I appreciate that, but I’ve had 30 some odd years to think about it. I was not the hero she needed because I didn’t tell. I waited for her to tell, and she got the gut punch of not being believed.

My only excuse is I was 13 / 14 at the time, and I wasn’t mentally / emotionally prepared for any of it.

While I agree that you don’t want a different app for every restaurant, I have used the preferred way of ordering for my handful of favourite restaurants, if only because I still want them to be in business after a while. If you really like that acai bowl place, I’d think about how each order you make via DoorDash… Read more

None of these “ disrupter” business models are supposed to be profitable. They just need to get big enough and hyped enough to cash out. Get an established company that sees them as “ the future” to buy them, go public with an I.P.O. and cash out, or trick a hedge fund into investing. Its we olde tymers call “a scam”. Read more

HR and Tech support for both drivers and restaurants. 

Of course they want to cram “In God we Trust” in the new design. Performative Xtianity FTW. Surprised they didn't put white Santa on it.
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All Cops Are Baristas

The BA videos have been one of the bright spots in these last few months, and anyone who’s watched more than a handful of episodes knows that Sohla and Gabby are goddamn treasures. That they weren’t getting compensated for their NUMEROUS appearances was ridiculous; that someone of Sohla’s background was making 50k in… Read more

I only know the food side of it, but I’ve hard a lot of the same problems exist on the journalism side. Like, getting a good job generally means you worked a lot of unpaid internships or horribly compensated spots to “build your resume” in a way that a lot of people just can’t afford to do. Read more

This is way more powerful of a message than the standard corporate messaging that’s been filling my inbox. 

Forgery. Read more

Which to me says a lot about the need to use such force. Because if the guy needed to be pinnned you would assume the officer would have needed to give his full attention.

People understandably get mad at squirrels taking birdseed because the seed is meant to attract birds for them to enjoy... Read more

It’s not murder, it’s indifferencide. Black people have died younger of pretty much everything it’s possible to die of. Black people have suffered more from less care for every long-term illness, risk factor and debilitating illness.

This is not new, just more acute version of the usual “don’t give a fuck”.

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That is mighty white of them. Now Walker needs to sue the hell out of these pigs for false arrest, murder, attempted murder and a gajillion other reasons. Then these pigs need to go to jail for a long time.

Someone leaned on the country prosecutor REAL hard. Prosecutors NEVER do this unless their arm is twisted real hard and almost shoved up their ass. Read more

The way to change this is to change the court. Since you can’t vote for supreme court justices, it means that we need to control the Presidency and the Senate for a long time. What it boils down to is: You. Need. To. Vote. In . Every. Election. Read more

So the supreme court is also against the people.....not surprising with how the turtle fuck chosen his fucking federal nominees.

“(The suit mentions that Wilson and Hankison had a history outside of the arrests, including “a relationship with the same woman.”)“ Read more

I ask folks to keep an eye on our house when we go on vacation. I certainly do not mean “kill anybody who steps foot on my lawn.” Most reasonable people understand that.