An NPR reporter was fired over his "offensive" stand-up comedy routines. An arbitrator said, actually, the jokes are funny, and ordered him to be reinstated.
A cautionary tale about the boundaries of remote work (and the jokes are pretty good too):
@cityafreaks
Like I could see an ad where a guy gets in his truck and heads off to a shooting range to meet his buddies, but something about a guy alone in his BMW with a fancy German gun with a silencer... who would this appeal to?
People aren't always assholes - CA sent out an emergency text to conserve power and the red line shows how we dropped from above forecast usage to below over an hour. I myself turned off my ac for the first time in 10 days.
I don't mean to pile on but I feel like this explains a key part of why people think the economy is so bad - corporations try to make people think a premium service is the same as a non-premium one and when they succeed, it makes people think basic things are crazy expensive.
@sam_d_1995
@KFILE
Why? It's the same cost as eating in the restaurant, and I don't have to traumatize my autistic 16-year-old by forcing him to sit through a meal in a noisy restaurant...
@420mercymain
Gonna be replaced with a system where you scan a QR code next to the best description of your sins, and your penance pops up on your phone.
@morninggloria
The good news is that they will get no takers on this proposal. This isn't remotely close to a market rate even in a bad market with a person with limited credentials.
It's worth showing this reply, because to me it validates what I suspect, that a lot of people feel guilty about their personal consumption and can't do anything about it, so they dream a socialist government will do mandatory reduction of the consumption of the entire country:
Blue state liberals are eventually going to have to decide whether they want to morph all the way into Country Club Republicans from the 90s or make choices that reflect the values we espouse.
NYTimes has a fantastic article about the rise in pedestrian deaths. Crucial points:
-the increase is entirely coming from night accidents
-it coincides with the time people are most on smartphones
-relocation to southern states is likely a factor
@GwenithMillie
@north0fnorth
I'm ready for that conversation. 28% of driving-age adults are not drunk at any given time, and most of those people are smart enough not to drive drunk, so 28% of accidents being caused by drunk drivers is an insanely high number.
@ryanlcooper
Two very valid societal issues brought up here: at what age should a person be held criminally liable for his actions? And
Who the fuck thinks picking a tulip should be a crime for a person at any age?
@MoodyKnowsNada
@kenklippenstein
More like "I asked my landlord to decrease my rent by $50 a month in exchange for one big payment of $10,000 annually, because I can turn that $50 into SO MUCH MORE than $10,000 with my hustle."
I just continue to find it fascinating that everyone went and majored in STEM like everyone said to and not only did nobody notice, people talk more than ever about useless gender and ethnic studies degrees
@GwenithMillie
@north0fnorth
Lol, legal discrimination. Kudos to you if this is a bit. If not, I'm sure you will grow up out of this nonsense eventually.
Lol, it is pretty insane this kind of thing happened, in retrospect, but people growing up today have no idea what that environment was like, just one thing on TV that everyone was absolutely fixated on....
@uhshanti
Well let's just hope he doesn't get hit by a bus tomorrow, or it turns into a "Man Who Got One Moderna Shot and One Pfizer Shot Dies" headline.
Dems are simply not ready for this - we have lulled people into thinking we can build up a social welfare state just by taxing the 1% and deficit spending at low rates. Meanwhile, rich blue state districts still want a SALT tax cut.
NEW from me at CNN. The 10-year bond hit 4.7% today. Washington never locked in those 1-3% interest rates, and now the debt is rolling over into these rates at the same time deficits soar too.
If rates stay above 4% long-term, were in deep trouble. (1/)
I think I am the only person on Twitter who does not see Feinstein's staffers as abusive monsters.... like, were they supposed to all walk away and let her try to navigate her job on her own? Does anyone think she was actively trying to resign and people tried to stop her?
@conorsen
It feels like a very under-discussed story how well WA is doing compared to the rest of America. Part of that is they were first, but not all of it. Nobody seems to be on their trajectory, except maybe CA, and only if we start bending the curve hard starting today.
I find myself singling out Noah a lot lately but like...did he not know people like this existed? There are 600,000 settlers and these type of views have been commonly expressed even by members of the government for decades.
@hottamali02
Yeah what's next? Women's bathrooms? Clothing designed for women's bodies? Testing drugs and medical procedures on women so we can see how they react?
@scottjshapiro
Reminds me of when we were told Jordan Peterson was a Very Serious thinker and to stop ignoring him and then he went on an all meat diet and went to Russia for a weird medical treatment.
@ryxcommar
INDEX MATCH is for people who insist you must always hand grind your own coffee immediately before brewing or there’s literally no purpose to drinking it.
