I’m strongly liberal, proudly and happily voted for Hillary, and I can’t stand Jill Stein personally (mainly because she’s a doctor who is willing to sow seeds of doubt about vaccines), but I applaud her efforts here.

How did she ever think she’d be President?

Holy shit, I absolutely want to run a D&D campaign with a cleric who worships the god of nuts and racism now.

This. Changes. Everything.

Whats-his-name on RedZone basically kept apologizing for showing that game. Kept saying things like, “well, you know we [have to] show you everything from around the NFL...”

As a grammar nazi, you’re a member of the alt-write.

No lie, as I unpacked my new Joule yesterday, I thought about something new to try - I’ve already tried a bunch of things with my Anova unit - and I thought, rice. Surely you can do rice. “I think, tomorrow I will look around online and see about doing rice sous vide.”

Like that’ll help.

(sorry, hit reply on the wrong comment)

My father-in-law, who is a retired NASA engineer - a literal rocket scientist - is convinced climate change is not real because (ready for this?)

Same exact thing I thought. Chris Rock. Nailed it.

So, they’re fighting poverty, but they’re not fighting poverty in a way that hurts rich people enough, and that pisses you off. Got it.

This is what you get when you try to build a business on someone else’s platform without signing a contract.

A group of mechanical engineering students from the University of Alabama came up with the design as part of a senior project, and the school quickly licensed the technology.

I don’t know about your white, well-off, retired in-laws, but I’ll tell you about my white, well-off, retired in-laws.

I do.

To point 1.), I’d say that while I agree, that doesn’t address the problem of fraud. I described elsewhere a very simple way two people could use phone orders to scam a small-to-mid-sized company. It’s not necessarily mistakes that need to be protected against, it’s fraud as well.

I never said it wouldn’t consume time and energy. I’m saying that it’s ridiculous that a lot of us seem to expect our lives to be free of any sort of effort whatsoever, especially when things like this come up. The notion that someone should get to keep, for example, a $5,000 computer that was sent to them…

That’s a fair point. Thanks.

It’s tricky, yes. And like I said, there should never be a financial obligation to the person accidentally receiving the package. But time? Energy? I think that we’ve gone too far if we, as a society, have decided that it’s better to allow someone to keep an expensive item they accidentally received than expect them…