I’ve always found the word “Queer” sufficient to convey my identity, but I’ve also had lots of odd reactions to its use, depending on the audience. It’s definitely fallen out of fashion, and had its meaning co-opted and is sort of trickling back into the vernacular here and there, and there are definitely people of a…

One wonders if their “6 weeks of planning” involved review of the Bill of Rights or even a contingency fund for all the lawsuits they’re going to be fighting off for police brutality, wrongful arrest, assault and various civil rights violations...or if it was all “let’s play soldier” and setting up judging criteria…

From a psych major, with a focus on social, and alot of experimental field work under his belt, I can say armchair pop-psychology is the BEST kind of psychology. The paper you cite is literally a textbook example of how to bake confirmation bias into your experimental design. Or did you miss the whole experimental…

Judicious R.B.G.

Even if that “$2,500" (which, yeah right, let’s see the receipts please!) is half a tenth of a percent of what the NRA spent on campaign contributions last election cycle, it still violates the law, and violates this whole ‘Murica horseshit they’ve been waving around since good ‘ole Moses was still their spokesman.

I never got the memo that dissent, personal experience, healthy skepticism, cynicism and/or critical thinking were officially all lumped into “gaslighting” now, so I guess I’m caught up on the current level of discourse.

So I’m worried now that the Trump patented brand of word salad is now somehow contagious...this was, ostensibly, an event about tax cuts and Florida small businesses, but so much Cuba, Venezuela nonsense, with a dash of Jerusalem (Florida = Jews, I know, I know) thrown in. What did they actually get down to about the…

Maybe creating a non-police alternative is the way. Aren’t average patrol officers in England only armed with billy clubs or pepper spray and the armed coppers are only called in for specific types of issues?

The allegation is that Starbucks is biased - so yeah, it should take a bunch of “anecdotes” to substantiate that. Otherwise, it’s just your run of the mill racist in a service job who somehow got their chance to mouth off to a POC and was called out on it. Nothing particularly Starbuck-y (Starbuckish?) about that -…

I didn’t have a specific anecdote because that could go on forever, but my question of how the bias gets into a company culture that goes to great lengths to *not* be culturally biased is all the more puzzling. Are any of the Starbucks stores run and staffed by People of Color out there selectively refusing the…

I gotta add, the RESTROOMS are ALWAYS a hot topic for Starbucks. From the customer surveys, management, the health department: they’re never clean enough, but try to get in there and clean them sometime and you’d think you just stomped a puppy to death and poured the guts into a frappuccino cup and forgot the straw!…

No knocks on Panera, but if you think moving the coffee klatch meeting over to Dunkin from now on is a step toward racial harmony, I guess we’ll discuss the first time a member of your party takes a seat without first making a purchase, or tries to go wash their hands before ordering anything....and heaven help all of…

So where does this bias come from to set up shop in a Starbucks somewhere between the pastry case and the restroom??

After I moved into management I learned the one overarching goal of scheduling at Starbucks was to avoid overtime at all costs. Rather than being able to figure out peoples’ availability and make schedules that make all parties happy, many (MANY) store managers tried taking the easy route to this by stacking their…

As a former Starbucks partner, I have to say the company is awfully progressive and discrimination is definitely not baked into the corporate culture in any way. They hire a broad cross-section of people, and despite the better than average benefits and perks, it’s still a foodservice/retail gig, so there’s turnover…

In rebuttal, I would offer up the Beyond Burger, by Beyond Meat, a plant-based patty that’s been available retail for about two full years, and served at Epic Burger, Veggie Grill, TGIFridays and a bunch of other joints as well. Beyond Burgers are primarily pea protein (which is a complete protein source), and are…

Organic pesticides *can sometimes* be more toxic ounce-for-ounce than conventional alternatives, but straight up toxicity is only one factor in consideration for approving substances that make it onto the organic list. The environmental persistence and therefore bio-accumulation of toxins is also considered - an…

This is the right take right here. It all boils down to the growth medium. I was staunchly anti-mushroom for a long time for precisely the issue of gross growth medium until I came across Mycopia/Gourmet Mushrooms Inc. - they grow their shrooms on shredded oak wine casks in converted wine cellars. I think just knowing…

One day, I hope we can use the same legislative language when we submit the bill to strip him and his family members of their government pensions and healthcare coverage and bill him for his Secret Service protection costs due to fiscally responsible cuts to that budget.

Cosby being a sicko lecherous perv isn’t terribly shocking, but what has really stood out to me through this is just how complicit his wife Camille looks - whether actively helping him do predatory shit, or just, you know, turning a blind eye to all the shenanigans going on in her presence.