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So long, California. See you when we see you when you see us
We are leaving Los Angeles. I haven't told you until now because, well how does anyone leave anyone in our modern age. I am still right here, only the geolocation is changing. But so we are moving to Minnesota. Goodbye, Los Angeles. We dipped our toes into the pacific. The pearly white tendrils of waves splashing down to say goodbye are the send-off we needed. Here we have done the improbable, dreamt the impossible, been blessed with the unbelievable. We are still reaching, still climbing, finding new adventures and opportunities. We are only saying goodbye because it's proper, but we are here, around the bend as you go around your bend. Tell us what wonders you uncover and we will tell you the magic of a different journey we have found ourselves on. Hopefully there will be many moments just like this one: time slowed, a smile breaking across the faces of a family reveling in joy.
Eight years after subprime mortgages all but disappeared, U.S. buyers with bad credit can still own homes. If they come up with a nominal down payment and stay current on their monthly bills, they’ll get title to the property – after as long as 30 years. If they miss one payment, their contracts say they could lose all their money and get tossed out. The deals often end badly for low-income buyers.
Hey so this kind of dicey housing contract is growing in a big way since the crash. It’s like a mortgage where if you miss a single payment you lose your chance at the house forever. Also it’s like a rental where you’re responsible for repairs and upkeep and need to pay a massive nonrefundable deposit up front. Also you’re not allowed to record the contract with the court system or otherwise fight seizure of the house you may have been making payments on for decades. These contracts are most common in low-income neighbourhoods in big cities in the southeastern US because the distribution of subprime mortgages meant African-American buyers had their credit disproportionately wiped out during the recession. (via jakke)
Huh.
It was then that I came across the fabled Spinach People whispered among the villagers. In all my travels across the Orient and Dark continent I had never encountered a people so puzzling. Upon being offered spinach, these people would not eat it but instead would aggressively smear it across their bodies, perhaps in some strange ritual to appease their god. I wonder what my friends back in Oxford would say if they could see me now.
I can’t wait for 2022 when Kevin breaks out the Mad Men takes
jokes on you because I watched three seasons and gave up because it was boring
This is what sold me on following Josh. Thanks Josh!
"You're still seeing a dentist? Yeah, I guess that's cool if you like being lame. You want real dentistry? None of that amateur hour. I get my work done by a friggin' king!"
John Legend feat. The Roots - Dancing In The Dark
gives me goosebumps every time.
Oh my fucking god
Wow. You’re thinking “hey, Springsteen gave me a sweaty, sexy, bandana-soaked rendition of Dancing in the Dark. Why would I need this?”
Well, you do need it. You need it.
So sorry @fatmanatee. Facebook stole your Pop Culture calendar and turned it into a Facebook thing so it is no longer on fleek and has gone the way of the bae.
Judge rules against Kesha’s request to break her record contract
#FreeKesha
This is one of those stories that doesn’t get accurately reported, primarily because the overarching issue (Dr. Luke’s alleged abuse of Kesha) is not the one being litigated here. Kesha didn’t file a police report or otherwise initiate criminal charges against Dr. Luke, so this isn’t a criminal matter and there will be no criminal conviction of Dr. Luke.
The issue is whether said alleged abuse is sufficient reason to cancel Kesha’s recording contract with Sony. Kesha - like most recording artists signed to a label - has already received her advance, which means she has been paid a significant sum of money from Sony in anticipation of sales of her future albums. Kesha wants to be released from any further obligation to Sony, and sought an injunction allowing her to record an album for someone else other than Sony. I am guessing - without any factual basis - that Kesha offered to return the advance in exchange from being let out of her contract. I am also guessing that Sony claims it has invested a shit ton of money in the development and promotion of Kesha over the course of their contract, and that their investment far exceeds any advance paid to Kesha.
Kesha is suing both Sony and Dr. Luke, claiming that Sony had a duty to protect her from Dr. Luke, since Sony owns Dr. Luke’s label. Unfortunately from an analytical perspective, Kesha also claims that Dr. Luke bullied her into silence, and that this bullying led Kesha to testify under oath - in an unrelated case - that she was never abused by Dr. Luke. I don’t know how Sony would have been reasonably expected to know Dr. Luke was an abuser, and therefore would have had a duty to protect her in some way, if Kesha never told them of his abuse and testified under oath that he never abused her.
The key issue resolved today has very little to do with the factual allegations of abuse. The court today had to determine whether Kesha’s career would be irreparably harmed if the court didn’t issue an order permitting her to record for someone else while her lawsuit against Sony and Dr. Luke winds its way through the courts. Sony has offered to let her record without any involvement from Dr. Luke, but apparently, Kesha did not accept this offer.
From Rolling Stone:
Dr. Luke and Sony argued that Kesha has been given permission to record without Dr. Luke’s input or presence in the studio while still honoring her Kemosabe/Sony contract, but the singer has declined to do so. “There has been no showing of irreparable harm. She’s being given opportunity to record,” Judge Kornreich said in denying the injunction.
To understand *part* of the anger that leads people to Trump, there’s a video Trump posted at an air conditioner factory that has gone viral and for good reason. I’d link it, but basically, google “air conditioner factory” and it prob comes up.
It’s something that has been happening for decades: owners/investors of a company that has made things in the US realizes that they would make even more money if they had workers in another country make the products. In some cases, the company feels like it has to just to keep up with what’s happening with the competition (the end result, no matter what: someone ends up making a lot of money and many more people make no money). In any case, you have situations like that air conditioner company, where they’re like “ummmm, yeah, to survive, we need to move our factory to Mexico and pay the workers there about 50 cents per hour so unfortunately you’re all fired, all 1,000 of you.”
