So, internet should be a public utility. This shouldn’t be about profit, it should be about providing people with an essential service.

Given the situation they very well may have been rural customers who were tethering to get internet access to a computer. Because they do not have it otherwise (or what local plans may be available are junk). This is the sad truth of internet in many places within the US.

Why would you go out of your way to defend a gigantic company being a piece of shit to it’s customers

“Losing money”? How? Does it cost Verizon a ton of money for all the diesel fuel to drive all those semi-trucks full of bytes over those long, lonely rural back roads? I’d really like to see a cost breakdown for this.

Of course that is what they are doing and so what? That is what is was fucking sold as!

The book is about her??? OMG, stop the presses! How dare she write a book about her traumatic experience!! I mean, us average citizens are still upset about Trump, but she - the person that actually lost to him - should just move on and never talk about it. We can, but she cannot. /fig, fat S

THANK YOU.

It was a nice joke and not unethical at all. I am saying this AS A JOURNALIST. If you listen to the podcast —- this is just bullshit. She’s a private citizen, she was joshing Ezra, and why can’t she take him to fucking Hamilton? If Obama made this joke, it would be endearing!

I don’t know if you’re asking in good faith. There’s multiple reasons including that the brain doesn’t reach full maturity until about 25. Also it seems like you want someone young, inexperienced and immature so they can be easily controlled.

Serious answer: yes.

I’m a 47-year old woman and I don’t find teenagers sexually attractive; they look unfinished. I’m also a therapist who works with adolescents and my professional opinion is that yes, it’s skeevy and potentially harmful. Teenagers often want adults to help them do lots of things that are potentially harmful and it’s up…

I think the more important context in this book is that this isn’t a 24 year old “dating” a 17 year old. It can’t really be a real relationship because of circumstances outside of age. It’s the story of a 17 year old who has a crush on a houseguest and realizes his sexuality. And there is no one else he can express…

That letter is fantastic, my favorite sentence was “I see your gaslight and now raise you a scorched earth.” Bring. It. Amber.

So I’m in Santa Clara County, CA, and we are struggling to recall the judge responsible for letting Brock here off with a very light sentence. I’m shocked by the resistance to recalling Judge Persky. He has a long history of letting criminals like Turner off with very light sentences because it might “ruin their…

When adapting Shakespeare, the writer has a number of decisions to make about how he or she will treat the text. You can modernize the text and the setting (ie: ) or modernize the setting but keep the original text (ie: Ralph Fiennes’ Coriolanus, which keeps Shakespeare’s text but sets it in the contemporary Balkans).…

Dylan Thomas was an outstanding alcoholic, Jack Kerouac was an outstanding alcoholic. Mickey Mantle was an outstanding alcoholic. Richard Burton and Oliver Reed were outstanding alcoholics.

Bingo! She doesn’t call herself a feminist because she’s afraid she’ll lose the $$$ from people who persist in believing that “feminist” is a bad word. It’s because she’s a coward, not because she’s a principled hero.

I’m still nursing my disappointment that Amy Adams isn’t playing TH. She’s a hella good actor and dude, google-image the two names and whoa, twinsies:

Nuance is forbidden in most conversations nowadays.

And now I have “I love to love” stuck in my head!