@benegotherit
I would have found it easier to keep getting massaged and saying "actually that's not working, could you please stop?" but hey, that's just me.
It's awesome because even if this passed, who cares, Senate isn't going to remove him, but clearly the dude was like "fuck these numb nuts, I'm going to spoil their good time even if it might kill me."
I too actually had not taken a close look at how much GrubHub etc. upsells even when you order take out, and once I did, I'm out - back to calling the restaurant and picking up myself or using their own website to order when they have one that doesn't upsell.
@HannahPosted
Everyone acts like every person who goes into the trades gets to rise to the level of highly successful business owner and none of them spend their career as the guy who works for that guy.
@victorerikray
Jefferson was dark. He started out talking about how it was a peculiar institution that would quietly end over generations to ending his life frankly talking about his slave breeding business:
@OGTedBerg
My hs baseball coach had a play where when someone tried to steal 2nd the catcher tosses the ball in the air like a pop up to try to make the runner go back and get tagged out. My job as 1B was to try to make a bat sound like there was a hit. It did work once.
@clhubes
There's a good comedy bit about where the comic is relaying a mom losing her shit at her kid at a restaurant and how he went from "what a shit parent" before having a kid to "what did the child DO to that poor woman??" after.
@clhubes
No funnier relationship dynamic then when those kids grow into hanging out with each other all day while vehemently swearing to you they don't like each other.
@ArmandDoma
"Noooooo!! You can't get any real professional data insight unless you type into a command line using a language designed for statistical analysis!!"
@Sungod_Banished
@NotABigJerk
I find that simply repeatedly explaining to a child why they are being irrational, in an increasingly more frustrated tone of voice, very quickly soothes their fears or general concerns.
@ryxcommar
Every realtor I've ever worked with has made questionable remarks about the racial composition of the neighborhood I'm looking at. Though, I think this has more to do with them assuming every single one of their clients is racist than their own personal feelings about race.
Now we just need to keep Diablo Canyon open and build utility lines to Wyoming so we can get all that sweet evening wind power - CA right now is only at risk of blackouts in extreme heat from 6-9 pm after solar ramps down but before it cools off a little. Same time wind is strong
@CartoonsHateHer
I'm going to post "AITA for not being more impressed by my husband's Civ 6 and board game skills?" one of these days and people are going to totally fall for it.
@victorerikray
That is pretty much the story of Virginia as a whole changing from 1776 to the 1820s. They thought maybe one day they could give it up originally, then once cotton became profitable they started inventing new reasons why it was Good Actually.
Funny I was thinking how stupid it was to blow it up and start assassinating Iranian military officials and increase Iranian public support for the shenanigans of the Revolutionary Guard.
@fedtanyl
If you asked them "so of every 5 people you see on the street 1 is trans?" probably 80% of the people who said that would be like "wait never mind." People just don't link decimals and fractions with real life, it's abstract math to them.
Conservatives just have absolutely no idea how to achieve their goals - just go uselessly write some more columns bemoaning low fertility rates and scolding women for not having more kids and take zero responsibility for actual policy.
I can't stop commenting on it, but it baffles me that people don't see Trump as having been inevitable. It could have happened earlier with Sarah Palin. Or Pat Buchanan, but it didn't. It could have happened later with someone else. But it happened bc GOP voters wanted it.
I don’t know that any American election in recent memory has had worse effects than Romney losing to Obama. MR would have been a fine president, and also the door wouldn’t have been open for Trump…
Even before then, there was no singular American culture - our original colonies were founded for very different reasons, some by weird religious radical dissidents and some from slave owners from Bermuda who were loyal to the British crown, but ran out of plantation space.
The "Great Replacement" already happened over a century ago. Any chance for America to be a "pure" nation - a single population with a common origin, and their biological descendants - was gone by, like, 1850
I'm sorry, can't shut up about this today, but if you believe the poll this column is based on, you are also accepting the idea that young Dem women voters believe in the Great Replacement and that older GOP male voters are woker on trans rights than young GOP voters.
@friedmandave
Well I have nothing against him buying a $125 meal via DoorDash it's just notable that he doesn't realize he is paying by for a premium service and blamed the high cost solely on inflation
I do think it's really important that we talk about Cherokee having plantations with slaves, but a big reason for that is it illustrates the extent to which they had adapted to white southern cultural practices - displacing them was about white people wanting their farms.
In today's social-justice mythology, Cherokee chief John Ross is lionized for his forceful advocacy against the Trail of Tears.
