Residential homeowner-focused platform Porch (NASDAQ: PRCH) is essentially like a dating site for home improvement service providers and homeowners — and just like other matching platforms, the relationship between Porch and its listed businesses is sometimes tense. Some building contractors and other home service companies with a presence on Porch […]
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I hate my boyfriend’s stand-up comedy, and more advice from Dear Prudie.
Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by jacquesdurocher/iStock/Getty Images Plus. Danny is online weekly to chat live with readers. Here’s an edited transcript of this week’s chat. Q. Not a laughing matter: My boyfriend of three years has been dabbling in comedy since we started dating. For years his friends told him […]
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As An Indigenous Woman, I Always Hate Thanksgiving. This Year I’m Terrified Of It.
I used to think it was enough, every Thanksgiving, to post Wednesday Addams’ famous Thanksgiving monologue. Like most Indian kids across the country, when I first saw “Addams Family Values,” I delighted in the speech delivered by the iconic little outcast. It was one of the first times I remember […]
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A play-by-play account of Facebook’s hate speech controversy in India
Since last week, Facebook India‘s director of policy, Ankhi Das, has been under the spotlight for her role in taking moderation decisions that favored the ruling Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP). A report by the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) published last Friday suggested that on multiple instances, Das overruled the moderation […]