Again, I didn’t say that Nike was the employer, and I didn’t say that they don’t give maternity leave to their employees. Nice try, though! I’m glad you got to throw around some English 101 rhetorical analysis vocab. The adjunct who taught you must be so proud!

So you have to fully engage with every troll? I get your point, but there are a lot of bullshitters for whom any acknowledgement gives them far more power and respect than they deserve.

What’s your point? And I didn’t say that Nike was an employer. The same goes for sponsor relationships, but the employee/employer relationship is a lot more common and relevant to most people.

It’s in Europe the same way that Panama and Aruba are in North America. Technically, but not in a useful sense.

Cool story. What was her name? Other WNBA players have gotten sponsorships and have gotten pregnant in both orders. Any employers that hire women run into these problems and crappy ones pull this crap and good ones don’t.

They should know an intern is broke, but the un/underpaid intern system is a(nother) way that gives rich kids advantages in competitive fields. For every intern that has to count pennies at happy hour, there’s one who is buying pitchers and apps for the table with parents’ money.

I got your point, but you’re wrong on two counts:

Everything is political. Period. When people (like you) say you don’t want everything to be a moral/political dilemma, you mean you only want to hear about your preferred side of that moral/political dilemma.

I didn’t say they’re all assholes, I said that they’re all either assholes or have no personality. Thanks for proving one of the new laws of the internet: If someone accuses you of making a logical fallacy by its name, that person will quickly out themselves as reading at a 2nd grade level at best.

several calls made through Grubhub’s assigned phone number resulted in kickbacks to the company—whether or not an order was actually made. According to a copy of the lawsuit, Grubhub makes a commission if a call simply lasts longer than 45 seconds

Right on. No business can be unethical or shitty if they provide a service that people like. That’s the American way!

Oh no, now people will be emboldened to treat their dogs similarly, by running around with them or chasing them or wrestling with them or otherwise physically messing with them in a way that doesn’t hurt them but may slightly annoy them but may not. The cruelty! When will it ever stop?

Quite the opposite, I’m an enthusiastic meat eater with no illusions of where my meat comes from.

What’s the strawman? I get that you think “ad hominem” means that I said something that might make someone feel bad. If anything, it’d be ad hominem tu quoque because I called out the hypocrisy of whining about animal cruelty while actively and enthusiastically participating in it, but maybe that one didn’t come up in…

Congratulations, that’s the longest and most tortuous way I’ve ever heard someone say, “I like eating meat and don’t want to stop, but this video made me feel gross.” Work in a slaughterhouse for a couple years and tell me about how much empathy and respect for life everyone has for those animals.

I went to a big, popular, fake-classy, lame chain restaurant with an extremely picky acquaintance and she sent two dishes back because she didn’t like them, and the waiter fell all over himself to bring new entrees and comped most (maybe all?) of the meal for the table of 4. That chain is going very strong because…

So much pearl-clutching in the comments. Pigeons are tough birds. Those in the video are flying away without any trouble. And I bet every single person posting something like that isn’t batting an eye chowing down on various meat and dairy products.

Since it was a chain restaurant, it also shows that they have unlimited money to throw at minor complaints, which a local place might not have.

It sounds like you agree with me on the personality front, you just don’t care. I don’t care either, but the lack of non-dickhead non-robots is something I’ve noticed about tennis, and nobody has given me a counterexample yet. You know, just because you decided you didn’t like me based on my comment doesn’t actually…

There’s no other personality in tennis either, at least on the men’s side. They’re either automata or psychopaths. Kyrgios is a maniac, but he’s the only one doing anything worth paying attention to. Without him, all men’s tennis is just “Did Federer, Nadal, or Djokovic win this one?”.