I heard this morning that she said the boat was within 24 hours of sinking. Guess that will make the eventual Lifetime movie more dramatic since there is no male antagonist threatening them on their voyage. Of course the “stalking sharks” will make a good analogy.

I think Mr. Mandelbaum wrote a pretty reasonable, responsible article (and headline) about a topic that isn’t always covered that way. Indeed, it often hasn’t been covered in a level headed manner right here on the GMG/Gawker network. To wit:

Violence is the answer? You really want to live your life by people that you surround yourself with fearing you, rather than respecting you? And you call that a win? My, how far we have come.

Because civilized people don’t hit each other. If he called her a cunt, it would be inexcusable for her to hit him.

It’s 2017. You go onto a bus, everyone has a camera with them. Some extended yelling starts, someone is PROBABLY taking out their phone to take a video. If not for evidence of a crime, just to send to some friends for a laugh like “look what happened to me on the bus!”.

So an old, white woman starts berating a black…

As a former user, I can attest to there being real women on Ashley Madison. And there are single people on it too. And that fact that I am now divorced has nothing to do with my membership. And let the judging commence.

Never throw the first punch. Thats a coward move

America is not innocent, certainly. However, there is a big difference between acknowledging our many moral failings and suggesting we are morally equivalent to Putin’s dictatorship and his murderous thugs. Unlike Russia, we have freedom of press, free speech, largely fair and free elections, independent judiciary,…

Right, exactly. It’s a total false equivalency. Like Jim Crow existed and was terrible, but you don’t get to equate it with the racism, in say, Nazi Germany of the same period. The truth is in the details, which for someone like Trump who can barely sustain a thought over 5 complete sentences is asking way to much.

Seriously. There is nothing more tiresome than false equivalencies:

Where he’s wrong is with the implication that any of this somehow excuses putin.

Yes, I hardly think that Trump was referring to cops spying on BLM when he made this comparison.

I guess I didn’t really understand the aim of the work stoppage. It seemed like it would only hurt travelers, who were for sure not the people in charge here. If I managed to get through customs after all that and then not be able to get home, I’d be upset.

Why is facilitating travel to and from JFK a bad thing?

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Haha haha hahahaaaa danger of conflict... Do you realize just how much energy is involved in the theoretical equations required to warp space and time?

We will make first contact with aliens when we’ve achieved FTL systems

It will be absolute chaos the day of as all our satellites fail. I’ll sell you a spot in my underground bunker. $50,000 in BTC please.

No I can not say that and I’m not trying to. Anyone can be a racist, whether or not they have an institutionalized system backing them up is not what I’m addressing. Simply responding to the idiots who claim that only white people can be racist, some saying it on this site!

That’s what’s fascinating about this mission. There are several schools of thought on how Jupiter might be composed, and even previously “thrown out” ideas are potentially back on the table. I love science, and I can’t wait to see what comes of this. I can’t fathom how more people aren’t so excited about this. It’s a…