There is no minimum decorum level for being in public. My body, my choice.

This is the answer to addressing the gender pay gap. More women need to take jobs where people wear boots or sneakers, or more men need to take jobs where people wear heels.

the phrase “that’s white of you” or “be the white one” far, far predates european colonization and black/white skin racism.

i don’t think mailchimp qualifies as “technology” anymore. 

The tunnels have always been for Teslas. Which begs the question, how fast could a fleet of self-driving cars, all drafting each other, go at top speed in a tunnel where there is no cross traffic and no pedestrians?

Change your phone number to a prefix you don’t know anybody from, like rural Idaho. Then, whenever you get a call from a number that looks like yours, you can safely avoid it; it’s either a wrong number or a robocall.

Yeah, Baltimore needs to stop electing old black women and start electing young black women.

If you don’t lick your fingers after handling raw chicken, how do you know if the marinade will taste good?

Blackface is bad, but I look forward to the day when we have healed the wound of slavery so much that this is as inconsequential as painting a six-pack on yourself.

Just need to find a neighborhood with a L0pht Heavy Industries open wifi point, like we have.

It’s got a good mix of pop/rock/country that’s gotten mainstream radio play in the last 30 years, including foreign stuff. That’s it. The “indie” section is, like, Fireflies by Owl City. The “rap” section is In Da Club by 50 Cent and Aerosmith’s Walk This Way.

back in my day (before so-called “SMART” phones), we used business card boxes, because we handed out business cards to people with our phone numbers on them (not this “texting” business).

find-replace soda cans->diapers

bulk = volume * frequency. tossing a mattress is a high volume, extremely low frequency prospect. recyclable soda cans probably contribute 1,000x more to landfills than mattresses do.

that’s like saying “I won’t play simcity because you can view commuters moods, and I don’t really play story generators.”

^ this guy’s got it right.

sjw hot take:

KOTOR wasn’t an rpg

That just means they’re guaranteed to be asked to write half a million words a year.

Yeah, Gawker writers get paid by the word, and nobody in charge particularly cares, except out of some attempt at ethics, whether or not the words are accurate.