That is my biggest regret of switching from a Mac to a PC for my latest laptop. Typing in foreign languages generally and languages that need diacritical marks in particular was so much easier and more seamless on the Mac, whereas on the PC I either have to use Windows’ “International English” keyboard, where the…

When I worked for Amtrak, I had to have my phone completely off and in my bag at any time the train was running. I wasn’t the engineer, so I wasn’t the one running the train, but even a conductor fucking around on their phone was considered too much of a safety issue to allow. Management could check your phone records…

Yep. My money is very much on William. I think that likely explains the rift with Harry, and I think it would have been much more shocking and hurtful coming from him than it would have been from, say, Philip, precisely because William is younger, theoretically more modern-minded and not someone you would expect to…

As one who knows a fair number of Israelis, I don’t think the military service has much to do with it, so much as the fact that culturally, Sabras are not at all prone to putting up with bullshit. Which can be exhausting, but in a case like Gadot’s, I think it has probably served her very well and given her some tools…

A little late to reply because I wasn’t checking my notifications (too busy watching the world burn!), but I’m sorry you had to go through something similar. It’s awful- and I have been lucky to have good doctors since my father passed away, but I don’t take anything for granted anymore. I always go in armed with as…

This. My father was in the hospital for lung cancer treatment when I was in high school, and most of the medical staff were absolute turds to my mother when she asked questions (or just tried to clarify something, like when he gave plausible ages for my brother and me during a neurological exam that weren’t actually…

Uh, how would this be any different than the whole “social credit score” thing that China’s been doing, to pretty much universal consternation? The only practical difference here is that the power would be in the hands of faceless companies rather than the government, and personally, I don’t see that as an improvement.

It’s been floating around on the internet for awhile!

We watched that movie in my sophomore English class (after finishing the book). The movie was garbage, but hilarious if you were a class full of high schoolers making fun of it with your teacher’s permission to go for it.

We read a pretty good mix of stuff in my high school classes- yes, there was Dickens, Shakespeare and The Scarlet Letter (which my Honors English teacher sweetened by showing us the Demi Moore film and giving us permission to mock it at will, which we all thought was pretty great), but we also read Native Son (which…

It is. I actually googled it, because I started to wonder if I was totally off base. It’s unfortunate, because it’s super distracting and makes an otherwise interesting article come off as sloppy and poorly-researched. I hope they go back and fix it.

Kind of strange that in spite of a bit of peripheral lip service paid in the beginning of this piece, a feminist website that ostensibly focuses on women has completely conflated masculinity with “men,” as though there isn’t a long, long history of masculine women, butches, et cetera, et cetera.

I am so glad I’m not the only one who thought this. I’m sure she could talk and not talk about soup forever!

Yeah, I had the same reaction- in fact, this exact discussion, word for word, just came up on an editors’ group I’m in. The consensus was that you cannot use the word “murder” absent a conviction. I absolutely understand why someone would find that upsetting, but it’s libel, and it undermines whatever else the author…

I mean, I’m NB, and it doesn’t bother me. And if it did, well, that’s a me problem, not a them problem. Frankly, if they’re not on T, it’s irrelevant how other people feel about it, NB or otherwise. NB identities are varied and complex, and there is no one-size-fits all approach to transition (whatever that may look…

This, exactly. The people handwringing over this make me really frustrated, because what they’re really saying is, “Right, NB people either need to stay closeted, or they can’t play high-level sports,” all of which are gendered, so far as I know. I suspect that many of these same people also considered DADT to be…

So... NB people shouldn’t be able to play professional sports at all, then? That’s what you’re saying here. Because they couldn’t play on a men’s team, either, since they’re, you know, not a man.

She’s a shanda for sure, although... am I the only one now wondering if the Jewish thing is even real? I guess if she suddenly starts writing all kinds of stuff about the Holocaust, we’ll know.

The only way that happens is failing the psyche evaluation.

Maangchi and Joshua Weissman are two of my absolute favorites.