They absolutely know. I grew up Catholic and spent 15 years in Catholic educational institutions as a student, and while I never had a discussion about birth control with the priests themselves, I did with their lay representatives. All of my formal sex ed was done in Catholic schools. * They know and seem to have…

Why is he surfing in mime makeup?

I’ve done WDW in the summer three different times. While it was never ideal, when I was there in June and early July I remember thinking that the heat and humidity wasn’t nearly as bad as I had feared. It wasn’t weather I would have chosen to put up with if it had been me that had picked the vacation dates (these…

Why are people harping on the fact that Den still hasn’t named his pick when waiting until right before the convention has become tradition for announcing VP picks for both parties? This isn’t a sign that’s Biden is fucking up, it’s how parties protect their VP pick so that they enter the convention without having…

Universal also opened a month before Disney did, practically the first date they were allowed to.

I speak to more Republicans than Democrats/Progressive Independents on a daily basis just by virtue of where I live, so I’ve actually had this conversation in person. A good amount are still clinging to the delusion that COVID is being hyped by the media for political purposes, though I don’t hear this quite as often…

We have no idea what (if any) impact Kanye will have on the race. We may not even know after the ballots are all counted what impact he had. So I agree, it seems silly to me to not be concerned. The last election’s margin was so small that it’s easy to imagine a pretty small number of dumb motherfuckers casting…

Fair enough!

I didn’t particularly care for Tarzan, but I fail to see how Mulan was inferior to say, Pocahontas or The Hunchback of Norte Dame. I’m willing to accept that it’s not as well loved as earlier Disney Renaissance films like The Lion King and Beauty & the Beast, but it certainly wasn’t a dramatic drop in quality for the…

Same. The movie came out the summer so worked in a movie theater so I was 16 or 17, so it’s not just kid nostalgia that has led to my enduring affection for the film.  

I loved the original so much. I get misty eyed every single time Mulan makes it to the top of the pole.

This take is so bad that the quality all of your other opinions are now in question.

For this particular application, I think dried spices are fine. If he was making an actual sauce or compound butter then sure, break out the fresh stuff. But for a quick rub, your spice cabinet is a fine place to go to find ingredients. Fresh ingredients have more moisture (obviously) than dried ones, and your…

Well that’s...... a take. The good news is it seems your sister doesn’t want to talk politics a bunch so it should be easier for you not to reduce her down to her unsavory political opinions than it would be if she talked about them a lot. Focus on the things you share rather than on the things you don’t and you’ll…

As a fellow lone liberal in a family of Republicans and center-right independents (who don’t like Trump but voted for him in ‘16 and may do it again), I empathize with this but strongly encourage you to focus on the values you know you do share instead of trying to needle the ones you don’t. This is not healthy…

I don’t think that applications/platforms themselves count as speech just because people use them to speak. It’s not as if the videos that are shared on TikTok are being banned by the government. They can (and many likely will) just move over to Instagram, YouTube or whatever app the kids use without any issue. …

The mosquitoes are ridiculous this year. I’ve been getting bitten just standing on the porch waiting for my dog to finish doing her business. That said, I think I may have accidentally stumbled upon a cure? I usually rub them down with ammonia if I get to it before I scratch them open ( this sometimes works, sometimes…

I agree with you about TikTok but am ultimately pretty ambivalent about it getting banned in the US. I had no issue with it getting banned by the military earlier this year as I think the security concerns are serious enough that I think keeping it off military personnel phones is a sound idea, and I would have…

Here’s the thing: your sister is not you. Different people process bad news/current events very differently, and judging other people’s reactions by what you would do if the shoe was on the other foot is never going to be a productive way to engage with them. Is your sister a secret Trump supporter? Quite possibly!…

Not to be a downer, but this is doubtful. The human mind’s ability to discard information they find uncomfortable or inconvenient is huge. The research on the success rate of different efforts in getting people to change their minds on something they have firm beliefs about is generally pretty depressing.