There is no evidence that the parents are doing anything that qualifies as abuse or neglect.

I just have one follow up question

I’m just so, so old and so, so tired. Pardon me for going into “Old Man Rants at Cloud” mode here, but I really wish society would stop rewarding assholes and idiots with likes, clicks, money, views, what have you. Logan Paul acts like the worst stereotype of an ugly American in Japan, throwing shit at cops and…

You know what would be great? If parents couldn’t make money off of pimping out their children. The whole crazy “stage mom/dad” thing would shut down overnight.

I then embarked on a longer back-and-forth with 30-year-old Alex Goller Gelbard of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, who first described himself to me as Lil Tay’s manager and then, in a later conversation, denied being her manager.

If she’s 9 isn’t she in violation of the terms of service for basically all the sites shes using?

Can we not make this a thing please? Not even a thinkpiece type of thing? There’s no mystery here, and it doesn’t take investigative journalism to see this is clearly a small child being coached by overbearing stage parents to perform an annoying, badly Blaccented, not very clever character. This is cringeworthy at…

Me watching this video:

I went to law school because I was told there would be no math.

Sit next to me. We can pretend to play euchre and (actually) drink.

It makes perfect sense that Roseanne loves Trump. They are both pathetic relics of the Eighties trying desperately to stay relevant in a world that very much wants to forget them, and not caring who they hurt in the process.

Yeah, not at all. Obviously math is a huge part of poker skill, and Konnikova has said in several interviews that while psychology was a huge part of her approach, she’s learned and implemented a lot of math. 

Modern capitalism is kind of like Medieval medicine, you can accept the leeches or you’re going straight to the plague tent

Capitalism is fine.

It really ticks me off how we blame teens for adults finding them sexual. Teens are beginning to explore their sexuality and, of course, they want to exude the sexual appeal of adults. Its adults that are at fault for finding teens sexy. She had nothing to apologize for. I mean, I think the photo is cringe-worthy, but…

I never quite understood the backlash. She took and posted to Twitter racier photos than this when she was 14-15, yet people were freaking the fuck out over her showing her back. WTF?

Good for her.

I would call this a savage burn by Emma.