Well, let’s face it this did not happen by chance. People did make it happen. It’s funny how people like to belittle Assange/Snowden based on superficial things while so many people can get away with whatever havok they have creating.

you’re making it sound as if the only alternative to an overpriced gimmicky snack bar is fast food

Really? How much work has Soylent put into making their product nutritionally complete? They didn’t put much work into making their first facility rat-free. Maybe they should have done that first.

You have no proof of that aside from what the Soylent PR team tells you. They’re a for profit company and the “dietary supplement” label means the FDA has almost no power to investigate any of their claims.

I’m not saying they’re lying to you, but you definitely shouldn’t take the word of a for profit company at face…

This is so heartbreaking in so many ways. It reminds me what an absolute blessing the gift of sobriety is.

Having just spent last week at the hospital detoxing my dad, this is a depressing read. I’d like to think he might actually stop drinking this time, but it is so unlikely.

I think that’s over-hyped. Typically it’s the capital requirements over teh regulatory barriers. It depends whether it’s regulatory capture or not. Seems like some of the worst capture is stuff like cosmetology licenses.

And remember guys, this is a Democrat thing as much as a Republican thing. Matt Stoller’s article in the Atlantic talks about how Dems dropped the ball on anti-trust (Thomas Frank has written great stuff as well about Dems and anti trust as well)

Yeah, I gotta say, I hate to be that person, but here goes nothing: I limit my kids’ screen time to three hours a week. Total. And frankly, I have plenty of time for a shower or whatever, because they’ve learned how to entertain themselves without a screen. I may not be raising the best of digital natives but I’ve…

Back in the 80s we just rode around on bikes fighting demogorgons.

So why was Trumps pussy tape leaked at the most opportune time. Surely someone in NBC had it for a long time? Or how about his accusers for that matter?

Like if he was outing RNC emails — anyone would want that to stop. The duplicity is amazing. Most of you cheered when he outing NSA spying via Snowden, make sure we support Chelsea Manning, that is good. But if someone reveals the truth about someone you support — good job cutting him off. Watergate was good…

Your post (and most of the others in this thread) are missing the point here. No one is surprised that political operatives (especially campaign staff) are worried about the impact on the election/her choices to be elected.

I saw this on the interwebs somewhere - not sure who it’s attributed to - but god damn it is spot on and worth a re-post elsewhere.

You think staffers care about congress? They care about making everything about their candidate spin positive. Thats how they keep their jobs.

I know right. Emails showing she has a public and private stance on policies. Emails showing the Democratic party undemocratically (if thats a word) pushed Bernei out of contention and nominated Hillary. Emails showing Waserman calling Latinos “taco bowl voters” Hillary referring to Bernie supporters as basement…

This might not be a big deal, but your take is objectively wrong.

“Nativist ham ogre”

And you’d be correct.

The only reason #repealthe9th ever trended was people talking about how horrible it was that #repealthe9th existed (then it continued to trend because then there were articles about how it was trending, and thus there must be a lot of people who think it should happen).