One thing that, in my mind, gets lost in discussing this case is this fact.

Advance note: Not a lawyer here, so I fully accept that my take might not be perfect from that perspective.-

This is my favorite post about anything ever.

I like Miley. She’s living her life and doing her thing. Her voice is unique; one doesn’t hear very many contralto voices in pop music anymore. Everyone wants to see who can hit a higher note than the next person, meanwhile I’ve played this video of her cover of Summertime Sadness over and over for the past few months.

Grew up hunting. Family ranch in south Texas, one of the first to actively manage whitetail deer as a herd starting in the 70s (thousands of pounds of formula-specific deer feed per week, curated oat fields, segregated populations, quota kills). The purpose of all of this was to engineer more bucks having bigger and…

Exactly. The idea it’s okay to visit these kinds of places in the first place is troubling. It’s like saying, well, I’ll tip the slaves, but still benefit from the plantation. Same thing with sweatshop produced clothing.

I’m gonna go with dcgirl’s rhetoric. There’s already been a bit of an uproar recently over restaurant wages and tipping practices, and this is a whole other industry that can be lumped in there. There are a lot of workers affected by this, and I’m presuming a lot of customers who will be more than a bit miffed to…

You can demand political change, you can refuse to patronize salons that engage in this kind of fuckery. You say grand standing, I saw organize for change.

Or that we require the enforcement of labor laws so people are paid just wages. Tipping is a hugely problematic system that does not improve worker treatment. Every evaluation of tipping indicates it’s racist and sexist as hell for workers and encourages racist and sexist treatment of customers.

Rage, Rage, Rage, against the dying of the pike.

They’re stored as hashes, anyway, and the hash for everyone’s password - no matter what it is - is the same length. So it’s literally a completely arbitrary and insecure requirement.

No, the way they're calculating it is by going off of median income. There's no rule that the median income is actually anywhere close to the cost of living.

"Oh, are you the paralegal?"

I think we would all be having better sex if we were all MORE SELFISH in bed.

Right? 'Oh no guys! I looked at the world's blowjob inventory and there are missing blowjobs! We counted them all! A few are missing. Why isn't this cat lady coming up with the missing blowjobs?!"

It's been a trend in a certain area of illustration for a number of years. I hate to say "hipster" because it's usually meaningless, but this time it's bang on. The Venn diagram of artists who are under-30, liked anime, and read Pitchfork contains a union which has either dabbled in or flirted with the idea of drawing…

Stop the presses!

I love the suggestion of going camping to get away from stuff... You do realize that camping gear can be more expensive than electronics and gadgets.... Now I need to buy a $4500 tent and $1200 hiking shoes to get away from things....