No one except you used the word awful. No one except you is claiming no one cares about poor working conditions in other fields. No one except you is claiming this is something people “slaved away” to get. No one except you is arguing “it’s harder” as a justification for poor working conditions in other fields.

You know, there are two paths you can take when seeing someone living in better working conditions.

I don’t think anyone was seriously stating this was a monopoly...

Absolutely. Pretty much since Bush 2 politics have been super exhausting even for a wonk family like mine. It’s gotten increasingly more hair pulling since the Tea Party and it’s evolution into the Trump cult of neo-fascists. 

I understand that, anecdotally, you don’t enjoy the prevalence of Kamala. But I can tell you, anecdotally, I’m quite excited, and I know a lot of dark skinned people who will be too. So, you should just focus your attention and energy somewhere that makes you happy. We will do the same.  

lmao, dumb nigger

The preservation of basic public decency (i.e. not filming children using the restroom) seems like something that matters.

FU with your “spoiled” talk. I lived through Chris Cohan and Robert Rowell, Bobby Sura, Joe Smith #1, Jeff Fuller #11, Don Nelson’s second stint, Chris Webber, Gugliotta, Carlesimo’s neck & Sprewell’s hands...and all of the other shit that made the Warriors the laughingstock of sports.

Now, with the best…

Regardless, it’s considerate, and the world would be a better place if more people were more considerate. Doesn’t have to be an issue of being offensive or not; it can just be nice.

Speaking as a professor of Rhet/Comp myself, three things are obvious from your reply:

1.) You don’t have all that firm a grasp of the rhetorical fallacies—or you do, and use them intentionally. The idea that everyone “starts at the bottom” flies directly in the face of both established fact and observable reality—and…

That’s not what “white privilege” refers to, and you goddamned well know it, you intellectually disingenuous sock puppet.

You project your understand of “how things work” on others. Just because you can’t conceive a world without someone being “put to the back of the bus”, does not mean that is what others are thinking. Seriously, conservative projection is ridiculous and pernicious. Please stop it. A loss of privilege is not the same…

I’m all for the inalienable rights of the Constitution, but the free exercise of those rights ends when they infringe upon the inalienable rights of another.

To that end, refusal to vaccinate oneself or one’s offspring infringes upon all three of the majors—life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness—because disease…

I almost feel like they should have made the romances exclusively same-gender just to see people flip out. Because then it’s a sexualization choice that’s not your own and it’s being “forced upon you.”

Just because *you* don’t see it, doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. That’s what privilege is. We’ve all got our blindspots. I take things like this as an opportunity to learn, not an opportunity to get offended at others being offended about something I don’t yet fully understand.

Or, you know, Ubisoft can stick to the original promise of having a character that can align with the player’s sexual orientation. Instead they sorta shoved some sort of conversion idealism down the player’s throat then called it “Growing Up” via a trophy. I’m a heterosexual male, and even I shake my head at that…

Yeah, I remember listening to behind-the-scenes stuff as far back as the first Incredibles movie where they were talking about the challenges of things like cloth animation and Violet’s hair. Watching how they’ve iterated and improved on things over all the years and movies since has been really interesting.

Yup, I’m ALMOST done with a PhD in applied math.  I know one of the PhDs from our department had been hired by Pixar at least in part to help work on the cloth animation there.  It’s very complicated.  I believe he worked on the cloth animation in Brave.

I’m sure that’s entirely true, but teaching Mandarin isn’t the problem. It’s NOT teaching Cantonese as well that’s the problem. If the US school system suddenly started dropping all English classes in favor of more Spanish classes, or Canada stopped teaching French, how would people react?

I certainly won’t miss them.

I have nothing personal against any person, group or organization in charge of practices that promote or facilitate piracy. It’s not a personal thing, I’m sure they’re stand-up people to put their own time in to give something to somebody else.

That said, I’ve heard all sides of the debate…