Just for clarity this dude is a mega-wang, but he’s not sitting on $18B of cash (or diversified investments) Scrooge McDuck style. His wealth largely stems from the fact that he is the majority shareholder of Continental Resources (the oil company he founded and is CEO of). This situation is precisely what the estate…

You can probably add Chicago to that list; I don’t know anyone who voluntarily drives to O’Hare or Midway.

It sounds like one or both of them have family money. Which to be fair, if I had a big old trust fund I’d probably never work a “real job” either.

I agree that Manhattan is definitely skewing the NYC density numbers upwards, but there are mega-dense wards in Tokyo as well and it still is less dense overall than NYC. I just double checked and the only borough less dense than Tokyo is Staten Island. NYC is a lot of people living on a tiny amount of land. Tokyo’s…

Chicago has a lot of distinct neighborhoods, each with it’s own little vibe. Some neighborhoods are mostly detached homes/bungalows, but they still don’t necessarily feel suburban to me, in that they are usually still very walkable and have decent public transport. I think a lot of people that live/move to NYC start…

As a Chicago resident who originated from the East Coast, I’m perpetually amused when Chicago gets lumped in with minor cities by coastal dwellers. I’ll agree wholeheartedly that Chicago is certainly second to NYC, but that’s about the only city it’s second to in the US.

Chicago is trying to increase density in popular neighborhoods with the Transit Oriented Development (“TOD”) ordinance, which I like in theory, but a lot of people seem to have issues with it. I think most of it is NIMBY-bullshit but some of the complaints are valid. It’s definitely speeding up gentrification in…

I will give parents posting embarrassing/compromising photos of their children contemporaneous to the children actually being that age a half pass. You probably shouldn’t share that nude photo of your 2-year old with your 700 Facebook friends, but I can sort of understand how one might do so without giving it too much…

I accidentally got Halo Top (as a rogue substitution from an Instacart shopper) and it had the same issues. Chalky and just unappealing texture. It was also weirdly bland.

I’m pretty sure this is a Gawker troll that jumped shit to Jezebel, for future reference. The username and unnecessarily argumentative commenting style seem veeeeery familiar.

Eh, I get your outrage. But I also volunteer at a shelter, and if it makes you feel a little better about dummies calling certain breeds “hypoallergenic”, I will share that the low-dander/shedding dogs we get tend to get adopted extremely fast. Like on average I’d say within 24hrs of becoming available for adoption,…

With proper nutritional research/a nutritionist’s guidance if you’re fancy, it’s totally possible to be a vegan without taking more supplements than a B12 vitamin. Also, while supplements like ginko biblo aren’t regulated by the FDA, vitamin and mineral supplements definitely are regulated.

As far as I’m aware, in most states you don’t just get to pick what public school your kids go to, even with schools in the same school district. It’s normally based on your home address. The Chicago Public School System straight up fines parents who falsify their address to send their kids to the better rated CPS…

Dude, you’re getting trolled, this idiot created their account today.

Kidnapping is a federal crime if you transport the kidnapped individual across state lines. In general, the feds don’t have any jurisdiction over crimes that occur wholly within a single state unless the crime occurs on federal property.

This is well said. Even if nothing traumatic happened to this dude, he didn’t become who he is today in vacuum. At least some people in his life either let his disgusting views of women slide or actively encouraged them.

I mean, at least in the case of MJ and Chris Brown, being sexually/emotionally/physically abused as children and then subsequently surrounded by ass-kissing enablers was probably the main driver down the road to crazytown.

I think I started like 10 journals between the age of 12-16 that lasted about a week or two each. Until I would go back and read what was written earlier and then shred them in embarassment.

You probably wouldn’t get jumped on as much for this comment if the comment wasn’t just straight negativity with no context. Saying “I don’t like X” with no reasoning/context given on an article about X is going to piss off fans of X.

I’m not sure what spending that much time underwater does to a person.