Dave, admirer of squirrels

NOT the first interracial kiss on TV It is often said that the first interracial kiss on TV was the (involuntary) kiss between Captain James Tiberius Kirk (William Shatner) and translator and communications officer Nyota Uhura (Nichel…

This actually wasn't even the first one in Star Trek! fakehistoryhunter.net/2019/09/11/n...

Yeah, for the first 150 years or so the flag-sellers were making bank updating every couple years

Maxine Dexter reports a massive fundraising haul that appears tied to pro-Israel group Speculation has swirled for months about what role the influential American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, might play in the race to replace Congressman Earl Blumenauer.

Maybe you should stop taking money from the genocidal Israelis while you're at it. What good is complaining about fascists in our own government when you're taking money from other genocidal fascists?

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He *was* convicted.

They've already been telling athletes they better not overstay their visas after the world cup, or they'll get arrested. I don't understand the fascist mindset. Do they really just want to kill everyone?

We stopped at a rest area once and a guy pointed at some dark shapes up in some evergreens and confidently told us they were bats. Even after my wife took a pic with her telephoto lens he maintained that they were definitely bats and not pinecones.

Can confirm, grew up in Kent, Ohio and it astonishes me how many people there hated the existence of students.

It only really makes sense for temporary work. If you know you're gonna need these nurses / clinics / etc on an ongoing basis, hiring them through a middleman is guaranteed to either increase the cost or pay workers less - otherwise there's no business.

I'm struggling to understand how such a system would even *work*. Are they expecting J. Random Chud-Cop to personally drive migrants to the border or put them on a plane? How can individually officers control the speed of the process? They're all morons.

Content Moderation At Scale Is Impossible: Some Republican Politicians Are Indistinguishable From Neo Nazis Over and over and over again we’ve pointed out that content moderation at scale is impossible to do well — in part because at such scale, there are bound to be a huge number of errors, …

I'm reminded of this article: www.techdirt.com/2019/04/29/c...

Once you tip over into right wing territory, it's all the same.

Those must have been awfully small turkeys

I had no idea he was black, i thought he was some fancy pants WASPY dude who's a terrible writer

Thanks! I was trying to figure it why we weren't in this suit.

The biggest source of damage to bike infrastructure is, of course, cars. They had to upgrade the bike lane flex posts on the bridge on NE 21st in Portland to giant round concrete barriers after somebody got killed on a bike by a driver who just drove right over the flex posts.

Until it hits my personal red like you're just crying wolf

Definitely majored in being a dirtbag

The guy who looks like he got lost in the way to Burning Man probably went to college

And where's the wedding ring?

Genocide is a European tradition going back to Julius Caesar

When I was having a piano shipped cross country I discovered that there are shipping companies that specialize in pianos and motorcycles. I guess they both crate up about the same size and people are very particular about keeping them safe.

Sending healing vibes your way!

(I haven't watched all of the current season yet, so disregard anything that's invalid now)

"Vulcans never lie," Spock lied.

I suspect this may be an embellishment, or perhaps he got mixed up when his brain got scrambled in WoK and SfS. But maybe Amanda is really descended from Doyle, even though none of Doyle's kids had surviving offspring we know of.

Yeah, I had to tell the algorithm to show me fewer naked dudes. Just because I'm an ally doesn't mean I personally want to see a bunch of shirtless guys with spray tans.

He believed his calling from God was to teach children and their families how to be good people, and was ordained as a Presbyterian minister specifically to do this work on TV.

One of the best people to come out of western Pennsylvania.

I don't think "pedophile" is a protected category, but it sure seems like the GOP wants it to be.

Something about ropes

It's amazing how much we were all propagandized to about how these rap songs were just about doing crime and making money.

Just like like F--- the Police - if you listen to the lyrics they explain why they feel this way about the cops, but white Americans just figured Black folks like criming.

The term for this is social murder. They are murderers.

Not sure which is worse - a device that only works with an app, or one that only works with a special remote that is made as cheaply as possible with no labels on the buttons.