You’re right. I was thinking of Kentucky. Amazon employs 10,500 in Kentucky and coal employs 6,900. That being said, the energy department tracks underground and surface (transport) jobs and the total employed by coal for West Virginia in 2015 was 15,490.

You’re right, coal mining isn’t coming back. However, I think we need to acknowledge more broadly that we, as a society, have exploited coal mining and coal miners for our own gain for an extremely long time. 

Coal mining jobs peaked around World War I. They’re not coming back.

People are dying in Puerto Rico but god forbid you get upset by an article that no one’s forcing you to read. Poor you!

Oh, the FEMA briefing said that FEMA is doing a great job? Well, that’s settled then! And “additional disaster funding would be nice”? Ya, think? What insight!  Also “nice”? Nice!? Yes, disaster funding for our fellow citizens is fucking crucial and should’ve been voted on five days ago. Yes, the Jones act should’ve…

I honestly think the nihilism of South Park had a non-zero effect on the 2016 election. Considering it’s been on 21 seasons and fans who voted in 2016 conceivably have been watching it since they were born, the “everything’s bullshit so you’re an idiot if you genuinely care about something” philosophy might’ve…

Wouldn’t really work for Tokyo. Not certain but I think they just had their first gun murder of the year - a yazkuza beef between the Yamaguchi-gumi and the Ninkyo Yamaguchi-gumi. Anyway, they’re rare enough that gun murders are counted in the <10 per year.

I wonder why the anti-immigration types never complained about Melania Trump, who reportedly came her and worked illegally? I can’t quite put my finder on what’s different between her and latinos. Hmmmmm....

Ugh. All these shitty puns.

You’ll see them down-vote games because the protagonist was a white male, w/o any commentary about the actual game itself.

He’s a racist who has a history of using his power to enact racist policies (“C” for colored to reject housing applicants), now has the most powerful job in the world, and is empowering other racists who are talking him into enacting racist policies. Notice how he always talks about having good genes? Coming from good…

This is not true. If it’s done purely for political purposes, 18 U.S. Code § 227 prohibits wrongfully influencing a private entity’s employment decisions by a Member of Congress or an officer or employee of the legislative or executive branch.

you: Trump isn’t a white supremacist.

Maybe if he doesn’t want to be called a white supremacist he should stop acting like a white supremacist? The Birther allegations, appointing Sessions, pardoning Arpaio, “some good people” about the tiki torch Nazis, hiring Bannon, Miller, and Gorka. There’s a reason Stormfront and all the white supremacists cheered…

No worries! It’s my fault for not using kinja’s built-in quote feature. I mostly work in plain text and that’s how I do quotes. Sorry for the confusion.

If you’re saying it’s always been this bad, that’s factually incorrect. White-supremacist militias grew under Obama. Under Trump, a modern-day President has never before given them this kind of tacit validation. And Putin’s Russia, which is primarily anti-non-white, anti-gay, and anti-Muslim, sees common cause with…

I’m confused why you reposted the section of your article I quoted in my comment? I didn’t miss the part about the credit optimizer service, I was just noting they’re also likely additionally collecting interest on the aggregate sum since, as you noted:

> So how does Debitize make money if they don’t sell your data? While they’re planning to keep the basic service free, they are implementing different paid features.

> How many times in the last decade can you say, you have seen some form of the KKK or other groups in the media?

I see you haven’t learned about Poe’s Law. “Haha I pretended to be a white supremacist and you believed me!” isn’t a thing a mature adult says. You are what you pretend to be. A lot of those chuckfucks thought they could be ironic weekend Nazis and then show up for work on Monday with no consequences.