Taking harassment claims seriously means dealing with the problem in the most efficient way possible to the company’s bottom line. If you have a generally well liked all-star employee who has risen to executive ranks by positively altering the company’s revenue curve and an intern who makes serious allegations that…

And Harvey Weinstein made more women stars then most other producers. Obviously, you can both be douchey and effective. That doesn’t mean you have to be douchey to be effective. The conversation is how to control capitalism to make it less evil while still enjoying its benefits.

a police officer either sucks at his job or is in a really bad spot and you refuse to see it from their eyes.

Have you ever actually watched a spiderman movie or read the comic for that matter? Spiderman imposes his own set of morality on an innocent public. How many times has spider man trashed the city and taken whole buildings down just to save his girlfriend or someone close to him. Spiderman may be trying to stop an even…

And they say millennials are the most sheltered generation...

There is a bread machine sitting in my closet that says otherwise.  I get the making part doesn’t take that long, but buying all the stuff, finding all the utensils, then cleaning everything up makes that 15 minutes dramatically longer.  Then again, I’m the kind of guy who drinks soylent when I think about the 5…

This guy basically said, this guy hates you and will do bad things to you, here’s his contact information.  You don’t see that as the least bit dangerous for a US Congress person to be saying about a member of the media doing his job?

A reporter doing his job is publicly called out for hating republicans and abusing his position in the same post where that reporter’s contact information is listed. You have to be pretty dense to not see this an endorsement of harassment. The argument over how private the information really is moot.

What law was broken? Banks are highly regulated including the banks that were responsible for the financial meltdown. There were certainly unethical things that happened, but the problem was not a few fraudulent individuals like Enron or Arthur Anderson, it was a systemic failure that banks following the rules very…

I know. I am not what you call a Trump fan in any sense of the word, but where’s the story here? Trump installing people he trusts to help him restore a floundering government agency is not corruption or graft. There is potential there for that and an investigation is worthwhile, but this story is just noise not…

So someone sees someone messing with a security system and calls the cops and that’s racist? No people. That is what you are suppose to do. That’s not calling the cops for innocuous reasons, thats calling the cops for someone they don’t know messing with a security system.  How is this a thing? Sure there is something…

Yet they voted for Trump by a 62% margin who staunchly opposes environmental protection as well as doesn’t see global warming as a real threat. They may be conscience of the environment, they just don’t seem too willing to give up anything to actually protect it.

Yeah, but in most states being an idiot, redneck, and racist generally makes you ineligible to run a serious campaign for statewide office. In Alabama, they have Roy Moore.

Nah, neither of those things. The problem is with the media reporting that these things are actually a real annoyance to city dwellers. Everyone I know who actually lives in the city loves the concept of having more bikes and less cars. Sure, better manners would be welcome, but they want to see less cars and more…

Virtually every street in Seattle is lined with areas to dock a car. They are called parking spots and provided by the government often for free or at least highly subsidized at great cost to tax payers. A single one of those parking spots could fit all the bikes a most blocks could possibly use. It really isn’t a…

Public transportation sucks unless you happen to be close to the part of town where it is available. Live more then a couple blocks and it suddenly becomes a burden to take it. Scooters expand the area that more people to take public transportation, more people on public transportation means you can afford to make it…

Tourists. There are actually more tourism related jobs in San Francisco then tech related jobs. Tourists are everywhere and they take Ubers because they don’t have convenient access to other forms of transportation. Scooters also don’t replace public transportation, they compliment it. You take the scooter to the bus…

The press is who blew this story open. I’m not so quick to judge them particularly given this is a private company. The only data investors and partners care about is growth numbers. It rarely matters what your technology does if people buy it. It is both a highly efficient and stupid way to invest, but the smart…

Child support ain’t no joke. Enforcing parental responsibilities is one of the things the US actually does quite zealously. It’s one of the few things where failure to pay actually results in criminal charges. Not that it’s a great solution, but what is the alternative? You can’t force love. Unless you want to change…

You need to hear his story before you can make up your mind on someone who abandoned her toddler age kids to a husband who didn’t want them? Two assholes don’t negate each other, you just get double the assholes.