With the election map as favorable as it was and with rural voters as committed to Republicans as they were, the fact that the Republicans were only able to gain two seats is maybe the strongest indictment voters handed down. It’s the same reason Republican presidents have been able to win the presidency despite…

You aren’t in charge though, non-rural voters have soundly rejected Republican leadership as of the last election and given the House to the Dems. Given the fact that 50%+ of the country disapproves of the president already, and we seem to be gearing up for another recession due in part to irresponsible fiscal policy…

We are definitely talking about the same phenomenon here, but I’m not even sure if it’s an inability to be honest as much as it’s an unwavering belief that anyone telling them they’re wrong is either naive or wants to humiliate them. Honestly, I’m not even sure if it’s a conscious thing, they just don’t question the…

Still, it’s fun to get a conservative talking and watch the look on their face slowly change as they realize who’s the one telling the other “how the world really works,” and who’s being irrational.

It’s a weird phenomenon, and it’s a shame to see a Chicago-based publication buy into the shit talk coming from the coast. I’d agree that quality, especially in places that aren’t known for their recipe or tourist traps that are more about delivering a pretty instagram prop to the table, is an issue. But Pequod’s deep-…

Would you be comfortable flying on a 474 knowing the pilot was watching Hulu in the cockpit? I wouldn’t, and that’s a lot more automation handling a lot more information, the technology has been time tested over millions of flights, and there are far fewer things to hit in the air compared to the ground

What if you paid the driver to pay attention? Like say if you were testing equipment on public roads and someone said “your job is to pay attention at all times even though the equipment is doing 99% of the work, so that we can try to protect the safety of innocent people?” This strategy has worked really well for…

But, okay, let’s not lose sight of the fact that a man whose literal catchphrase is “you’re fired” had to outsource the actual act of axing a subordinate to his kids

I never suggested that you did, I was trying to say that level of specificity isn’t as relevant to the situation as the psychological dynamic that was displayed. I know your comments to be generally very thoughtful and I’m not implying malice, but in this particular case I think you missed the forest for the trees

This is domestic violence: it’s not about the game. It could have just as easily been about having dinner on the table, or being too loud, or being too quiet. Ultimately it doesn’t matter except as an excuse to justify keeping the wheel turning and setting up another cycle of trigger/abuse/apology.

Employers have spent so, so much money trying to get employees to make your argument to one another. You’re describing a job as “doing your time” and then defending the system that treats that exploitation and uncertainty as a privilege. I would encourage you to explore that contradiction, a lot of other people are…

Rampage and Pacific Rim 2 have some very sunny giant monster action. Not too much else though

I don’t think that it’s the idea as much as the budget. You can’t cut the corners necessary to release that generic movie/show to a profit when you also have to pay a premium to make it recognizably Halo.

Condescending on a topic while fundamentally misunderstanding it, on Twitter? My word!

American workers are increasingly over-specialized, mobility within an industry is very difficult because of the extreme consolidation (you’ve got maybe 2-4 chances per industry to make it work, then you’re out of options) and getting anything besides an entry-level job is difficult outside of that industry unless…

If debate was going to solve this issue, it would have. If you want to talk about presenting a logical and reasonable case for legal abortion to people who are open to hearing it, that’s been happening for decades and now pro-choice outnumbers anti-choice nearly 2:1. If you want to see what happens when anti-choice…

Your response proves my original point, I don’t know if that was intentional or not but it’s very affirming. But please don’t act as though the difference between a budget allocation from a public pool of tax money and a school administrator siccing collections on a bunch of parents is somehow a semantic difference…

I’m not, the issue I was pointing out is that a school lunch program is expected to generate any revenue at all instead of being a totally taxpayer expense. Society has decided that they don’t need to absorb those costs, the parents do, and we’re already seeing the consequences of that

“The District lunch program cannot continue to lose revenue.”

“Bottomless Pinocchio” sounds like a fetish account Tumblr just shut down