so i full-on agree with you, i’m a trained science journalist and treat that stephen colbert clip as gospel. I virtually always put the line “this is a single study, so we need to be cautious about its results” in my stories, but there’s something you’re missing here. News stories need a reason to be told. 

We use them to install new chairlift towers. They can carry a big bucket of concrete for the pad to anchor to as well as the towers and the structure at the top of the tower. Very efficient way to get this done in very remote places without roads and at very high altitudes.

Seriously, nevermind the $5B we throw at this agency annually and the existence of it in general. But how dare they actually try to be productive in their mission and acting within their allocated budget – hiring a sign language interpreter is where I draw the line! We’ve all been ruined with this spy propaganda…

Oddly, no. The enlisted guys are a lot more diverse, demographically — more POC, more women, so it wasn’t a landslide for Trump with them. The officer corps is mostly straight white guys, and they threw their macho lot in with the orange monster because they thought it meant $$ for new toys. Whooops.

I spent 13 years on active duty (2x Iraq, 1x Afghanistan), and got out last year. Seeing pictures of Fifth Avenue fuckwits like this playing war tourist eliminates any regret I have about not staying in longer - and makes me feel awful for my friends still in.

Literally no one outside the military cares about the difference. It’s like a banking dude being pissed that regular folks just don’t get how an Executive Vice President is totally different than a Senior Vice President.

I understand the reasoning, but I can’t shake the feeling that boycotting Walmart is a luxury that is only afforded the wealthy.

Nope. We’re watching you slit your own wrists because you’ve been pissed the last 8. We’re concerned for people and they’re actual suffering because of your (general you) views. We don’t feel like you because we aren’t authoritarian-seeking, selfish small-minded vindictive assholes. Usually.

Lol like Republicans handled anything with grace. All they did was waste tens to hundreds of millions of dollars sitting around doing nothing for 6 years, forming investigation after investigation, and spouting flat out lies to the media to try to hype their delusional story.

Eight years of social progress, rebuilding the US’s reputation, bouncing back from a housing bubble collapse, and slashing the deficit must have been really hard on you.

Oh man, acting like a decent human being for 8 years, how horrible was it? Not being able to be an open bigot for for that long must have felt like an eternity.

“Fuck everyone else but me and mine” is the unwritten GOP motto.

There is no good reason for abortion... except for mine.

Red yes, music no.

Anyone else remember the Million Dollar Homepage?

There are three other factors that need to be considered. First gerrymandering inherently makes it so that more extreme/partisan candidates get elected. The Republicans are better at it, and have more heavily gerrymandered seats, so they’re the ones who get pushed further out of control. Which feeds back into the…

I come here to read about cars, not to read what you and the rest of the anti-cargo-heisting media have to say about Julio Nivelo. It’s been three months since the heist. You and the rest of the anti-heisters didn’t get your fucking gold flakes. Get over it.