I’m not saying that anger isn’t justified. The things the right wants to do are horrible, and they really are reaching unprecedented new heights of insanity every single day. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t a troubling sign to see people dehumanize their opponents in this way. That kind of talk often precedes violence,…

Uh... look around. You see the same kind of comments about right-wingers on this site every day. I am NOT comparing the ideologies of the two, or doing some “both sides” bullshit. I do believe that the right is far more capable of political violence, as a rule, than the left. But the tendency to paint the other side…

Neutral: I’ve been debating recently whether my next vehicle purchase should be a truck. I’m lusting over the latest-generation A4 Allroad as well, but those can’t really pull the small Airstream I also want to buy soon, and I don’t have the kind of money to buy all three. After years of driving economy cars and old…

That’s... not how this works. The “nuclear football” is a briefcase filled with communications equipment and codes to authorize a nuclear strike. The Air Force still has to manually execute such a strike, and they can only do so with the approval of the Secretary of Defense. So no, Donny cannot “grab the nuclear…

A nuclear war comes to mind. A similar “presidential alert” system has long existed for radio and television, and was pretty much explicitly designed to warn the country about incoming nukes. As far as I know, the original presidential emergency alert system has never been used for anything but tests. 

As somebody else pointed out.... it’s Chris Wallace. His entire job is to be the “reasonable”, “moderate” foil to their phalanx of bomb-throwing firebrands. He regularly delivers milquetoast criticism of Republican actions to give the network the appearance of fairness. Later tonight and throughout the rest of the…

It is absolutely the latter. She is there at the explicit invitation of the Republicans on the committee. She works for them, not the Senate as a whole—and certainly not the victim. Her job is to present a front of respectability, decency and fairness while doing everything she can to tear down Dr. Ford and discredit…

Wow, that is just unbelievable.

I think that was a reference to the judge’s wife. What in the world she has to do with this, I do not know—but attacking a judge and his family directly seems like a very bad idea.

In America, parents still have the right to direct their child’s education, even if that means telling Ms. Teacher that your child won’t be doing any homework, and she’d better not ding him for it.

I use probiotics... because I like the taste of yogurt and kefir. Fuck that “pill full of bacteria” nonsense, though—I’ve known many people who used them, and while I’ve never seen anyone be harmed by them, pretty much all of the benefits they claim to receive from taking them can be attributed to placebo effects. 

You laugh, but The Verge ran a story a few years ago about a guy who did a black-market fecal transplant on himself by stuffing his friend’s stool into a pill... 🤢

It’s Tiffany. And yeah... while she has occasionally stood on stage with the family at political events—and she did do a short speech in support of her dad at the GOP convention in 2016–there have been rumors and signs for years that she might privately have something of a liberal bent.

Thank you! My girlfriend and I started using this app after she tried a few different forms of hormonal birth control and experienced awful physical and emotional side effects. We’ve been using it for over a year now, and it’s been fantastic so far. Like you said, the app tracks ovulation with several mechanisms and…

It just means that they don’t update or support it anymore. They haven’t since the end of 2013. I was pretty bummed about it at the time, but they just weren’t able to survive as a company with that albatross around their neck. And of course, it’s not a good idea to use outdated software like that if you want to…

BlackBerry just makes Android phones now... BlackBerry OS hasn’t existed for a few years now. And trust me, as a sysadmin who has spent an inordinate amount of time researching the matter for work—iOS security is MILES better than Android’s, outside of a few niche security-focused Android distributions that are…

So... she thinks it should be abolished and would potentially vote to do so if she ever makes it to the federal level. In the meantime, I’m sure she understands that she can’t do that right now. She’s a community organizer who has supported abolishing ICE for some time. Also, it’s a plank of the DSA party platform. Whe…

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Mostly because she’s been publicly supportive of (and recorded/gone on tour with) 6ix9ine, who plead guilty to sex crimes involving a 13-year-old girl. Her latest album that’s doing so poorly prominently featured a duet with him.

No shit. I found a 2002 Tacoma on Craigslist the other day that the guy wanted $13,000 for. The listing was touting LOW MILES—only 300,000!