Personally I would make the top priority the removal of Scott Pruitt and all the pro-destroy-the-planet minions from Senator Inhofe's staff who have been put there to destroy the EPA from within.

There was an editorial in… the NYT I think… that essentially made that argument. That to recapture a sense of authenticity, Democrats should stop trying to reach out to those who didn't vote for them, which often just comes across as patronizing anyway. That way we'd gain their respect or something. Of course, one…

"Anonymization" means different things.

Not quite: in addition to retracting the FCC rules, Congress also voided all other releveant regulation, and made it illegal for the FCC to ever institute similar regulation again (without Congressional approval, presumably).

I'm not sure what part of "domain registration details are public information" you're not getting. It doesn't matter if it was found by a "blind squirrel": the easily verifiable facts render the story as originally reported impossible. That should at least be enough to put a question mark over the whole affair.

I'm not a Twitter user, but after Dev F was proven exactly right, you would still doubt what s/he said? Besides, as mentioned, domain registration is public information: you wouldn't have to find the sources or trust the allegation, you could just check it your own damn self.

If there's anyone I would believe this of, it's Donald Trump. However, the fact that it plays so well to our preconceptions and fears is also a "fake news" warning sign.

Yeah, that story was totally credible and not at all misreported.

Is that why he has a boat? (Semi-serious question. Also I don't remember if that's in the manga or only the movie.)

So basically welfare for insurance companies. The government pays them to offer worthless insurance. Free market!

First, I explained one likely reason why Resistance Outpost 42's post disappeared: copy-pasting blocks of text from earlier posts by Velocirapstar. Spambots often use this trick (copying from older, heavily upvoted comments by other accounts) in order to produce convincingly human posts, so it could very easily have…

I don't think we can count on Republicans never getting their shit together on healthcare, and the fact that the main opposition within the ranks comes from people who want to make their proposal even worse is worrisome. The Freedom Caucus has proved highly successful in setting the GOP agenda, and they might get…

Also, this concerns the transition period, while Trump was claiming he was wiretapped during the election campaign. It doesn't even remotely support his claim, but I'm sure idiots will believe that he was vindicated.

The cot-caught merger is one point where my linguistic intuition fails me (I don't have it, and have a hard time determining which words would be homophones in other dialects), but AFAICT it does not affect "squat": in regions without the merger, it uses the LOT vowel, not the CAUGHT vowel. So, for example, OED…

I don't think it was very reasonable or well-reasoned to assume that Johansson was going to be playing an Asian, though.

It can't be funnier than anything on the show, since it's from the show.

"Luke Skywalker, you say? Skywalker? Hmm, that sounds familiar somehow… Hey! That's MY name!"

There is not a name mentioned in this whole thread that wouldn't be better than what we ended up with. … Well, maybe Putin.

A prescriptivist, for example, might say a lot of the success around
something like Trump's campaign was in a descriptive use of language.

It may be your honest opinion, but arguing that having kids makes you incapable of following the logical structure of a story is silly.