A rising tide floats all boats. By increasing the pay for the lowest wages, we put pressure on higher skilled jobs to also increase pay. By increasing the amount of available money to poor people who spend every dime they have on, we increase the flow of money in the system and demand for products, which has the…

Does this have actual teeth to it? I honestly think that if they make it too odious, those tech jobs will just move to India entirely, where they are paid a fraction of what they make here, rather than have Indians move to the US and sometimes make less than US natives make. (As someone who went through the H1-B path,…

Calling the SWAT team on someone is an attempt to weaponize the police against someone. You know how we have that phrase “suicide by cop” for people who intentionally egg on the police? Well, this is attempted “murder by cop” because you know what the police are like, and you know what the outcome could be.

As long as you tell people first, it’s okay. As long as they know not to expect something from you, they can invite you or not based on that. But weddings are more like those high class fundraisers than a party, and it’s really quite rude not to give them something since the social expectation is there. If you don’t…

To be honest, at Jezebel, you probably do need to worry about your “political correctness” triggering some white conservative fake-religious man who thinks you guys are anti-christ supporting baby killers or something. Those guys have been known to snap and kill women.

And many games don’t make money. It’s like selling the rights to your book to a movie studio. Maybe the movie will be successful and you’ll do better selling the rights for a lower amount with royalties, maybe it won’t even get made and you’ll be kicking yourself if you don’t get paid up front.

Ah, I misread. :)

And it’s that kind of thinking that leads to trolls assuming we got in because we were sleeping with someone. :/ No one sensible says ‘don’t look at their experience.’

? Libertarians are not all men. I mean, Ayn Rand, while not a libertarian, is one of the current day libertarian’s most revered writers.

Tech in the Bay area is generally considered to be in demand enough that you just walk across the street and get a new job. I’m sure it’s not really quite that easy, but if you aren’t enjoying a particular company, there are a lot of options.

You know, I really think that “Hey, we got it wrong, it’s fake” retraction should be at the top of the article.

A Catholic school that does the young earth hypothesis? But they’re going against church teachings... wtf...

You know how some Christians say “if there were no god, why would we not rape and steal and be awful to everyone?” Well, clearly, this man needed some laws to prevent him from bullying people into having abortions.

I miss Desmond. Not because I liked him, but because I feel like they didn’t properly end the future plot, and now they just sometimes reference the future in this haphazard way. At least before, it felt like someone cared about the weird sci-fi plot and the reason behind Abstergo. It just feels like they’re phoning…

Male and female brains have some anatomical differences. Transpeople have brains that are closer to the gender they say they feel, though not exactly the same. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-there-something-unique-about-the-transgender-brain/ The phenomenon appears to be real and they have evidence of…

1 This is very sweet.

Damn, why can’t I be dedicated enough to get arms like that

Green card holders were being turned back— by some accounts, they are still being turned away as DHS is not complying with the judicial order. I am a white person with a christian background. I have a green card and my life is here in the US. I’m nervous about my future here. I can’t even imagine what people who…

In Canada, when I was a kid, it used to be “On my honour, I promise to do my best, to do my duty to God, the Queen and my country, to help other people at all times and to obey the Guide Laws.” Apparently it’s been changed to remove God and Queen, and instead calls for a guide to be true to herself, her beliefs, and…

Well... I don’t know about the Irish, but Italians weren’t always considered white.