I, for one, welcome our robotic orgasm-tracking-and-optimizing overlords.

The ideas that Truvada for PreP is 99% effective when taken as directed and that Truvada for PreP can have serious side effects are not mutually exclusive, and both seem to be true. The makers of Truvada have spared no expense marketing their drug, in some cases, dressed up as “public awareness” and “outreach” even…

I haven’t an iota of sympathy for Harry and Meghan.  Without the media, the Windsors would have basically zero relevance (at least as much as any other wealthy family).  They have a symbiotic relationship with the media, particularly the “tabloid press” in its British form, where the press gets all this great content…

911 systems are supposed to be location-based, but swatters seem to be able to get around that by calling a non-emergency number (like the police department switchboard) and insisting on being transferred to a dispatcher.  That M.O. alone should be a red flag, since most people since the 1980's (at least in the U.S.)…

I think I’m one of those “I don’t want kids - so where’s my PTO?” people. It chafes against my progressive sensibilities, but I look at pregnancy as an elective medical procedure - if the leave would come at an inconvenient time professionally, or make it difficult to hold on to a position of leadership or a recent or…

The DNC needs to take the reigns now, lock these folks in a room until they’ve narrowed the field to 4 or 5, and candidates 6-20something come out publicly endorsing one of them and move on to other pressing matters. For crying out loud, there are 21 Republican Senate seats up in 2020!

I feel like if Musk and his team just picked one technology to champion, this project would already be done. Improve tunnel boring machine capabilities and voila! A tech that could be licensed and used in any number of applications all over the world. Instead it was a tunnel with autonomous capsules in a vacuum, and…

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,…