No country on earth has successfully contained Covid-19 without closing nonessential businesses and paying people to stay home. Government intervention is the only way out. Pretending capitalism and personal responsibility are enough has caused thousands of preventable deaths.
I don’t really understand how people who were young in the 80s act so confused about different gender identities and expressions when the celebrities of their time looked like this
I admit it’s a low priority but I would support legislation that made “pet rent” illegal. I don’t know how we normalized this practice over the last decade or so but it’s a scam.
ADHD hack: Keeping my fridge and freezer inventory on the outside so I can remember what food I have and actually eat it instead of forgetting it exists
Something I think about a lot is how viciously unfair it must feel to pay the medical bills associated with being shot by a total stranger for no reason other than that you dared to leave your house
One of the most freeing pieces of information I ever learned is that a huge number of middle class or upper-middle class people just pay a cleaning service to come through once or twice a month for a deep clean.
Babies scream on planes because their ears hurt and they don’t understand why and don’t have any other skills to communicate. Because they’re babies. It’s weird for adults to get mad about that!
These are not my only loans, just the dumbest and highest-interest loans. The *current* cost of tuition at the University of Kansas is $10,092 a year so wealthier families will actually pay a tiny fraction of what I will have paid for the same education.
I don’t want to read any more stories about random bigoted players who object to Pride. Write about athletes who support LGBTQ people and why it matters to them. Find an athlete who’s a big supporter of their queer sibling/cousin/friend. That’s your timely Pride sports angle.
“All of the Zoomers that work for me are bisexual, and all of them have long covid,” Sean McElwee said. “I’ll believe long covid is real when someone who is not bisexual has it.”
You’re telling me these people were all over TV when you were in your 20s but now you can’t function without rigidly defined and enforced gender roles? Sounds fishy.
I’m not saying you should or should not hire cleaning help! I’m saying you should give yourself more grace rather than holding yourself to an impossible standard! But thanks for all the bizarrely grumpy replies and QTs, you miserable weirdos.
There is simply no way my dog is doing an extra $500 A YEAR in damage or wear and tear. I already put down a deposit! It is already legal to bill/sue me for damages exceeding the deposit! You’re just being greedy.
It didn’t matter in 2011 and it matters even less now! If 12 years of professional experience and a bunch of references and work samples aren’t enough, I don’t know what to tell you.
The number of trans athletes even attempting to compete in college sports is so tiny that it’s hard not to interpret these policies as purely political
Being good at your job won’t save you from layoffs. Being indispensable won’t save you. Being a jack of all trades won’t guarantee you any kind of security. The people in charge don’t care if the work is good. They only care about lining their own pockets.
The only argument against a massive stimulus/bailout is “I am personally opposed to people getting something I don’t think they deserve and I feel so strongly about it that I’m willing to sacrifice innocent lives and the economy.”
Media has been both-sidesing this a bit. The only viable solution is for the federal government to write big fat checks. There is no evidence that any other approach would work.
There are two sides to this argument: “Providing financial relief to businesses and individuals will keep America afloat while businesses are closed to prevent both the spread of Covid and economic disaster” vs. “No it won’t”
@JonMurray
I really think it’s a pretty transparent ploy ti get more money out of tenants. Developers saw the data that millennials are really into their pets and saw an opportunity.
Oh also we’re gonna need to do something about the rent. Even if you don’t care about other people, you’re gonna care about the ripple effects of mass homelessness.
MOST sexual assaults will not have enough evidence to bring forth charges. That doesn’t mean they didn’t happen, and it sure as hell doesn’t mean the survivors are lying.
To me, advocating for government relief and business shutdowns is no more political than advocating for masks in public. All of this is what experts recommend.
“I want you to feel welcome but I’m not gonna wear the welcoming jersey because I choose, in 2023, to align myself with a sect of Christianity that willfully misinterprets the Bible for the purpose of discrimination.”
James Reimer, Logan Couture and David Quinn all spoke with the media. Here is Reimer's official statement about declining to wear a Pride jersey tonight ...
Get out of the cities. Move to a farm in the middle of nowhere. Raise baby alpacas. Walk your kids to the park without fear of being attacked or stepping on a drug-needle. There is more to life than $8 cappuccinos and gloomy 300 sq foot studio apartments.
The general secret to optimize a house for ADHD is to make as many things as possible visible: open storage, clear containers, command hooks for everything, labels for stuff that’s hidden in drawers or cabinets
They don’t warn you in journalism school about how much grief you’ll feel in this industry, how many times your whole world will turn upside down because some rich guy decided to destroy something you dedicated your life to
This kind of shit is a leading reason I never reported any of my sexual assaults. If you can’t prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that it happened exactly the way you said it did, people like Adam Schefter will call you a liar.
This is why Deshaun Watson, from the beginning, welcomed a police investigation: He felt he knew that the truth would come out. And today, a grand jury did not charge him on any of the criminal complaints.
Am I the only person who doesn’t share my location or monitor other people’s locations? I use FindMy exclusively for keeping track of my wallet, keys, iPad, AirPods, etc
I wrote about how location-sharing has become so ingrained in relationships, it's now a curse, with users learning things about their friends, families, and partners that they never wanted or needed to know!! for
@bustle
This is the start of Keon Coleman's first press conference as a member of the Buffalo Bills.
Covering this man is going to be a real treat.
#BillsMafia
@WKBW
This idea would be fine if the WNBA were a new concept but the W — and its teams and its branding — has been around for more than 25 years. You’re late. These discussions occurred while Bill was writing stuff like this:
Serbia's Bogdan Bogdanovic on why teammate Nikola Jokic hasn't talked with the media at the Olympics: “He’s great, but he only likes to talk to me, you know that. In the NBA, if he doesn’t talk to media, he’ll get fined. But here (in the Olympics), there are no fines. So he says,
@flsku
You sacrificed way more for that education than anyone should have to. To think, you did all that and some rich kid just showed up and wrote a check.
@thesarahkelly
All the WNBA had to do was be welcoming and appreciative of finally being seen as legitimate in the eyes of mainstream basketball fans. Instead, it's been all hostility and toxicity.
@Julie_Butcher
@MoCrunch1
I agree, the county attorney’s refusal to arrest officers for the extrajudicial murder of a black man is absolutely horrible, criminal, and wrong.
Treasurer for an Essex middle school’s parent teacher student association admitted he drained $29,000 that kids raised selling chocolate bars, and spent it on DraftKings and FanDuel
Cosmo’s Pizza and Qdoba and Moe’s bagels don’t have chicken tikka masala, so I usually go to Little India for that. Sorry if this reflects poorly on me.
Spokesman for Bill Cosby calls Eddie Murphy a “Hollywood Slave” after Murphy’s opening monologue on “Saturday Night Live” mocking the disgraced comedian
I guess I foolishly assumed people would be better at recognizing how rude and off-putting it is to join an established group, fandom, culture, etc, and immediately start demanding a bunch of changes and talking over the people who built it.
One of the most important things they should be teaching in journalism school right now is that cops lie. All the time. In every jurisdiction. Treat them with the same suspicion you’d treat any suspect in a murder investigation.
So I finally had a chance to tell my therapist that I lost my job and so naturally we have to have the “Can you afford to stay in therapy while your whole world is falling apart?” conversation that I’ve had with many therapists and I fucking hate this country sometimes