According to Ashlee Vance’s book, she didn’t just ask for any old raise, she asked for compensation on the level of SpaceX’s top execs. After considering it (while sending her on an all expenses paid vacation) he instead offered her another position in the company. He didn’t fire her. She declined the offer by just…

This better get me out of the grays:

IT IS NOT NATE SILVER’S FAULT THAT PEOPLE DON’T UNDERSTAND PROBABILITIES. He gave Trump a higher chance of winning the presidency than the Cubs had of coming back and winning the World Series after Game 4 and we literally all JUST saw that happen. He doesn’t conduct the polls, he aggregates them, and there was no way…

Is this what they mean when they say that on field chemistry is so important in the NFL?

I sit down to draw this creature and it’s as if my pen can’t quite grip his essence. My mind slides off of him, as if some fell spell is cast upon him. I see him, but do I know him? He looks at me, but isn’t he just looking through me? When I draw this creature, this beautiful gollum, it’s as if all my talent breaks…

"Actually, analytics refers to a type of bug that lives in your butt."

Because I, as a white guy, and you, as a white guy, are both in positions that mean we have never been subjected to institutionalized discrimination that the government and society propagated. Those words you mentioned in your original post were part of that and have a long history of being used to oppress and…