I think perhaps you misunderstood me— you were super-tired, after all :) Julian Assange has been accused of rape. I wonder if, when a person who is quite possibly a rapist says such a thing, it means that they just believe every man is a rapist in hiding. I don’t think that of people I meet in general.

It’s probably because people have just reminded me about the rape accusations, but sometimes I wonder if that really means “I know all men are willing to rape, so any of them who say something else are just trying a different method.”

b:) honestly want to avoid the conversations with my close friends and family that will bring...just don’t want to be “out” as a victim.

Got a few years yet. I’ll miss the next election.

As someone with a green card living here who can’t vote... PLEASE, PEOPLE. Do the right thing. Vote.

And then everyone cries foul when the cheaper ones can’t deliver.

30 years ago, video games cost 80-100$ each in Canada. I got one for Christmas. The real cost to the consumer of games is way lower now than then.

Wtf...

I’ve been in the industry for 10+ years. I ended up with a great core of developers when I entered, and... damn, many of us are still together ten years later, on our third studio, through acquisitions and shutdowns... a number of them have families, so work-life balance has always been high up there. I took a job at…

I’m so sorry about your mother. I cannot imagine having to make a choice like that.

Cool. As a non-car person, I, too, would have believed it was slashed— especially if the police said so! But the damage does look very similar to that blowout there, and not like the slashed tire photo.

Yeah, it’s probably a good idea not to think too hard about it.

Wouldn’t sauce or ice cream make more sense as semen? Also, how do cheese and pasta get to little girl and little boy?

Hm, old Europeans seem just as bad as old Americans when it comes to standards that hold back women. Seems unlikely that their society is that much better than here. But... I don’t live in Europe, so I guess I’ll let it slide.

He shouldn’t have hit her, but she is a bitch who shouldn’t have said that. Unfortunately, when I looked it up, all the “fighting words” laws in the US have been sufficiently neutered so that I think he is more likely to be charged. Unfortunate.

The 5800$ claim is mostly false, but claiming that I’m paying for them is still true based on that same article. I don’t really want to pay anything for people to work at Walmart. That number should be close to zero. 

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…