Because every website and Facebook acquaintance you have is posting links to the settlement website screaming “Get your free $125!” and ruining it for the rest of us, lol

The “opt out” nature is literally the point of class-actions. Otherwise, it would be quite difficult to budget for compensation from a mass-tort event because they might end up being sued by 10,000 different parties in 1,000 different jurisdictions for the same event. In that sense, class actions are very company…

Please note that this:

You can also send a letter that says you object to the settlement all together.

So there should be no repercussions for reprehensible behaviour, no matter how uncomfortable it may make coworkers when they learn of it? That sends an even worse message. “Abuse people as much as you want. You get to keep your career, after all!”

This is a really shitty take

not arguing, just sharing information link: https://www.pbs.org/harriman/1899/native.html

The bus actually isn’t that far off the main road, but you need a modicum of navigational and wilderness skills to reach it, not a misplaced sense of 19th century Romanticism.

These kinds of people need to hit rock bottom before they’ll even think about reforming, if they ever do.

I suspect he doesn’t include “serial abuser” on his resume. 

There are lots of reasons to hate credit card companies, but banks have data breaches just as often, so I don’t think that avoiding credit cards makes your identity any more secure

I think this is a great place to start! The game does a very good job of tutorializing, so that you don’t feel like your hand is being held, but you do have a chance to master concepts before moving on. There’s also a lot of very, very thorough guides which are accessible in the system menu. Because it’s a self…

I am, and will always be, a huge fan of Tron: Legacy. Loved the effects, the look, and the incredible score. :D

One can make a smoking implement out of many, many pieces of military hardware, it’s true.

This is a weirdly thin line-up. Weren’t they supposed to have everything?

Sounds less like an orientation issue and more like a problem with limited/unclear dialogue options.

I mean, I hear you, but that’s exactly what happens to me anytime I play male character and try having a civil conversation with a female npc. Where’s my on-off switch for heterosexual content?

The examples at the start of their article have to do with ordinances that strictly regulate sex shops and other forms of non-reproductive sex while constantly promoting and recognizing family, husbands and wives, and so on in public policy and the media. In other words, heteronormativity is built from regulation and…

Some of us experimented early with Sims to figure out that holy shit we’re not straight, so thank goodness they left that in

I offer a throwback quote to match the throwback to the Sims. Here is Lauren Berlant and Michael Warner, “Sex in Public.” Critical Inquiry, vol. 24, no. 2, 1998, pp. 547–566: