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‘The Daily Show’ Rented A Food Truck To Make A Point About North Carolina’s ‘Bathroom Bill’

It’s pointless discrimination.

 Tod Perry
10.05.16

Back in March, the state of North Carolina passed HB2, better known as the “Bathroom Bill,” which makes it legal for a business to discriminate based on sexual orientation. It also restricts transgender people from using bathrooms that conform to their gender identity. To prove that the law is completely arbitrary, The Daily Show set up a food truck in Raleigh, North Carolina, and its employees refused to serve anyone they thought to be gay.

In the clip above, Daily Show correspondents Roy Wood, Jr. and Jordan Klepper work in the Bone Brothers Flamin’ BBQ food truck and randomly refused serve people based on their sexuality. The angry customers couldn’t understand the pointless discrimination. “You’re being a d**k ‘cause you’re just arbitrarily not serving me,” one man yelled. But the correspondents stuck to their guns. “I was told this is cool in North Carolina, I don’t have to justify myself,” Wood, Jr. told a baffled customer. “That’s an instinct I have is that you’re gay, and I don’t feel comfortable serving you.”

Although this type of arbitrary discrimination is pointless and insane, in North Carolina it’s 100-percent legal. The law not only allows for open discrimination against the LGBT community but opens everyone up to prejudice because there’s no way to prove one’s sexuality. The bill has cost the citizens of North Carolina dearly. Business boycotts, drops in tourism, the cancellation of major events, and elimination of federal education spending will cost the state up to $5 billion dollars a year. Hopefully, North Carolina’s citizens will wake up and repeal a law that damages its image and treasury all in support of arbitrary discrimination.


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Twitter is rallying around a gal named Tori who works at a Target in Massachusetts after she was tweet-shamed by irate chapekate, journalist, and Twitter troll, David Leavitt.

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Childbirth is the number one reason American women visit the hospital, and it ain't cheap. In fact, it's getting more and more expensive. A new study published in Health Affairs found that the cost of having a baby with employer-sponsored health insurance increased by almost 50% in the past seven years.

The study evaluated "trends in cost-sharing for maternity care for women with employer-based health insurance plans, before and after the Affordable Care Act," which was signed into law in 2010. The study looked at over 657,061 women enrolled in large employer-sponsored health insurance plans who delivered babies between 2008 and 2015, as these plans tend to cover more than plans purchased by small businesses or individuals.

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Scientists just found the crater of one of the biggest meteor crashes in Earth's history

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A meteorite crashed into Earth nearly 800,000 years ago. The meteor was 1.2 miles wide, and the impact was so big, it covered 10% of the planet with debris. However, scientists haven't been able to find the impact site for over a century. That is, until now. A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal believes the crash site has been located.

Tektites, which are essentially rocks that have been liquefied from the heat of the impact and then cooled to form glass, help scientists spot the original impact site of a meteor. Upon impact, melted material is thrown into the atmosphere, then falls back to the ground. Even if the original crater has disappeared due to erosion or is hidden by a shift in tectonic plates, tektites give the spot away. Tektites between 750,000 to 35.5 million years old have been found in every continent except Antarctica.

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