For you youngsters out there, Polaroid was how we used to have to take pictures of our dicks, back in the days before cell phones. This is the sad end of an era.
When you come back, tell me it didn't hurt your eyes. And the content? It's the perfect storm of shallow smugness, undergrad "liberal" values and hot takes. It's barista journalism. Now I'm liberal myself, even leftist, but reading vox.com makes me want to go out and punch a grad student.
Truth. Vox dot com is a garbage media source. They specialize in these "hot takes" that always end up to be shallow Freakonomics horseshit. "Gee, some studies suggest smoking may actually be good for you!" or "Why do so many successful people drink water?"
I'm not saying it's because Vox is made up of a bunch of 20-something journo students who couldn't find jobs anywhere else, or that it's because Ezra Klein was one of the founders. It might be something else.
Vox likes to set up their stories as "explainer cardstacks" (yes, this is a term of art). It means basically great big graphics with no indication of data sources and video. And they wrap it all up in ugly typography and web design that makes it one of the least pleasurable spots on the Internet. Don't believe me? See for yourself. But wait: it's also one of those sites that if you happen to use adblock or a script blocker, just turns to a long, ugly list of links, looking like something circa 1993.
I hate Vox. It's Forbes, except run by a bunch of 20-somethings with associates degrees in art & design.
You know very well that there isn't a citation in the world that's going to convince you. You're just going to respond, "But that doesn't show what you said!" to everything I post. Because that's how you do.
Holy moly, this story is a lot of horseshit. There are one thousand, eight hundred and forty five private universities in the US. In 2010, there were 27.9 million businesses in the United States, and 18,500 or so have more than 500 employees. That means that at least 27.8 million of those businesses are what you'd call small businesses, which can mean one employee who happens to be the CEO for his little corporation that sells t-shirts on Etsy. I guarantee that the average salary of one of those corporations with more than 500 employees is a great deal more than the average university president where there are more than 500 employees.
So what we have here are two things being compared. One of which is defined and the other which is not. Does anyone know what you get when you take the average of something that is not defined?
I swear to Jesus, it's no wonder people are so dizzy that they're willing to vote for the spawn of Biff Tanner and Benito Mussolini for president. This is what they get for news.
for a party that will pass unconstitutional laws requiring ID to vote on the mere thought that someone MIGHT commit voter fraud despite a lack of any evidence.
That made what happened in Nevada even more entertaining. It explains why the GOP might think there's rampant voter fraud...because they have the receipts to prove it.
when these measurements corroborate the existing (and already very convincing) evidence for sea level rise, the wingnuts will come up with yet another obscure rationalization explaining why they should be discarded or ignored.
If the fact that coastal cities are starting to flood at an increasing rate hasn't been enough to convince them, do you really think satellite data's going to do it?
If you can't see how a President with no qualifications whose platform was "Hope" and "God Damn America" could set the stage for Trump your mind is warped by bias. Oh, and Obama is backed by extremist who have actually murdered people.
As you can all see, I didn't imagine this mentality. Obama caused Trump by exhorting people to hope. Oh, and Reverend Wright, who is his chief of staff.
The problem on college campuses is that people's first amendment rights are being trampled because some people can't handle hearing things that don't fit their worldview.
There have never been more outlets for speech. Unfettered, unedited, free speech.
These kids just need to grow up and learn some coping mechanisms.
So what you're saying is, it's not the feminists, it's not the scary poor people, it's the kids these days who are oppressing the white male.
Between the war on drugs, the socialisation of risk and privatisation of profit, uncapping of political donationa and corporate protectionism masquerading as free trade, working class people are pretty much being oppressed.
And the oppressing class is convincing them that they're really being oppressed by those dark-complexioned people over there. And feminists, of course, because nothing says "jack-booted oppressor" like some college girl who doesn't shave her armpits.
When Donald Trump says, "I love the poorly educated", he gave a glimpse into the mindset of the people who mean us absolutely no good.
Campaign donations. Lots and lots of campaign donations.
