I also think we get less ‘normal’ clothes in the thrifting market because most clothes bought are shitty and fall apart quickly.

This all day. I and several of my friends are thrifters and volunteer at thrift stores/charities. There is always, always way too much and they end up having to pay to throw so much away - which is a fast fashion and American consumer problem. It’s not like reselling food from a food bank - clothing is nonperishable…

Who’s relying on a fur coat and vintage quilted skirt for survival?

Tik tokkers reselling thrift store items isn’t going to cause a shortage of anything except  used Fiesta ware.  If you’ve ever been to a Salvation army you would realize there are THOUSANDS of clothes and no way someone like this is going to cause a shortage.

your take makes zero sense. by definition these resellers are buying a tiny fraction of the stuff at thrift stores. if they were buying most of the stuff there they wouldn’t be turning a profit. if someone in need goes to a thrift store they will find plenty of stuff, maybe a few of the super cute / interesting items…

Yes, people who can’t survive without thrift stores and are now dying because Tiktok influencers bought up all the secondhand clothes is definitely a real thing, not something you made up. 

No way you are actually this dumb, but you’re right about one thing. You don’t know anything.

Are the resellers leaving the thrift stores empty of clothes?

It’s entrepreneurship, actually. Comparing thrifting to colonialism is fucking outrageous, and actively offensive to people actually suffering under colonialism. 

It’s a huge merger, and huge mergers are ultimately bad for consumers, especially in already-rapidly consolidating industry like video games, to say nothing of the employees that will undoubtedly get laid off after the merger is approved. It’s not about just CaLl oF DUtY.

What an unbelievably ace-phobic comment section. On top of that, this comment is likely to stay in the greys while all the ace-phobia and denying our existence is going to stay right here on the front page where everyone can read it. I'm really disappointed in you, jezebel commenters. 

Thank you for writing this article Rich. It’s really nice to see people care about asexuality issues and speak to actual asexual people about it. And thank you to the few people in the comments trying to do the same.

In these comments: People questioning ace identity in a way they would never question queer identities, at least not here on Jezebel.  Cool being an acceptable target.

Let’s see:

C’mon, not with the dictionary definitions.

What difference could it possibly make to you?

“ complete with neatly trimmed landing strips”

Cowards.

At every job I’ve ever worked at where we were given computers powerful enough to play games, I would just ask head of department, and the simple response would be along the lines of: “yeah thats not a problem, just it is a work laptop first so if IT says a game is creating any lapse in functionality talk it out, if…

How about if you get your work done on time and aren’t causing any problems, work shouldn’t care what you do on your work laptop?

man it's like the problem is it shouldn't be a reason to screw you in the first place