I half agree with you. I don’t think they’re stupid, but I do think they really believe the words that are coming out of their mouths. The power brokers? No. But these ordinary Alabama white folks? Yeah.

I mean the entire thing was mind-boggling but I think that part was when I was scraping my jaw off the flaw. The level of cognitive dissonance is Head Explosion level.

I dunno. I kind of like it when companies take a self-deprecating view and/or realize when they have made trash and poke fun. (And if I’d watched any movie 53 times let alone over 350...I think I might expect them to come for me?)

This. I live in Seattle and we have lots of conversations about what would be really good high.

But it is coffee - there’s espresso in it, which is a kind of coffee. So a person who gets that at Starbucks wouldn’t be wrong about liking coffee.

It is coffee. It’s sweetened coffee with lots of sugar and fixings but that doesn’t make it not coffee. Just because it is outside of the reason of what you drink doesn’t make it not coffee.

They are referring to actual matcha - they call the powder “matcha tea blend”. It’s made with matcha (or “Japanese green tea”) and sugar.

People get black coffee there all the time. Starbucks’ drip coffee is actually quite fine. If you go during the morning rush you’ll see lots of people getting it.

1. If you’re not racist and you believe all lives matter, then why would it upset you to hear people say “black lives matter”? Are black lives not included in all lives? There’s no invisible “only” in front of the phrase. If anything, people are saying “black lives matter, *too.*”

That’s not really how this particular AI works. The Amazon engineers who work on Alexa are the ones who have to specify the answers. This was Amazon deciding how they wanted to answer this question.

And it’d be one thing for the Lord to still be working on him, but it’s not like he admitted it and apologized and said that was a dark part of his past. He LIED about it and is STILL LYING and called the women he molested as children liars.

Also the policy is straight-up stupid. You have a standing invitation to ALL politicians? Even the virulently racist ones?

Maybe that’s it, because I am a black woman and it was when I moved to the Pacific Northwest that I relaxed the blinds rule in our living room only, because it faces trees. The bedroom blinds are still drawn though.

Nah, not really. They put all that stuff in your lease so they can get you if you leave giant-ass holes in the wall or fuck up or something, but every New Yorker I know from Canarsie to Parkchester has some kind of window coverings up. I put some up myself in all of my NYC apartments, one in Wash Heights and one in…

Co-signed. I live in a condo in the suburbs and I can see all up and through these white folks’ homes. Their Christmas tree decor, what they’re watching on TV at about 5:06 when I roll home, pictures of their kids, all that.

Suits is an American show. It was and still is a thing in the U.S. (It was *filmed* in Toronto, but it is still an American show.)

Not only did I know Meghan Markle was black when I first seent her (something about her nose and cheekbones)...I also had a feeling in my bones that Prince Harry was the type to date a black (or partially black) chick. In fact, when a couple years ago he was dating that Chelsy chick, I heard she was from Zimbabwe and…

It may be because USPS is significantly cheaper than UPS or FedEx, and even with the cost of the little credits it still doesn’t add up?

Not only do I believe it, I am not surprised by it. More than a few times now I’ve ordered something for two day delivery that was promised on a Sunday and the designated carrier was USPS. It NEVER gets there on Sunday. Usually the mail carrier will claim they attempted delivery but “recipient was not at address,”…

Sure, but that’s an overly narrow view to take. Many people who don’t live in Atlanta proper have their lives intertwined with Atlanta - they work there, go to school there, transaction business there, etc. And even if they don’t, the economy and life and business of Atlanta affects the entire metro area.