I find it interesting that everyone saying they were a bad organization in 1999, are still a bad organization, and we should condemn them for those bad things can’t seem to share any details on what any of the bad stuff actually is. All I could find from doing actual research was that they started to include Black…

It's absolutely something to apologize for. That's my point. This is way lower on the priority scale. 

I totally believe you that it’s about awful organization. I have no doubt about that. But I don’t agree that it’s incumbent on her to publicly denounce them. Maybe this is bordering on whataboutism, but countless successful actors are actively involved in Scientology, a much more harmful and wide reaching…

“Listening to them, apparently having conversations with the elderly is such a monumental task that it takes highly trained medical specialists.”

I hope my children are fully preoccupied with their own lives by the time my mind is failing. If I felt otherwise I would be raising my children differently.

This isn’t really true, though. Population curves in some places mean there will literally not be enough young people alive to give the described care for the old people where the old people are. Some places have very negative population growth. If there are 2 old people for every young person, they aren’t going to be…

Having had multiple family members at 90+ yrs old and some with varying types of dementia, I ask you, please, do not be so black and white with this. It isn’t unusual for a parent to outlive their child, or for the child to live far away, or raising very young kids while trying to make a living. To me, this device…

“Hey, Google! Stop humping my leg!”

Can i request mine to look like this?

Except for the soap part

What “debate”? It’s either over or you’re a psychopath.

Frankly a “solid” pass is the best case scenario for these things and it’s just going to get worse from there.

But fur coats are so pretty and luxurious!

“In either scenario, according to you we shouldn’t worry about that because your wife, and my wife for that matter, haven’t had any problems with Uber/Lyft.”

There are a lot of potential issues with this study. First and most important, the study was of 1500 ‘short rides’ in only 2 cities. This might sound like a lot, but for a scientific study it’s not really that big. You would need tens or even hundreds of thousands of rides of varying lengths to and from varying…

A woman what? a group of women what?

No - it is much easier to drive conclusions with poorly conducted studies.

One thing I did not see here was the break down of the drivers’ ethnicities cancelling on riders. Is it all white dudes cancelling, or is it spread evenly? I did read the whole article here quickly; so I may have missed it. Is there any data to show what the pick-up rate for cabs and black people was before Uber? Is…

Taking something while promising to pay for it and then saying never mind down the road is not the solution. The cost of an education should be fair and not inflated, but breaking a loan contract is not the way to get that changed.

OH! For sure! I 100% agree that "work harder/smarter" isn't the end of the argument. We definitely need major reforms, and not just in education, but in many aspects of our society.