The tens of millions that Disney spends on political donations, lobbying and superPACs net them a nice little benefit:
Between 1991 and 2012 Disney received subsidies from state governments worth an estimated $415,029,259, according to data compiled by Good Jobs First. The top five states that have given subsides to Disney are:[17]
California: $202,003,320, including $200 million the city of Anaheim agreed to spend on a parking lot and infrastructure development in 1996.[18] Connecticut: $146,476,555, including a corporate income tax break for ESPN worth $75 million from 2000-2004 and a $17.5 million low-cost construction loan in 2011.[19] South Carolina: $31,765,067 in tax credits/rebates for subsidiary Touchstone Television Productions New York: $18,893,594 in tax credits/rebates and property tax abatements for ABC Louisiana: $7,099,287 in tax credits/rebates
You raise interesting points. I'll have to think about this a little while.
This means that any disruption to your trade threatens survival - doesn't matter if it's due to globalism or the guy next door.
If it's the guy next door, I can walk over and talk to him about it. If it's globalism, I can only slide downhill. Because there will always be someone in worse shape than you who will undercut your price.
I'm really starting to believe that we've reached peak uregulated capitalism some years ago. At least we've maxed out capitalism's capability to improve our lives. Maybe, like socialism or even communism, capitalism is only capable of taking your society from here to there and no further.
However, with the constant childish name-calling, spite-filled, intolerant, unadulterated hate that comes from the extreme left-wing in this country, I would never ever identify myself as a "progressive". What the left has become is to spit in the face of what true liberalism is about and many rational nominally left leaning people don't want anything to do with it.
There's a difference between those excellent points and blaming "Obama and the SJWs" for the milk going bad.
Donald Trump is not the outcome of leftist policies. He's the result of a major political party riding the tiger of talk radio shock jocks who are all trying to be more horrible than the next one and calling it "talking tough". It's the result of the Southern Strategy, it's the result of creating a victim mentality among white working class people, convincing them that they're being oppressed. It's the result of a cheapening of discourse and the stoking of irrational fears - of xenophobia and plain, old bigotry. It's the result of the "bully effect", where weak-minded people feel empathy toward the strong papa-figure, as long as he sounds sufficiently like a hard-ass. It's the result of a fascism that's been dormant in the US for over a century and a half and really started to flower in 1980. The 20th century was stained with rivers of blood from what happens when that sort of ugliness takes hold in a portion of a society.
Don't blame some stupid college kids or feminists for the rise of the first candidate in decades that's been embraced by actual white supremacists and Nazis.
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Seen on a bumper sticker:
"If it ain't fossil fuel, then it ain't energy"
For you youngsters out there, Polaroid was how we used to have to take pictures of our dicks, back in the days before cell phones. This is the sad end of an era.
For those of you who doubt what I said above, go visit for yourself:
http://www.vox.com/
When you come back, tell me it didn't hurt your eyes. And the content? It's the perfect storm of shallow smugness, undergrad "liberal" values and hot takes. It's barista journalism. Now I'm liberal myself, even leftist, but reading vox.com makes me want to go out and punch a grad student.
I ain't fucking with no gamma rays, that's for damn sure.
Truth. Vox dot com is a garbage media source. They specialize in these "hot takes" that always end up to be shallow Freakonomics horseshit. "Gee, some studies suggest smoking may actually be good for you!" or "Why do so many successful people drink water?"
I'm not saying it's because Vox is made up of a bunch of 20-something journo students who couldn't find jobs anywhere else, or that it's because Ezra Klein was one of the founders. It might be something else.
Vox likes to set up their stories as "explainer cardstacks" (yes, this is a term of art). It means basically great big graphics with no indication of data sources and video. And they wrap it all up in ugly typography and web design that makes it one of the least pleasurable spots on the Internet. Don't believe me? See for yourself. But wait: it's also one of those sites that if you happen to use adblock or a script blocker, just turns to a long, ugly list of links, looking like something circa 1993.
I hate Vox. It's Forbes, except run by a bunch of 20-somethings with associates degrees in art & design.
You want a link that shows white people feel like they're oppressed by black people? Here, with plenty of links to particular surveys:
http://www.vice.com/read/white...
