Also, some 15 year old is going to come up with an app that breaks this within 2 weeks.

When will you be looking at more commenters to approve? I've been a dedicated member of the site (as have many others) but have never been approved despite many upvotes and all the like. I think if you switch back to this system, you have to start actively looking for new commenters to star or you have to REGULARLY…

Your heading indicates they were taking a selfie but the article says "may have".

To me, it seems this is really indicative of the way in which it's so much harder to exist as a woman on the Internet — women have to deal with so much shit, and so much of the stuff done to ~make the 'net free for everyone~ doesn't take that fact into account at all. There was an op-ed in the Guardian about that this…

Prior to Kinja, I headed the trollpatrol team for Jezebel, as many people here know. We dealt with rape gifs, violent pornography, racism, and harassment regularly, but there was a system in place with which to have it reported and dealt with. Banning didn't usually result in the same person immediately making a new…

For what it's worth, I want to apologize to our readers who are forced to interact with these violent gifs regularly. The point of Kinja is to create a better platform for discussion and those discussions CANNOT happen when you're inundated by such traumatizing material. It's this person's goal to shutdown…

Yeah, it's certainly a concern for people who are unaware that they're dealing with a severe illness like Ebola. It is highly contagious as far as blood/fluid borne viruses go, much more so than HIV. However, people can only transmit the virus when they're symptomatic and most U.S. international airlines and major…

Reading a brief NPR description of family members of the afflicted wandering in and out of quarantined houses in Sierra Leone made me want to cry this morning. I just don't understand how people can't understand why these restrictions are in place. I mean, I get why they don't believe it, but it's so hard to see it…

To be clear, they don't mean exchange of bodily fluids a la French kissing ... but coming into contact with bodily fluids of an infected person, I believe. If they wanna be more precise, they can say "calm down, it's far more likely that you'll catch a cold or CRE-based affliction ... or get hit by a truck on the…

Probably because they were working in middle of nowhere africa, where access to things like hoods is limited, and utilizing precaution protocols is very difficult. Unlike other bodily fluid spread diseases (HIV), ebola can be spread through saliva, so if someone coughs, sprays saliva on you, and then you touch your…

The quarantine procedures they are using in the affected areas are extremely weak. I'll just point you to this excellent article on it. There is a risk here, but it will be to those close to the infected (meaning family members, etc before they are identified - not the staff who works with them once quarantined),…

Hazmat suits in Africa (BSL3)

When the biggest bubble on one side is the BBC and the biggest on the other are Jerusalem Post and Times of Israel, well, no, it's pretty clear which side is biased. The BBC is legally obligated to report without bias. You can bring a case to their ombudsman if you feel they are not.

The Hot Zone and the movie Outbreak, which both came out around the same time (I was probably in 6th grade or so), gave me nightmares for YEARS.

I really wanted to read this, but as usual I'm just scrolling down to the bottom to bitch about all the fucking GIFs. Why every website has to have 50 different moving and blinking parts is beyond me. Maybe I have some sort of learning disability or something, but I can't read something when there are photos blinking…

I'm a woman, a feminist, and minored in gender and sexuality and I STILL don't know how to react to armpit hair. I don't go "YOU SHOULD SHAVE THAT " or anything because its about my own insecurities and not about others but it still startles me.

I think it stems from my own phobias about my own armpit hair. I am…

I am an intelligent, socially conscious, educated man. I've taken gender, sex and sexuality courses in college. I would consider myself a feminist in that I support the rights of women. And I know that things like dress, body hair, makeup, etc. are social constructs. But DAMN, nothing reminds me more that I am a…

Does this guy realize the answer to muffin top is buying pants the right size, not getting plastic surgery?

If they really want to shock us they should take a picture of how much it costs to make these things compared to the retail price.