From what I have read (from a number of sex workers, so presumably much more knowledgeable on the subject than me): This had nothing to do with IPOs or stupidity at OF. This was all about Visa/Mastercard slamming down their prudish hammer. I would suspect that’s why OF used the phrasing “We have secured…

This entire article is just a huge misunderstanding of how medical billing and insurance works. That’s largely OK since precious few people really do understand it and many people involved in it haven’t a clue, but if you are going to consider yourself a journalist and not a muckraker, you should do some research.

Like I said, it’s a tough call. I certainly don’t disagree with you wrt Oz. 

For all we know, Donald Trump might be an amazing Jeopardy host, but I’m fine if we never fucking find out, lol.

“But I guess modern avclub also has no standards because, yknow”

“perhaps”?

Bumblebee is ABSOLUTELY the best Transformers movie. It’s also a pretty dang fun coming of age story. This is not a great comparison.

So, uh... the headline is blatantly wrong, as he was NOT in fact arrested by an off-duty cop, but rather by on-duty cops, which I imagine is required legally.

Isn’t Bialik anti-vax and I can’t think of a term to describe her not feminist views, that maybe, she shouldn’t be given more high profile positions than she already has?

David Faber has also been surprisingly great.

Ok, so today I learned it was/is bad to make fun of Rebecca Black, because it was mean but also more importantly there’s now someone new to make fun of.

“I think we all know that if he were really innocent he’d have a Cousin Vinnie with a really car smart lady friend/aunt of Spider-man. Now that guy and gal weren’t no dirty defense attorney and we know how that worked out. Uh, does this case involve car knowledge? OK good, yes so we intend to show that this child from…

And here I thought defense attorneys usually go for plea deals because cops are legally allowed to threaten and lie to the 80% of suspects who need a public defender, and the legal system is explicitly set up to deny people their constitutional right to a trial by overburdening, underfunding, and denying forensic lab…

As a kid I once asked my dad, a lawyer, why defense attorneys choose to represent people even if they know they’re guilty, and he responded with something like “guilty people have the same rights and they’re entitled to fair trials just like the rest of us.” It’s kind of embarrassing, but it was legitimately one of…

As someone who works in public defense, I can confirm we are all lecherous scumbags who want our clients to grievously harm your children specifically.

Hi Patricia, I’m trying to reach somebody at Kotaku. There’s an old article about Sam Smolders on Kotaku that says I’m a game developer and that I was interviewed. I’m not a game developer and was never interviewed. Owen had requested his article to be removed, but Stephen denied the request. Is is possible to have it…

Aging? We all age at the same rate - one day per day. Do you mean old? Joey Fatone is only 44. Is that considered old?

Hmm sounds like another piece of info that would be handy to include in detail within the post itself. 

I’m a heavy magic the gathering player and yeah signatures tend to LOWER the value of cards rather than raise them. this is because there are only a certain number of pristine examples printed and every time you get a card signed or the card gets damaged that number of pristine cards goes down. If you buy and sell tcg…

Are we pretending he won’t be in [redacted] first?

Wow. You really did not think this one out, did you?