Wants v Needs
All prayers are answered, but sometimes the answer is no. And sometimes the answer is “let me talk to my manager and get back to you.”
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Now it’s the very opposite
Looked at from another angle, in the past soft food was more prestigious than crunchy food. I had always put this down to two factors. First, that soft food was refined food, refined in the same sense that metals are refined, processing out the dross and getting to the pure essence or nature of the food. Second, since only the rich could regularly afford laborious soft food (easily pounded or mashed roots being a major exception), soft food was desirable food.
mimi smartypants – clean up on aisle blog
Post-surgery Rocko was very wobbly and high so I put on some YouTube for him.
Source: mimi smartypants – clean up on aisle blog
I would like to get a video of a high cat watching videos on youtube.
IT’S A TRA— no wait wrong pop myth
So the moral of the story, dear audienceis if you don’t share this post with everyone you knowI will be trapped in this internetFOREVER
Source: The Tempest, or Prospero Pisses on His Enemies | Myths RETOLD
Red Cross, an AT&T brand
Red Cross CEO Gail McGovern, who was hired to revitalize the charity, has cut hundreds of chapters and thousands of employees.
Source: How AT&T Execs Took Over the Red Cross and Hurt its Ability to Help People – ProPublica
What happens to chapters of the organization outside the US? A lot of them depend on assistance provided by the US Red Cross to enable better service.
Fuck all, is what happens to them.
When it was called “Apple Computer Inc”!
If you want to appreciate the present, try living in the past for a few days.
Source: My coworkers made me use Mac OS 9 for their (and your) amusement | Ars Technica
Ah, OS 9. Those there the bad old days.
The best explanation of the pro-life movement I’ve read
The first and most obvious reasoning is the concept that sex, under certain circumstances, warrants punishment, and an unwanted child is an acceptable, adequate form of punishment.
Source: Sluts, Souls, and the Oversimplification of the Pro-Life Movement | Meh, it’s Sarah.
It’s not that these people hate women. It is that they value the metaphysical concept of a soul over the real physical well-being of a person.
Not particularly smart either
Human bodies are basically squishy sacks of goopy grease and water emulsions held together by hydrogen bonds and disulphide bridges between protein molecules and glommed onto some big lumps of high-grade chalk.
Source: Science-fictional shibboleths – Charlie’s Diary
The most succint description of a human body I’ve read in a while.
Sure, blame the media. Easier than think about your beliefs.
Source: These Pranksters Read Bible Passages to People, Telling Them It Was the Qur’an; They Were Shocked
Of course people think the Bible is more “peaceful”. Most western countries already went through the pains of separating government from religion.
Politics favor the right genetic variances of the epidermis
As a white Anglo-Canadian, perhaps the most innocuous-seeming of all national identities, it’s been pretty easy to be an economic migrant really.
I’m brown, so I’m one of those hordes that take American jobs from Americans. I’m an undesirable that is only fit for certain lines of work, even though my work experience has been extremely varied.
It pays to be white.
vroooooom VROOOOOOOOOMMMM
Bernstein is interested in this phenomenon as “memeufacturing” — a couple of social-media stars (or garden-variety celebs) post viral videos of themselves using an obscure gadget, and halfway around the world, factories shut down their e-cig lines and convert them, almost overnight, to hoverboard manufacturing lines. Bernstein cites a source who says that there are 1,000 hoverboard factories in South China — and another one, Chic Smart, outside of Shanghai, that’s threatening to sue all the rest for patent infringement (good luck with that).
Source: Pre-mutated products: where did all those “hoverboards” come from? / Boing Boing
So we’re supposed to call them hoverboards? I want my real weather controlled, fusion powered DeLorean, then.
By the way, maybe the Segway would have been an actual, y’know, revolutionary product if it had looked like this to start with.
In the future we’ll say this was a template for future attacks.
The emails also reveal myriad surprises and previously unreported anecdotes, including one episode in which Sony spied on its own employees’ emails. Paradoxically, the hacked emails and documents provide a telling window into how and why such a disastrous hack succeeded and what companies need to do to protect themselves—which is precisely why Fortune has chosen to use this material. (For more on our thinking, see Editor’s Desk here.)
Source: Sony Pictures: Inside the Hack of the Century, Part 1 – Fortune
How can you protect an attack that comes from the place where you make a living? The consequences for these things range from unauthorized purchases to emptied bank accounts to complete identity theft.
The scary part is it will only get worse.
Analyzing 1.1 Billion NYC Taxi and Uber Trips, with a Vengeance
The New York City Taxi & Limousine Commission has released a staggeringly detailed historical dataset covering over 1.1 billion individual taxi trips in the city from January 2009 through June 2015. …
Source: Analyzing 1.1 Billion NYC Taxi and Uber Trips, with a Vengeance
The big images look amazing. Worthy of getting hanged up on a wall.
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: The Four Horsemen of Gentrification.
Source: McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: The Four Horsemen of Gentrification.
As my neighborhood is the next one in the eye of “luxury living” developers, I have seen two of the horsemen arrive.
It’s real. Really real
Source: We turned on the Nintendo PlayStation: It’s real and it works
I knew Sony and Nintendo had worked together to create the device, but I hadn’t realized there were prototypes out there.
I Gave A Speech About Race To The Publishing Industry And No One Heard Me
Here is the thing about how discrimination works: No one ever comes right out and says, “We don’t want you.” In the publishing world, they don’t say, “We just don’t want your story.” They say, “We’re not sure you’re relatable” and “You don’t want to exclude anyone with your work.” They say, “We’re not sure who your audience is.”
Source: I Gave A Speech About Race To The Publishing Industry And No One Heard Me
I see this in food service all the time. I’ve gone to places to apply for FOH jobs and been told to wait for the chef to come talk to me.
They just automatically assumed I’m there to work in the kitchen.
No, if you tell a woman to smile you’re more of a bitch than a bitch
Men don’t get told to smile like it’s their job. I don’t go up to men and say, “hey, smile! You’re so HANDSOME when you smile!
Why don’t I do that? Because it’s weird and rude and it’s none of my business if you smile or not. I don’t know you, I don’t know what you’re going through. And you don’t exist to mold yourself into whatever I think you should be. Isn’t that cool, that you’re an autonomous person?
Source: smile, you bitch: being a woman in 2015 — Medium
I’ll admit that I’ve done my fair share of idiotic things. Like most I thought I meant well, but now I’m sure in most cases it is much more likely the women I talked to got irritated and annoyed, rather than pleased.
I’m glad there are people like Nora out there, who won’t take shit from anyone and will step up and say “this is not right and we need to change it.”