That does only count food at home though, and from the USDA data we spend at least as much, if not more, eating out. I don't know how that compares to other countries.

If all you have is local, ethically sourced meat, then meat will be a thing that only rich people can afford. It might not impact you very much, and you might be able to "get used to the idea of spending a larger portion of your income on food," but it will seriously impact a lot of people hovering around the poverty…

The only thing I can think is that he didn't want to be kicked out of the country or maybe he was afraid of being quarantined? It's tough to know what you would do in such a situation, I'm sure he was scared.

How do you infer that? In contrast with them, this guy was in a position to receive treatment and actively impeded his diagnosis by giving false information to the hospital.

I never said that he was responsible for the nurses getting sick. Your right, that is the fault of the hospital. But the fact that he himself died, yeah maybe he is a little responsible for that.

Considering the dude had contact with 80-100 people while he was infectious and only two of them got sick. Could be a lot worse.

Or maybe if he hadn't lied to them about being in direct contact with someone while they died of Ebola. That might have helped diagnose it.

To be fair to USU, it's not like they could choose to ban guns from the event. There was no decision to make. They used to have a gun ban, but it was ruled unconstitutional by their supreme court. They can't ban guns on public property apparently. Blame their ass backwards legislature, and those of other states…

Yeah, we need to raise 87 million cows in the US because people really need to eat a steak every fucking day. That's a horrible argument.

This law has nothing to do with consent. It is illegal because we, as a society, think that people fucking animals are gross deviants. They are not trying to protect the animals. Animals don't consent for us to kill and eat them, but we do it all the time and no one would pass a law against it.

I can understand that, I guess, but they weren't enslaved or massacred like the indigenous people in North and South America. To my recollection, they actually descend from Tahitians that conquered and enslaved the original inhabitants of Hawaii, so there's that...

What bothered me about the reaction in Spain was that people clearly cared more about that stupid dog than they did the thousands of african PEOPLE who have been infected. Where's the outpouring of sympathy for them?

That's why nostalgia is a trap and conservatism is appealing only to the oppressing class. The past was always shittier than the present for some group of people. There's only one direction to go and it's not back.

In a lot of schools (at least where I am) they use it as an opportunity to teach about the horrible atrocities committed by the Spanish conquistadors. But what does Columbus have to do with Hawaii?

Gamergate is stupid and I don't sympathize with them at all. Having said that, there are comments on this very article saying, "you should kill yourself" and "if I had time I would beat some sense into all of them". People get worked up and threaten violent shit all the time. On every side.

I would say defaced, but not hacked. Although, in the popular media, doing anything with computers that bad or that the reporter doesn't understand is "hacking" :-\

Yeah, that's why I said pretty much exactly that. You can't force someone to do something they don't want to. That's a hard line, you don't have control over another person's body or actions. But you can decide that you need a partner that does that thing and if your current partner won't then you can leave.

Absolutely. Of course everyone can decide for themselves what their boundaries are and no one should be forced to do something they don't want to do. On the flip side, if your partner won't do something that you really feel like you need, then you have every right to dump them. If that thing is pretty simple, and…

He's 24 apparently.

I agree that kids shouldn't be prosecuted for child porn if they are both minors, but it does get real creepy if you keep the pictures when you are older. Like, the subjects are also not minors any more, but... you're looking at them when they were? Very creepy.