Drag your browser edges and make the window narrow and it’ll collapse the slideshow to one page. :)

Please change the io9 page format back to it’s previous iteration. That is all.

Hi again. Please change the io9 page format back to it’s previous iteration. That is all.

Around the holidays last year I had to make a quick trip to the mall to make some returns. I usually over-order online (hard to know your size!) and have a LOT of stuff to return and am both extremely embarrassed and overly apologetic about it to whatever poor sales associate has to deal with my giant bag of items. I…

The reason is not merely the politicization of mask wearing. The higher incidence of such attacks and behavior is linked to the fact that the majority of people traveling in the last several months (after the lengthy bans on travel) are Coronavirus deniers. So not merely political objection to the mask, but believers…

I’m wondering if this is related to the rise of extra-shitty restaurant customers. Most reasonable people cut back on eating out and flying, so the people who are left are disproportionately terrible.

The moment he turned around and said “I’ve got you ma’am” to the flight attendant melted my heart. But the rest of it was absolutely horrible. One of the saddest things about the last four years is how the ahole in chief taught Americans to openly hate each other and removed the shame that previously stopped most idiot…

The guy that intervened was having exactly none of Karen’s bullshit and good for him.

I fully support throwing the book at these fuckers, flying is unpleasant enough without these stupid assholes lashing out at the people who’s job it is to keep you safe and comfortable while you’re stuffed in a metal tube with a bunch…

Nope, because that takes you to Gizmodo’s “Latest”, which is from a much larger pool of articles! They just don’t want people to only read io9, I guess, because they hate their viewership!

Yeah, the change is annoying. You have to click "Latest" at the top of the page. 

2 things:

Giving Dexter the alias of “Jim Lindsay” is obviously a clever in-joke nod/homage to Jeff Lindsay, Dexter’s creator and book author.

Oh please, you shitgibbons got mad at a coffee cup that said ‘Happy Holidays’. 

The difference is closed environment, time and especially the employee conditions. You are crammed to a closed space with thousands of other people for weeks at the time, while the people who serve you live in cramped conditions and won’t get paid if they don’t work, sick or not. Subsequently, just one sick kitchen…

Oh, yeah. Conservatives neeeeeeeeever tell people how to live their lives. You might even call them “pro-choice.”

Is that how it works for gay marriage too?

Yes, conservatives are well-known for ignoring things they disagree with. Cool story, bro.

you are a colossal idiot. 

The real difference is that, if and when you do get COVID on that cruise ship, the conservative will disown you and ban you from coming back to the US, while the liberal will lecture you but allow you to come back and find ways to cure you.

It turns out, you don’t even need a gaggle of coughing, sneezing passengers to get your crew sick from COVID-19.