Newark is a nightmare, when I made the reservation they recorded my arriving flight information, number and arrival time. So my flight arrived late, I go to get my car, and CS rep tells me they gave away my car because I was late picking it up. So why record flight info if they couldn’t look on their computer screen…

Your post was a perfect candidate for a smarmy “fixed it for you” post that quotes it and swaps ‘New Jersey’ into the place of ‘Newark Airport’. Considering your nick, I’m guessing you live in our horrid, little, beloved state, too.

Can’t speak for the rest of the country, but the employees at Newark Airport, generally live in the surrounding area, and don’t quite qualify as brain surgeons, or as someone who gives two fucks about your problem.

Right up there with Hertz charging you the smoking fine when you don’t smoke.

Avis blows balls.

They once rented me a Camry that THEY had switched out the license plates with another vehicle. As the story goes, the Camry had its license plates stolen, but they had just sold a Ford Expedition that they still had the plates for. So, they threw the plates from the Expedition onto the Camry, and…

I’m going to be the insensitive jackass here. Obviously it’s impossible to separate this incident from the galaxy-sized sexist, fatphobic bullshit in our society (which is amplified considerably in Hollywood, of course.)

When Mindy Kaling goes too long without any press, she announces a new way she’s been offended or oppressed. She must share a publicist with Amy Schumer. 

And how many jokes did she write that involved Kevin, Phyllis and Meredith being called fat/ugly? I would be my life it was a non zero sum.

“Since African Americans are 12.9 percent of the state’s population and 7.9 percent of vaccinations, Patrick knows Black Texans are more vaccinated than white Texans. Nationwide, Black Americans have been getting vaccinated at higher rates than whites…”

It’s August 20th, not August 4th. Whites comprise 59% of the population but account for 61% of all vaxxed folk; Blacks comprise 14% of the population but comprise only 12% of all the vaxxed. In NYC only 28% of Blacks <45 y/o have been vaxxed. Learn to read graphs!

You might actually be right, but your statistics don’t support your premise. At least not really. Then you just go off into cherry picked stats to support a completely different narrative than your original premise. And the data you’re using is cherry picked recent. NY and CA lead the overall and per capita deaths,…

Yes if 12.9% of the vaccinated population was black, it would be 55% of the black population that was vaccinated. That would mean they’re represented equally among both the vaccinated population and the total population, so they would have the same vaccinated percentage as the total population. Because they are less…

Since African Americans are 12.9 percent of the state’s population and 7.9 percent of vaccinations, Patrick knows Black Texans are more vaccinated than white Texans

why do i keep seeing pbs and nbc etc reporting on how black americans are more hesitant to get the vaccine?  why are all the media lying then?!

I seem to remember that it used to be woke to say that people of color were disproportionately affected by the pandemic. Now apparently it’s racist to say that people of color are disproportionately affected by the pandemic. I wish people would make up their minds ...

No, white people are more vaccinated as a proportion. If black people are 12.9% of the total population, they should be 12.9% of those vaccinated to be an average demographic. They are only 7.9% so that means they’re vaccinated at only 61.2% of what is expected.

“We know Republicans lie. We know they are racist.”

White Texans are vaccinated at higher rates than Black Texans according to the listed data. The 2020 census doesn’t seem to be available in detail yet but this source uses the 2010 census and 2012-2016 American Community Survey. https://statisticalatlas.com/state/Texas/Race-and-Ethnicity

“Since African Americans are 12.9 percent of the state’s population and 7.9 percent of vaccinations, Patrick knows Black Texans are more vaccinated than white Texans. “

“Since African Americans are 12.9 percent of the state’s population and 7.9 percent of vaccinations, Patrick knows Black Texans are more vaccinated than white Texans.”