I suspect that what all the complaining will actually do is amplify the effects of reviews. If the reviews are good, it will have a larger effect than usual. If the reviews are bad, people will see that and the months of criticism and avoid it altogether.

So because the congressional Republicans are upsetting the balance of powers by refusing to appoint a ninth Justice, SCOTUS has upset the balance of power by essentially overruling the executive and legislative branches (the legislative branch consistently giving the executive branch huge discretion on immigration).

This just reminds me that the Human Rights Campaign endorsed Mark Kirk over Tammy Duckworth and that makes me angry.

So Jaylen Brown is Arian Foster? I can dig it.

Describing Silicon Valley as “exploring the woes of seemingly well-to-do white leads,” is selling it short, imo.

IIRC, the wage gap only closes for women who are 40+, unmarried, childless, and college educated. So only if you do everything right, and given them no reason to think you might care about anything other than your work.

The DMCA isn’t powerful enough? Please. IP owners simply have to say there’s a violation and the provider will assume there is and act accordingly. Algorithms can do this for them, and content creators frequently complain (frequently correctly) that they get videos pulled that aren’t in violation.

Is that over replacement (baseline costs like salary) though?

Whoa tell me more things I don’t know.

I’m not looking to get into a devil’s advocate argument because I’m not even necessarily in favor of getting rid of the TSA, I just think saying, “...to argue that it’s not really necessary is ridiculous,” is an extreme stance.

Those are terrible analogies. We know that there is a big causative relationship between implementing those things and the reduction of fatalities and serious injuries, and even knew there would be ahead of time. The creation of the TSA was essentially in response to one incident, so it would take a big leap of faith…

They’d save $6.75 million by cutting him, which isn’t significant, but isn’t a good enough reason for a team that thinks of itself as competitive to cut him.

We didn’t have it for the majority of the history of U.S. commercial air travel.

I really enjoyed the content of that bit but it also bothered me because Patton’s been very confrontational and unapologetic when called out on stuff, so it kind of felt like he was defending himself while not really getting the point of the criticism he was defending himself from.

Feeding the subject of your interview talking points is just good journalism, obviously.

“She said Sarah would be “heartbroken” if she knew she was “being misrepresented in this way.””

The Broncos could also tag Miller again in 2017 if they tag him this season, but the problem with the tag approach is that Miller can just threaten to hold out. That’s not the most leverage in the world, but Kam Chancellor held out last year and it might have cost the Seahawks two games.

It’s so weird because it’s like, surely they can’t go to Russia? But it’s also like, is there any good reason for them not to go to Russia? Yet Phillip’s chastisement at the end suggests that they are staying, even if we didn’t get a clear answer.

The press is going to be so bad when/if Airbnb decides to sue one or both of these companies.

I’m not the only person to say this, but I fail to see how Persky being lenient and Turner getting more time than almost all rapists are mutually exclusive. The conditions of being tried and convicted without any real dispute over the facts are where this case deviates from the rarity. Persky was lenient after those…