“It’s not mime,” I said, quietly and unnoticed.

Yeah, but it always crashes near the very end.

Same here.

I’d hope so. It’s not like one can dilate their own cervix at home and put it in themselves.

Get better friends, seriously.

“It’s not that I necessarily think you’re a subhuman creature worthy of being property, it’s just that my long-dead great-great granddaddy did and I can’t disagree with him because that would hurt his honor more than it would hurt you.”

The South has plenty of amazing history and culture unconnected to enslavement and murder, but they’re hell bent on making enslavement and murder their badge of honor because of honor.

Nuclear war planning actually started with a full-scale “spasm” attack as the only option.

As others have said, some people really do focus on being outraged with the end goal being outrage. There’s nothing beyond that in their view.

It’s disgusting and bizarre that both the Right and the Left actually seem to believe that.

No, we would blame him for making the choice to adopt that ideology.

I can’t pretend to understand the mindset that responds to a potential civil rights violation by moving to a country notorious for using slave labor.

TV shows routinely narrow their focus to one smaller group of characters in an ensemble, or shift the focus entirely to a supporting character that was originally an afterthought.

People who were once an underdog are often prone to being the cruelest to individuals who still are.

Like... what else can’t they tell him? I mean, what other wacky shit does he do that his handlers are all like “Hahaha yeah Tom sounds cool haha yeah okay.”

My life was utterly consumed by work when Gamergate first became a thing, so I missed the back and forth, and had to try and catch up on the whole mysoginistic disaster well after the peak of it.

Apple’s aversion to using articles when describing their products is one of the things that drives me absolutely nuts about them. (For the record, I’m typing this on a MacBook Pro.)

The “problem” with the iPad is that the lifecycle is much longer than a lot of people anticipated. It’s complicated by the fact Apple hasn’t really been making dramatic changes between each iteration, to ensure iOS developers don’t lose their minds (also, margins).

so... why is it we gave wall street, and bank of america huge bail outs then

Eh, I’ve occasionally come across older PAs. People can fall into the business at random times in their lives.