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My favorite thing is reading accounts from very privileged middle-aged white men saying Kavanaugh was nothing but respectful to women, as if middle-aged white men haven't shown that what they think is respectful to women is actually just abhorrent, appalling behavior.

 

Amazon increases minimum wage for all U.S. workers to $15 an hour

Good news from Amazon.

 

I give it a year MAX before they're all fired and rehired as independent contractors for minimum wage again

 

Also, this shit is really fucking stupid, and reeks of 'the only way this bad thing could've happened is because of RussiaPutinDrumpf!!'

 

No.^

 

The cynical part of me says you're right.

This will cover 250,000 employees (plus 100,000 seasonal employees). I recently started adding "prediction" reminders on my calendar (90% of these are sports related)... so I'll check this again Oct '19. to see if I can find updated numbers.

 

Brendan Eich writes to the US Senate: we need a GDPR for the United States | Brave Browser

Brandon Eich's letter to the US Senate calling for regulations in the US similar to GDPR. For those unfamiliar with the name, Brandon created Javascript, was the co-founder of Mozilla, and now is working on a privacy-focused browser.

 

Matt Damon absolutely nailed it...

 

I think Jason does this but he never shares them. I think he uses like encrypted hashes or something though like a nerd

 

SWEET

 

Oh god, his campaign will be nothing but coffee puns.

 

"I like this guy a latte!"

 

He's got venti of ideas!

 

He's going to talk about the americano dream

 

Decaf death camps

 

absolute insanity.

 

“Centrist method focus on youth” sounds like an oxymoron but okay

 

Ew. I feel like I just read a gamer gate screed.

 

Haha...Kanye is having himself a WEEK!