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A whole new meaning to eat the rich

 

Sigh.

 

They’re saying the quiet part out loud again.

 

I fucking hate this guy and he's a stain on Minnesota politics.

 

I have friends that don't tip and I can't make sense of it. I end up compensating for them at times and its so frustrating.

That being said, wait staff should just be paid living wages. Going to Japan and never having to figure out how to split checks or tip my tattoo guy was such a fucking relief.

 

Can't find the tweet, but someone circled the bearded guy in the pic and asked if it's Christian Grey

 

Anyone who takes, sends, solicits, or collects nudes from of themselves/other people is an absolute moron. Definitely one of the stupidest aspects of having a camera at our fingertips 24/7.

 

Whoa, this is cool...interactive district maps with historical data:

 

FB and TWTR losses give me an immense feeling of schadenfreude. I don't think I would get the same feeling if it was GOOG, MSFT, or any other tech giants.

 

Stockholders need to embrace new metrics for success than MAUs for a platform like Twitter. There was a huge bot purge this month, and I'd imagine that's part of the downturn. This is likely a big unspoken reason for why they tolerate hate speech and bots on their platform: the company is economically punished if they actively make it harder to "participate", even if that participation is actively harmful to the overall userbase.

 

IS bombed a Druze (an ethnoreligious minority) town in Syria the other day. They also have taken women for slaves.

"Mourners in southern Syria attended mass funerals Thursday for least 216 people killed in coordinated attacks by Islamic State fighters on a usually peaceful city and surrounding countryside. In the worst violence to hit the area since the country’s conflict began, the militants also reportedly abducted at least 18 people, activists said.

The simultaneous attacks on the city of Sweida and surrounding villages a day earlier evoked the dark days of Islamic State violence that beleaguered Syria and neighboring Iraq during the group’s heyday in 2014 and 2015. The abduction of civilians — activists say at least 14 were women — also were reminiscent of the group’s tactic of taking hostages and using women as sex slaves.

A mass funeral was held in the city of Sweida on Thursday where men gathered in a hall to pay their respects to the dead. The devastated city was covered in black and shops were closed during the day to mourn the mass deaths.

Until Wednesday, Sweida, home to a predominantly Druze community, had largely been spared the violence that has hit Syria since 2011.

As Syria’s civil war took increasingly sectarian undertones, pitting the largely Sunni opposition against the predominantly Alawite ruling class, the Druze minority stayed largely on the sidelines. Community leaders in Sweida took a firm position against participating in the war, resisting enrolling their sons in the army to avoid revenge attacks. The Druze, followers of an esoteric offshoot of Islam, have kept their own local militias."

IS attack devastates community in southern Syria

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my friend said it was ranch and i shit my pants in anger IT'S TZATZIKI SAUCE and it is so ridiculously much tastier than ranch, which is disgusting.

 

Full offense intended, I don't know why you guys keep bringing this up.

EDIT - I saw Jason replied to you and you didn't know so that's ok, but the last person who said this *knew* what was happening and still asked, that's why I got pissed. Didn't say anything at the time bc thankfully people ignored it.

Only if you guys don't hate me, because every time I come on here I get VICIOUSLY triggered and I genuinely think people either don't care or are happy I'm suffering. Like all the anxiety symptoms that could ever happen to me happen all at once and literally only one person on here who I don't even talk to regularly!! (Jesse I think) said sorry and he's not even the person who I'm looking for apologies from! So that's why I'm only on here to post MENA stuff, stuff that's personal to me.

 

Amazon replied to the recent story the ACLU publicized about a facial recognition software falsely recognizing members of Congress: Thoughts On Machine Learning Accuracy | Amazon Web Services

I am normally a big fan of the ACLU, but it looks like they haven't even publicized their methodology for reproducibility.

 

I also love how wait staff are required to report tips on their tax forms. Like, hey it's totally cool for the restaurant industry to fuck you and when customers try to close the gap, gotta tax it. So frustrating

 

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