You know very well that there isn't a citation in the world that's going to convince you. You're just going to respond, "But that doesn't show what you said!" to everything I post. Because that's how you do.
http://dailycaller.com/2015/11...
http://www.avoiceformen.com/fe...
You set 'em up, goose, and I'll knock 'em down.
Of course Ted Cruz is trying to kill the net neutrality rules. He's the fucking Zodiac Killer.
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/20...
Holy moly, this story is a lot of horseshit. There are one thousand, eight hundred and forty five private universities in the US. In 2010, there were 27.9 million businesses in the United States, and 18,500 or so have more than 500 employees. That means that at least 27.8 million of those businesses are what you'd call small businesses, which can mean one employee who happens to be the CEO for his little corporation that sells t-shirts on Etsy. I guarantee that the average salary of one of those corporations with more than 500 employees is a great deal more than the average university president where there are more than 500 employees.
So what we have here are two things being compared. One of which is defined and the other which is not. Does anyone know what you get when you take the average of something that is not defined?
I swear to Jesus, it's no wonder people are so dizzy that they're willing to vote for the spawn of Biff Tanner and Benito Mussolini for president. This is what they get for news.
That was my point. I must not have made it clear enough.
That made what happened in Nevada even more entertaining. It explains why the GOP might think there's rampant voter fraud...because they have the receipts to prove it.
https://news.vice.com/article/...
If the fact that coastal cities are starting to flood at an increasing rate hasn't been enough to convince them, do you really think satellite data's going to do it?
http://www.theguardian.com/env...
Then you can feel justification, as the water laps up over your ankles.
http://www.theguardian.com/env...
You can play Steam games offline.
It's something you search for on Pornhub, I think.
As you can all see, I didn't imagine this mentality. Obama caused Trump by exhorting people to hope. Oh, and Reverend Wright, who is his chief of staff.
There have never been more outlets for speech. Unfettered, unedited, free speech.
So what you're saying is, it's not the feminists, it's not the scary poor people, it's the kids these days who are oppressing the white male.
You've made my point.
And the oppressing class is convincing them that they're really being oppressed by those dark-complexioned people over there. And feminists, of course, because nothing says "jack-booted oppressor" like some college girl who doesn't shave her armpits.
When Donald Trump says, "I love the poorly educated", he gave a glimpse into the mindset of the people who mean us absolutely no good.
http://www.independent.co.uk/n...
The tens of millions that Disney spends on political donations, lobbying and superPACs net them a nice little benefit:
You raise interesting points. I'll have to think about this a little while.
If it's the guy next door, I can walk over and talk to him about it. If it's globalism, I can only slide downhill. Because there will always be someone in worse shape than you who will undercut your price.
I'm really starting to believe that we've reached peak uregulated capitalism some years ago. At least we've maxed out capitalism's capability to improve our lives. Maybe, like socialism or even communism, capitalism is only capable of taking your society from here to there and no further.
CPU processes you!
No, just sex with other people.
Globalism. That's what's biting us in the ass.
There is no such thing as a free market. There has never been a free market. The free market is a fairy tale used to keep people in economic bondage.
There's a difference between those excellent points and blaming "Obama and the SJWs" for the milk going bad.
Donald Trump is not the outcome of leftist policies. He's the result of a major political party riding the tiger of talk radio shock jocks who are all trying to be more horrible than the next one and calling it "talking tough". It's the result of the Southern Strategy, it's the result of creating a victim mentality among white working class people, convincing them that they're being oppressed. It's the result of a cheapening of discourse and the stoking of irrational fears - of xenophobia and plain, old bigotry. It's the result of the "bully effect", where weak-minded people feel empathy toward the strong papa-figure, as long as he sounds sufficiently like a hard-ass. It's the result of a fascism that's been dormant in the US for over a century and a half and really started to flower in 1980. The 20th century was stained with rivers of blood from what happens when that sort of ugliness takes hold in a portion of a society.
Don't blame some stupid college kids or feminists for the rise of the first candidate in decades that's been embraced by actual white supremacists and Nazis.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-...