Detriot public schools suck though. Why would you put your kids through a system that is so utterly failing every child?

Don’t you mean biracial grandson? So if your father is white, I’m gonna say your brother is white, so wouldn’t the kid be biracial?

I’ve never been bothered by them, except, maybe weirdly?, when my mom makes them.

Yah, the relationship is a compromise. But the act of getting married? I don’t think that should be. Getting married is something you do for yourself simultaneously with someone else. Being in a relationship is about compromise, but getting married is something both people should consent to on equal terms.

The act of being married is about compromise. Getting married? That really shouldn’t be: you should both be onboard, not doing it for the sake of another but for the sake of yourselves, simultaneously.

You should read some news: Trump brought Pence on with the promise that Pence would get to run “Domestic and Foreign Policy.” When Pence asked Trump what he would do, he said “Make America Great Again.”

YES! I just posted my own thread. Obsesity is so severly affecting everything. Its literally the cancer on which everything else is failing.

Obsesity is not getting the attention it deserves, in this comment section or in America. 25% of these deaths were from obsesity related issues: that basically is the gain and then some. Without those we would have declined (although still maybe not as dramatically as elsewhere).

“Jumping through hoops” is sort of how stalkers and creeps describe their “approach” to women anyway, tbh. Like, that would just validate them in their weird little minds.

I can see that this worries you, but the Internet is such an artificial place. People are just pixels until we meet them, you know? Like I’ve seen Barack Obama on TV a bunch of times, it still doesn’t change that actually seeing him at my college campus was fucking incredible and real.

I have mixed views on this. On one hand, it sounds great you are getting what you wanted. On the other, it sucks that this means he has to do something he doesn’t want, and I can’t think of a many relationships that work out when one partner feels forced to do something to stay in the relationship.

You know there are lots of very sophisticated bots out there, right? Like I get bot’ed all the time on Tinder and OKC, so I tend to ask if we can have a phone call pretty soon after making the connection.

The updated story: the LAPD denies they are investigating Pitt.

Making people uncomfortable tends to make them afraid, and being afraid makes them angry, and being angry got Richard Nixon elected. And people say the riots of the late 60s led to change: no. The Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights act were passed in the mid 60s. Once Nixon was elected, literally nothing good happened.

Literally every time I try to take this position, someone says “BUT REASONABLE USE OF FORCE!??!!!!!!!”

Yep. Breathed tear gas a few times, and the times where I had some fresh air weren’t all that bad. Like breathing smoke off a fire pit really.

Several sites have experimented with it, but they keep dying. The few hundred people per site who would pay just are not enough to keep things going.

Counter-point: just put the ad into the video you are watching. So rather than 5 minutes of video, then a break to takes you to an ad, then another 5 minutes of video, just have 12 minutes of continous video where the ad is PART of the same video you were watching, not a separate loading piece.

Massivegroan said it best. But yah, younger people are all about video on video apps. Most of the video is mobile, not on the World Wide Web, or if it is on the ol’ WWW it is often streamed FROM the app server.

This. The media landscape is changing right now: blogs are dying, video is what advertisers want. Vice is going through major changes, “Tronc” is a thing. Buzzfeed is churning over its blog force to make a video force. And at AfterEllen, their most recent video was 2 days ago, then one 3 days before that, etc.…