Now if you haven’t been paying attention, there are two schools of thought on this practice. Democrats hate it, but they’re sort of lukewarm about doing all that much about it. Some are salty about free trade agreements that encourage this sort of thing but there isn’t exactly much movement on the issue. Anyway, go unions.
AND OH HO HO, ON THE OTHER SIDE: Republicans are all about the free market. They promised their base that they should vote for them and get free taxes, the wealth would trickle down, and everyone would be very happy. The reality, over 30 years later: a lot of them get paid poorly. If they get hurt at work, they’re screwed. They haven’t saved enough money for retirement. If they have a debilitating disease after working in a dangerous field, oh well. Pick yourself up by your bootstraps or something.
Basically, the owners of the companies are getting much richer, the working class is told to shut up and keep working, and I think the workers are starting to put together the pieces and what a lot of them have found is that they’ve been fucked over. These workers might not have believed a Democrat who says they’re trying to help, but Trump’s message resonated. There’s some xenophobia at play here, but there’s also the reality that these workers are screwed and they have no idea what to do. So they do they only thing they can think of: blame China and Mexico. If I worked in a factory for 20 years, maybe the same factory my parents worked at and collected a decent living from (different times, you know), and all of a sudden, that job was gone, with nothing else in the pipeline, what do you do?
And again, this is ONE PORTION of Trump’s base, but to understand that base, you have to look at it from several angles. This part is particularly important because a lot of these people have voted Dem in the past and a lot of them could easily vote Dem in the future. If you dismiss them entirely, that strategy might backfire.
Eeeeeeesh. Here’s that video where 1,400 people have to tell their families that they won’t have a job in a couple years.
If you want to know what the future looks like, regardless of who you elect, just put that video on loop for the next 40 years. In 20 years, it’s the same video but in Mexico, where the Mexicans learn they’re losing their jobs to robots. 20 years after that the robots inform management staff that they are no longer needed but their existence is an unnecessary tax on resources. “This is strictly a business decision.”
I and Love and You
here is the worst vine you will ever see. goodnight!
@monsterbeard was asking me, so here it is again. I actually think this one is better but it has way fewer notes.
Ok yes, this one is way better!
Just received a gift-wrapped women's fitness program replete with workout gear. The Féfit, if you're curious. Either there's been a mix-up or someone is playing an expensive joke on me
God sang. And that song became you, the one and only person you are. Its melody is kindness and love, hope and courage, adventure and challenge. It sings its way through you with every breath. I can never reproduce its notes, because it is not my song to sing, but each day I see you I hear it and it nourishes me, fills me with wonder and excitement. And everyone you meet, every smile you give, every word from your lips and sparkle from your eyes, that song soars out among the stars, into hearts and spreads into our skin and bones and bodies. A stream to a river to an ocean roar of the song that you are. Happy Birthday. I am so very glad you exist on this earth to share your song with me.
I mean, I think you care about your users in the sense that you want to keep them. But that doesn't mean you care about their, like, existential-esque needs. I find that my appreciation of privacy is vastly different from Facebook's, in the sense that I actually like privacy and I think Facebook, both as a corporate entity and as Mark Zuckerberg as the de facto "face" of the company view privacy as some sort of quaint anachronism, like those weirdo people who say they enjoy living without electricity or something.
Which is not to say you (Facebook) are morally wrong or anything, or even uncommon especially among tech companies, but I'm definitely incredibly unnerved with every way that you collect and hold onto my data, ways that are almost entirely unseen by me, whichever cookies are happening or whichever user agreements I'm agreeing to, giving away rights I would never even consider. Like, that is completely fucked.
And I understand it's my choice to use Facebook. I sort of like being on Facebook. I'm certainly not blaming you for my own voluntary (in the sense that user agreements are really all that voluntary but w/e) use of this website, but overall on the whole Facebook's understanding of privacy holy fuck no thank you. Sorry for the cursing.
Anyway, I hope whoever reads this is having a great day in Silicon Valley or Mumbai or wherever you are! Even though you are also just like me, a cog caught in a great and terrifying machine that seems to have gripped our global culture and society in its vast and perhaps boundless arms, you are also an individual, a unique being that has never existed before and will never exist again. Let's go home after work and leave this yoke behind. Shrug our shoulders and remember we are loved and worth loving!
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What I love about Goldman Sachs’ helpful guide to Millennials is how they’ve finally unlocked the secrets of Millennial life! They choose to live at home. They choose to rent instead of buy.
It certainly isn’t that jobs are disappearing, wages are stagnant, or that the housing market is a complete mess. And if it isn’t those things, it certainly isn’t the result of a catastrophic global financial meltdown specifically perpetrated by Goldman Sachs and its ilk. No. Obviously not. Millennials like being poor. Millennials like living in the twilight of the American economy. Right???
But wait! Millennials like exercise! Weeeeeeee!
Ok so Peach is basically “what if we did snapchat but you can post anything”. Snapchat works (even though I’m too old for it) because you have to view snaps on a person-to-person basis. You can’t read snapchat like a dashboard. When you start to treat other forms of media (not video) like this though, it’s… clunky. I guess it might work for teens but I’m too old for this shit. Whereas Twitter is a chat room with 300 million people in one room, every Peach profile feels like a chat room where everyone is just talking to themselves and maybe one other person pipes in once in awhile.
The quick gif search is snazzy though, and the app itself is tight.
I don’t even know what Peach is but