Outkast may have something to do with perpetuating the myth for post-GenX generations (I have no idea, honestly), but I remember this notion from my childhood in the 70s, so it’s not new by any means.

To be complimented by Fox News “Kamala Harris convenes secret vote to mandate teaching CRT in kindergarten!”.

How anyone can not hate this miserable little excuse for a country I truly can’t comprehend.

You’ve just described the anarchist position towards the cops (in particular riot police). Riot police start riots. The armor and weapons are merely one aspect of provocation in their sick game. Effectively giving gun-toting citizens a pass for not just this, but straight up murder should be the “opening of the…

Ugh. I mean, you do you, but for me candy corn is too sickly sweet to eat more than a handful at a time (with long breaks in between).

It’s weird that candy corn comes in those large-style candy bags. I like candy corn, and I can only stand a little bit at a time. Who eats that much candy corn (before it goes stale)? Sure, it’s “family size”, but I doubt most families would agree on the contentious issue of candy corn.

This article is a mess. In your rush to condemn the only dems actually speaking up you kind of obscure what the real issues are. You make it sound like Biden could actually do something about this, and assume that he didn’t put the commission together with the intent of “okay, so give me a coherent argument as to why…

The first excerpt is lush and dreamy, but it’s basically “oh, so it’s more ambient music.” Which is fine. I love ambient music. Maybe it’s because I’m sober or maybe because I’m a producer, myself, but I’m not getting anything beyond “okay, throw some pads together with minor modulation and let it do its thing” out of…

I’m with you on everything except being “more forgiving” of McDonalds. If they want their name on the franchise and selling their food there, then they need to be a hell of a lot more proactive about shit like this. They can’t just say “well, it’s a franchise so it’s not our problem” and wash their hands of this. They…

Every place I’ve worked at since 2003 or so has had mandatory sexual-harassment training. It’s astonishing that a corporation as big as this didn’t have this training in place until recently. Even if you’re just looking at it from the corporation’s perspective, that’s a massive liability. They don’t even get to say…

Also, those “cities” are basically just 15 individuals living in the same area, and even then they still all basically hate each other. Not really much of a “city”.

Again, thanks for the informative reply. This was years ago, before the pandemic, and the ICU was relatively empty. I don’t know the full details, because by the time I visited her she was in a deep, medically induced coma, and unfortunately her situation deteriorated from there and she passed away. My other…

I think part of ableism is treating people with disabilities as “diseased”. Someone can have a disability, be it physical and/or mental, and still be perfectly healthy. Yet people will avoid them like they have plague or talk down to them like “oh, you poor dear” type shit. It’s maddening. 

Thank you for your informative reply. I wasn’t sure because of the situation I described in my reply to the OP’s reply. The way it was described to me at the time sounded like they hadn’t kept her sedated her at all, and I was horrified. I experienced a lot of horrifying situations when I was working with people with…

What was interesting to me about the Spaniards I know that hated Franco and fascism to intently is that they’re not even remotely “radical” (not anarchists, not socialists nor communists) - they were just regular folk (albeit on the more intellectual end of the spectrum). One of those friends would try to draw me into…

Thanks for the reply. I’ve visited one person who was in the hospital and intubated, and they said they had to increase the sedative because she kept waking up and freaking out chewing on the tube. Why wasn’t she properly sedated in the first place? I’m guessing because she was developmentally disabled and completely…

RIP Deadspin. Long live Defector (even if it’s behind a paywall). Fuck spamfeller.

Bortles?  There’s a name I never thought I’d hear again, lol...

Even getting intubated is a horror show. Are they sedated do they don’t freak out and try to yank the tube out?

To the person who replied to me in the greys: Yes, of course other people who didn’t know her and her wonderful personality probably shunned or treated her badly. That’s not the fucking point I was making, and I state specifically at the end of my post that we need to put an end to that shit. Jesus fucking christ,…