I beg to differ. Just like ALL OF US, in this country he was innocent unless/until PROVEN guilty. And the cops don’t get to serve on the jury. Whether he was involved at all in a property crime, the real point is that he, like ALL OF US, deserved due process, not sudden death.

Keep in mind that the police were only supposed to be looking for someone who, at worst, was committing property crimes. Yet they managed to escalate that into the taking of an innocent man’s life. Having your car broken into sucks, but nothing like being dead forever. If I owned one of the damaged cars and heard that…

I am almost always seated in the exit row. And I don’t want to find that my seatmates are drunk. Seriously, the last thing the other humans on the plane need is someone blocking the emergency exit, fumbling around, disoriented and clueless, because they almost slept through the security briefing (harder to do these…

Must be nice to be on an expense account. I work for you, which means I get a set amount of per diem that varies by location. It is not enough to cover drinks and other entertainment, just the extra cost of food on the road as compared to food at home.

I’m currently on my fourth and fifth manual transmission Subarus here in Alaska, USA. I hate, hate, hate, trying to drive automatics on snow and ice.

Huge embedded assumption here that does not apply to me: this only works if senders and recipients are in the same time zone, or at least only an hour or two off. I’m in Alaska and my work covers six US time zones (and sometimes even colleagues working in Guam and American Samoa, a day ahead of me). Many of my…

I have exactly one app connected to my account, which is otherwise very locked down, and I am the only one who can see that app. I use Facebook mainly to stay connected to friends from the many places I’ve lived over my life, and also (via closed groups) for several of my interests and hobbies. Also, Facebook Purity…

OK folks, to make us all happy, let’s say “with (generally) two X chromosomes,” or “with clitori,” or “with a vulva.” While I realize there are folks out there with fewer or more Xs, or who have had their external genitalia altered to conform to what are to me incredibly sexist notions, my point is that we shouldn’t…

You mean people *with* uteri. I don’t consider myself to lack anything.

I grew up in Australia. This was not photoshopped. Hunstman spiders potentially lurk behind every picture on the wall and every piece of furniture, and tend to suddenly appear on the ceiling directly over the bathtub as you recline, relaxed (until you see them). They particularly like to lurk under the sun visors in…

“-oid. a suffix meaning “resembling,” “like,” used in the formation of adjectives and nouns (and often implying an incomplete or imperfect resemblance to what is indicated by the preceding element): alkaloid; anthropoid; cardioid; cuboid; lithoid; ovoid; planetoid.”

Can we stop using the word “douche” to describe men behaving badly? Because the only reason it’s an insult is that it has something to do with “dirty” female anatomy. That’s about as sexist as it gets, guys, and I’m calling you on it. I’m fed up with your insults about my body.

Came here to make the same point.

I’ve NEVER carried a balance on my credit card. Why would anyone use a debit card, unless they couldn’t qualify for credit? Debit cards give you no advantage over cash — once you pay with one, the money is gone, with no chargebacks and very limited protections from other forms of fraud etc.

I’ve NEVER carried a balance on my credit card. Why would anyone use a debit card, unless they couldn’t qualify for…

You mean apart from reversing eight years of progress on renewables, in favor of coal?

In part because all the other Waze users are following its directions and cluttering up the alt. routes.

Speaking of faulty reasoning: you seem to be saying that because a medical team also failed to listen to your white grandfather, this somehow proves your underlying thesis that medical staff are just as likely to ignore males as females, and whites as POC.

But of course the medical team didn’t listen to her! She’s not only female, she’s African American! Everyone knows WOC are always over dramatizing everything.

As long as it’s not chunky, it’s good.

Seems like this should be true, but it assumes a constant base metabolism. What actually happens to a lot of people is that the fewer calories they eat, the lower their energy needs go. They face feeling like they are starving all the time —not easy for many people to live with. It seems like a better strategy is…