As someone who grew up in Flint, Mi, I have been programmed the other way. And, while I saw second-hand (since I never actually worked for GM) how unions can do a wonderful job of protecting crappy employees, I think they are still a net-plus, given how they can also do a wonderful job of protecting of employees from…

I will always have the utmost respect for LZ because he never hid who he was and what was important to him regardless of what other people thought.

“How many computers do you think we should get for our crypto-mining operation??

“I dunno, a thousand?”

“That’s great. But what if we got a thousand. And then added another.....69?”

“Nice.”

Saying Orson Scott Card is a crappy human being isn’t really going out on a limb.

It’s not her fault.

I was right there with you until you said that, at some point Trump is going to do something that even this poorly educated shrew can’t endorse.

It’s my understanding that Dolly Parton can actually play the guitar.

Regarding the last point (labeling), I think it’s absolutely true that kids will live up/down to the expectations/opinions that they think their parents have for them.

I read this as “The NFL Market has collapsed, Oh No” and was trying to figure out why Kotaku was talking about the NFL.

It was his greatest trick!

My cat is 11 years old and, like me is super chill. He hates to be held but, every morning when I come downstairs to work from my couch, he will come up on to my lap, spend about 15 minutes there getting a glorious amount of pets and scritches, and then will curl up next to me on the couch.

I knew that I was old and out of touch, but the fact that I think the only name on that list I recognize is Erykah Badu (and I couldn’t pick any of their songs out of a lineup) really drives the point home.

I thought Patterson was the guy who did long, fictional novels with geographical locations as the title (still waiting for Paducah).

For those of you who live in Michigan, have you seen Marjorie Greene and Geoff Fieger in the same room at the same time?

Yeah, that picture of Max and Leo is amazing.

This. Figure out what dealer has the car you want and go to them. It’s what I did five years ago (I figured out that I wanted a three year old Fusion that had under 30k miles because that meant that it was a lease that got turned in, which seemed to be more likely to have been taken care of).

I got the J&J shot four weeks ago, so I’m all good and I agree that it feels awesome. I was curious if anyone else had a stronger reaction than normal to the J&J shot (possibly because it’s a single dose shot).

My brother used to be a film critic for a local weekly in Chicago (if it sounds glamorous, it wasn’t). He saw it at a screening with a bunch of other critics and, when that truck completely flipped over, the entire theater broke out in spontaneous applause and cheers, even though it was pretty much exclusively people…

god forbid we love our children as much as the Russians love theirs

Well, the point is that being a racist is worse than being a stalker. I’m not sure that I know which is worse (might depend on the day) because they’re both indicative of being a terrible, terrible person. Whether it’s toward a race or gender, it’s pretty awful.