I volunteer in a shelter, the smartest dogs require the most patient owners because they can be a hug pain in the ass.

Seriously, why is this distinction so difficult for people?

I have a buddy who got hired for a sweet-sounding job where they told him he’d be traveling 1-2 days a week, the maximum end of what he was looking for, which he had explicitly told them during his interviews. Within two weeks of starting he was traveling Monday-Thursday/Friday every week. When he quit within 2 months…

I think I still qualify as young and this is pretty much my list as well. Though, I will sacrifice a (very) small amount of money for not soul-crushingly boring as well.

I agree that the usefulness of Myers-Briggs is not really based in factual evidence, and that companies can over rely on it, but “people can lie” and “people aren’t that self aware” are not the best arguments against it. A lot of psychological self assessment tests would be totally useless if that were the case. Self…

At this point, I think studios whine because they can not because pirating is really damaging their bottom line. They’ve already accepted a certain level of pirating and built that into their business expenses. Most have moved on to offsetting instead of prevention. The production of massive action movies that make a…

“Its a tragedy they only made $499 million instead of $500 for “Fast and Furious 37: Sudan Drift” Good, I hope it does prevent them from creating new content because 99% of it sucks donkey balls.”

HBO doesn’t sell subscriptions to single shows because the bundled HBO subscription subsidizes the less popular shows that they create. Most of HBO’s programming is not GoT. Even GoT took a while build up a massive viewership:

For people who are not regular protesters this sort of protester can be a huge turnoff to future participation. Not necessarily for broader message protests like the Women’s Marches, where I agree that the message should be widely inclusive of various causes on the left. But I’ve definitely had friends who are not…

Literally most medium to large cities in the US have an American Apparel. They’re in Milwaukee and Tucson, this isn’t a coastal vs. midwest thing.

Someone needs to do a study on Tomato. The quality of his troll accounts varies wildly. This one was fairly subtle in tone, but he’s also done of a lot of super obvious ones. I really don’t understand the though process behind this sort of trolling.

I’m pretty sure that Grushkova is just a more subtle than average troll. Evidence: 1) Russian themed icon and name, 2) account created today.

So I guess that’s probably their thinking, encourage me to watch live so I have to sit through every ad instead of recording so I can fast forward.

They have that technology, it’s just that literally every cable/satellite company is contractually unable to give it to you. Those companies have to license distribution rights from networks, who make most of their money from ads. The networks include very explicit language in their contracts to protect ad revenues.

No. I am nowhere near a Bernie acolyte, but heavily criticizing Booker for this vote is not a “purity test.” This amendment was not going to allow importation of medication from any country. It would have allowed importation from Canada, specifically. Canada is a NATO ally with a demonstrably better healthcare system…

No house sells for thousands of dollars unless it’s a trailer in a trailer park.

Is he your ex because you killed him? I kid, I kid (let me know if you need an alibi). Seriously though, I don’t understand how people like him convince themselves of this shit - I grew up in an upper-middle class family, my parents fully paid my tuition and basic living expenses for college and grad school, and they…

In my friend group, “I’m fat” = “I like to eat.” Or maybe to famous people anything less than a 6-pack = fat. Flip a coin.

I like to mock the more provincial Americans as much as the next, but until people in the UK start pronouncing fillet correctly, I think the croissant comment is bit rich.

Senators are not reimbursed for individual expenses, you idiot. Each Senator has a Senators’ Official Personnel and Office Expense Account (SOPOEA) allowance, which varies a little bit by senator (usually based on state size) and is determined during the annual federal budget process. Payment of any amount spent in…