It really isn’t though. Blocking YouTube ads means the content creator doesn’t get paid. If everyone changed channels during a TV show, the show would still make the same money (until the advertisers realized their ads were not effective). If everyone blocks ads, the creator doesn’t make a dime.

Wait, I thought she was the one who wanted to keep the heels on?

I did, when I first read the headline. And I was pretty ok with the restaurant not having period related imagery in their ads, to be honest.

I see what you’re getting at, but let’s not pretend that a murder victim has never been blamed for their own death. He shouldn’t have been involved with drugs! She should have left him the first time he hit her!

Jesus Christ, I hope you’re making a joke with this.

Maybe not, but the way he rides was very much the business of his passenger, who is still in pretty bad shape. He didn’t deserve to be hit, but I don’t get the need to defend the rider, either. Passing a line of cars on a double yellow, driving without a license, driving without safety gear... these are not…

I really don’t see anyone saying that. But it is possible to point out that the rider was also doing something wrong, without it being labelled as victim blaming or justification.

Who is saying he deserved it? It’s amazing what people will use to justify starting an argument when there isn’t one these days...

And guess what - it’s generally safer on a bike to go slightly faster than traffic (better control of the situation), so being stuck behind someone slow is really almost the last place you want to be.

It’s like they included the word “native” just to piss people off; I don’t understand why else they would use that phrase.

Maybe I’m being overly cynical, but I’m guessing that condoms and birth control are made available because they do help prevent STDs and unwanted pregnancies - because those are expensive for everyone (insurance costs). Paying for tampons only costs money, it doesn’t save any, so it’s less likely to get support.

Good god that’s disturbing. I love it.

I think we’ve all been there. I’ve never been late to a class, but I’ve had close calls. We’re really not that forgetful or lazy, just very busy and pulled in fifty directions at once, and seemingly important things are often left to the last minute or never gotten to at all.

Seriously. Professors are known for being absent-minded, disorganized, and passionate (I am one, and there’s some truth to it). None of those are qualities I’d want in a gun owner. There’s no way in hell I’d ever carry one, and I look forward to someone explaining why that makes me part of the problem for not…

He does realize that if NO ONE in the room had a gun, things would have been MUCH better, right?

I could have written the same thing. My university let one of our TT faculty go, mid-semester, last spring due to misconduct (with a student, not faculty). I was impressed at how swiftly and surely the university dealt with it, but they certainly did not publicize it. Some of the students heard rumors, but those…

Oh, that makes sense now (duh). I was wondering how you’d eat a pizza with hot sauce and cheese on both sides - I figured maybe knife and fork, but then what’s the point? Eating it cold would do the trick. Though I’d still rather have hot, boring pizza, to be honest.

No, I wouldn’t. My response was sarcastic. I don’t believe he was concerned with sounding like a “dumb-dumb”. By the way, humanistically is not a made up word.

Yes. The lead developer of Google’s automated cars is trying to sound like a “smart-smart,” and failed. What a moron he is!

True, I just find the extent to which people will believe what they want to believe absolutely fascinating. They were pretty good artists, though, and certainly very clever!