Yeah, Jia. How DARE you force someone to acknowledge that their gut reaction to late term abortions stems from a decades long misinformation campaign propagated by the anti-choice lobby. Why can't you just let this poor idiot continue thinking that the majority of late-term abortions aren't performed for medical…

This is a poorly thought out hot take. First of all, you should at least cite to the latest stats from RAINN*, which are even worse at 6 in 1,000 rapists incarcerate. Second of all, this stat includes reported rapes, unreported rapes, rapes with physical or eyewitness evidence, rapes without physical or eyewitness…

Men seriously need to start being more offended by the idea that the “average” dude can’t control himself. In vino veritas; a man who views women are human beings isn’t going to turn into a rapist after binge drinking. I’ve been the suuuuper drunk girl getting frisky with a suuuuuper drunk boy many a time, and when…

I’m going to be honest, I’ve have only an infinitesimal amount of pity for this idiot. First, she definitely signed a waiver, since Soul Cycle and similar group fitness chains make all new students sign injury waivers. Second, she’s not even alleging that faulty equipment caused her injury (which would be a legit…

Child welfare laws in Japan are pretty lacking, I'd actually be surprised if there are any criminal charges filed.

From what I’ve read, it seems unlikely the parents will be charged with anything. My understanding is that the current law is pretty lacking in protections for the rights of children. This whole incident has sparked a debate about possible reforms to current laws.

Most corporations that perform budgeted projects for clients track employee time in order to track billing and/or project profitability. In my field, if I have to stay past regular business hours to receive a call or email related to a client engagement, then I bill the client for that whole hour.

Maybe you should have not commented on an article after you "stopped reading"? Really, what is possibly the point of this comment besides inflating your ego about how objective and informed you were at 18?

I mean you could easily read one of the easily Google-able reviews of the film, if you actually wanted to know. Variety, IndieWire or Hollywood Reporter have write ups by people who have actually seen the movie.

This film was at Sundance, people who have seen it have said it explores gender dynamics. Your impression from watching the trailer is not equivalent to the reviews of people who have seen the film.

That argument might be compelling if they had race-bent Steven Strange to be Asian and the Ancient One to be a white. But reducing the net amount of Asian roles in your film to avoid racism is one of the dumbest things I've read this week.

This is my (admittedly limited) experience as well. I studied abroad for a semester in Japan with a student from Shanghai who was attending a US ivy league for her undergrad degree. She seem to have a very nuance view of the world and China’s emerging role in it, right up until the topics of Tibet or Taiwan came up…

Two things Jackson hated passionately were non-whites and paper money. Now he’s stuck on paper money with a black woman, and on the b-side of the paper money no less. That shit would have enraged him, so I actually kind of dig it.

You can easily register for the Democratic Party and the still vote in the general elections for a Green Party candidate or whatever if you are so moved. It’s not a blood pack, Debbie Wasserman Schultz isn’t going to follow you into the poll and personally supervise your vote. There’s not much of an actual downside to…

Thank you! I haven't honestly watched this show since they moved production to NC and reading the comments from people saying the homeowners on this show normally have reasonable expectations made me feel like I was taking crazy pills. The Canadian episodes are almost uniformly like "Hi, I live in 3-bed/1-bath duplex…

They work well for most pets, the shelter I volunteer at uses them all the time. A fair amount of people don’t buy the right size for their pet, which results in most of the negative reviews, in my experience. The proper size is quite tight, not just a little snug.

I mean conversely you could argue that being that close to Indiana and still being one of the coolest cities in the US, Chicago has earned that #2 spot.

This is my exact thought every time I get tricked into going to a city besides NYC or DC for work (I'm based out of Chicago so that basically covers the US's non-car cities).

I find that people who think Chicago is overrate are people who rarely stray from the River North/Lincoln Park areas of the city. The city has a huge restaurant and bar scene, active theatre, art and music scenes, some world class museums, great public green spaces, a bunch of interesting neighborhoods, interesting…

Oh yeah, I’m not disagreeing with you, just pointing out that a lot of people mix up their overall effective tax rate with their federal effective tax rate.