That’s true, but at the same time, their participation didn’t drop that much (compared to other non-Obama elections). I don’t know if we can say that this social media influence attempt was effective, or if this decline is attributable primarily to not getting to vote for Obama again.

The quiz was not a “ruse”, it’s a legit measure of personality. Based on correlations between FB likes and personality measures they can approximate the personality of your friends, since they did harvest your friends (and their likes). So congrats, you can build a giant database of Big 5 scores. SO FUCKING WHAT. Big…

Personality is not the only predictor, socio-cultural factors can as well. African-Americans voted 90% for Democrats, and it’s not because low Openness to Experience is rare in African-Americans.

This is perhaps best illustrated by the voting history of the upper midwest, especially as they changed this election.…

What “psychometric insights”? All they learned was a few new ways to identify people’s Big 5 personality traits based on FB likes. The Big 5 trait of Openness could indicate a preference for liberal or conservative politics, as could dozens of other things already known AND profiled by FB to sell to advertisers. It’s…

WHOA. And onetime I did a study that found people who listed/liked more books on FB are higher in openness to experience, and people with more friends are higher in extroversion. It’s not really mindblowing stuff.

I’m still waiting for a report or a coherent explanation of how this information can be weaponized to…

Less than 10 years ago, somewhere in Northern Minnesota, I saw a vanity license plate “OJDIDIT”.

Some people are just carrying that outrage for life.

He was going to stop after a couple, but they just looked like weird moles, so he found a bunch more people to kill to even out the look.

Confession: I don’t remember being too bothered by Wallace’s death. I just didn’t get why D’Angelo cared about him so much, or why I was supposed to (my main thoughts were: this kid whines too much, and is dumb as hell). As D’Angelo said, he was a pawn, and surely D’Angelo had seen kids like him come and go before.

Bodi…

HBO is very pneumatic .

I saw the very first showing in small-town, Northern Minnesota (Thursday night). I was curious what I’d find at the theater.

She (and surely many other women in a similar position) could easily Kickstart the cost of violating the NDA, if they wanted to.

“ . . . or the Philly cheesesteak extra mayonnaise, and no one can judge you but god and your Hoagie man or woman.”

Pocket CHIP extension now, come back to fight in 3 weeks for the Dreamers. What’s so hard about that?

Now or later, Trump won’t “surrender” on DACA. His entire fucking brand is hardline anti-immigration, and thumbing his nose at political correctness and the media consensus.

A government shutdown was never going to work. Trump’s overriding political principle is to appear strong, and never back down. Especially on immigration, his key campaign issue. Calling him racist, and shutting down the government is guaranteed to NOT work with Trump.

The reason you keep someone like Schumer around…

Also a good way to reduce, but not eliminate, meat in the diet. Closer to traditional usages of vegetarian proteins (e.g., ham bone in a pot of beats, mapo tofu, etc). Gets you some of the health and environmental benefits of reduced meat consumption, and perhaps frees up a little money to pay a little extra for more…

Because Texas?

I think you can find another movie where men mask their feelings with fistfights and/or gunfire without trying very hard. Or, you know, just turn on the news.

Agree with many other posts, a jar of pickled red onions is one of the easiest things to throw in the back of your fridge and boost your meals. Great on tacos (pickled jalapenos, too), burgers, sandwiches, etc.

I saw it in an episode of Upright Citizen’s Brigade. I doubt they invented the rumor, but it’s hard to believe someone saw it here and believed it was true. Then again, we just elected Donald Trump President, so I clearly shouldn’t give people too much credit.