The article specifically says that teachers in Germany intervene if someone is about to be physically hurt. You’re arguing against something it doesn’t recommend.

oh thats ok then.

it just makes a yank think of a bunch of dudes named ted hanging out in a jungle, probably in plaid flannel. We don’t associate it with “bears”

I am legitimately excited about this expansion. I always hit this point where I want to build vertically and can’t; this is going to make everything look so much better.

It bothers me a little that he trashed a car to do this.
It bothers me SO MUCH MORE that there was no science to this.
How much coke did he put in, just that 1 2L bottle? How much gas was there? How did he even get the gas in past the little flap valve on the gas tank filler neck? What if he just drained the tank and…

That’s all fine - except for the externalities. It’s one thing for Joe Driver to make a decision for himself that he wants to work 80 hour weeks because that’s what it takes to earn the kind of money he needs to (support his lifestyle, or feed his kids, or dig his way out of the debt accumulated due to a medical…

Your argument falls apart when normal commercial driver requirements are applied.

On the other hand, other professional drivers - truck and bus drivers - aren’t allowed average sixty hours a week. Should Uber taxi drivers be exempt?

Because the Mon Cal cruiser was massive and expensive. And it simply disabled Snoke’s dreadnought for a time. Missiles are effective because they go fast, but consider the speed of the cruiser to what it might have done at sublight... it actually only did, what, two or three times its possible sublight damage, plus…

Yup. Anything with the agility of a capital ship is not going to be able to dodge a hyperspace missile, even a small one. Shields are obviously useless against it.

This scene bugged the shit out of me but not for the reason described.

Counter-point: Person’s a nerd and technical, gets hella high, then starts thinking deep about this shit.

Also, even though it’s a science term, gravity wells and Interdictors are legit things in the Star Wars universe, even after being swallowed by Disney.

Interdictors are ships in the star wars canon that prevent other ships from using their hyperdrive. They are used in the movies so it’s not “some science terms”. They work, as described, by creating artificial gravity big enough to prevent ships from doing their hyperspace thing.

How is that when people get caught doing stuff like this (as rarely as it happens) they only ever end up with a slap on the wrist and getting fired. Seriously: how is it not an actual crime to knowingly swindle the federal government in this way? Why does a dude selling dope have to face getting locked up but Ajit…

 I call people like that “ladder-pullers”. They make space for themselves by grabbing out to any hand or leg up offered to them, and then they forget about the help they got and figure everybody who looks like them or is from the same place they’re from and is similarly disadvantaged the way they used to be who comes…

It’s funny how Ajit Pai is a person of color, he’s Indian, and his parents are immigrants, and yet he’s sided with the exact kind of ultra-conservative groups and policies that actively work against people like him, as well as ordinary working-class people in general. He’s a traitor, not just to Barack Obama, but to…

Patton Oswalt on Twitter has pointed out the weird pattern that seems to happen with a decent amount ( I wouldn’t say majority but a good amount) of right wing guys are failed comedians. There are more than just a handful of people who seem to be failed entertainers who somehow end up in politics. Huckabee for sure…

This is my job function. My actual job function is producing these kinds (not this one) of “humor” videos for internal events. You can offer something better, and can plead for something better...but in the end you are going to be hitting the reload button on jokes that weren’t that good from 2 years ago and the…

Ajit Pai embodies the time-honored principle that in this great nation of ours, no matter who you are, no matter how much, or how little money you have, no matter what country your family comes from, you can still come across as a big dumb fucking hayseed.

I totally respect that and agree cabs are problematic. I’ve got my own stories and I do not like cabbies very much as a result.