In other words, advertisers really don’t want controversy and drama.

So, basically, it’s a complete and 1:1 replacement for most regular journalism.

This is probably one thing that Bluesky does well – you have the option (and are encouraged) to use your own domain name as a username, and you can do so without having to run an instance.

That’s probably true, and for that matter, even if you imagine a truly colorblind society exists for the next 100 years, it seems likely that inherited wealth and privilege would still be passed down.

Having said that, AA was not a very good remedy. It laser focused on only one thing, sometimes disregarding a clear reality. In an extreme example, if you took someone like David Steward’s kids, they would benefit from affirmative action despite being born to a billionaire.

Keep in mind, colleges and universities can still provide all the advantages they want based on other signals. Good ones might be family income and first-generation college students.

Probably worth pointing out: The vast majority of people are likely to agree with this, including most Black people.

Is France in the dark times?

While Dobbs was a disaster for the public’s perception of the court, the idea that race should not be a factor in college admissions is something the vast, vast majority of Americans agree with. Including 62% (a super majority) of Black respondents.

Why shouldn’t be much of a mystery, either. Part of the very basic premise of a liberal society is that everyone, regardless of their background or ethnicity, should be treated equally.

It isn’t pretty, but BitWarden is otherwise great.

Whether you vote for the police chief or not, if you break the law, you go to jail, right?

And Biden didn’t direct the special counsel (who is a Republican) that is looking into Trump. It’s actually a Trump appointee who filed the charges.

It’s explained in the first paragraph:

THE CLASSIFIEDS DOCUMENTS THAT Donald Trump is charged with mishandling were marked “SECRET” or “TOP SECRET,” the highest classification we afford our nation’s secrets. By definition, the uncontrolled release of that information could be expected to cause “serious” or “exceptionally grave” damage (respectively) to our national security.

That’s a bit more than merely classified documents.

Also, of course, Biden’s lawyer found the documents and immediately figured out how to get them properly stored. It took an FBI raid to recover Trump’s stolen documents, and not all of them have been found at that.

The situation is basically this: Biden found some classified documents, turned them in. Trump willfully and purposefully stole state secrets and did everything he could to keep them. It’s the difference between right and wrong. What Trump did was wrong, and it was intended to harm the United States.

No.

It’s not just cheap labor, it’s making regular jobs into a “hustle gig.” That shit is toxic and turning ordinary people against each other.

It shifts all of the risk onto customers, all of the costs of doing business onto the employees, while the businesses running these services just take all the value for themselves. The other day, I spent $100 to sign up for Target “same day delivery” services for a year, thinking great, I love the idea.

Then I learn it’s a tipped profession. I’m paying $100 to pay someone else “whatever I feel” to bring me groceries. I’d much rather it worked like normal, shipped goods. The mailman isn’t working a “hustle” to get me gigs and then over-compensating for tips. The guy who takes my trash is paid by the city, not working for the kindness of strangers.

We need to get rid of tipping and get rid of the gig economies. If you want to start a service, here’s a novel idea: hire employees and pay them a living wage.