It’s not enough to just say someone is a contractor. It’s not good enough for Uber to just say their drivers are independent contractors because that is cheaper and simpler for them, or because of the magic of technology, or because their business model wont work otherwise! They have to back that up by proving the…

In fairness, those benefits you describe are of ride sharing in general, not Uber in specific. One of the reason Uber has becoming synonymous with ride sharing, is because of how they suppress (sometimes illegally) competition.

Thirty-eight thousand women have signed that petition. I wonder how many of them are reading Amenadiel/Lucifer fanfic in another window. A few. Definitely a few.

She’s been pretty clear she intends to be more combative than Obama. If she doesn’t have the senate, we’ll see if that works better. If she has the senate, everyone will praise her for being ‘tough’ and Obama for being naive. *shrugs*

It wouldn’t be the tactic I’d choose, but I can understand why it’s the one Obama has gone with. It may seem disingenuous, but it’s an entirely rational approach to the problem. It’s like being disingenuous when you help a 6 year old pack their bags to run away while asking them serious questions about how they think…

Pretty much impossible he’ll be convicted on counts. Still possible he’ll be convicted on some of the less serious ones. Not likely at all, but still in the realm of the possible.

Exactly! I’m still riding high on a day nearly a decade ago when a likely-drunk A-Lister complimented my butt and my work ethic. (I was not doing a job where my butt had anything at all to do with the quality of my work.) But that’s all I got.

I just can’t see a good outcome

Her going off script would only hurt her. XBiz would just get some sweet free press. They had nothing to loose and everything to gain by her being there. They held her to her contract knowing she’d have a minefield to navigate her way through with any comments she made and that a bunch of people would show up just…

That is an incredibly flattering photo. If I didn’t know it was Trump, I’d only laugh the first two times this dude got punched in the face.

But did they ask if you were pregnant and was the fetus okay? That would at least be consistent behaviour from them.

Every comedian over a certain age seems to say that. Yet, comedy tours to colleges go on existing.

This specific religion failed her. Technically.

That is probably the most pervasive bits of misandry on the planet, but that was a recent immigrant speaking, not an educator.

I can feel sorry for her. She never had much of a chance to develop the basic kind of smarts she would need to see this situation for what it is.

From everything I’ve read her parents are even more extreme than the Duggars and are—with the exception of her brother—encouraging her to stay in the marriage.

Most Canadians watch American politics with same sort of amused detachment most of us watch baseball, but Trump has finally inspired some real concern here. There are certainly those who’d support Trump, especially in the more conservative places in Canada. It can be easier for us to watch the major American news…

There were several rape and sexual battery charges he was found not guilty of. The buzzfeed reporter who has been doing such great work covering the victim’s testimony posted this to twitter:

Them too.

Question for the Yays: Do you think it would be any good?