When I drove a cab, we were supposed to run it through the automatic car wash there at the garage after every shift. On my very first night, the driver ahead of me drove onto the track at such a weird angle that he destroyed his tire and was changing it right there. So said, “nah” and started going to one a few blocks…

There are many provisions in that tax bill that made me angry, but the one about taxing tuition waivers made me furious. The idea that they would deliberately sabotage America’s progress in STEM fields just to punish lefty social scientists made me froth at the mouth.

The NFL rejected this proposal before it was even made, because they do not allow large ownership groups, and any small group must be led by one person who owns at least 30%. When the Rooney family was on the verge of losing the Steelers, the rule was amended so that if a team had been owned by one person or family…

No, because pretty much every show and film is tainted by at least one creepy sex offender. If it wasn’t a star that has been caught it’s one that hasn’t, or a producer, or a director, or the unit production manager harassing PAs, or the best boy harassing female grips, or the CGI guys ganging up on the one female…

You’re not explaining anything. You are pedantically pointing out trees to someone who is making an observation about the forest.

Nah, he played one of the Gentlemen, and Gnarl, and the Ubervamp. Even though he and Sarah had spent many long hours in conversation over the years, she realized that she had no idea what he actually looked like, as he was always in makeup before she arrived. So she asked makeup to show her his headshot so she’d know…

It is a removal of a performance by an artist who has become culturally undesirable, which as I have stated elsewhere on the thread, I have zero problem with because it was removed by the creator of the overall work, which remains available.

Which is why I referred to a general trend, of which this is by far the least objectionable example, for that very reason.

That’s why I think they should go with this option. https://www.avclub.com/1821519735

A case like this, where a creator alters their own work, is something I can support 100%. I am concerned by the erasure of art by problematic people from the public sphere for reasons my wrists would appreciate my not typing twice in the same thread.

I am troubled by this trend of removing art made by problematic people from the public sphere, especially given that the contents of the public sphere are increasingly under the control of massive corporations due to the increase in streaming versus ownership of physical media. DJ Spooky’s version of 5 Million Ways to…

You know what’s really fucking annoying?

Dude, that headline is awkward as fuck. “Against voting” or “who vote” would make a lot more sense.

Do all the insufferable assholes expressing tiresome opinions about sports make you reflexively dismissive about sports?

Goddammit, what the hell happened to the edit function since I was last posting on a regular basis? I keep trying to correct my typos to no avail.

Insufferable people are insufferable, irrespective of what their schtick du jour is. But being more mindful and present really is something that will improve the life of anyone who attempts to do so, and it does not require you to buy anything or otherwise enrich anyone but yourself.

Red Sea, which was across the street.

If you actually want to understand more about the structures you benefit from every day, you can start by Googling “redlining,” “environmental racism,” “school to prison pipeline,” “the new Jim Crow” “black names on resumes,” which will lead you to even more thoroughly depressing stuff.

No, but we are reaping the benefits of the structural and institutional racism that has been in place ever since our country’s founding, which did not magically go away once slavery was abolished, and some of us are insisting that anyone who wants us to examine those structures and institutions more closely is a…

Because you cannot achieve true equality without discussing the inequality which currently exists, and you cannot discuss the inequality that currently exists without discussing race, and you cannot discuss race on a societal scale without making general statements, which everyone except aggrieved snowflakes…