I think so many stop seeing you as anything but an object to manipulate.

I’d forget the bags and use a much lower tech approach.

the CIA has been evil. That doesn’t mean that it makes any sense to write “Bezos has a $600 million contract with the CIA”. The CIA contracts with many companies for many things. Does it make sense to say the Boeing has a contract with Satya Nadella just because they signed a deal with Microsoft? Criticize the CIA all…

I’m not encouraging anyone to be complacent about Bezos. But please don’t base your outrage (justified) on this non-event. There’s plenty of other stuff to be upset about (c.f. my other post here).

Finally. Recognition that collective bargaining improves the lives of employees! Thank you!

The introduction of Amazon’s new retail cashier-free food store in Seattle boosted Bezos’ net worth by $2.8 billion in one day. The total amount earned by all cashiers in the USA in one day is about $210 million. 1 in 10 Amazon employees in OH are on food stamps. The new store does not (currently) accept food stamps.

Not this nonsense again. The CIA has an account/contract with Amazon Web Services. It’s relatively small compared to some commercial cloud contracts. Bezos is the largest shareholder in AWS (since it is owned by Amazon).

I think there’s even more to this. Boys and girls approach sex with a pronounced asymmetry. Both have a new set of hormones creating strong levels of interest in sex, but there also has to be a consideration of potential downsides. The potential downsides of sex are much worse for girls than for boys - both…

Everything else you said here seems great, but “white people created the construct of racism” is false. The “construct of racism” has been created many times among many different human populations, over many centuries or even millenia.

I should have been slightly more accurate. Lush did not claim that an older generation “cannot see the truth”, but rather that they have been “literally broken by society”. I don’t see a lot of difference there, but I want to acknowledge the difference (and my error).

I think my jaw literally dropped, because I could see he truly was trying to help me feel better, but he couldn’t see that he was describing how his wife had literally been broken by society and (never met her, but I can imagine) that she DOES still care, but she just can’t yell anymore because she was shutdown…

Although it isn’t central to your article in any really important way, I also think that it is important that inaccurate theories (masquerading as statements of fact) don’t get left unchallenged. I was thrilled by the outcome in Alabama and encouraged by the apparently obvious and deliciously ironic account in which:

[ Western liberals ] are perfectly fine with their own Western white males selling and raping girls and women in their countries

I was in the UK a couple of weeks ago, which has its own home-grown sexual harassment scandal in Parliament. My mother (74) and I watched a very good debate on TV between 3 women, one of them probably in her late 20's or early 30s, another in her 50's and another in her late 60s. It was really striking how much of a…

Someone writes something you (quite likely entirely justifiably) don’t like (and that possibly represents in some way the worst of misogyny) and your response is to hope that they are killed?

Just FYI, A.O. Scott in the NYT called it “perfect”. Literally.

As much as I don’t want to see RvW overtuned (I’d rather see it expanded in various ways), and as much as I oppose the unlimited interpretation of the 2nd amendment ...

What does frustrate me is people going into making records digitally and it’s not even something they played. [When] the engineer is like manipulating something into something that was never played live to make them sound like better musicians…

I was offended (old white guy offense). I played it to my wife (old white lady). She couldn’t see the problem. I pushed her on several dimensions of its inappropriateness. She refused to budge. Made some remark about “you and those jezebel women”. Go figure.

Who could resist such a bargain?