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There’s no question a Trump election would be a disaster for the country, and I’m super-thankful that it’s looking less and less possible as the days go by. That doesn’t make what this company did any less obnoxious, self-interested, and customer-unfriendly. It’s cute that you think Ivanka would not only read this,

Thanks so much for your order! It gave us an awesome excuse to release the details about a customer’s purchases while at the same time grandstanding and building publicity for our brand!

Rio is absolutely notorious for the number and the “quality” of its sex workers, and I’ve had multiple people who have visited there tell me stories of meeting gorgeous women, thinking they’re just getting along great, and then finding out the woman was actually a pro. I’ll bet there was some kind of shady,

WTF, is this Rocky Horror . . . are you supposed to do something with your wands while watching, like gesture along with the spells?

Your cousin is clearly mental.

What a surprise, that this is still one of the top trending stories related to the Olympics on the site four days after you posted it! “Isn’t it unfortunate that women are being exposed by this camera? See the shocking evidence right here, right now!!” Disingenuous bullshit.

Given the fact that this water is probably extremely chlorinated, it is more likely that the green tint comes from a combination of copper in the water and a high pH than from algae. If they get the pH in balance, add some chemicals and run the filtration system like crazy it shoild clear up.

Yeah, the person in that photo isn’t technically breaking any rules, but he is *definitely* closer than is appropriate to that oil painting. At that distance, you’re full on getting your gross, moist breath all over the painting, and the risk of a slight stumble leading to actual contact is enormous. Stay at least a

“50 million unique users visited the PokeVision web site” and “PokeVision was used by 50 million out of 80 million game players,” are two very different statements. The fact that the first is true does not mean that the second is also true.

Lighten up, Francis.

Gas station bathrooms, no matter how they’re set up, are not covered by the bathroom bits of HB2, so you broke no laws at all. The transgender bathroom usage portion of the bill only applies to “gang” (multi-user) bathrooms in public/government facilities, like schools and stadiums and government buildings. It’s also

The real irony of the Ta-Nehisi Coates comment is that the student’s incorrect “phonetic” spelling almost definitely means that the smarty pants teacher has been pronouncing his name wrong repeatedly in front of his/her students. As Coates himself has repeatedly made clear, the third syllable is pronounced with an

The US economy is still larger than the Chinese economy, and is currently expected to remain the largest in the world until 2031. China’s growing more quickly, and has almost 4x the population, but I think it’s over-simplifying to say that it’s “more of an economic powerhouse than we are.”

Just because one of the statues is of a bunny and it’s outside doesn’t mean that area is for specifically for children.

You mean Don Pardo. Jim(my) Pardo is a successful, still-living, and unrelated stand-up comedian and podcaster.

I challenge you to find even one person who decides whether or not to watch the Academy Awards based on the musical performances.

No, she’s not. How hard is it to actually look shit up?

My favorite bit is where “NO FAST MOVEMENTS” is immediately followed by “NO SLOW MOVEMENTS,” which is just so very Goldilocks of him. That and “DO NOT EVER LOOK AT THE JUMBOTRON.”

Don’t fret yourself, that one wasn’t actually on the list. Ken was just making a reference to the old-timey movie Ghostbusters.

So ... everipedia is like Wikipedia for lazy people without concerns about copyright issues, is that it?

Thank you for this. When the Patriot Act got rammed through after 9/11 it was liberals who pointed out how “terrorism” was a near-meaningless term that was getting dumbed down and had the potential to give the government gratuitous powers in other areas of criminal justice. Now we’ve conceded the battle over language