Maybe if YouTube did a better job actually enforcing ToS and responding to reports of problem content they wouldn’t *need* the wide net.

Yeah...no. Businesses have been trying to distance themselves from things people may find indecent since the dawn of businesses.

No reason why advertisers should want their products associated with content they deem objectionable. They have every right to pull that ad and if YouTube wants to keep running they need their ad revenue. Not all that different from pretty much every medium.

This is basically it. Advertisers don’t want their names or content associated things they can no longer control. It just means alot of people are about to lose income, Sorry. The gravy train wasn’t going to last forever. You guys have no one to blame but yourselves. If Youtube had clamped down on the bullshit and…

“Fantasy Football”

The GOP blew a 237-193 lead in the House.

Nothing reveals the ridiculous theatricality of modern politics than the fact that when they knew it wouldn’t work House Republicans voted to repeal part or all of the ACA more than 60 times, but they’ve had two months of complete control and haven’t voted to repeal it once.

No, but I do think the article minimized the seriousness of what occurred. A seizure can be fatal, given the right circumstances (one of the primary killers of epileptics is falls they sustain when they’re triggered). What happened to this man is very, very serious and the person who did it deserves to be arrested.…

Yeah, I’m disappointed too. It’s not a zero-sum game. We can (and should) be glad that Eichenwald is seeing justice for the assault perpetrated against him AND also want the Gamergate asshole meninists who perpetrate online assaults against women to receive the same justice.

Thank you for this. The nazi fuck purposely sent a gif to an epileptic Jew with the hopes of triggering a seizure. That is assault and a hate crime.

so because he’s not a woman, people should be free to attack Kurt Eichenwald? That’s crap.

Simple economics... the more we kill off the poor, disabled and elderly the less we working folk have to pay in taxes. Next step is to monetize the less fortunate by allowing rich people to hunt them. It is a kindness.

The NIH is a major leading funder, not just of US research but of global research. I am a research administrator in Spain and it funds some of my investigators’ work, for fuck’s sake. Even the EU is not anywhere near as invested in global biomedical work, which is inherently international. These motherfuckers just…

I don’t get this. (Though to be fair I’m not trying very hard since THE NIH PAYS MY FUCKING SALARY). Is it just a great big middle finger to everyone who’s educated? To people who actually improve our country? A huge portion of NIH research is into cancer. You’d think these old selfish fucks would at least want decent…

Yeah, I was pretty astounded by that. Who needs cancer research, though? We’ll all die in a preventable industrial accident when all them factory jobs come back to us.

I’ve been reading articles where Trump voters talk about how this health care will screw them but then say they are not sorry for voting for Trump. This reminds me of that experiment that time when they gave a rat a choice between pushing a button to get food or pushing a button to activate electrodes in his brain…

He wants to gut the NIH, which is a powerhouse of funding for biological and medical research. It’s bad enough that the lingering effects of xenophobia is going to drive away talented international researchers, but if he does this, it’s basically game over for our country’s continued prosperity.

I fucking hate him and every single person who put him in office.

What kind of monster takes money away from Meals on Wheels?