I’m not sure sure about the central thesis of this article. There is a pretty dramatic difference between north Florida and south Florida, between urban and rural areas. Orlando, the Tampa Bay area and Broward/Dade/Palm Beach are fully modern cities with diverse populations and relatively sane politics. But with the…

Clever. I’m going to steel this pun.

The Black Cauldron.

That’s assuming he doesn’t forget what he said, or change his mind and try to gaslight us all into thinking he meant something different than the words that actually came out of his mouth.

I still don’t get the monetary part of this. I mean, I get why *she* does the whole boobs/trolling/gaming thing, if the money just shows up. But who actually pays money to hurl insults at someone, much less some random girl playing video games? Do these people not have bills and expenses, or is this legitimately some…

We, as a society, have come to accept that civilians have no place owning belt-fed automatic weapons or shoulder-launched anti-aircraft missiles. Why is it such a stretch to expand the definition of “not acceptable in polite society” to high-velocity, high-capacity semiautomatic weapons, too?

Anyone noticing anything weird with Dick’s Sporting Goods FB post about the policy change?

I dunno...the most annoying quirk of my Pixel 2 is having to reboot the phone almost every time I want to use the USB-C headphone dongle. Drives me nuts. Sure it reboots pretty fast, but it seems like something that shouldn’t have to happen, especially given that there’s no other way to use wired headphones.

It’s a step in the right direction, but I doubt it’ll make much of a difference. It’s not the big corporate retailers that concern me - they’re easily susceptible to customer and shareholder opinion, and guns are a very small part of their income stream. They could walk away from gun sales completely and barely notice…

Being a public school teacher in WV seems to be a pretty awful job by almost any standard. Add to that a tight labor market and the fact that it’s just past the halfway mark of the school year, and 90% of those vacancies would sit open until August (at the earliest). And the 10% they could fill will likely be little…

Sorry, Ivanka...when you’re employed by the highest executive office in the country and your boss is publicly accused of sexual misconduct, reporters are going to ask about it. That’s part of their job....and oddly enough, also part of yours.

That’s some full-on Manchurian Candidate shit, right there. In happier times, I would have written it off as laughably implausible. But nowadays... it’s just “Tuesday.”

The fact that people in charge of anything.more important than the remote control to the family room TV are actually talking about arming teachers is a sign that the shit’s gone completely bananas, and that we should probably look at getting the hell out.

Not sure if I should be concerned by Dunkin’s lack of administrative/management credentials, or if I should just be somewhat relieved that the Trumpster isn’t nominating some slimy billionaire intent on dismantling and privatizing the FAA for his own personal gain.

I’m leaning toward Samsung for my next upgrade when 5G is viable/widespread, assuming they keep the 3.5 jack. Switched to a Pixel 2 back at Christmas on a crazy discount + gift card deal at Target, and I kinda regret it. It’s a good phone for the most part - fast, great camera, amazing Assistant integration. But the…

They look great, but I’ve read elsewhere that they’re coming with low-end MediaTek processors. That very much curbs my enthusiasm about.

Shoreh Aghdashloo is pretty damn amazing. She was great in the role in the first couple seasons.

He’s trying imply that there could be security/privacy concerns with the Chinese government indirectly owning US-based hotels (due to their recent nationalization of Anbang, the Chinese insurer that owned the Waldorf Astoria).

I can’t tell if the Trumpster is trolling us all, or if he’s just got dementia.

Yeah, the folks advocating arming school staff highly underestimate the potential for teachers on the edge of nervous breakdowns freaking out and going on rampages.