I just tried to find out how much artists get paid for radio plays of their music — answer: $0. They do not earn royalty from that, because it’s considered promotional. You know, to sell _albums_. Which we’re all buying.

It’s unconscionable that the US tolerates hunger to the extent that it does, when it is such a rich nation.

Bake them, turn them into ‘pumpkin’ pie.

For what it’s worth — from what I understand, greying is sometimes the result of whatever author followed you on Kinja having left the job. It may not be punitive, just the result of someone going to a better place.

I have very seldom found bras in stores that fit me. I very often find bras on amazon that will -- I have to send a bunch back, but at least they _exist_ on amazon. When you’re a double-G you don’t have a lot of meatspace options.

I agree with feeling squicked out when white people set their skin tone on an emoji. It’s gross. For PoC in predominantly white workplaces I think it can be an important show of solidarity, though, to set their skin tone.

Counterpoint: don’t, because they’re not energy efficient.

Counterpoint: don’t, because they’re not energy efficient.

Fact: if you do this with sunflower seed butter, and add a little baking soda or baking powder to the mix, they will turn green on the inside when fully cool.

Unfortunately, what I’m saying is that because there are interaction effects that ripple on throughout the network, and because there are _so many_ parameters in the network, it’s likely not possible for humans to analyse. There are methods people have created to visualize what connections were most important in the…

Have you ever tried to inspect the weights of a neural network model to interpret what they’re doing? It’s really not as simple as “release the code” -- the actual units of the model are easily scrutinized, there are papers written on them. Understanding what happens when a given string of text is fed to the model --…

I hear through a friend who works for GS that the Boy Scouts [in the US, only, and at the national level] have a 5-year-plan that includes siphoning off GS’s membership. I don’t like the sounds of that and want to make sure that spaces for girls - bio- or otherwise, since GS is inclusive - still exist.

This is akin to complaining that gay pride leaves out straight people.

Well for starters this author is hardcore writing about the Canadian context, and speaking in that context let’s consider:

Chaya! 1: I value your presence here and on the NYC Queer Exchange pages on facebook.
2: So many of the clothing retailers advertised on this site are progressive in some ways [made in the us with well-paid labor, made of organic/sustainable materials etc] but do not offer anything that even approaches plus size…

Chaya! 1: I value your presence here and on the NYC Queer Exchange pages on facebook.
2: So many of the clothing…

A - Top Gun is just a long music video about America with a sketchy interpretation of the geography of San Diego.

We keep our spices in a wire chest of drawers that lives in our cabinet. It is the best. We never lose track of the spices, because they all have delineated slots. It’s this one: https://www.amazon.com/NEX-Organizer-Cabinet-18-Bottle-Countertop/dp/B07Y83DLDX

We keep our spices in a wire chest of drawers that lives in our cabinet. It is the best. We never lose track of the…

Ugh it was such a lie though. You couldn’t get the blue one to be that opaque. It’s like the only lipstick I’ve ever bought (#butch) and it disappointed me so....

Gothamist is reporting (https://gothamist.com/news/too-many-corpses-as-nycs-death-toll-soars-hospitals-morgues-funeral-homes-overwhelmed) that the number of dead in NYC has so far outstripped the capacity of funeral homes to deal with corpses that the next available date for cremation is weeks away. The makeshift…

Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?

Complications of the virus can leave folks vulnerable to sepsis, which is often bacterial in origin. I assume this is why, but......... yup. Weird.