Ahh yes, the well-known "We're on TV" loophole.

This reminds me of all the pharma commercials that tell me not to take a medication if I'm allergic to it.

I think it makes sense for gains, but doing the losses as raw figures mostly just shows you what counties have big populations to begin with. Pinellas is the outlier there, with a population less than half of any of the others.

i said last year that these people were segregationists and that “merit” just meant “white and male” to these people

I just read that brownies were invented in Chicago.

I have to assume they first called them "deep dish cookies."

I think too that audiences have become very squeamish about certain content--like depictions of rape, or children dying--that were not especially controversial 30-ish years ago. I'm not saying that's a bad thing. It's just a thing.

Is Porter's proposal a good idea? I don't know, I'd have to sit with it and examine different factors. What I do know is that relying on "quintiles" is a misleading and deceptive way to argue against it.

Assets, Debts, and Wealth in California Households in California tend to have more wealth than those in other states, but living costs are high and access to the benefits of wealth is unevenly distributed. This report provides essential fac...

The median income of California's top quintile is $1.3 million and this guy is worrying about people earning less than 10% of that. Concentration of wealth in California is significantly worse than the rest of the nation.

www.ppic.org/publication/...

If you fill a room with 1,000 people who each earn one dollar a year and one person who earns a million dollars, the median income of that room is $500,000 and everyone in the third and fourth quintile is earning one dollar a year.

Lies, damn lies, and statistics.

Former Fox News anchor thinks all journalism is supposed to be right-wing propaganda.

I have spent decades at this point arguing with people who talk about drilling more for "energy independence" and explaining that what they envision would require a nationalized oil supply, essentially communism.

They are such assholes. I'm not surprised a lot of birders kill them on sight. I don't like killing anything, though.

a 2028 campaign ad where the average american voter is represented as the guy from memento but all the tattoos are like “every republican president destroys the economy and starts a war in the middle east“ or “trump was president during covid”

People aren't wrong to compare the Trump era to the Nazis, but what worries me is how much it's like the Soviets: Pretending everything is working right and going great when it's all really falling apart, and marginalizing anyone who dares speaks the truth.

When is our Chernobyl coming?

Make all sports betting like the OTB.

I do enjoy those movies, but it kinda broke my suspension of disbelief around the time they did the shootout in the public mall (or train station or whatever) where none of the bystanders even noticed.

I feel like a lot of Americans haven't noticed yet, but Florida is just a full-on fascist state at this point.

I mean, it's a perfectly functional car. Yeah, there's no gas in it, but if there were, everything operates just fine.

It is absolutely the ultimate in "I have no idea how this works but I can definitely make it better" thinking that is so pervasive.

It definitely leaves me wondering if it's just always been hypocrisy and it's only us sucker plebes who believe anyone ever really cared. These are just things we can accuse our enemies of doing, and when we do them we find rationalizations and excuses as to why those words don't apply.

BTW Jamelle, I have to assume you've already consumed Karina Longworth's "You Must Remember This" podcast, but on the outside chance you are unfamiliar, it's FANTASTIC. I'm currently on my second listen to the "Erotic 80s/90s" season.

We had bluebirds move in last year which was very exciting (I'd had the house up for like 4 years) but then the damn sparrows chased them out. I got an anti-sparrow thing for the entrance, but I haven't installed it yet.

Some old movies go HARD and it's always really shocking. I'm prone to assuming the older a movie the tamer it is, but in a lot of ways audiences have become much more small-c conservative in the last 20-ish years.

This is a common practice in marketing, but good god I would implore influencers not to take money to endorse political candidates. Please just stick to that sweet Chumba Casino money.

Ah I missed the 1:1 part. But it's intriguing as a fundraiser the idea that I could pay a very small fee to have my email prioritized. Unfortunately I do think we'd run into a tragedy of the commons situation where profitable scams and politicians crowd out everyone else.

The only thing that worries me, as a nonprofit pro, is that email fundraising is vital to sustaining a lot of organizations but also very unpopular with readers and tends to have a very high unsubscribe-to-action ratio. A system like this could really threaten smaller nonprofits who rely on email.

I'm thinking about how Brave browser allows users to opt-in to advertising popups, and then pays those who opt-in a fraction of a penny per ad. Divided across enough users, those pennies add up. I suspect this might work even if you were charging less than a penny per email.

You might want to look into the math here. The volume of crude oil carried by a single tanker ship dwarfs what a truck can haul. Rough estimate based on the average tanker ship and the average tanker truck indicates it would take more than 2,500 trucks per ship.