Dax Shephard’s career is a thing of wonder to behold. Only Channing Tatum has managed a greater descent from acting laughingstock to working respected star.

I’m a Truther Truther. I believe every conspiracy theorist, every conspiracy theory, every article and conversation pertaining to any popular conspiracy theory is part of a grand conspiracy. What is that conspiracy?

But we’re having fun

the argument there is, “lenses are round/curved, and therefore the curvature of the lens just makes the earth APPEAR to be round.” I’m not even joking....

You forget that anyone who begins to see reality is immediately judged to be part of the conspiracy.

Not all opinions matter. I wouldn’t give two seconds worth of thought to something said by a crazy person on the subway and you shouldn’t give one page of text to these willfully ignorant people.

I’m of the opinion that these people can’t be reasoned with. You don’t have to be an expert in constitutional law, a computer programmer or a rocket scientist to see the ramifications of this landmark case. They lack the skills to think for themselves and will always vote against their own interests.

That’s not what the government is asking for here. A rough equivalent would be asking a bank to manufacture a skeleton key so they can access a safety deposit box, the problem being that said skeleton key can then be used to access ANY safety deposit box in the bank. Apple purposefully built their OS so that they…

Can a court compel a bank to hand over a set of all their keys, hoping their customers won’t panic and take everything out and thus driving down the bank’s current and future business?

There are a shocking number of people who essentially known nothing about encryption or backdoors or just the law in general who think this is “really simple, Apple should just help the FBI do this one thing because ‘terrorists don’t have rights’”.

Yeah I’ve noticed this a lot too... the old “give em an inch and they’ll take a mile” problem. People feel reluctant to admit any sort of grey area because they’re worried their adversaries are going to perceive it as weakness and run with it, so they default to a sort of Manichean mindset.

I unfortunately think that little has changed... I wasn’t alive in the 70s so I can’t speak to that, but I remember still getting attention from men my dad’s age and older starting from around age 11 or 12 in the early/mid 2000s... I was tall and well-endowed, sure, but I was clearly and obviously a child. It didn’t…

Yeah, to me that detail is important. It shows she was confident enough in the situation to say no, and he was respectful enough to accept it. That’s not something that can be said about every groupie/rock star encounter, you know?

“I also can’t ignore that Lori had already said no to David once, and had every reason to think it’d be safe to do so again.” <— Bingo.

I was 13-14 in the mid-70s, and I got a lot of attention from grown men. I was thrilled by it. Boys my age either ignored me, barked at me, or called me names. Adult men talked to me like I was a person, admired me, complemented me. At the time, it was bliss, and I felt it made me special. And thanks mainly to a lack…

She could have if it had been in Canada. 14 was the age of consent until 2006.

“...you can understand how Lori Maddox could have possibly developed not just a sincere desire to fuck adult men but the channels to do it basically in public; why an entire scene encouraged her, photographed her, gave her drugs that made all of it feel better, loved her for it, celebrated her for it, for years. You…

There’s a double standard here, too. White musicians wear Che Guevara t-shirts so much it’s a cliche and nobody thinks it’s much more than a fashion statement, but Beyoncé puts her dancers in black berets and suddenly she’s a full-on Black Panther? It’s ridiculous.