Sure, but one well going dry doesn’t really tell you anything even about immediately local climate conditions or water supply. Lots of wells and streams and brooks and whatnot, though...The areas of New England I’ve lived in have abundant lakes and rivers, and while sometimes water levels get low far more often we…

I’m assuming NWCT means northwest Connecticut? A quick Google shows Conn does have some drought issues, especially in colder months. Interesting.

The question posted in the post was whether it was appropriate to cover the ‘lowlights’ (and generally, negative information) about LaMelo Ball - in light of all the family efforts at as much positive publicity as posisble. Your answer was ‘Keep the kids out of it.’ My reply is about why that doesn’t really work. Your…

First “discrimination against tones might constitute discrimination” is a sentence that makes no sense. Second, the upshot on uptalk seems to be that it is ‘beta’ behavior which is crucial for people in a beta role but disdained by those who are not. Makes sense, actually.

Yeah good point, what’s the name of that chick who was in the Office and had her own TV show and has been in several movies... Her skin is super light, right?

Not sure why 2 of 5 for Women’s Health is a B minus. 40% is quite a bit higher than the ratio of minorities to white people in the US Census. If magazines and others want to target the broad population of the U.S., their topics should reflect and appeal to that diversity roughly in proportion.

She’s pretty, born famous and is now of legal age to put on mag covers to ogle.

It sounds like you are confused. Good luck with that.

I think your definition of immediate and caveat must differ from mine. I don’t think a fair reading of her statement that these ‘facts’ were among those she recited as a 13 year old is that she is disavowing those facts, which she has just uncritically restated. In any case, put it down to YMMV.

Gawker is recently deceased because they pissed off a billionaire in a country where lawsuit roulette is permitted to suppress speech and destroy speakers. So no, I don’t ‘see how that works.’ Nor do I see how Deadspin can be blamed for covering a teenager who is surrounded by a publicity-making machine that is the…

Huh, it must not be super common in New England then because I’ve never heard of a government in the Northeast coming over to mow your lawn. I’ve heard of people with rusted out car chassis and other junk getting cited for nuisances or whatever, but actually maintaining your lawn and sending a bill? Nope!

When she says that arranged marriage has its merits, she does not say that ‘It had these merits, in my mind, when I was 13, but now I see it differently.’ She’s presenting or attempting to present a nuanced view of the costs and benefits of arranged marriage and its attendant traditions. The problem is that the…

No, she doesn’t make it explicit anywhere - she says that women in some conservative households may face a stigma about divorce, but nowhere connects that to the supposed merit of a lower divorce rate (a claim made several paragraphs earlier and not framed as ‘something she used to believe’). She also says the…

It certainly doesn’t make that point in the context of describing the lower divorce rate as a ‘merit’ to the custom of arranged marriages in India.

Uncritically reporting differences in divorce rates between the US and India is ridiculous. We don’t have triple talaq, but we also have vastly different socioeconomic circumstances and wildly divergent traditions around both marriage and divorce.

yeah, it seems like all of these ‘save water, convert your lawn to rocks’ arguments ignore the locality of climate - in New England, there’s abundant sources of water and virtually no shortages of any kind. So if we water our lawns, so what? We’re not harming anything. The same isn’t true for Arizona, so…

Government? Really? Or do you mean private homeowners associations? I’ve never heard of a government that will mow your lawn if you don’t.

Did anyone really ever claim that they maintained their lawn for environmental reasons? The ‘don’t maintain your lawn’ argument here doesn’t address aesthetic / property value concerns, and also doesn’t mention that the millions of people living in HOA neighborhoods may actually have no choice about whether and how to…

LaMelo is in AAU; Lonzo is at UCLA. Somehow I think LaMelo is not Ball’s oldest son.

Rich, Rich. Seriously. “a company’s racist history was not a deal breaker when it came to choosing which organization he’d devote his life to when choosing a vocation”. I mean, seriously. And did you proof read this shit at all? I imagine this article must have been a struggle. But come on! Seriously?