This is a lovely point with excellent language. “Compliant” is not the same thing as “Consenting.” Also, “Embryo” is not the same thing as “Baby.”

She’s never been on contract with VS—formally an Angel. Models who aren’t on contract are chosen for the “fashion” show (aka: really long VS holiday commercial) on a year-by-year basis. Apparently Dunn wasn’t booked this year, but seeing that Rihanna dropped out made her feel better about that?

The tiniest indie label has the same rights and ownership as the big labels & publishers

Exactly. Hey guess what, that guy on Soundcloud doesn’t really have creative common rights to that Michael Jackson remix, dummy.

If your business model relies on the copyrighted material owned by other people, and you do not build in a way of paying them for the usage, then you do not have a business model. The idea that SoundCloud has now gotten in bed with “big record labels” and that’s what’s “screwing over” these smaller users, is absurd.…

For when the One Sports Network comes

There’s a post up-thread from someone who had Uber do this at her office. She gave a lot of detail that made it sound like the shelters have anticipated these and other problems this service might cause, and have developed solutions to address them.

Good to know all this detail. Sounds like a positive program that if nothing else, may encourage people to go to the shelter that weekend and adopt a cat.

Okay, that actually makes sense. Thank you.

It’s where the concept of the banality of evil come from: war criminals often are not terrifying because of how extraordinary they are, it’s how other unassuming and normal they can be.

A few commenters have asked about the robbery history at the store, so I’ll put this here. This is from the police chief’s statement (note he’s talking about multiple stores at first):

For the record, the copy shop did *not* print this, they only laminated it.

It wasn’t actually a print request (just lamination). The copy shop didn’t have any part in the creation of the document. It is not a hoax, either. It’s 100% true and has been confirmed by an employee of the bar.

I studied anthro in college and we had the exact same discussion. There’s some pretty gross racist Western implications around FGM; it’s not our culture or our society (our being, traditionally, white Westerners) and so we lack the tools to properly contextualize what it is, its place in society, and thus, if it…

[we should clarify why this specifically lands like an insult—this’ll get us in trouble otherwise —let me know if this works]

Yes. My mom kept her maiden name when she married my step-dad, who has two kids with his last name. It was never a problem for them to claim any of us, despite the total lack of matching names, although we could always tell how someone knew you by whose last name they used (my mom’s colleagues called all of us by her…

My son's godmother wrote the ESPN story. We are so proud of her - and him!

I usually don’t read much of ESPN when I get it in the mail, but I’ll be reading this one.

The one who performed her hymen reconstruction surgery, that’s who.

Weird. I’ve heard it the other way: “A son is a son till he takes a wife but a daughter’s a daughter for the rest of her life”. But either way, feh.