This has got to be one of the most frustrating aspects of living paycheck to paycheck- it forces you to prioritize short-term needs over your long-term best interests.

Thanks for the explanation, that makes a lot of sense!

Really? It seems so strange that a company would require corporate employees to wear the brand, even if their job involves zero public interaction. I can see the obvious benefit in having store employees wear the product, but making the office workers wear it seems pointless- it's not like the IT guy needs to immerse…

He said it was harder to keep female characters on model than male one.I'm sure keeping any character on model is difficult. That's not controversial- animation is obviously not an easy job.

I guess where I'm getting stuck is that, if isn't the "pretty" factor, what makes male faces easier to draw then female? Why is consistency a bigger problem for female characters?

It still comes across as offensive even if he's saying that animating women is harder because they're never allowed to look ugly and have to fit into a narrower beauty ideal. The fact that Disney wants their female characters to look like pretty princesses in every frame of every movie is a problem because it's…

Oh, I agree that he may not have meant it to be offensive, but it's still a remarkably stupid thing to say. Especially since Disney already gets plenty of criticism for being sexist. The last thing they need is an exec running around complaining about how hard it is to make movies with female characters.

It's possible that the question was just worded unclearly, but the concern is that it goes beyond just wanting to look good and crosses over into feeling actively stressed or depressed by your body.

If the person they're quoting has said it was because female clothes or hair were more difficult, then that would be a good point. But claiming that female faces are harder to animate then male ones or that it's harder to make female characters look unique requires a little more support. Male and female faces have all…

To be fair, if your kids are more spread out in age it becomes hard to avoid bringing the younger ones to places they can't fully appreciate, unless you put all family outings on hold until the youngest child gets old enough to participate. And even if the place charges admission for really little kids, it's usually…

There are at least a dozen different voices for Siri, in several languages. This woman is the default voice in the US. I think the UK has the only male English-speaking Siri though- the US, Canada, and Australia all have female Siris.

I get "Okay, but wipe your feet first."

Yeah, for a person who swears regularly, managing to be around kids for weeks and only swear in front of them twice isn't that bad. Of course swearing *at* kids is unacceptable, but the quote from the contestant just says he swore. A child old enough to operate an oven is not going to be permanently scarred by hearing…

Immune system issues like allergies, autoimmune conditions, and many food intolerances are legitimately occurring more often, for reasons that aren't entirely clear, though the hygiene hypothesis seems to be the best explanation. People in the 50's might not have considered ADD and depression to be medical problems,…

In the US, a lot of pizza restaurants are primarily about delivering food and takeaway orders, so the actually restaurants are pretty puny. A couple tables and chairs, and you pick your food up at the counter instead of having waiters. So places like Pizza Hut often look like they're a rung below fast food, because…

I assume it's a euphemism for pregnancy, because pregnancy suppresses menstruation.

The vast differences between US states doesn't really make sense unless you consider the history of the US and the historical tensions between the federal government and state governments.

People get nervous and want hand-holding. The internet isn't going to give you a single specific answer to a question like "how often should I baste the turkey?". Typing that into google will get you a lot of contradictory answers. Some sites will tell you basting isn't necessary at all, some will tell you do it…

I think the overprotectiveness is sometimes an anxiety/control thing- the diagnosis gives the parent an excuse to be over-involved in the child's life and to keep the child more dependent on their parents. So they can convince themselves that it's ok to forbid Junior from going on sleepovers, because what if he eats…

That's great, and I think employers absolutely should provide cell phones if they expect their employees to be reachable 24/7 or on short notice. But a lot of the employers I or my friends have had don't do that. They won't say a cell phone is necessary, but they'll call you at 2pm to tell you that you have to be at…