This.  The “think of the children” nonsense has even been called out publicly by tumblr as specifically NOT being the reason for this move (though I think it made for a great excuse to get the ball rolling on this with the urgency we’re seeing here)

Purely crunching numbers may make tumblr’s user base seem pretty balanced, like only a fraction of the users post or reblog or otherwise engage with “adult” content, but in reality, the adult content is the section of tumblr that was actually lively, thriving and growing. You can’t make a business out of cat memes and…

To my point though, take Bill Cosby for instance...he was brilliant, his stuff was so funny and beloved by so many, but now I would go out of my way to make sure that man never makes another cent off of my support...and he was actually TALENTED. So who is supporting this Takeshi crap, when there was barely anything…

Did #45 sign those with a magic marker?  Did it also look like he was trying extra hard not to mess up signing his own name?

At what point is an artist just so brilliant that you’d overlook the fact they’re a convicted pedophile rapist and go on giving them money by buying their music and tickets to their shows and whatnot? I mean, this guy is trash, his work is meh, and yet he’s still selling music and merch and tickets for his tour dates…

Here in the Chicago-land area, the electric utility ComEd is sponsoring several events throughout the holiday season where they'll recycle your old incandescent strings of lights and swap them for new LED strands.  I think the restriction is 5 strands per person, but that's still a pretty good start to a more…

Here in the Chicago-land area, the electric utility ComEd is sponsoring several events throughout the holiday season…

Depends on the plastic. Earthbound Farm buys plastic water and soda bottles that have been pelletized and then molds them into clear plastic clamshells for their salads and greens. They figure that buying the recycled pellets instead of buying pre-made clamshells also saves a ton of fuel because the pellets are more…

WEAR NATURAL FIBERS.

This.

The only thing airplane ice has going for it is that it’s not actually being made on the plane, but rather being delivered in bags or whatever as the plane is being serviced at each stop. The turnaround time for the airlines these days means most planes are barely cleaned of litter and visible filth, let alone…

A phobia would imply an irrational fear. Food safety (and yes, that extends to ice as well as utensils, water, condiments, etc.) is a serious concern. Crunching the numbers tells us that you’re a million times more likely to have your life put at risk by foodborne illness than by terrorism - yet people are willing to…

I’m going to go out on a limb here and posit that rather than Jaguar’s cells having “slightly different chemistry” instead Jaguar’s engineers just wrote different charge management software to prevent their cells from charging to full capacity in the first place... i.e. It’ll show 100% on the dashboard, but the cells…

You’re on the right track, except for that “simple bacterial test” is still in the realm of science fiction. Too many different possible pathogens and metabolic byproducts, undefined levels of what it might take to make somebody sick, and field tests in general are easily contaminated making for common false…

In all seriousness, if this tactic had been applied with the first reports of a Chipotle outbreak, there wouldn’t have been any other instances.  Having your entire inventory of out-of-temp or undated/unmarked food destroyed by the health department (they usually direct employees to do it while they stand and watch)…

I’d dig into the health code a little more on this if I were them. Most codes that I’ve had experience with either have exemptions for food giveaways and community events, or don’t apply to food at all if no money is changing hands (i.e. food provided gratis at church or a private home or community barbecue, etc.).…

I know it’s hard to maintain momentum over weeks, let alone months or years, but I was really disheartened that most of the progressive GOTV and anti Voter Suppression initiatives didn’t really get kicked off properly until summer. Sad to say that the Parkland kids and their efforts probably got more people to the…

If this were somebody’s lawyer, this would be legal malpractice...what’s the recourse when it’s a judge? I’m assuming he could get disbarred over something like this, but maybe not?  If I were a defense lawyer, I’d be looking for a way to parlay this display of insanity into some sort of grounds for appeal or vacation…

My biggest gripe about these interactions is whenever something obviously looking and smelling like horseshit dribbles from Trump (or Sanders’ etc.) mouths, the whole rest of the assembled press corps just...ignores it and clamors for their own chance to ask a question. These guys all joined the same union, they came…

When a candidate within single digit percentages concedes before the counts are done, it really does all those voters a terrible disservice, because most states simply stop counting once the race is officially called.

Gawd, I hope THEY do another “boycott” - you know, where they make an effort to go in to several different locations and order drinks with special names on the cup like “JESUS” and “CHRISTIAN” and “LAMB OF GOD” etc.  That’ll teach ‘em to pull this “holiday cup” nonsense for the 21st year in a row, I tell you what!