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Get in here, Jony Ive

Honestly it just takes me out of the story. Like, I need a REASON for them to be hetero, y'know?

media that has more than a token hetero person in 'em just aren't believable

my suspension of disbelief can only go so far

I mean, I'm fine with hetero characters, but it really needs to be well done or why bother

I'm cool with it but like I don't need to know, you know?

I've never seen a believable depiction tbh. Like are they all stalkers who don't understand no or is that just a stereotype?

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Actually, it's just a thread I saw on Twitter; thought I'd share.

Continue.

As someone in an open relationship, the most important thing to keep in mind is COMMUNICATE, COMMUNICATE, COMMUNICATE. You need to be able to be able to talk about things and not hide them.

If you can establish that level of trust, you will benefit a lot and become closer.

Why are you guys giving him a hard time for his age? AT LEAST he's trying to get a job and contribute.

Seriously, people who discriminate against long-term unemployed who want to turn their life around are idiots.

Let him ****ing be a contributor.

By looking the other way when it comes to hosting alt-right content, they are enabling these people to spread hate speech.

It's good that the European Union is trying to at least warn these companies to up their game.

At the recent Gridiron Club Dinner, Trump started off with, "My staff was concerned that I couldn't do self-deprecating humor. And I told them not to worry, nobody does self-deprecating humor better than I do. Orrin Hatch said that 'Donald Trump is the best at self-deprecation in the history of America. Better than Washington and better than Lincoln."

Some of his jokes:

On the "failing New York Times":
"You, The New York Times, are an icon. I'm a New York icon, you're a New York icon. And the only difference is, I still own my buildings."

On Vice President Mike Pence's "Graham rule:":
"The other day we were in line shaking hands with men and women, and a woman came over to shake his hand and he said, 'I'm sorry I can't do that, my wife is not here.' He's 25 years ahead of his time, folks."

On talk of impeachment:
"Lately, [Pence has been] showing a particularly keen interest in the news these days. He starts out each morning asking everyone, 'Has he been impeached yet?' Mike, you can't be impeached when there's no crime, please remember that."

On White House departures:
"So many people have been leaving the White House. It's actually been really exciting and invigorating 'cause you want new thought. So, I like turnover. I like chaos. It really is good. Now the question everyone keeps asking is, 'Who is going to be the next to leave? Steve Miller or Melania?'

On Dreamers and the 2020 presidential Election:
"But we were talking about the Dreamers and quite honestly, Democrats can fantasize all they want about winning in 2020 ... those are the dreamers."

What if you want to move, hmm?

I will never again squat on a toilet seat...

You never know when a mentally ill teacher will have a breakdown and try to take down the entire class.

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Bad_Mojo posted...

Why did they bring in that idiotic kid to play the blue ranger?

Now THIS is Rangering!

How do you even get fast enough to take a dump on someone?

As stupid as this practice is, recruiters discriminate against NEETs, keeping them in that lifestyle for even more time.

Dubya says it will take a while for objective historians to show up, but looks like they're already starting to appear.

If Microsoft failed bigly with phones, what makes you think they can do portable gaming?

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The Trump administration is pretty much gaslighting America every time they go "GAWD, I was just joking"

If you've ever been in an abusive relationship, this is easy to spot.

What an old fat f***

I prayed to him to stop further school shootings, and yet another one happened the other day.

Why? Is this part of God's plan?

Ants and bees are sinners and they're going to hell.

Shape of Water is a no-go :c

Come on, dude. This is bs

Where is the source for that video's claims?

Sad if true...

Since taking over as Ubers CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi has done a lot of talking about his company doing the right thing, and how hes changing its toxic culture. A new study from researchers at MIT might have a bullet point to add to his to-do list. It finds that once costs are included, 74 percent of rideshare drivers are making less than minimum wage and many are losing money.

A working paper from MITs Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research compared a survey of over 1,100 drivers for Uber and Lyft with detailed vehicle cost information and found that 30 percent of the workforce is actually paying to work after vehicle expenses are taken into account. Overall, their findings paint a bleak picture: The median profit for drivers came out to just $3.37 per hour before taxes.

