Hate to see the passive propagation of the myth of overpopulation. “There are too many people” is a curious and racist way to say, “we are consuming too many resources too quickly.” Conveniently, one statement allows the utterer to point to the people who shouldn’t be here anymore while the other forces them to…

In which a black woman defends the hegemony of “Caucasian” civilization. What a time to be alive.

I hope that when your health insurance company slaps a band on your wrist so you can prove to them you take enough steps to stay in the plan you can afford, that you are brought comfort by the thought that at least you’re doing what you’re supposed to be doing.

Yeah this is huge. I gave up burgers this year for ecological reasons and I’m a sad, sad man. If someone can deliver something this close which costs on the order of a fast food burger, I’m in there. 

I am totally willing to concede the legality of what they’re doing. They’re also well within their rights to terminate the employees (though does it not seem strange to you that they should not be immediately fired, but rather punished this way?)

I was with you until the “feel lucky” part, at least insofar as you were accurately describing the state of things. If you’re going to come down on a side though, seems weird for it to be the megacorporation working on drones for the government and not the couple of employees who wondered if that’s such a good idea.

To be fair, isn’t part of the savings to come from getting rid of dead-weight jobs in the insurance industry now? I’m sure the literature is out there but I’d love to read what the net change in jobs will be after the nationalization effort.

You do understand, though.

This is false. The total global population of migrants and refugees as of 2017 was 258 million, or just under 4% of the world population, or something like 80% of the current US population. Given the world we have, 19 out of 20 people still live in the country they were born in. Also, there is a negative correlation…

I don’t want to speculate too much out of turn but might it also have to do with the fact that half of her new project is unlistenable 30-second interludes, and the other half isn’t that great? I would not find it inconceivable that she inked the deal before the album and production staff found it underwhelming for…

I just hope all these pop-ups have decent rejection software. The last thing I would want is to kill my battery and probably the tiny servo motors because of a misfire in my pocket that the phone kept trying to fight through. Hopefully there’s a degree of resistance it can detect before telling you it’s not going to…

I’ve read all the 5G is coming posts there are trying to understand why anyone should give a shit about this. Still drawing a blank. How much faster do you need your internet to be? How many more peripherals do you need to hook up to it and each other?

You probably occupy the moral high ground but please understand we are beyond tired of being stepped on like this by the rich and this has shortened our patience and exhausted our capacity for mercy.

the last time a new model jet successively failed was in the 1970s, with the McDonnell Douglas DC-10. But rather than rounding up the 58 planes currently operating in the U.S—24 used by American Airlines, and 34 operated by Southwest—and hauling them into a volcano

Somehow “this” one is never the election to talk about the shit that matters to people who aren’t just like you. I guess we’ll just keep waiting for the next one, I’m sure nothing can go wrong.

We’ve come to a pretty weird place in the portable device hype/expectation game. I suspect the price has something to do with this, but everyone seems to be glossing over the fact that it is physically impossible with current materials to create a totally seamless and creaseless display.

Now accepting submissions for what Luka and Kristaps should be called together. All my ideas were dumb so I will not offer them for consideration.

I’m not certain there’s any value to what you just said. If you’re playing a video game and it gets you so mad that you start throwing slurs around, maybe just log the fuck off. Further, your example bears no relation to the subject matter since the nature of the anonymous insults wasn’t unrelated at all--she called…

Psh--the bank gave me a sweetheart deal on my auto loan, it’s rolled right into my mortgage. Cars and houses, two assets that only appreciate. 

Right on. Plus the value almost can’t be beat. That 2-meals-for-1 deal is so good, it makes up for any deficiency in the quality of the food, but that’s hardly necessary.