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[anon34399329]

ROFLsailbarges!

Luke Skywalker on how to write a cover letter

[Int: Jabba’s throne room] A cloaked LUKE SKYWALKER approaches JABBA THE HUTT. JABBA: Ah, young Master Skywalker! I’m glad to finally meet you in person. I found your cover letter very intriguing. Did you know I met your dad back during the “Clone Wars” era once? I followed his career since he was on the podracing circuit. Smart kid. LUKE: I must be allowed to spea— JABBA: Of course, listen to me rambling on. Can I offer you something to drink? You must be parched. I’m having frog juice myse…

[anon36155390]

Watch this Infowars caller flame Roger Stone

now wait a sec, you can’t rail against infowars and how it shouldn’t be tolerated on any social network and then post a clip of it just because that part supports a better point of view let’s go for zero infowars content on BB regardless

[anon67050589]

Study suggests that Flat Eartherism spread via Youtube

The breakdown of the consensus and the youtube videos would never have found fertile ground to take root in, if not for the deplorably shitty quality of science education most people get in school. As someone who read a ton of nonfiction popular science books for fun as a teenager, and who had two graduate school level botanists as parents, I was constantly boggled from grades 7-12 by the poor quality of information being given to me by my science teachers, and by the number of flat out wrong …

[emo_pinata]

Jussie Smollett charged with filing false police report

Where are all the posts pointing out that Smollett is innocent until proven guilty and we shouldn’t jump to conclusions? Where are the posts pointing out that this whole thing is fishy? That no one would stage an attack like this? That no one would pay people to attack them with a check - it’s just too stupid, it smells like a frame job? Why is no one complaining that the headline doesn’t contain the totality of the circumstances surrounding the arrest?

[L0ki]

Power outage coffee: using Stanley's camping French Press at home

…but Pharoah, who quite liked tea anyway, hardened his heart, and would not let the people go.

[DukeTrout]

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will pay every staffer a living wage, ending the longstanding practice of Congressional staffers taking second jobs

Oh gawd. Neither she nor Bernie nor any other prominent Social Democrat is opposed to prosperity or abundance. This is the myth the ultra-wealthy feed to their minions to stir up anger and protect their own power. There are plenty of millionaires in the social democracies of Europe, but at the same time the poor aren’t also struggling without access to health care or decent education. In short, more people are prospering there. Amazon coming to NYC wasn’t 100% beneficial, and a lot of NYC …

[anon15383236]

Vandals reportedly spray-painted apology for racist graffiti

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[davide405]

For topical excellence

10-year-old writes brilliant poem about dyslexia and it goes viral

This reminds me very much of Brian Bilston’s wonderful poem: “Refugees” - They have no need of our help So do not tell me These haggard faces could belong to you or me Should life have dealt a different hand We need to see them for who they really are Chancers and scroungers Layabouts and loungers With bombs up their sleeves Cut-throats and thieves They are not Welcome here We should make them Go back to where they came from They cannot Share our food Share our homes Share our c…

[Ratel]

Keep this link around for the next time you see the zombie “But how can we possibly pay for Single-Payer/Medicare-for-All/Basic Human Decency” meme barfed up in a healthcare thread.

Rep Pramila Jayapal's Medicare For All Act fixes America's dire and broken health-care system; take action to support it now!

To put this meme in its proper context, and not what the right-wing echo chamber’s corporate taint-lickers have twisted it into: Pelosi was responding to the absurd criticisms of the ACA that had absolutely zero basis in reality when she said that once the bill was passed, people would have the ability to see what was actually in it, as opposed to the “pull the plug on grandma”, “gubmint’s gonna take away your Medicare” fearmongering that Republicans had spent the previous 2 years fomenting. S…

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Rep Pramila Jayapal's Medicare For All Act fixes America's dire and broken health-care system; take action to support it now!

