For past artists, though, it’s not true that at “their time”, their behavior was considered perfectly A-OK and nobody had any concept that being a drunk asshole was a problem. Then, as now, powerful and charismatic people get multiple passes and excuses made for them, and powerful people who behave the same way (or…

With Cult 45, it is always, ALWAYS projection.

You misunderstand. It’s not about whether Kamala Harris is competent - it’s about their caucastic terror that she’s the de facto President, manipulating poor senile Biden, and might become the actual President if he dies or steps down. The real message here is that they might get another Black president (!!!!) and…

I don’t know where your parents’ pool is, but in coastal California (including LA), it’s very dry and evaporation will take a lot of water out of a pool day-to-day if it doesn’t have a cover.

Water restrictions vary a lot by what water district authority you live in, plus, enforcement is generally in the form of fines. The rich don’t give a shit about enforcement because, worst case, they’ll have to write a check.

Maybe “twitter rando quoting another rando” is not the best sourcing for this tip?

Okay, but it’s not really fair to point to grocery-store tomatoes as proof of anything gardening. Grocery-store tomatoes are bred for sturdiness, not flavor (even the hothouse and ‘heirloom’ ones).

It’s a game you can’t win, so you might as well lose in the way that is best for you.

How was there a ‘hive of bees’ on her property unless someone put it there?

I am assuming the writers know that, and, being New York writers making fun of Californians, decided to throw in some extra trolling by intentionally making mistakes in the directions. Probably there are other ‘direction descriptions’ in those skits that are technically accurate but are also nightmares (like ones that…

Oh good, he’s on camera. Internet, please light this fucker up.

I have, from time to time, thrown concern for my safety to the winds and told these smug fuckers exactly that - nobody cares what you think, nobody cares which way your dick points. And they have NO ability to cope with this. They stutter and flail. They turn bright red (yes, they’re white dudes 99% of the time). It…

So, this isn’t “new information” that just “surfaced”. The complaint points out that this behavior went on for years, in the open, unchecked. It’s not like Blizzard employees all thought Afrasiabi was a swell guy until his hidden past was accidentally revealed.

Please don’t fob this all off on “poor social skills”. Being awkward and breaking into a sweat at the idea of small talk is not correlated with a sense of entitlement to fuck people who depend on you for their paycheck. These are adult men who made the decision to be creepy, entitled shits because they enjoyed it, and…

This isn’t even a federal body, it’s a California enforcement agency.

Yes. I have friends who work in the games industry and they regularly tell “funny” work stories that make everyone outside the games industry say “Uh.... do you maybe need a lawyer?” 

But the PR statement doesn’t even say NUH UH THEY LYING. If you look closely, it says things weren’t THAT bad and anyway they’re trying harder NOW.

It also means a lot of ugly stuff is going to surface through the process of the lawsuit - internal documents, witness testimony, depositions of the assholes in question, etc.

The PR response is also very telling - it’s not a denial, it’s is ‘you exaggerated and anyway we don’t do that anymore and we’re TRYING to get better, GAWD, why are you so MEAN to us’.

This is absolutely correct. If you do not complain to HR, it will be very difficult to show that the company is at fault, because they will pretend that they totally would have solved the problem if only you had gone through the HR process made available to you.