I’ve met him. He owns a warehouse with some office space that my wife and I rented out for a bit. Pretty chill guy, but doesn’t understand his minor Internet fame.
Took some cash out of our deposit because we didn’t sweep and mop the floors on our way out.
When there’s something about the model that doesn’t make sense, find an alternative model where it does. It’s often quite enlightening.
In the case of credit scores, the model you’re probably thinking of is that following all the rules as written should make your credit score go up. But this is not the case. A better model is that credit score tells the bank how much money they can get out of you. They make more money from someone who is late every once in a while. That model is more consistent with reality.
Favorite just means most preferred.
Unfortunately, it’s a thing. I’ve had people try to merge onto the roundabout when I’m in it, and then honk at me when I didn’t let them through. If any of these people ever do hit my car, I am not going to try to correct them ahead of time so that they perjurer themselves to the cop who eventually shows up to take the report.
Which I think speaks to the terrible level of driver training in America. A roundabout is a combination of things that you should already know about as a driver, like how yield signs work, and how to stay in your lane and follow lines on the road. If you can’t put those thoughts together, then I question your ability to drive safely at all.
Not really, no. Cults are a very specific means of control. Almost every organization ever has some minor aspect of the BITE model, but that does not make them cults. Doing so waters down the term and is insulting to people trying to get out or have gotten out.
If you have a politician that you rank above others, then by definition, that is your favorite politician.
I’m fond of Robert La Follette (one of the loudest voices against US entry into WWI), Russ Feingold (only senator to vote against the Patriot Act), and Bernie (who doesn’t need an introduction). In all of history, there are some politicians that stand above the rest.
He should do what Conan did and bring back the Bugatti Veyron Mouse.
They should be. Plenty of adult women are trafficked, too, and Epstein almost certainly didn’t care either way as long as someone would pay him.
It’s a disagree button. That’s how it’s used in practice, and we’re better off just accepting that.
There’s always someone who likes it. The real secret to good sex isn’t any specific technique. It’s being open with your partners about what you like and explore that in a safe and consensual way. The rest is details.
He does need them, though he may not think so. Support isn’t just for voting. His narcissism needs people to like him, and his entire personality can collapse without it (possibly to suicidal levels). They support him in more tangible ways, as well, such as counter protest actions.
Just in general, fascism needs to maintain the illusion of widespread, inevitable “populist” support. That’s one reason why big public protests are important even if they don’t have tangible results right away.
The quality of tankies has really gone down. This one started tried to make a really big deal about the difference between annexation and settler colonialism, as if that matters at all. I’m only disappointed that most replies fell into the obvious trap.
How many fingering minutes is that?
Gutfield. He’s the Fox News attempt at a satarical talk show. Unlike the Half Hour News Hour, it’s stuck around.
Imagine you can’t use visa or mastercard. What other fucking payment card acceptance system are you going to use for payment processing in under 30 seconds?
This is one of the few places where I think cryptocurrency could be useful. It ain’t much, but there it is.
Because I’m not a right-libertarian who ignores how corporations setup coercive structures all their own in a perversion of free association.
Not really. In the US, the first amendment protects a lot. Just like with YouTube censorship, capitalism has created a more restrictive regime through financial pressure than the government does. This has affected the porn industry, as well (see another comment in this subthread on that).
It’s been like this for a while in the porn industry. In an interview a while back, Bree Mills says she gets more limited by payment processors than the government (though that might be switching).
Ever wonder why every faux-incest video goes out of the way to say everyone is a step family? Step father, step daughter, step mother, step brother, all somehow living in the same house, over 18, and no blood relation? The first amendment protects them from the US government, so that’s not why. Credit card companies are why. The old Taboo series was distributed differently back in the day. Can’t make that anymore.
This also applies to some of the more extreme BDSM stuff, like blood play or scat. Won’t find them on kink.com.
“Bizzare”? That’s pretty much what I expected of Gabe. I don’t imagine he has to work particularly hard. Most CEOs try to hide how much they don’t do.