I think a lot of it comes down to purpose and history, but that being said there’s no definitive marker that says something is cultural appropriation. One example I like to use is when people say they’re some nationality, like somebody saying they’re Irish and adopting shamrocks and all-green without really…

“Trying to help” means absolute dick when it comes to assisting with an operation. I work in homeless services, and we often get people who “try to help” by showing up unannounced with arm-fulls of food that we cannot possibly use or store. People “try to help” by doing what they think is correct instead of deferring…

About five years ago Paul George and Danny Granger were hosting a basketball camp at the University of New Mexico and staying at the hotel I used to work at. I was a huge fan of Granger’s at that time and told my coworker, who asked them if they could sign a basketball for me, which was wildly against company policy.…

It must be bunnies! Or maybe midgets.

Because he does half measures. He promised to fix Puerto Rico's power grid, then didn't. Then he made a scrap submarine that nobody wanted, and now he's promising another humanitarian miracle. He'll do just enough to justify himself then never follow through on it while people lick his taint and scream that at least…

I am partial to the MATN YOLO run, which is no healing/no companions/permadeath.

These are the people that call themselves "classical liberals."

I am gonna ship my homemade submarine to Thailand too...you know, just in case.

I really don’t understand how a cobbled together death tube is somehow the future of cave rescue that everybody is now an expert in. Musk is an idle rich who believes only he has the answers to the worlds problems. 

One I just read for my graduate course on revolutions is Avengers of the New World by Duke University professor Laurent Dubois. It’s a pretty straight history and doesn’t shy away from the ideological underpinnings of the revolution nor the massive violence it spawned. Highly recommended. 

Exactly. History is all about interpretation, and these people want to believe that their pedantry makes them experts.

Still relevant.

Bill Murray once tipped me $100 to take his bags 50 feet from from the lobby to his car. He was weird as fuck but I always appreciated that.

Well, if you want to get philosophical about business, then sure, I believe they should have a business model that I find morally and ethically correct. That’s not a radical idea. I personally find the idea of allowing and all products that aren’t explicitly illegal or “trolling” (although I think that’s a nebulous…

It depends what kind of company Valve wants to be, and they’re clearly going for the “trashcan” business model.

They’re people who do a job, and have a private life. Just because you see somebody famous does not give you the right to expect them to dance when you tell them to.

You can’t really make specialized units because of federal guidelines for protected classes. In a tertiary yet applicable example, I work at a homeless shelter and we often have trans woman. The other woman in the dorm, by and large, don’t care, but every so often we get a complaint about having a “man” in the dorm…

The number she posted was for Arizona State University, and she’s at Fresno State. I doubt it was a mistake.

I am so, so happy to see Awesome Kong in this. Her feud with Gail Kim was more than a decade ahead of it’s time, and she was always unique.

It always is.