My family has a house on the Vineyard and my parents actually live there year-round. There are already many immigrants there who do the work you’d expect: hospitality, construction, landscaping, housecleaning, farming, etc. They could easily take a couple of busloads. Construction, in particular, is pretty year round…

Isn’t the main issue between Pugh & Wilde not just some catty “they hate each other” but that Wilde lied to Pugh about firing Shia LaBoeuf?

Can you explain what the difference is between being “a good man” and being a “good person?” I feel like all the positive traits you are talking about just apply to all people not just men.

It should be up to Native Americans whether they want to offer abortion services on their lands. That discussion needs to start with them.

And it’s actually counter-productive to imply that people who don’t have law degrees aren’t capable of documenting harassment. Or, worse, it implies that “even a lawyer who documents harassment can’t do anything about it.” Although, I guess that part may be true, though it’s not empowering. 

This is not a shocking upset at all. Cawthorn tried to change districts when North Carolina had carved the Charlotte-area up into a very GOP friendly map. He wanted the bigger profile and money with proximity to that city so he tried to jump

It’s worth pointing out that student loan forgiveness is only somewhat popular. 64% of Americans support some type of forgiveness but only about 20% support eradicating all student loan debt. Among Millennials, only 34% support canceling ALL debt.

The administration strategy is really about managing ourselves towards manageable endemic COVID. The best, and likely only, way to get there is through vaccines. And progress is being made - we have 200MM people vaccinated and Omicron is peaking and should soon be declining.

Irrelevent, because COVID is airborne. I’m not trying to say that the Emmys were unsafe, because I’m not a doctor and I’m not qualified to say. But I’m really getting tired of this social distancing bullshit. The virus is airborne. If you’re in the same room, it kinda doesn’t really matter how far away you are. And…

I believe there’s a typo here: It’s fetal “viability” not “liability.”

Guilty pleasure: The movie Sausage Party is kinda based on this whole trope of anthropomorphic things with secret lives humans don’t see. It’s juvenile and problematic but also kind of hilarious. The hot dogs are all men and the buns are women and they want to get together, stuff like that. It’s pretty funny.

Social media is not at all replacement for actual journalism. Were reporters unnecessary because Donald Trump tweeted alot and gave a lot of speeches?

Hardly. Sinema’s got 5 years left at least. And primarying her would be foolhardy, I think. She’s going to be around a long time.

I doubt they didn’t think it through. The film was delayed for a year and Mulan was released on Disney + in 2020 while a whole debate on streaming vs theaters has been going on with other films. So it’s not like the concept popped into someone’s head out fo the blue.

Scarlett Johanssen is a big enough star that her contract would earn her a percentage of gross receipts not the net profits. There’s really no accounting tricks that can work to make that number smaller.

Isn’t the twisties a mental condition,though ? It’s not pulled muscle or torn ligament. It’s a disconnect between the brain and muscles that can gymnasts report can be brought on by stress and pressure (at least according the BBC article I read about it).

The coaches didn’t know because the Russians had not completed their floor routine so it was impossible for them know at that point. It’s been said they knew it was unlikely the Russians would surpass them, but it wasn’t mathematically impossible, regardless.

Re: Strugg’s performance, that was only true in hindsight. It’s also worth noting that Strugg herself has felt there is a double-standard that male athletes are lauded for competing through injury and these controversies rarely come up for male athletes.

If we really cared about women’s health, celebrities wouldn’t be saying dumb shit like “Oh breastfeeding and chasing around my kids are what keep me fit,” but being honest about the army of staff they have to make sure they never get fat. Just once, I’d like Jennifer Aniston or Kate Middleton to admit they spend all…

These people are just so awful. I don’t understand what Megyn Kelly (or Clay Travis or whomever) gets out of criticizing Naomi Osaka’s withdrawing from tournaments because she doesn’t want to do press. Aside from just being wrong on the facts and morally, like what is even the point of it?