“Follow These People on Twitter to Help You Understand the Trump/Russia Connection” is a lifehack (an easier way to get news about a major current event from thoughtful and reputable sources) and not at all alarmist. Just don’t click on headlines related to politics.

The fact that he got so much free press is a flaw in our press, not a demonstration of Trump’s skills.

No. It’s still mostly luck. Most people could work their asses off and still never achieve the results of most models. They are almost universally people who have been blessed by genetics into fitting modern conventional beauty standards. They may deprive themselves of food or workout obsessively to maintain that…

I feel like you mean Miracle Whip, because spreading a non-dairy dessert topping chemical on my grilled cheese just sounds wrong.

Poppe felt that failing to confirm the scientific name was “not very good journalism.”

I’m not sure if I’d say it was “widely understood”. The average person I think, very much does associate it with Islam, wrongly of course. Whenever I get into an argument with an islamophobe on the internet, they nearly always bring up FGM. They seem to genuinely believe that all Muslims in every part of the world…

Uh, let’s see. She addressed him by a racial slur several times, told him to “go back to his country”, threatened to falsely report him to the police for assault and rape, and threw juice all over his car. He called her a “bitch” after she left, she never even heard it. Yeah these things are definitely comparable.

It doesn’t say he was “leering”. You’re adding things that the song doesn’t communicate.

It still doesn’t sound like what he’s trying to make it out to be. There’s no indication in the lyrics that this person is stalking the woman. He’s just waxing poetic about the beauty of a stranger. Not wedding song material, granted, but hardly as creepy and pervy as he says.

Nothing incenses a white person more than being called “white”. (Note: I am white, this is an observation of my own tribe.)

Netflix is starting to lose value to me. I like a few of the original shows, but most are not interesting to me. And they keep throwing out old shows that are extremely popular and have a lot of rewatch value. And they don’t seem to be adding enough new shows from sources other than themselves or other past tv shows…

I don’t know. I keep reading articles like this, and they seem kind of pointless. The people who can change their situation probably will, no long term health damage incurred. The others, those with disabilities, illnesses, mental illnesses, extreme poverty, etc. have no means to change their situation on their own.…

Agreed. I’d wager that a lot of the people who are so lonely and isolated that it has a big impact on their health face similar problems. Chronic illness, disability, untreated mental illness, poverty, etc. Unfortunately the issue is that no article could fix that. It’s no good telling those people, “Hey loneliness is…

Anyone know if this is happening through text messages as well? Today I got a text message from a restaurant I’ve never heard of, asking me to confirm (by texting 1 for confirm, 2 for cancel) a reservation that I never made. I didn’t respond to it and I’m wondering if it was an attempt at a scam somehow.

Bernie is not “woke”. Every time someone asks him about racism, he starts talking about “income inequality”.

53 year olds, especially men, die of “natural causes” all the time. A heart attack, brought on by heart disease, is a natural cause of death. Dying of cancer is a natural cause of death. Any death resulting from the natural process of aging or disease is a natural death, whether it happens when you’re 5 or 50 or 100.…

I think this is probably something that’s better applied to a shop situation than cookery. For the kitchen, I just put a little plastic wrap on the weighing platform or use a bowl and zero out the weight. You’d have to be a stupendously messy cook to make wasting a ziploc bag worth it for kitchen use.

Exactly. And despite their “we strike for the women who can’t” thing, I think they drastically underestimated the number of women who fall into that “can’t” category. Almost any woman that works in retail or service industries for one. I imagine that at most Wal-Marts or McDonald’s, “I need the day off to go on strike…

This is a stupid derailing non-issue that you’re just making up so you don’t have to pee in the same room with women and/or trans people. And again, as I pointed out, the people you should be mad at are the people who insist that trans women don’t belong in women’s bathrooms and trans men don’t belong in men’s…

I don’t understand. Do men not pee in toilets at home? Most homes don’t have urinals as far as I know. I don’t think it’s too much to ask men to make this small sacrifice of their beloved urinals so that trans people can exist in public spaces. If this is annoying to them, they should aim their frustration at…