That’s their premiums revenue, not even counting copays, coinsurance, or the expenses they don’t cover. ETA: Dammit, and having to argue this again and again makes me numb to some of the salient points. FFS, the $3.5T is SPENT by PEOPLE ALREADY. You’re playing 3-card Monty with health care expenditures. Everyone in the chain, from insurers to doctors to hospitals are getting paid, and many are for-profit. Even if there is ZERO improvement in efficiency, the money is already there. It’s already…

[Melz2]

From prisons to factories to offices: the spread of workplace surveillance and monitoring tech

SOFTWARE TRACKING A WOMAN 24/7/365 ON A PHONE NEAR YOU Today, it’s Saudi women being tracked by their oppressive husbands. Tomorrow it’s workers in the warehouse, or the office, or keeping tabs on where you are in the building, how many words you type, how many reports you complete, where you surf on the Internet, how many sodas you drink all day, whether you speed excessively, how much time you spend sitting down watching Netflix. Surveillance society is here. Every aspect of your life is bei…

[DukeTrout]

NH GOP lawmakers mocked gun violence survivors by wearing clutchable pearl necklaces to gun control hearing

except that isn’t even true. you need permits and safety checks to install stairs precisely because poorly built stairs increase accidents. fire codes absolutely talk about what kinds of chemicals you can keep in your house. and you can absolutely lose your insurance or be asked to pay more for having certain types of equipment, for failing to properly maintain your property or structure. what it seems you’re really concerned about are rules and regulations impinging on your hobby. internally…

Said much more reasonably and eloquently than me.

[anon27595299]

@Yerch_McYerchikins, you’ve got me binge-listening to Serial.

Adnan Syed’s conviction reinstated by Maryland Court of Appeals

We know Jay lied. The prosecution admitted he was a liar at the time. Then Serial came out and he gave an Intercept interview with an entirely new version of events that renders the cell phone evidence irrelevant. Jenn is Jay’s friend. Not hard to believe they made up a story for the reward money. Don is irrelevant. He didn’t say anything bad about Syed. Adnan’s teacher has no real evidence. Whenever someone dies they’re suddenly everyone’s best friend. When someone is murdered p…

[Yerch_McYerchikins]

Ha! If you really want your mind blown then listen to the first season of the Undisclosed Podcast. The first two episodes are dull, but there on out it is an absolute barn burner.

[anon15383236]

Beto O'Rourke was in the Cult of the Dead Cow and his t-files are still online

The coolest thing is how he’s married to a billionaire heiress who is a huge charter school advocate and administrator. It’s so rad how he’s literally in bed with a little mini Texas Betsy DeVos! He’s such a rebel!

[LockeCJ]

Believing in "meritocracy" makes you act like a dick

How about a society with far less hierarchy based on any metric, and instead one that acknowledges that we all have needs and wants that can and should be met.

[anon61221983]

[LockeCJ]

Believing in "meritocracy" makes you act like a dick

Trump was born on third base, ran the wrong way off another batter’s single, punched the shortstop in the face out of spite along the way, then claimed the double he hit was the best baseball play anybody ever made, and that if you have a “rulebook” and “statistics” that say otherwise, then you’re part of a vast consipiracy to minimize his accomplishments.

[LutherBlisset]

Terrorism in New Zealand

It seems post mass-shooting gun reform happens fast in a country where the only justification for semi-automatics seems to be that they’re useful for culling deer or goats from a chopper. Already in NZ… Some gun owners have voluntarily handed in their semi-automatic firearms to be destroyed. The government has committed to law change within 10 days. The leaders of both blue and red teams say change is needed. Ebay equivalent Trade Me is removing all listings for semi-automatic guns …

And below that:

Terrorism in New Zealand

[davide405]

Two very worthwhile links, IMO

"Ayn Rand is a Dick" - excerpt from a new book by Mike Monteiro

This site has an interesting breakdown /taking a blowtorch to it criticism of Rand’s works

[davide405]

Excellent satire here

After fatal crash, Boeing reverses sales policy that locked out some safety features unless airlines paid for an upgrade

A Boeing spokesperson defended the company’s policies. “Boeing is committed to delivering the most cost effective solutions. That’s why we offer small regional and national airlines that don’t have unlimited budgets the choice between our standard Mostly Won’t Crash package and the more economical Only Crashes Sometimes option. Sure, once in a hundred flights or so, the whole $100 million dollar aircraft augers in like a cheap lawn dart and you have to spend the next nine months picking tiny chu…