I hate Uber and wish it every misfortune but it’s also hard to support the protesting French cab drivers. If these were cab drivers in any other place in the world, I’d be in their side. But I’ve heard so many horror stories about the  cruel and nasty cabbies in France that I can’t get over it. Which doesn’t mean Uber doesn’t suck dick, of course.

In the meanwhile, here is a link from a neoliberal economist who believes that Uber ratings

could make such services useful for upward mobility, and it might make their credentials competitive with those of some lower-tier colleges and universities.

These people are such clowns.

It’s really pathetic how for so many people a revolutionary attitude to gender is all about repeating idiotic and offensive stereotypes:

I myself have no outward indicators that I’m feminine. . . Inside, though, the feminine elements are rampant. Like Miles said in his well-composed Twitter rant, I think small animals are cute. Also I’m emotional, intuitive, boy-crazy, fickle.

What a stupid piece of garbage this weird person is. I’m getting honestly tired seeing one dick with a prick after another tell me how I’m not a woman because I don’t correspond to his collection of ridiculous stereotypes.

This worthless ass-wipe will never even begin to imagine what it means to be discriminated in the workplace because of the assumption that having a uterus makes you “emotional, intuitive, boy-crazy, and fickle”, so he can convince himself that he knows all about women since he’s memorized that women are “submissive” by nature.

It’s like one can never get far enough from some guy who wants to lecture one on how to be a “proper” woman.

Every single person who wants to use the free Wi-Fi at one of Russia’s 505 McDonald’s eateries will have to provide his or her passport number.

This is, obviously, not a requirement of McDonald’s. This is Russia’s new law: nobody can go online without providing passport identification for every second of online time. This is done in order to combat the only remaining opposition to Putin’s regime, the online dissidence.

For the first time in over a year, Russians have encountered a greater object of rage than Ukraine. The legalization of gay marriage in the US has the Russian media contort with impotent anger.

Many people in Russia are convinced that the SCOTUS decision to legalize gay marriage is just a ploy aimed at weakening Russia’s (non-existent) traditional values and religion. Apocalyptic descriptions of evil Americans coming over and forcing good, traditional, religious Russians to gay – marry abound.

I’ve got to say, I find the whole spectacle very enjoyable.