We’ve asked, comments are safe as far as I know.

Seriously though, can never thank the Jalops enough for going to bat for us. 

So you Jalops realize just how solid of a dude you have at the helm, on the day this news became known, Rory took notice of a comment I’d made asking the editors to help us save OPPO and replied asking me to email him. A few hours later he called me and we had a long conversation about how much we both cared about the…

Long live OPPO, indeed.

Stands to reason that you sing the praises of the company that is going to lend you a van, pay the expenses and give you fifty grand on top of all that.

In other words, they don’t really want someone with the gravity to tell a great American story about national parks and the sublime majesty of the great outdoors. They want some good looking influencer with hundreds of thousands of followers to shoot heavily filtered cliché photographs to post to their Instagram, and…

I went there too

/misreads, post photo au naturel

Sounds par for the course. Unless you don’t feel like it in which case you need not apply either. Just saying.

It is possible they won’t act on it to do exactly what artiofab said... but only until the lame duck.

And if they still lose, we should immediately threaten to add four seats to the Supreme Court if they ram someone through.

Swing state voters. It's not like more blue votes in California or in red Utah would've made a difference. 

Can you send me a link to where you’re seeing that?

The majority of Jalopnik staffers, even all the way back, have had little or no prior professional experience in automotive writing.

That...should not be on there.

Maybe self-reflection is too unpleasant an experience for them to handle for various reasons, so they lash out. That’s my theory after years of studying these asshats. Like, how is simply talking about certain issues so fucking incendiary for these people? Differing readings of a commercial product (queer, feminist,…

Those trolls are never really going to go away. Kotaku haters have become a weirdly prominent internet cult since “gamergate” (eyeroll).

rule of thumb is that pretty much any Giz or Lifehacker article will have:

1) at least three regular trolls
2) a flood of checkerboard/fresh spawns being dorks

still happens at Kotaku from time to time but we regulars work really hard to shout them down.

The answer is that a lot of people in this country are hesitant to call when something like this happens, and for good reason. Which means we need to replace the police force with a more effective solution that actually serves more people, such as community organizations and social services.

I’m not suggesting replacing the police with a group of unpaid, untrained volunteers who do 3 hours of work a week. I am suggesting taking the money we spend on the police and using that for community organizations staffed with paid professionals, who specialize in mental health, trauma, and other issues.