I can attest that the Channel 4 version is shit. The judges are annoying, there are too many ad breaks, and they cut out a lot of the talking to contestants to compensate

What the fuck is wrong with America that this isn’t considered a public health issue the government would treat for free? I will never understand that country

“SHOCKER: Man 50 years ago insufficiently woke by 2018 standards”

It’s not that Europeans are cheap, it’s that we don’t have this fucked up tipping culture where food is underpriced, employees are paid peanuts and customers must for some reason make good the situation. In Europe, a tip is something you give as an extra thanks for very good service. Once you get to the point where…

America’s tipping culture is fucking bananas

Re: Where are the parents, kids in Israel are actually pretty free range, bordering on feral, so tbh it wouldn’t be that far from reality

An attorney wrote about this clarifying that this is two stories conflated and that it may actually be a good thing that ORR is not tracking these kids - https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1000927903759110144.html

Have you seen this thread from twitter making the rounds? https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1000927903759110144.html
Basically also arguing that this story is misplaced outrage

And the prize for “Making it All About Me” goes to...

Wasn’t this on Radiolab once? I think the main problem was that the foxes peed uncontrollably every time they got excited

Why anyone would become/remain a Mormon is completely mysterious to me

Right? My wisdom teeth came in at 12 (fucking ouch), I’d have been fucked

Amazing how death suddenly makes you a wonderful person and all the fraud, murder and kidnapping you did seems like a minor foible

Sister needs to learn that snitches get stitches

The whole situation is even more fucked up than just neglect. The authorities and population in general are actually very wary of these girls because they fear they’ve been indoctrinated. They don’t know what to do with them. When former abductees escape or are released, their communities often won’t take them back,…

It’s not a talent per se, but like anything it has to be learned. You need to learn how best to frame questions to get the answers you need, and to evaluate the results to decide which one is most useful, relevant and/or trustworthy. A lot of people haven’t learned that - they maybe don’t have a lot of experience with…

You say that but Jesus Fucking Christ the number of times people at my old office came to me to ask me to look something up on Google because they couldn’t find it search after search, and I would find the information in 0.29 seconds... An astonishing number of people are really bad at asking the right questions.…

Did you read the facebook post? The passenger who posted the photos says that the family where assured of the dog’s safety, and that the dog could be heard crying inside the locker, so it seems unlikely that the attendants didn’t know.

Right? Wtf is with the snarky tone? You can’t help who you’re related to

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