To some degree, arbitrage is a service to buyer and seller and the person conducting that service deserves to be paid for it. They help Adidas by creating demand and by absorbing some of the risk; they help buyers who are willing to pay more find a pair after the initial window has closed. They can also overheat…

I voted early last week. I’ve got my frequented news sites, Jezebel, Splinter, and the Root blacklisted until Wednesday morning. I’ve got a bag of weed and Red Dead Redemption 2. I’ve deleted Facebook from my home screen. I’m ready for these midterms.

I’m going to try not listening to news or even using the social medias tomorrow night. Instead I’ll try exercising and playing video games, that way my severe depression can muscle out any election anxiety I have.

Am I being a bush-league Robin Hood or a total wet blanket when I rally against people buying shit that they don’t want just to charge more money from the person who really does want it?  I have a similar take on sporting event/concert tickets. 

If you are an American adult in 2018 and you claim to have no knowledge of what blackface is, you should not be allowed to teach children. If this woman were not lying, she would still be unfit to teach. Fuck her and her “you’re welcome for educating the world about blackface/ I haven’t been caught being racist for…

She’s really trying to use the excuse of being ignorant about blackface, after the entire country made Megyn Kelly’s dumbass a headline for days about the same thing?

Just use whatever canned phrase comes to mind.

“Don’t use this extremely common phrase! Stop saying this innocuous but apparently infuriating cliche! Never email someone these 4 basic English words in any order!”

“Just checking in” is the friendly first reminder. The average person should understand that’s being polite. The next email is, “I’m still waiting on this.”, followed by, “This is the third time I’ve asked for this.”

If you have to follow up with someone because you have a job to do and they can’t get you what you need, being a little passive aggressive never hurts anything imo

“He was standing near a rock! He was standing on rocks! He was listening to rock music!” 

This will also lay the ground work for police to say the same thing, “oh he had a rock, go ahead and fire” or “That cell phone looked like a rock and I felt like my life was in danger, so I fired 12 rounds into that individual”

On here, I don’t really argue at all with Trumpers unless I feel like they are making an argument a person might make in good faith (like, what’s the problem with needing IDs to vote? which seems logical at face value). And when I argue back it’s just for the benefit of someone else. I don’t entertain racists and…

I’m not seeing family these upcoming holidays (and frankly the family I see regularly doesn’t talk politics anyway), but if I was I’m not sure I could handle it this year.

“I just wanted a tax cut and being tougher on immigration. So sad about what happened. The Democrats force them to pull the triggers! Can you pass the biscuits?”

Yeah, I have abandoned the idea and practice of engaging in any “debate” on any of this stuff with anyone who supports Dump*. It’s clearly pointless, and not worth my time, energy, frustration, or anger. But at least my wife enjoys venting out loud at the TV along with me, so it’s kinda like we both get to voice our…

Yeah I can talk to my dad because he is an anti-Trump Republican so at least we have SOME common ground (though not a lot, and I’ll eat my hat if he actually renounced Republicanism), and one of my uncles and I have always been able to have good faith discussion (except he looks like a goddamn lunatic online).…

Yeah, I’m essentially no longer in contact with a couple siblings (and their spouses) for similar reasons - but mostly because they do not engage in good faith or civil discussions, but rather start out with blatant lies and conspiracy theories and racist / bigoted rhetoric and quickly resort to personal insults and…

You are right. Vote blue to save your own life.

Hes also laying the groundwork for killing US when we protest. That's what's coming next.