Oh. I did think you were sincerely interested in less gun violence. My mistake.
Did you say that about 9/11? Gun deaths are 100 9/11's a year.
Feels like reading Reddit default subs, curated by a 23-year-old dude. It's fine. But I suspect I'll forget it exists by Friday.
With loopholes you could fly a 777 through, background-check-wise. The dude who sold my dad his gun wasn't legally required to check any of that.
Those moral injustices being beautiful, happy, well-adjusted young women not having sex with them. Rest in peace, young women targeted by this loser and his 4chan friends.
Except we weren't all the same when Bush was president. Republicans were driving SUVs like it was their duty, cutting taxes for Trumps and Hiltons, and starting racist wars. The delay by Republicans in acknowledging the reality of climate change will probably go unremarked by history. But I haven't flushed it down the memory hole yet.
Out west we have a hot blob: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blob_(Pacific_Ocean)
We may all one day pay for 3D printing patterns with our bot repair wages. I wonder if we'll all be grease-stained Gilliam characters in overalls. Everyone should read The Diamond Age. I liked that poor people could print what they needed and apparently had constant high speed connectivity. It was sad to think that a great education might still be so far out of reach for children with imperfect parents. I appreciate that Rifkin is trying to get ahead on these policies from a seemingly humanist place.
I'm not convinced, either, but IoT is happening. There will be Norton and McAfee for IoT, and good on whomever it is that makes their money that way.
If you think people can work harder, tell them you think they are great and can handle it. Don't tell them you think they're lazy and not doing enough. For me, the former makes me play "Eye of the Tiger" in a my head and Get Shit Done. Any hint of the latter leads to insecurity, resume submissions, and I'm gone in a month.
I don't want a tweeting toaster, but as with all the tech we rely on, people who aren't too cool for it will hang in there and make Things that do improve our lives. I do want my doors to unlock when I drive up. I want the lights downstairs to turn off when I go upstairs, or to be able to turn them off with my phone when I lie down and don't want to get back up. I want a robot to vacuum my floor, when that works better. I don't want the Amazon button, but I do want a fridge that knows I'm low on milk and orders some more of whatever is cheapest.
Guarded hope. Ahmed's sister was treated badly in middle school because someone said she was going blow up the school. We're just hearing about that now. A black girl in Florida I think was arrested for making a bomb when she was doing a science experiment, and that got so little attention that I wasn't sure if she made a bomb or a science experiment. The fact that this was quickly and widely condemned seems like progress.
I'll put that on my to-read list!
These people seem to be helping: http://www.rescue.org/crisis-syria Also, an organization that rescues people in the Mediterranean: http://www.moas.eu/
"International feminism" (ugh) could sure use a victory.Almost immediately, Tyler’s fans sent a barrage of tweets to Alison, ranging from juvenile name-calling to actual rape and murder threats.
Yep.
Yay, they have one of mine! `fix bug, for realz`
That sounds fairly normal for a young person who thinks a lot. Try the advice of people you respect who want to help you feel better, and by 30, you will feel better -- even if that's just being comfortable with the things that make you feel weird now.
Yeah, going into this spiral because you didn't exercise suggests to me, based on my age and experience, that you could use cognitive behavioral therapy to teach you not to hate yourself. But I also know that getting that sort of help doesn't happen unless a person is ready for it. Lots of people who ruminate do get a little help to get some perspective on how loathsome they aren't.
Yeah, as a career woman, I took the career woman one. My results were not great.
I find this interesting despite the weird fixation Epstein has on Google specifically. I don't agree with Epstein that government regulation is the right solution. I imagine gerrymandered search results, or the situation on NPR where until recently, they felt they had to present climate change deniers as equal balance to the vast majority of respected scientists.
I haven't done a thorough analysis of the data, so I'm just as prone to confirmation bias as jleopold. When I look at the map, I see tons of shootings in rural areas in states with no gun laws. When jleopold looks, he (I assume) apparently sees mostly shootings in New York and San Francisco. Actual data shows that states with more guns have more gun deaths. Surprising, right. He (I assume) wants to not only defend guns which are very clearly a part of mass shootings, but (American) men, who are also very clearly a part of mass shootings. My main point above was how quickly he seized on your suggestion that all the shootings happen in San Francisco because of feminism. I think you were just being agreeable and coming up with possibilities. I don't think that is jleopold's motive, but I could be wrong.
Well, if feminism isn't to blame for mass shootings, it's possible jleopold just didn't look at the map very closely.
Internet companies can make your point of view stop existing on their sites whether they allow racism or not. You should try to post something on Reddit in support of gun control after a local school shooting and see how much the moderators of your supposedly liberal city's sub-Reddit support free speech. The idea that all speech should be allowed everywhere is preposterous. It never was. You're just standing up for racism.
Office Space
Everyone I know has a fucking Stormtrooper costume. It certainly makes more sense if Patton Oswalt and Chris Hardwick are getting money from the government to keep Gen X dumb.
Yep. It's both.
Is this an op-ed? So many unattributed assertions. I'm glad if she's not hurting for the general, though.
The view was even better from the freeway bridge -- my city shuts down all the bridges in town for cyclists one Sunday every August. This bridge is prettiest. It's the bridge Greenpeace protesters used to block a ship from drilling in the Arctic.