The researchers used data from Edmunds, Kelly Blue Book, and the Environmental Protection Agency to determine the cost of insurance, maintenance, gas, and depreciation for various vehicle models. Cross-referenced with drivers self-reported revenue, mileage, and vehicle models, that information yielded discouraging results. Stephen Zoepf, a co-author of the paper, told The Guardian that its quite possible that drivers dont realize quite how much they are spending. He said that many drivers are effectively borrowing money against the value of their cars and subsidizing the ridesharing companies by working for low wages. When you combine that subsidy with the billions of dollars in venture capital that these companies are losing each year, Zoepf concludes that this business model is not currently sustainable.

According to the working paper, 74 percent of drivers are earning less than the minimum wage in their states once these costs are included, with the average driver only pulling in $661 of profit per month. For those who are considering working for ride-hailing service, this data should give them pause. Those who already doing it should pay close attention to the papers finding that the median profit is 29 cents per mile. The researchers say that drivers could possibly take advantage of the standard mileage deduction that tops out at 54 cents per mile and declare a loss on their taxes. So while rideshare services are losing billions of dollars, billions more dollars of driver income may be mistakenly getting taxed. Meanwhile, other recent studies have found these companies are just making traffic worse.

from Gizmodo

We've become desensitized to this stuff at this point.

Who's going to pay my healthcare costs? There are shooting survivors in America who are struggling with medical bills and people have forgotten these brave people.

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Ben_Ruggiero posted...

Well I can tell you it looks really weird when an over qualified person applies for a job, we do usually toss those because it makes no sense. Just this week I had a guy with a degree from Illinois University and Duke. Like why the fuck are you applying for a cashier job when you have two degrees.

Because they want to put food on the table and a roof over their head. Don't beat them up just because they couldn't get a job in their field of study. Not everyone has that luxury. At the end of the day, they just want to pay the bills.

I don't want gay one because I can't relate

Some weird logic you got there. Just because you can't relate doesn't mean you can't have a good relationship with them. A straight person can be friends with a gay person, and through conversation, they can learn more about each other's experiences.

Romulox28 posted...

my ultra conservative mom blames it on a lack of religiosity, crumbling family values, The View (the TV show, not sure how this works in), liberal teachers, and violent video games/movies

Tell her that the Nordic countries are nonreligious and liberal, and that they are very safe countries. I wonder what her response will be.

Just because he says a thing once doesn't mean anything.

He held up a rainbow flag, then tries to ban trans people from the military.

He'll flip flop whenever it's convenient.

That was a good AMA. Lots of nice answers.

https://twitter.com/Emma4Change
https://twitter.com/NRA

lol

During the election, when Bernie Sanders was questioned about his "spirituality," you could just tell he was dancing his way around saying he wasn't into the Christian God. If he flat out admitted that, there would surely be fury and outrage.

Sad, isn't it?

Her words are as empty as her monotone accent.

https://twitter.com/CNN/status/968179806272704512

lmao, such irony. What a useless First Lady.

What if you bribe the ref?

Watch out for the drug violence.

Says that the power dynamics is a factor that makes proper consent fishy. What say you?

In a new essay for Vanity Fair, Monica Lewinsky said the #MeToo movement has forced her to confront the power dynamics of her 1990s affair with then-President Bill Clinton.

"I am in awe of the sheer courage of the women who have stood up and begun to confront entrenched beliefs and institutions. But as for me, my history, and how I fit in personally? I'm sorry to say I don't have a definitive answer yet on the meaning of all of the events that led to the 1998 investigation; I am unpacking and reprocessing what happened to me," Lewinsky wrote in a piece published Sunday.

Lewinsky's affair with Clinton was made public during the 1998 investigation conducted by independent counsel Ken Starr. The affair led to Clinton's eventual impeachment for lying under oath about the relationship, among other statements. Clinton was later acquitted.

Lewinsky, who disclosed that she suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of the ordeal, said the #MeToo movement began to change her mind about the affair and the subsequent investigation.

She acknowledged that her past descriptions of the affair, which emphasized that the relationship was consensual, didn't address the dynamics of consent -- namely that Lewinsky was a White House intern in her early 20s and Clinton was one of the most powerful men in the world.

"I now see how problematic it was that the two of us even got to a place where there was a question of consent. Instead, the road that led there was littered with inappropriate abuse of authority, station, and privilege. (Full stop.)" she wrote.