I read this disgusting example a couple of months back: As Hospitals Close Children’s Units, Where Does That Leave Lachlan? - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

But AM is often the best/only reliable mass communication method in an emergency.

Not every person (especially elderly) has the financial, mental, or physical means to use a smartphone. It’s bizarrely dismissive and cruel to say “just use a smartphone, grandpa.”

A huge part of the point is that there are millions of people around the world who cannot or will not use smartphones.  The elderly are inconvenienced and denied basic services every day because they cannot use an app (b/c of poor vision, declining fine motor skills, lack of understanding of new technology, etc.). …

Weird take, bro.

Some jobs have a height requirement that is actually related to the job. For physical jobs like flight attendants and military, it makes sense that there would be physical requirements.

Fatness is not an immutable characteristic, and therefore fat people are not a protected class under the law.  I can’t even imagine how such a law would be written, let alone enforced.

2nd Gear: Whatever the auto industry has “learned” from the past few years, they will surely “unlearn” in a few more years. Some finance VP will come to the earth-shattering revelation that they can cut costs by single sourcing parts, and we will be right back to where we started.

But IQ is not meant to measure education. It is meant to measure intelligence. So “high IQ stupid people” literally means “smart stupid people.”

Excuse me, sir/madam, but my drunk uncles are all white, conservative, racist, rural shitheads.  If I had a black uncle they would probably “remove” him from the family.

It’s really embarrassing when a Supreme Court justice sounds as informed on constitutional law as my drunk uncle on facebook.

That Black Santa question was truly the most basic, idiotic shit. It was either in bad faith, or Alito somehow ... faked going to law school?

Only ELITISTS know what’s a senate! Is that who you want in charge? Elitists?!

This is my favorite line ever and I say it every time I say or hear something stupid.

~8 hours is my cut off as well.  Although now that we have 2 kids, the calculus is so much more difficult.  Flying is now twice as expensive.  And it’s a toss up what is more painful - 10 hours in the car with kids, or 5 hours of driving, parking, shuttling, boarding, flying, deplaning, and on and on and on.

The on-time issue with Amtrak is REAL when you’re going through Northern Indiana.  The freight traffic to and from the steel plants means you can sit in that shithole for 3-4 hours without moving.

Pedophiles?

The high-end subdivisions around me are chock full of Telluride’s. Every time I see one, I have a split second where I think it’s something that costs twice as much. Telluride is the answer.

Yes, I meant XC40, thanks. I have been obsessively researching the EX90 and my brain got confused.

This was beautiful. Just... chef’s kiss.