There’s this thing called birth control, and choosing to marry someone who shares your desire not to procreate (should that be your desire).

I am pro-loud exhaust fans and I will go one step further and say that I hate master bathrooms that are attached to the bedroom. I can do without my wife handling her business less than 10 feet from where I’m trying to sleep, thank you, and I don’t want to subject her to the same. And it seems like every damn house…

I’ve been thinking about the worst way to die recently, as my wife knows someone who lost a family member to pancreatic cancer very suddenly...as in, he started feeling like crap for a month or so, they finally diagnosed him, and he was dead within 2 weeks.

I’m no expert, but this seems like a reasonable proposal. The idea that non-trans men would pretend to be women in order to gain a competitive advantage (in sports that receive comparatively little coverage, and where it’s difficult to earn a living competing) is laughable, but I’ve always thought that there is a…

I think you should either not accept credit cards or understand that processing fees are a cost of doing business (and that there’s a hidden cost to dealing with cash...trips to the bank, employee theft, risk of robbery, etc).

Exactly. The specious justification for a 4% fee bothers me more than the fee itself. “We have to charge 4% so we don’t lose money on credit cards!” What’s your processing fee? “Somewhere around 3%.” And you admit that dealing with cash represents extra labor, risk, etc? “Yes.”

I never thought it was against the law, but I did think it was against the contract between the credit card company and the business. Did that change, too?

Regarding service time, as long as it exists as a concept there will be loopholes and teams will exploit them. Changing the number of days that count as a year will “fix” it for some players, and “break” it for others. Maybe it incentivizes teams to start the year with Kris Bryant or Vlad Guerrero, but then some other…

I see your point, but I think when you factor in the grueling travel, being away from family, etc, I think they could raise salaries quite a bit before anyone could feel like staying in the minors is a cushy job. I don’t know that $50k is the minimum I’d consider acceptable (especially because so many MiLB towns are…

Plus, unless one takes issue with the contracts that Harper and Machado eventually signed, I don’t see what the number of teams bidding at that level has to do with anything.

Yeah, my takeaway from this article is less that the Ricketts family is odious (we already knew that anyway), and more that the system that allows these types of things is so totally broken.

It’s always amazing to me how many people think that because it’s fast food, it’s acceptable for you to objectively not get what you paid for. I never complain if the food is disappointing; I do complain if I don’t get what I ordered. That’s business 101.

I either check it at the window or take the leap of faith until I get home. If anyone behind me has a problem with that, take it up with the unreliable staff.

I am always amazed at the timidity of customers who aren’t sure whether or not to complain about something that is clearly unacceptable from a business.

I don’t know, I feel like it should be a pretty non-controversial stance to say that in all cases, people who don’t want nude/sexually explicit videos of themselves made public should be allowed to make that choice.

Good for him. I want to see filmmakers tell stories that matter to them, and if his stories all feature black protagonists that’s awesome. The idea that he should be equally open to casting a lead of any race, regardless of what the story of the movie is about, is flat out absurd.

Baseball is the last major sport where the TV viewing experience isn’t objectively better than the in-person experience, but all of the price increases and general bullshit still make me almost totally uninterested in going to a game.

Yup, it’s getting to the point where every major industry is openly contemptuous of its customers.

I haven’t had a practice this fall with every player there - either they’re “sick” (doubtful); “tired” (we all are), or the parents scheduled something else for practice time (schedule was sent out in July).