Andrew C (✔)

"However, as climate skeptics are quick to note, there's something odd and seemingly paradoxical about Antarctica's ice. Even as oceanfront glaciers in key areas seem to be retreating, potentially awakening the vast ice sheets behind them, Antarctic sea ice - ice floating atop the oceans surrounding the continent -- has actually been increasing. And this has often been cited as a supposed anomaly in the global warming story." - Andrew C (see frenf.it)

"So, is a rise in Antarctic sea ice any reason to discount the latest news about east Antarctica, or climate concerns more broadly? The answer is no. First, the facts: Antarctic sea ice has indeed been increasing. The trend has been noted for some time, but here's the latest from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) in Boulder, Colo., which reports that Antarctic sea ice recently reached its "fourth highest summer minimum" ever." - Andrew C (see frenf.it)

"So, Antarctic sea ice is indeed rising. However, it's important to keep this in perspective -- it isn't rising as much as sea ice in the Arctic (which gets a lot more attention) is declining. Such was the finding of a recent NASA study, which used satellites to look at sea ice in both areas, finding a global downward trend despite the relatively modest rise in the Antarctic region:" - Andrew C (see frenf.it)

"Moreover, though total ice extent may grow through this process, we shouldn't misinterpret what that means. "Antarctic sea ice is unrestricted in extent, unlike Arctic sea ice," explains climatologist Kevin Trenberth of the National Center for Atmospheric Research. " As a result winds can blow it away from Antarctica and new ice forms in behind, but the ice then is very thin. So increases in Antarctic sea ice do not equate with increased volume."" - Andrew C (see frenf.it)

ts;ar - Micah

Thank - Andrew C (✔)

"“I’ll probably reveal my occasional stubbornness and impatience to her right off the bat, just to get those out of the way,” said Hastings, noting that years of experience have taught him he will need to “play this just right” if he doesn’t want the relationship to end prematurely. “Then I’ll lay off for a full month and let that settle in before I start showing her how I can be pretty sullen and childish when I don’t get my way.” “If I were to let her see I’m a slob right at the beginning, that would probably be a little much to take,” he continued, “but after 12 weeks it should be totally fine to stop picking things up off the floor before she comes over.”" - Andrew C (✔)

"According to reports, the Clarksville, MD native has even slated an empty “catch-up week” just before the holidays so he can disclose any unappealing facets of his personality he has been unable to get to as scheduled during the calendar year." - Andrew C (✔)

"But, according to Politico, Kaus tendered his resignation yesterday after unwittingly violating one of The Daily Caller’s ironclad rules for proper journalism: don’t ever criticize people who pay Tucker Carlson." - Andrew C (see frenf.it)

"Everything about this is hilarious. Let’s start with the premise of Kaus’ piece: that Fox News – Fox News – has been insufficiently opposed to immigration reform. I suppose if you’re coming from the perspective of Mickey Kaus, who is so far to the right on immigration that he earnestly called Eric Cantor “Mr. Amnesty,” then perhaps that’s a plausible argument. For a normal person, Fox News is a barking mad locus of anti-“amnesty,” anti-immigrant nonsense. But Mickey Kaus has his principles, and if The Daily Caller won’t let him spout nativist gibberish on his own terms, then he’ll take his talents elsewhere." - Andrew C (see frenf.it)

"And then there’s Tucker Carlson. This story gets right to the heart of what makes The Daily Caller’s editor-in-chief the insufferable prat that he is. Say what you will about Kaus, but at least he stands for something. Carlson, on the other hand, will make a big show of standing on principle, and then completely abandon those principles once he’s in a position to profit from it. Back when The Daily Caller first launched back in 2010, Carlson gave an interview to Howard Kurtz, then of the Washington Post, in which he proclaimed that his new website would distinguish itself from the corrupt brand journalism that pays homage to the powerful:" - Andrew C (see frenf.it)

"Cities across the country have paid out large sums for police misconduct lawsuits. Chicago, for one, paid out more than half a billion dollars over 10 years. However, many cities have not taken a step that seems like common sense: Looking for data that could help them avoid future lawsuits." - Andrew C (✔)

"Futterman, who runs the University of Chicago's Civil Rights and Police Accountability Project, has won some cases against police. For one such case, he got the numbers on whether some officers had an unusually-high number of complaints against them. As it turned out, a relative handful accounted for almost half of all complaints, and they were almost never disciplined. "There’s a small percent who have been allowed to just do this with darn near impunity," he says. "Despite the bills racking up, and despite all the complaints." " - Andrew C (✔)

