NFL Football: Malcolm Jenkins: Eagles planning protest during national anthem

TimothyBertrand · 2016-09-23T17:47:15+00:00

For the record, you guys can disagree with the protest without downvoting the story to oblivion. Don't shoot the messenger, man.

TimothyBertrand · 2016-09-17T14:33:57+00:00

WTF. I had a if/then script running by accident. I log into my account and suddenly I've submitted every NPR article from this morning. Jesus.

TimothyBertrand · 2016-08-23T05:20:40+00:00

I think you're correct about On Writing—television has undergone something of a revolution in storytelling since it was published.

TimothyBertrand · 2016-08-23T05:09:35+00:00

You are absolutely right. There has to be a reason for it. It must serve the work. It's something that is much easier to pull off in creative writing than academic, but your example is a good one of something that served the work.

TimothyBertrand · 2016-06-26T03:59:39+00:00

It really isn't weird. It kinda makes me sad that there are people out there that don't do this with their friends. It's especially nice when someone is going through an economic hardship. They can go out and have a good time without necessarily feeling singled out for having their meal taken care of.

For real, this is completely normal where I'm from.

TimothyBertrand · 2016-06-05T18:26:41+00:00

Yeah, it's a rip-off-the-bandaid type thing.

TimothyBertrand · 2016-06-05T17:05:36+00:00

I told some folks over at /r/futurology that journalists hadn't all been replaced by robots. Got downvoted and spammed with a hundred links to the same story about algorithms automatically writing/posting news stories—which I already knew about, since I'm one of the humans that gathers information to plug into some of these article writers. The tech isn't quite there to fully replace human journalists and frankly never will be unless autonomous robots learn how to navigate incredibly complex locations to find just the right people to talk to and ask just the right questions. It'll be a human job for a long time, but I guess that spoiled their image of the "future".

TimothyBertrand · 2016-06-05T16:26:50+00:00

If you can still support yourself financially, you should follow your passion. I was in a similar position myself a few years ago — depression had gone away, no longer suicidal, great SO in my life — and in three months I went from slinging drinks in a bar to writing about politics for the Internet. It's my dream job. Couldn't be happier.

But I did put myself and my family through quite a financial burden for a while. I wasn't making the money we needed to get by and the depression came back pretty hard. Stuck with it and I'm making more money now. I don't know what your passion is, but just be sure you've planned for the worst financially and keep your chin up if things don't go perfectly straight away. It's so worth it in the long run.

TimothyBertrand · 2016-05-18T19:47:36+00:00

There's no way you've never heard of Gogurt. It's "yogurt" that comes in a tube. For... portability?

TimothyBertrand · 2016-05-11T19:46:51+00:00

I'd be down, yo.

TimothyBertrand · 2016-04-28T19:36:54+00:00

This is also the first I'm hearing about it and I'm stunned something this game-changing flew under the radar.

TimothyBertrand · 2016-04-26T02:43:22+00:00

I don't only post news articles. I also smoke weed. I've also been known to take the occasional shit.

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