A lot of reasons, but the TL;DR reasons are a) French history of aggression in the Middle East in North Africa, and b) longstanding social and political marginalization of ethnic and religious minorities that makes those populations easy pickings for those who wish to radicalize them.

No snark here. I really hope he gets the help that he very much needs.

I found out about this from a trailer for this at my local arthouse theater, and I thought they were promoting a midnight movie from the 1960s or something until I went home and looked it up.

The only acceptable role for Andy Cohen would be as moderator for a presidental debate. For all of his faults, we’ve seen from the Housewives reunions that he always brings receipts and isn’t afraid of calling out fibbers.

Seriously though, imagine drifting off into a sleep-like state and suddenly you’re jolted awake and it’s the year 2400 or whatever. What would your life even be like?

Whatever, this is fun. And it’s the most seemingly lucid Brit has been in years, which is always a positive.

Whoever the LGBT characters end up being (the powers that be have now confirmed on multiple occasions that there is more than one), I hope Blizzard is wise enough to not make them into a canon pairing. You’re traveling down a dangerous road once you start catering to shippers.

Am I the only person who can’t be assed to actually care about IVs/EVs? I get the completionist appeal of wanting a “perfect” team, paticularly if you’re planning to play competitive, but it seems like such a timesink.

I see Joel Osteen.

lol

Love that Bobby and Rich coordinated their outfits before going to work today

One of the few silver linings of this election result has been getting to watch Nate Silver very publicly eat shit.

Nah, The Rock could do literally anything he wanted to me.

Man, I really love John Oliver, but this election has underlined how much of a hollow echo chamber satire and comedic commentary has become. Its ubiquity has accomplished nothing, and it appeals exclusively to a willing audience who only want to have their existing beliefs re-affirmed. We’re all just laughing as we…

I work at a non-profit, and there were many people openly crying in their cubes today. It was bleak.

I happily do solo quickplay, but I’m at the point where I refuse to do competitive unless I’m running a sixpack. Too many games ruined by an asshole who doesn’t get on voice and insists on playing Torbjorn on attack.

I like to think I’m pretty good at Overwatch — I’m at least competent with all of the characters, I contribute to the objective, I get cards and gold medals regularly, etc. But I’m awful at the 1v1 mode. Played for awhile on PTR last night and didn’t win a single game.

“Whos is responcible?” is still my favorite thing ever.

Is this an inter-Gawker Media Network case for Shade Court?

The cooldown on her hack and invisibility is almost certainly getting nerfed by the time she’s off PTR. It’s just way too broken otherwise.