"She thinks if settlements came out of the police budget — instead of the general fund — departments might be more cost-sensitive." - Andrew C (✔)

Better coffee, too? - Meg VMeg

Meh! I'm not a coffee drinker, I don't care either way. - Andrew C (✔)

http://friendfeed.com/hollysu... - AHnix (Anna Haro)

:D - Victor Ganata

*dead*. - Andrew C (✔)

You noticed that, too? I fell out when I saw the new pictures. - Anika

Oh, that explains the Anil Dash RT I just saw. - Spidra Webster

"Sooo, do you really think it's just coincidence that you prefer the WHITE Chocolate Mocha?" - AHnix (Anna Haro)

I TAKE IT BLACK, LIKE MY MEN! http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Joe

+Joe - AHnix (Anna Haro)

"She’s heard it so many times, in fact, that she came up with a term for it: "white fragility," which she defined in a 2011 journal article as “a state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves. These moves include outward display of emotions such as anger, fear and guilt, and behaviors such as argumentation, silence and leaving the stress-inducing situation.”" - Andrew C (✔)

I totally have white fragility, but I like to think I'm stronger than I was. When I first read about the Invisible Backpack of white privilege I couldn't accept a lot of it. - Heather

"Jeb Bush used his private e-mail account as Florida governor to discuss security and military issues such as troop deployments to the Middle East and the protection of nuclear plants, according to a review of publicly released records. The e-mails include two series of exchanges involving details of Florida National Guard troop deployments after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the review by The Washington Post found." - Andrew C (see frenf.it)

I think, in both the disclosure, and going on the offensive, they just went for all-out aggression as the only part of the strategy. They've been accused of the same with large donors or endorsements; they're forcing exclusivity from people long before the field is even established, and it is difficult to say no to the juggernaut. - Jennifer Dittrich

This is the whole (?), non-autotuned interview sequence that formed the bones for the show's theme song. - Andrew C (✔)

LOL <3 - AHnix (Anna Haro)

"Bubba Yum Yum: The Paleo Way features a DIY baby-milk formula made from chicken liver and bone broth, reports the Australian Women’s Weekly. Health experts have slammed the formula, which contains no milk products, saying it could seriously harm a child’s development. “In my view, there’s a very real possibility that a baby may die if this book goes ahead,” said Heather Yeatman, president of the Public Health Association of Australia." - Andrew C (see frenf.it)

He is a fuckstain. - Johnny

I skimmed the TF Wiki, but are the mini-cassette Transformers considered full citizens on Cybertron, with full rights and responsibilities? - Andrew C (✔)

Apart from the quality of booze and other ingredients involved, likely the massive quantities of hard alcohol. - Jennifer Dittrich

Yeah, we always did "spodi" fresh - garbage can (bought for this purpose and not used for anything else) lined with a couple of bags, several gallons of alcohol (rum, vodka, etc) and whatever fruit was cheap at the store (usually pineapple, apples, various citrus) soaked overnight. Juice and lemon-lime soda added the next day. We usually didn't use Everclear, since it wasn't legal where we were. I can only think of one party where there was any left over... so we all just came back the next day. - Jennifer Dittrich

"Most of all, Serena is interesting because it’s a much more rare artifact than a really bad movie: It’s an incompetent movie. Unlike more famous movie disasters, it plays out not like the product of one unchecked monstrous ego but of a thousand tiny decisions gone wrong. The editing is incompetent. The pacing is incompetent. The scenes don’t logically flow from one to the next. The soundtrack sounds like it was generated by a computer-soundtrack algorithm set to “mournful fiddle.”" - Andrew C (✔)

True, but there's a reason why Hitchcock asked Saul Bass for advice on more than just his title sequence work. As good as any director ever is, there's a bunch of other people that have to be wicked good at their important piece of whatever's going on, and the people who forget that often end up with forgettable films (which, I suppose, is part of the point of the article.) - Jennifer Dittrich

I had to go back and search to even find out what meme shared the day with the dress. And it was only two and a half weeks ago! I might not have the best memory. - Andrew C (✔)

This is why meme campaign finance laws needed to nuked from space. - Micah

Which leads to a long and highly entertaining thread mapping NBA teams and coaches and players to Parks and Recreation characters and cities. - Andrew C (✔)

It looks white and gold to me. - bentley

Good point! Also, it looks like my hair looks black in the security cam footage. - Andrew C (✔)

This is how I imagine what interplanetary space travel is going to be like. - Victor Ganata