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Agreed. He’s not saying Pokemon Go is bad or wrong, he’s just pointing out that loitering and wandering around with your phone like a creeper is more dangerous for a black person than a white person.

Not to mention that these are clearly smart people that know these situations do not work in their favor. If you know the police have a history of shooting black people, and you just witnessed them shoot your boyfriend, you’re probably going to do your damndest to not be next. I really feel for her. She was brave, end

I’ve already seen it said that they couple “must have been doing something illegal” because the girlfriend didn’t seem that upset that he got shot initially. Guess they’ve never heard of shock before.

I’m waiting for the NRA and their new poster boy DOnald Trump to issue a statement about how terrible it is for the police to gun down someone for having a legal handgun in his car. Or for Cliven Bundy et al. to start agitating about federal oppression. I am expecting to wait a very long time.

Super interesting time in music. I read in some music mag that siouxsie sioux would wear a swastika band on her arm as part of her costume when performing but that for her and lots of these other bands of the time, it wasn’t intended to minimize or glamorize (like, how even?) Nazis/SS/etc, but as a way to immediately

So it’s not? Wow, I always assumed that particular dark historic period would be taught extensively at American schools! How sad!

Especially since Auschwitz is, in fact, not in Germany, but Poland. Just saying...

Ok, I hate myself for derailing like that, but...the Jewish women who were forced to prostitute themselves at Auschwitz (and other camps) did NOT serve the SS, but other male prisoners who won favours through collaborating with their guards (e.g. the “Kapos”). The “joy division” is mostly fiction. I mean...it’s really

because if they break up and she goes out to write Mega Breakup Hit #8 about it, everyone is going to be fully aware of how fake she is

If you’re Batfleck, it always ends with you banging the nanny.

The reason it rings as fake is because the manager takes too much time to set up the employee as a sympathetic figure.

I’ve had some shitty managers over the years, including one who told a man who took the day off to take care of his sick daughter that he was selfish for letting down the (work) team, but this still sounds fake to me. The employee couldn’t possibly be more sympathetic, and the manager couldn’t be more comically evil

Yeah, she sounds like an entitled asshole. Maybe the other woman was drunk and an asshole too, but Christie Brinkley doesn’t own “those rocks” just because they're near her mansion and she walks on them. Give me a break.

I enjoyed both of these! Happy Tuesday!

But the stuff James Frey lied about was at least a little plausible, no?

Yet another overpriveleged white person who believes that paying for one thing means she gets to be the boss of something completely unrelated. We have thousands, THOUSANDS of years of legal precedent that the beach and shore belong to EVERYONE. The entire fundamental premise of Ms. Brinkley’s ire, that someone was

First, yes. But also realize Californians feel as strongly about their right to beach access as other Americans do about their guns — everything up to the tide line is public, and wow do the celebrities hate having to watch the little people walk past their houses.

exactly. I want to see a skit where an ESPN talking head talks about a person (a woman?) who leaves a job for a pay raise, etc. I can see hilarious moments like how leaving makes her a whore and how she shows no loyalty to the company who was under paying her. Probably would be even funnier if it was a pro athlete

Indeed. These debates really bring out people’s pro-management bias. Underneath it all, athletes are labor, but labor sufficiently privileged to occasionally choose the location of their work. Why shouldn’t Durant do what he wants? What the fuck does he owe the Thunder?

It’s funny (by which I mean mind-bogglingly stupid) when grown-ass men debate sports decisions as if there was some kind of serious moral principle at stake. Oh no, a player chose to win and have fun over not winning and not having fun; stop the presses!