People often think I'm a teacher or som'n, because I wear glasses. The only thing I can teach is how to cook & bag crack (kidding, I'd get killed for messing up someone's dope).

The death penalty is way more expensive than life in prison and you can call me a dope or a bleeding heart, I don't give a ish, the fact remains that the legal system is racist to its core, makes mistakes (count the number of people that have been exonerated) and more importantly, the number of innocent people that…

Prisons, at least if done right, are more than just a "tiny cell" and "never-ending psychological nightmare". America ofcourse still loves to torture its massive prison population with such crude methods, as if it'd somehow help to fight crime, but the Nordic countries, for example, show that crime can be punished…

I think sometimes abusive parents have a tendency to believe the lies they've told themselves about how wonderful their children's childhoods were. Particularly if their children turned out to be decent adults.

But that shouldn't make it illegal for me to take my kids out of school. I can't solve the problem for all the deadbeat parents who aren't going to make sure the kids are caught up. And the schools can't either. And I don't expect them to.

Grand Canyon
Death Valley
Anywhere else that is murderously hot in July.

It disturbs me that a question like this has to be asked in this day. Do children belong to the state now? It's completely absurd to consider it illegal. It's the parent's child. Not the school's or government's. This subject in general feels like it is treading on dangerous grounds of government overstepping its…

No, I mean that sometimes I can't schedule my family's life around the school breaks. And sometimes my kids have breaks at different times.

We made the same trip a few years ago in October and took the kids out of school. Completely worth it.

With smart kids there's no gap in education with a couple of weeks off and with dumb kids it doesn't matter anyway. So let both groups have a great time with their family and the terrific memories that go with it.

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You're using a bunch of big words and you kinda lost me there.

Yeah, true that. Women are much more often expected to just roll over and be a doormat. Personal assertiveness is viewed as a personality flaw rather than as a healthy coping mechanism.

And on top of that, it's harder to be direct when you are a woman. It's fine when a man says it, but if you said the same thing, matching him word and tone, everyone thinks you are an ill-tempered bitch.

A lovely sentiment in theory but hardly useful in practice. This idea is asking people to maintain an emotional check while in potentially heated, emotionally unbalanced situations. It's also putting the burden of 'what can be said' on the opposite partner.

In your case, you may be best off with something like KeePass - something you can take with you on your own in the form of a portable app and a portable encrypted database. That way you're not installing new things on every PC you visit, and you still take your data with you, without leaving a bunch of things behind.

That's not how you say "no" to a good friend. That's how you say "no" to a random acquaintance, whom you may need something from in the future, so you don't want to alienate him.

This article didn't deliver on the promise made in the title — i.e. How do you say "no" to anyone? How do you say "no" to the office Mother Hen who volunteers you for tasks? I had an office Mother Hen volunteer me to give a co-worker a ride home every night after work, even though it wasn't on my way and it doubled…

Maybe I'm a jerk (spoiler: I am), but when someone starts offering me an excuse as to why they declined my request, I interrupt with an "I don't need to hear your excuses." Because I don't. No is enough...especially with someone I'd consider a "good friend." Those are the easiest.

The whole script seems disengenuous. I wish people would stop trying to put on a pretty face. Just say "Sorry, would love to help but I'm all tied up this week. Thanks for thinking of me though, maybe I can help out (in this way)?" Gahh I wish I had a more elaborate vocabulary to express my viewpoint. It's like the…

Really? This is to say to a friend? How about, "I'd really like to help you out but I'm really busy this week."? All taken care of without sounding like a foppish a-hole.

"Thank you for being such a wonderful friend and colleague. I am honored to be part of your world."