One issue I’ve heard is that most of the supplies Puerto Rico needs are already in Puerto Rico, but stuck wherever they happen to be due to the island’s infrastucture being gone.

Those tend to be incredibly expensive, as they’re mainly trained for quadriplegics (who can signal them with their eyes).

They’re like sedatives with fewer side effects. Similarly, a lot of people like using them recreationally.

Apperantly, general policy is that the person with the allergy be reseated, possibly to a different plane if the allergy is bad enough. It sounds like she didn’t know normal allergy protocol and wanted to boot the dog and owner off the plane for some reason (window seat?).

Yes.

In international news, the head of the UK’s Equality and Human Rights Commission found that antisemitism is so pervasive in the Labour Party that it needs to provide proof that it’s not a racism party. The Labour party had a... unique reaction

The issue was that she was a political pragmatist rather than a policy pragmatist. She compromised to get herself into power, rather than to get better stuff passed. That’s kind of a problem when her holding the seat of power isn’t nearly as important to the average American’s welfare as it is to her.

I think there are several big differences. The first is that Bush was still an incumbent president with a party behind him, so he was still considered a challenging opponent. Next is that Kerry never tried to fight the perception that he ran a lackluster campaign. Third, the right spread a perception of him liberals…

We gave Torch access to a 3D printer. Let’s watch what happens.

In the 1970's, the EPA had a quota on new rules, leading to it just declaring random things illegal for the hell of it. Remember Dickless from Ghostbusters? That’s what the EPA was like. In response, much of America decided that it would be better to not have any environmental rules at all, producing horrific…

At this point, zoning is like the 1970's EPA: it just keeps coming up with the rules for the hell of it (or, in the EPA’s case, to meet a rule creation quota), so groups are opting out and finding that anarchy isn’t that much better.

Since they’re much less subject to the employment gap, violent death gap, incarceration, and stereotyping as violent, wouldn’t black women be the white people of black people?

Those tend to have two issues, both related to longevity. The first is that trade training tends to be less transferable or flexible than liberal education, so that minor changes in technology or marketplace can derail a career (you can still see this in engineering and computational programs, which were considered…

That’s the one. Famous for randomly catching fire.

traveling from Manhattan’s Chinatown

He failed at Rosh Hashana.

If Ford wants to get really crazy, it could try slapping the Mahindra badge on its luxury cars and give new meaning to the phrase “exotic car,” maybe accentuating the pseudo-import status with the use of one of India’s distinctively yellow timber woods for dashboards and indigo khadi upholstery (or really any sort of…

As a survivor it was hard to read parts of it, specifically when she talks about this odd theory of women convincing themselves they were assaulted and having a subsequent trauma response/PTSD diagnosis but in her mind, actually never were assaulted.

Yeah, there book review seems to do a lot of stunt casting lately.

Huh, maybe I was confused. What are these protesters upset about?