The controversy began last week with a relatively milquetoast take from Loehr about voice chat in competitive games, spurred by her profile in Twitch’s announcement, which says that she opposes “non inclusive mechanics such as voice chat.”

You do have to do a lot of mental gymnastics if your goal is to try and develop a rational framework for buttressing their accusation.

A few things worth noting.

You do if you find someone who has a property where you can stable it to grift off of!

A bit less dramatic example would be to point to the UVA-Rolling Stone debacle.

Of course Biden’s integrity is dubious, but that doesn’t change the fact that hers is as well. When two people you have good reason to mistrust disagree on an allegation ... you have to go to other available facts.

Please sir, if you will not comply with the movement’s entry requirements, we will have to ask you to leave. The sign clearly states that you are to check your higher reasoning and critical thinking functions at the door.

Maybe.

I mean, sounds great, if you can get it, and if you’re not one of the businesses that would want to be open on those extra days off for workers to patronize.

The “aggrieved acquaintances” were but a handful of former landlords. The damning behavior behind the trumpeted claim of dishonesty and wrongdoing? Reade allegedly struggled to pay her rent, and sometimes she pleaded for her landlords’ sympathy.

Unfortunate Counterpoints:

A lot of things happen in that “pandemic-decimated” economy, and one of those things is that commercial landlords get desperate for tenants in vacant spaces. To the extent some businesses, like say, night clubs, will no longer be commercial viable for a very long time, landlords of those spaces will do all sorts of…

The most straightfoward answer is probably restaurants. Night clubs may never re-open, but restaurants already have started to.

Can we get a write up from Jolie about how to keep your house sand free when you have a sandbox for a living room floor?  

I’ve been rewatching The Leftovers, because people keep talking about doing that on Twitter.

Yeah I just looked at the cargo space and was surprised that the Escalade has about 30 cubic feet less than a minivan.  Now if you need to have a few kids in that minivan, then the Escalade’s back storage is actually better, but I was just in a Tahoe and I could swear it had more total space behind the driver seat…

A lot of comedy clubs run on razor thin margins. So the fact that they are closed for two months means most will probably be closed for good.

Theft at construction sites, even ones as small as a single house, is definitely a thing that happens. If you know a general purpose handyman who’s maybe not the most scrupulous dude in the world, then you know someone you could sell small quantities of things like sheet rock, wiring and other construction supplies…

And I’m sure people want to pay the same price for the reduced number of screenings in theaters with fewer seats that don’t necessarily result in them having a correspondingly lower number of employees because they now have to accommodate temperature checks and more frequent cleanings.

Then those bitches want to borrow my van ‘cause none of that shit fits in the Escalade