Re: “I think we’re getting to the point where people just find facts and reality itself offensive.”

This is how you do science. You experiment with changing one variable at a time so you know what impact the changes have. Sometimes a combination of changes will have a greater impact than either individual change, but you still need to test out each individual change by itself, just to be sure.

If you are the rich one, pick up the freaking tab more often. I do this on a regular basis because I was in the poor house before and if I want to do something that friends don’t have the cash for I don’t act like the selfish cheapskate and chip in more than my fair share because I can easily do it. Buying lunch for…

Thank you. I pretty much stopped hanging out with a lot of my nerd friends because of shit like this. They don’t just want a girlfriend. They want the perfect girlfriend. The one who will play video games with them, do what they like to do. They never, I’ve never heard any of those guys be like, “I want a girl that…

BARF OUT LOUD

All of them? All white women do this?

This type of baby license comment always goes over well.

For my fellow slow runners, I saw this damn Nike ad yesterday and CRIED. And I’m not even on the rag. I have no idea what’s wrong with me.

Our lab/Aussie mix also eats berries. Knowing she is not the only one makes her seem less crazy, but watching her snap at the bushes was a bit unsettling.

Ha! My dummy dog does the same. She’s tall, so she can pull everything off counters, but can’t figure out how to get into it. Last week it was a plastic ziploc bag (just bite into it, ya dingus!). The funny/sad thing is that my other dog could crack open any food container in a matter of seconds but dummy dog guards…

word is bound to get out of how incredible you are at it. Biggest win for a guy right there

“I don’t think actions like those are strategic in any way and so decrying them for their lack of strategic success seems...obtuse, I suppose”

Property developers and private landlords are making millions forcing these children and families out of their homes, often through violent evictions, and they are regularly moved into inadequate temporary accommodation and sometimes on to the streets.

There are poorer communities all across London where people are doing all the things that Agenttremble lists, and actually winning some extraordinary battles. Look at places like Brixton: the community has come together to raise extraordinary awareness of the problem, and to take ferocious aim at incursions from…

The business owners are also working class people trying to make a living though. Why not attack the starbucks around the corner that charges about £3 just for a coffee and doesn’t pay its UK taxes? I’m a working class british person too and £3-£5 isn’t outrageously expensive when you consider what you’re actually…

Nope, the cafe is run by 2 working class lads from Ireland. It stocks obscure cereals from around the world and how is a small business pricing people out of an area? What did these people achieve? They would be better protesting in the City, or outside the Houses of Parliament. I live one road along from here and…

You’re never going to stop people or businesses from moving into desirable neighborhoods. The only way to mitigate gentrification is to build more housing. Build market-rate units so the supply can keep up with demand, and build more subsidized units so those with low incomes don’t have to wait for the market to…

Dollars to donuts, those aren’t local residents.

Getting fit is very hard, but people conflate the fact that it is simple (conceptually) with being easy. Eat better, move more! So easy! No, that’s simple. Executing this on a daily consistent and ultimately permanent basis is hard as hell to do if you’ve spent most of your life developing myriad bad habits.

In Keynesean economics, the state responds to a depressed economy by borrowing a bunch of money and buying a bunch of stuff. Since spending in one sector (such as building roads) tends to increase economic activity in other sectors (because now the workers can afford to eat and buy trousers and whatnot), this gets the…