Yep. I remember during the campaigns, various reporters (likely Daily Show types) trying to nail Trump supporters down on exactly when America was great and what was so great about it. Lottsa squirmin.

I don’t see why it’s a problem for a study to confirm and quantify a phenomenon that we already know is real. We all know that society values women's thinness over men's. This study confirms that it holds true among heterosexual marriages as well. Just because the phenomenon being described is gross, that doesn't mean…

Wish there was a way to guest op these blog posts. There’s a lot to be mad about, but disparaging a study without actually reading or understanding it just creates confusion around academic inquiry for folks who don’t or can’t read scholarly articles and dissect the methodology and results... :-/

I think that’s right. You could absolutely explain the results in the paper as society punishing women for being heavier and men for being lighter, and that within heterosexual married couples, both husband and wife are more obsessed with the woman’s weight. It’s not a surprising result, but I think that the language…

Yeah I’m wondering if the key operative here is “find value,” and how the investigators are quantifying it. Like financial and time investments in one person’s body over another? Still very sexist for both spouses to value/fixate on one sex’s body, clearly due to patriarchal expectations on women.

That sounds less like an example of what the paper was talking about, and more like some guy who’s really depressed and should probably get some counseling and/or medication. I don’t know what his life story and relationship with his body and food is, but I can’t imagine a non-depressed mind going ‘I’m just trying to…

Are they sure that’s it’s better for the overall health of heterosexual women and girls to be even more encouraged to capitulate to society’s expectations of how to feel about our our bodies? I do not need more things in this world telling me my body (and by extension, my entire being) is only worthwhile if it fits a…

Yup. I have an older neighbor. Both she and her husband, both gained weight, as one tends to do as you age. When she became pre-diabetic, is when she joined Weight Watchers and started exercising. She partially did it for health reasons, but also wants to be thinner for appearance reasons. On the other hand, her…

Reminds me of the casino that was hacked through an unsecure access point controlling the fish tanks. “It’s just a fish tank!” ..but also the open window that let them in. Adama was right...

Except, from my understanding, this wasn’t a zero-day.  They failed to apply the patch to a known vulnerability, which has happened far too often in many hacking cases.

I feel that would be the case if it wasn’t a statue of Marilyn Monroe who might have been the most hyper-sexualized celebrity ever and the scene that the statue is referencing was (for it’s time) one of the most hyper-sexualized scenes ever.

Forget the MeToo angle, that statue should be banned just for being hideous and tacky. I fucking hate novelty statues but people are fucking tacky so of course they love that basic shit.

Major pipelines can always be operated without the tech. However, that can take a lot of people spread out over a long area working in unison, depending on what the operation is. When major shutdowns much smaller than this are planned, it requires a specialized process with a lot of extra personnel.

This.

So you’re saying that a major company who was hacked by “novice hackers” has good IT policy?

You can spend as much as you want, nothing protects against zero day exploits. Even the sandboxing solutions out there do not really provide much/any protection.

The attack did not target an “application” such as their billing/accounting system. It targets the underlying storage. Any data stored on that storage is then compromised.

Yeah, Article wasn’t clear enough.

It was a mixed-use building. It had apartments and many families lived there. They lost everything they couldn’t grab in less than 60 minutes. Imagine if that happened to you or your family.