humiliate him in such a monumental and public way

Right, but the song isn’t a bitchy comeback, and Davidson doesn’t own Saturday nights in perpetuity, so what’s your point?

Where did I say it was a zero sum game? My comment is only regarding the bizarre level of vitriol in this comment section about Grande.