o.O

It’s not really that hard to do, unless your entire business model relies on social media.

Over the next year, MTV News, Mic, Vocativ, Mashable, and Vice Media would all make similar shifts, laying off employees to make room for the same kind of production, which guarantees airtime and thus ads. Sometimes that meant original documentaries. Often it meant glorified PowerPoint slides.

This is the risk you take when you sell a product heavily relied on someone else’s platform, you are slaves to their choices.

“Within 24 hours we had everyone on our staff doing long-form” she says. “It’s like, we’ve got to pivot and we’ve got to do it right now, we’re just dead in the water.”

The name Seventy Thirty came about after a study established that successful people spend around 70% of their time working and 30% socialising.

A friend of mine uses a couple of dating sites. She got banned from one of them after a dude took exception to her “no thanks.” Later, another friend of hers who also used the site reported that her profile was not only still up, but it showed that she was currently online.

(the rest of it was awarded for “disappointment and sadness”)

Okay, I super get that these games are engineered to be very addictive but isn’t there a threshold where one would have to switch to addictive games with a FLAT RATE buy in? A little Stardew Valley or Civilization or something? Buy once and you get hundreds of hours of obsessive detraction. It’s not like this mobile…

I’m a high school debate coach and our National tournament was held in Broward County this year, across multiple campuses (our city host location bops around the country every year). While we weren’t at MSD (though their kids were competing, of course), there were district-wide security measures that I have never seen…

My job hosted active shooter training last month for employees, and one of the things the instructor told us was that the first thing you should do is try to get out of the building. Avoid the shooter. He told us to look around places for the exits, and to use all the different exits at our job, or at the mall, or…

Don’t kid yourself. They want a girl who’s 16, but will tell them they’re 18.

I think the problem is that men always want the “newest model.” 

I think you are unusual for a guy in your early 30's.  And frankly, if you’re a guy in your early 30's, your opinion isn’t that valuable.  Let’s see what you say in your late 30's.  Are you seriously going to say, “Women in their late 30's are objectively the most attractive.”?  I highly doubt it.  

Seriously, being surrounded by that many people just staring and taking photos would be hell

Warning to adults everywhere. These kids are really smart and really good at the social media, stop screwing with them.

I just need to vent about this idiotic idea of arming teachers as a solution. While I have tremendous sympathy to those victims and their families who might see this as at least giving them a fighting chance to survive, it’s wrongheaded in so many ways. A military style assault weapon, like the AR-15 is a designed to…

Keep showing us who you really are, conservatives.

I realize it’s not cool to make sweeping generalizations, but I’m going to make one anyway. Anyone who believes this “crisis actor” nonsense is a special kind of dumb. I mean, a “you shouldn’t be allowed to have kids” kind of dumb. This is why we can’t have nice things.

They did it to the parents of Sandy Hook victims too. It’s nauseating.