Canadians don’t pay 60% income tax, you daft fucking liar. Do you think we can’t read and post in English?

Oh sure, I know. That’s precisely *why* I only bought it recently. Still, on some level the critiques in the above article still hold true; I just don’t really mind much. 

They did not! I bought it very recently, and I must say, with my expectations lowered by the anti-hype, I’m loving it. I’m sure it’ll wear eventually but so what? Everything does.

Lol, the warp-drive recharge is ridiculous, though. Hummina hummina THIS, now hummina hummina THAT, now hummina hummina THE OTHER THING, and…

Sometimes, but you can’t assume it’s always a case of terrorized/disempowered women. In some places the tradition arises from initiation into women’s societies and parallel political structures. During the period of the Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya, the British attempted to eradicate the practice, and groups of young…

Sadly it seems that, for the moment, we are doomed to sanity.

And they can’t be arsed to tell us the answer in the article, of course.

So, spoilers:

It was (almost certainly) an ‘icequake’, icebergs calving off of an ice-sheet.

People commenting on this story and reducing it to What Price Did are both missing and confirming the point. If one allegedly mediocre or incompetent woman ‘s firing can create a danger to every other woman’s job in the industry, a reasonable person would think she’s not the real story. 

It’s not that straight-forward. A lot of the social conservatism in Toronto’s suburbs is in Chinese-Canadian communities that are not necessarily particularly religious. “Old” immigrants do not necessarily have any particular sympathy for refugees and asylum seekers.

this kind of thing is why, despite all the dangers, I still read the comments.

Most of Europe is abandoning that model because of anti-immigration sentiment. It ain’t what it used to be.

How horny is Xhen the elf on a table from 1 to 20? Just, you know, on the average day.

Elon Musk might be paranoid. Or he might be surrounded by grandiose nutters. *thinks*

He’s a middle-school kid.

That’s not what the statistic says though. It says 1 in 4 troops have seen signs of white nationalism among their fellows. Not that 1 in 4 troops are white nationalists.

One of Fred “The Slacktivist” Clark’s mottos is, “If a headline starts with ‘Youth Pastor...’, nothing good is ever going to come after.”

White American Evangelical Christianity is not the whole history of Christianity. It’s not even the whole present, though it sure is loud and influential.

I really am extremely upset at reality for consistently ruining the mental associations I’d prefer to have with the words “sex cult”

This doesn’t sound like something professional police would do, but then, the professional police I mostly hear about don’t have a Bond villain trying to destroy their country, so... whatever, this is reality now I guess.

Welp, I guess it had to hit me sometime, I’d been lucky in our terrifying cyber-dystopia up until now.

I’m not sure anyone is jumping to the conclusion that all 1500 children have been sold to the salt mines. The problem is we don’t know *what* has happened to them, and - this being the kicker - neither do many of their parents.