What's often left out of that story is that he also owned a plantation — and about 20 African slaves. His brother owned 41; his treasurer owned 100.
@cal_beu
"9 Sex Tips That Will Hilariously Backfire on You and Be Funny to a Theoretical Sitcom Audience if You Suspect Your Whole Life is Actually a Sitcom and Can't Let Go of the Delusion Even Though You've Tried Hard and Gone to Therapy."
I just did three tweets back and forth on wages and inflation with the people who hate Will Stancil and I'm done. Stancil is a psychopath for spending his time doing this.
Everything she said about mindless consumption of every day treats and wanting to make treats really meaningful strikes me as a totally valid personal approach, and one I try on and off again myself. It's not a worthy economic policy though.
@macs_posts
@whstancil
Yes there is and it is a person in their 20s whining that this is a historically bad time to get a job when it is actually the best labor market we've seen in decades.
@ringo_osu
@pashulman
@Lollardfish
I never much liked him in the based purely on his political philosophy, but I read a history book a few years back direct quoting a letter he wrote to his friend about how much $ he was making breeding new slaves and selling kids away at age 5 and he just revolts me now.
@vanillaopinions
There are two kinds of Obama fans, the more common "Hope and Change" fan and the less common "Obama the aloof intellectual" fan. I'm definitely in the second category.
Is anyone willing to really sit here and defend the idea that taking a picture of a random person with a Palestinian flag on their laptop and try to make them the subject of national harassment is a good way to fight antisemitism or have a decent society in general?
Miami - a woman with a Palestine sticker on her laptop was spotted at 'Motek', one of the most popular Israeli eateries in South Florida.
Some patrons were extremely bothered by her/the Palestinian sticker - would you be?
@richmintz
Sure looks like a literal middle finger to the city....
That original design looks like it would be great on every single lot pictured in the photo though.
The funny thing was people thought they heard Obama saying much more progressive things than he did - people felt betrayed when he escalated in Afghanistan, which he campaigned on!
With Biden, it's the opposite - people just don't believe he campaigned on anything progressive!
On this day 110 years ago, the Federal Reserve was created.
Since then, the US Dollar has lost more than 97% of its value.
Put another way, the US government and Federal Reserve have stolen 97% of your wealth, before you pay a penny in taxes.
It is long past time to end the…
@lxeagle17
We are screwed bc ordinary people are never going to understand why they can get the WH, Senate and House after listening to the platform Dems ran on, and then none of it gets done.
I don't try to get hyperbolic on here and I don't think I am being hyperbolic when I say the blood of these children is on Abbott's hands. They died for his political career. He is a sick person and deserves misery.
My advice would be to very nicely say "hey how about we talk to a lawyer about what percent of assets of yours I'd be likely to get in the event we divorce? Just so we have some idea of what society considers to be a reasonable way to split the bills?"
@_sn_n
Someone wants to build a second building next door but these guys are like "another apartment building? This will DESTROY our town's way of life!!"
@SeanMcElwee
@AJentleson
Don't worry all those newspaper boards will hasten to call out hypocrisy of the GOP with stern, but fair, rhetoric when they shut down the government in 2021 over the ongoing mistreatment of Chik-fil-a by the mainstream media.
@Tyler_The_Wise
Yeah seems like a lot of young people don't understand the average 90s to early 2000s HS LGBTQ experience was staying in the closet until college or later.
This shit is so bananas. Look, if this historical preservation is so important to the community, shouldn't the community then pay for her windows to be repaired or restored in whatever manner preservationists deem correct? We'd quickly learn how much people actually care then.
The local historic preservation commission will not allow this woman to replace the windows in her house, despite the fact that she pays $400/month for heat and the temperature *inside* her home gets down to 43º in winter. Insanity.
@Noahpinion
What is striking is you don't even see leftists asking for M4A anymore or anti-poverty measures, it's all just like they are cranky seniors complaining about the cost of everything.
Also relevant, some concerns we tend to have don't show up in the data:
-no increase in child pedestrian deaths
-weight of vehicles does not seem to be significant factor
There was a black woman chef on Top Chef a few years back with an Oakland restaurant. Her background was French cuisine, but she also had fried chicken on the menu. Fried chicken ended up being the main thing people ordered. That's the downside to people seeking "authenticity."
@clhubes
My kid's karate sensei always asks what they did for the weekend, and I've seen "went sledding," "had a great visit with Grandma," "had my 9th birthday party at a play center with my best friends!" all passed up in favor of "I watched TV!"
This guy is a good solid Dem. I am for democracy so it pains me to say it, but Gavin Newsom had picked two people that are probably better than whomever wins the next election.