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You’re getting into some definitional issues here. The band Indigo Girls is 2 women. Do they use additional musicians on stage and during recording? Are some of them male? Yes, but the band itself is Emily & Amy. How meaningful is it to say you’re an all female band when there’s a rotating cast of ...

Interestingly, a lot of the female singers that I've enjoyed lately tour with all-male or mostly-male groups of performers on instruments. Alice Merton, K.Flay, Zella Day, etc., they mostly have males playing instruments. They're doing well in their careers and could presumably get female backing pe...

Kolohe wrote: ↑

Yesterday, 20:10

It is exactly what people are doing when asked "What's the legal basis for deploying ground troops to Syria?"

Pretty much. The post-9/11 AUMF seems to be treated as authorization to get involved in any fight where at least one combatant is either a Muslim or has Muslim friends.

Giuliani has joined Trump's legal team.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/19/us/p ... trump.html

"Are you finding it harder to enjoy running your totalitarian hellhole? Have you ever lamented that theocratic rule had way more meetings than you were expecting? Do you feel like La Revolucion has lost its luster? Well, we have just the place for you! Come to Dictatopia, the all-inclusive resort fo...

Theranos still exists?

David French has quite possibly the dumbest take on the Starbucks thing. Because IAT tests are bullshit (true), subconscious bias is fake (wat?). The dude has black daughters, I’m sure when they get older they’ll tell him about how they get followed around stores and treated suspiciously and sudden...

I agree with Radley Balko's take on this clusterfuck: "As a libertarian, I've voted for candidates from the LP as well as from both major parties. But I can't remember wanting one party to lose as badly as I want the GOP to lose in November. They basically need to start from scratch." Careful what ...

I mean, Deplorably Scottish has a point? It does look like that guy more than anyone who's been a runner-up in a Superbowl or the Oscars? I'm pretty terrified of what will happen if it turns out that she's lying about this part. Or, really, anything. All it takes is one provable lie and Trump's opp...

Not that anyone really wanted a contemporary clone of Lost In Space , but we start with the problem that the 'reboot' isn't Lost In Space . I was ready to write it off after three episodes, but I let it run into the fourth episode while paying attention to something else and it somehow caught my at...

I gotta think continental drift goes completely different (but not necessarily just 'the opposite') if the earth's spin is reversed. I doubt it. Coriolis effects are pretty tiny compared to the forces at work in tectonics, especially at the very low relative velocities. It makes a difference in flu...

Not to mention that it destroys the triumphalism of the civic religion, which is half the fucking point of high school history class. High school history class should end with "And then America elected its First Black President and we were all so happy that we'd fixed that thing. The End." "What hap...

Not sure that cable "news" hosts count as journalists, but this is a devastating comment on Hannity:

Eric the .5b wrote: ↑

16 Apr 2018, 17:54

So, the writing is like a public school textbook.

*sob*

Yes.

*sob* *cuts self* *listens to sad 90's music*

nicole wrote: ↑

16 Apr 2018, 17:47

Holy shit I’ve only clicked on the top left picture and the writing itself is horrendous

Mostly
Largely

Not to mention the error of “ideologically” for “ideological”

I think that textbook author may have written a lab report that I had to grade.

Faux-Woke Capitalism is enough to make me want to vote for Bernie. Eh. Some peoples' money needs to be redistributed, via completely voluntary exchange, away from them. That's how I see empty puffery rhetoric like that on a product. True. Maybe Faux-Woke Capitalism is simply The Market's way of mak...

Faux-Woke Capitalism is enough to make me want to vote for Bernie.

Somebody call an ambulance for Jason.

Now, shall we get our protein from aborted fetuses, or from prisoners executed for aborting fetuses?

Eric the .5b wrote: ↑

13 Apr 2018, 17:05

thoreau wrote: ↑

13 Apr 2018, 16:16

Enough abortion. When do we get to grammar? Or condiments?

Prescriptive or descriptive mayonnaise?

I suspect my doctor would prescribe that I only eat low-fat mayo.

Enough abortion. When do we get to grammar? Or condiments?

Relationship with Kim will definitely be key to Jimmy's final evolution into Saul. But I just don't see Jimmy leaving Chuck's estate unchallenged. Whether outright contesting the will (though I am quite sure that Chuck wrote an airtight will), trying to claim he is owed compensation for caring for C...

Just watched season 3. I suspect that Chuck will die, and that will be part of what pushes Jimmy more and more to become Saul. Not just because of the loss of his brother (however complicated that relationship was), but because of the inevitable fight over the estate. Chuck was loaded, it's a show w...

I thought yesterday's episode was pretty good. It held my interest. But it doesn't feel like it's building up to a resolution for these characters. It still feels like they're just keeping on keeping on, doing their thing. I don't feel like there's an actual point to Gennady and Sofia. Stan has been...

dhex wrote: ↑

12 Apr 2018, 18:57

the nra is very invested in setting everything they have on fire for some reason.

Brave Patriots have died to protect their Second Amendment right to shoot themselves in the foot. If they don't exercise that right then what's the point?

I won't claim he's a plant, but I will note these kids did not develop an organization. They were picked up by the usual collection of lefty orgs and pushed forward. And so...? Yeah, that's where I'm at. These kids are sympathetic figures, but if left alone they would go down one or more of the fol...