If he’d run as an Independent (or on the Green party ticket as was offered) then I know that I would have voted for him. I wonder how many other Michigan voters would have done the same and still caused Clinton to lose this state and possibly others. At least by running as a Democrat and then supporting Clinton some…

I don’t know if you’re correct about SweetJamesJones, if he’s simply trolling, or what but, I have a similar issue to the one he claims to have.

Flint Central high school’s mascot was a Phoenix from 2004 (when they changed it from the Indians) until it closed in 2009. I just checked with my younger brother (who went to a rival high school during this period) and nobody even thought about trying to use the plural of phoenix to make fun of the mascot for this…

This is what I was picking up on. I was in high school at the beginning of the century and all the best GPA’s belonged to the girls. Apparently, they were doing something right and since we were all taking the same advanced classes it wasn’t just some people getting A’s in easy courses.

All I remember is that the top 3-5 kids in my high school graduating class were female (one of them even had a kid as a sophomore). This just didn’t seem to be an issue in my school district and from what I’ve seen interacting with current high school students, it still doesn’t seem to be an issue among the students…

Nope, my township board recently (2015) voted to move our board elections to even years (which just happened to give the incumbents an extra year in office) to increase turnout and save money so, since there’re no millages, county-wide, or state-wide elections on the ballot this year, we don’t have to pay for an…

They won’t be the minority, they’ll still have a plurality of the population but they won’t be a majority anymore. Meaning, there won‘t be more of them than everyone else combined but, there will be more of them than any one other group (African Americans, Hispanics, etc.).

I was born in 1985 and...I don’t think I ever really thought the future would be everything some people hoped it would be. In the 90's I would read SciFi from the 60's and 70's and realize that we couldn’t get where they thought we would be in the few years before the 21st century started.

The way Firefox handles extensions is changing (a lot) starting with FF57. Some longtime developers decided to hang it up rather than completely rewrite their extensions. Firefox is my backup browser and a number of the extensions I use are going to be end-of-life’d at FF56 too.

Didn’t Trump just pardon a certain Arizona Sherrif out of a contempt of court (which would be the charge if someone refused to testify after being subpoenaed) charge? I still don’t think we’ll see a pardon spree but, it’s not impossible.

Yeah, nowadays, they don’t replay gruesome injuries more than once or twice but, since this was a scoring play, they replayed it repeatedly to try and determine if he maintained possession. It didn’t help that the guys in the booth didn’t notice the injury until the second replay either.

Their “justice” system also has a 97% incarceration rate partially because it allows 21 days of interrogation before you get access to a lawyer (that’s a lot of time for an innocent person to say whatever necessary just to make it stop). That’s not something we should want to duplicate.

Are there any major cases from 1 or 2 on their way to SCOTUS right now? I’ve heard about a couple that meet 3 but, I wasn’t aware of anything related to the others working their way there anytime soon.

I think girlsgonekyle is talking about the fact that Facebook owns Instagram. Also, their ToS means that anything you’ve uploaded you’ve given them a license to use, even if you decide to delete it later. So far, they haven’t abused that too badly (AFAIK they’ve only put profile pictures next to products that people…

Two of my four grandparents worked for IBM in the mainframe era. I’m in my 30's and my mother is on Facebook more than I am. I think you underestimate how many grandparents use social media to gather pictures of their descendants now.

In Japan pornographic videos are called AV’s which is short for Adult Video. I’m pretty sure he meant what we all think he meant.

There are already stories about Tesla being in talks with the PR government about restoring their power grid with solar panels and batteries to limit the devastation if this happens again and they’ve already been quietly shipping the high capacity batteries in. Some corporations have already seen the fact that a…

When we see a major military build-up by the rest of NATO, that’s when the US needs to worry about becoming isolated. If they would spend just a little bit more each, they could replace the US military in its “ass-covering” roles.

I just refilled my prescriptions online. If I wasn’t going to be on that side of town in the next few days I could have had them shipped to my house for free. This is not a bad thing.

It may be linked to the fact that many college coaching staff members are state government employees so, them accepting what amounts to bribes from corporations becomes federally prosecutable.