I think this is a case of adding insult to injury, since Equifax collected and then mishandled my personal data through no fault of my own. It’s not like I can demand that my creditors not share information with Equifax, and many don’t disclose which credit bureaus they use in the first place. So yeah, it does seem…

This is really a shit decision, even ignoring the huge chunk of settlement reserved to pay off the lawyers. We’re really talking about two separate classes here: one huge class for every person who’s data was part of the breach and one smaller subset of that class for every person who has actually had (or will have,…

There’s alot to unpack from her social media, but calling out hijabs as misogynistic is actually a fairly enlightened point of view.  Color me surprised that Miss Michigan MAGA is a touch woke....or at least was in 2018.

Current social media has me so confused...who are the “snowflakes” again? The progressive members of congress who are getting shit upon by their own party leaders, the white house, Fox News AND all the conspiracy crank alt-right nazis, and yet still show up for work every day with actual constructive ideas, coherent…

I don’t know a ton about Impossible, but flexitarians and “meat reducers” have been the main target of Beyond Meat since day one. Nobody’s expecting Boomers or Gen-Xers to switch to vegetarianism en masse, but millions of them every year will have “that talk” with their primary care physician about cutting back on the…

There aren’t any near me, but I ate at a BurgerFi while visiting Florida last month and they have a “Conflicted Burger” on the menu, which is apparently one Beyond patty and one regular beef patty (in addition to a straight up Beyond Burger offering also on the menu). I wondered who the target demographic is for that…

I think we need a fact check on the cellphone thing.  Maybe congregants didn’t have cellphones on them or with them or turned on, but even some of the strictest interpretations of torah law will give you a pass to call 911 if somebody’s just been shot on the sabbath.

This, a million stars for this.

Necro bump because:

This.

...wait to draw conclusions...

You mean good ole Moo-mar, praises be upon him, right?

Ugh.  I’m gonna go out on a limb and guess that “holy week” is probably one of the busiest times for tourists at the cathedral, and the conservation/reconstruction work was probably on an altered schedule because of this - either of which would be perfectly plausible explanations for an accidental fire.  But no,…

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…