You are correct that there are lot of train options outside of the metro in Tokyo. However, Tokyo is a lot larger in both population and geographic size than NYC. The city proper has 13.6 million residents (NYC = 8.4 million) and is 2,187 sq km (NYC = 1,214 sq km).

All of the well adjusted homeschooled people I’ve met 1) had fairly secular parents and 2) stopped being homeschooled before high school. I think when properly done, such as through a correspondence course, it can be fine through 6th-8th grade. Whether people realize it or not, there is a lot of important social…

Yeah, I read the 1st couple of paragraphs and was confused why this person thought they weren’t a stereotype. Hippies who are able to healthily manage their attachment to their children just send their kids to Montessori schools.

I never understood why the NYC subway system has so many stops, it always seems very inefficient. The subway system in Tokyo has about 2/3 the number of stations and serves a city that has a population almost 2/3 larger than NYC and a larger geographic size as well.

I thought the book was a moderately above average thriller, and this trailer makes the film version look like garbage. Unneeded setting changes, bad casting, white washing, terrible music...

Whenever I see a white woman dressed up as Kahlo or in obviously “Kahlo”-influenced clothing, I immediately think of her own words on the matter:

Oh man, flat whites. I was living in Ireland when those started popping up in cafes and then moved back to the US just in time for them to be the “new thing” at Starbucks. Food trends perplex me.

This is how I felt about the moment of trendiness that kale had a few years ago... were people really unfamiliar with kale before 2011/2012?

And her reaction doesn’t even necessarily have to do with any prior trauma or gun violence experience, which is why I’m confused by all the dip shits who think her reaction was off. A dissociated calm is a fairly common (and evolutionarily useful) response to high stress and injury. Ask any ER nurse; for every…

Yeah, I’ve just been assuming most people who don’t understand her reaction have never gone into that sort of dissociated survival mode, because it’s a very common reaction to high stress or injury.

A lot of “date rape” drugs disappear from the blood stream within a few hours from what I’ve read. Seems like the police may be should have done some research about that before they fined her...

Don't you know that when HRC changes her stance on an issue/policy it's called "flip flopping" or "being a disengenious bitch" instead of "reacting to new information", "evolving" or "accomodating the changing interests of her constituents".

He's def been on a few panel shows in the UK, so I think he's got at least some recognition there are well.

On their March 31, 2016 balance sheet they had €38.2 billion cash and short term investments on hand (up from €31.6 billion at 2015 year end). They easily have the liquidity for this settlement with no threat of bankruptcy.

Here you go! :) Basically 2 = wavy, 3 = curly, 4 = coily and a/b/c denotes the degree of wave/curl/coil.

Here you go! :) Basically 2 = wavy, 3 = curly, 4 = coily and a/b/c denotes the degree of wave/curl/coil.

Verb Ghost Hairspray is my jam. My hair is a mishmash of 3a/3b/3c type curls. This is the only hairspray I've ever used that didn't cause crunchiness and didn't dry out my hair.

Verb Ghost Hairspray is my jam. My hair is a mishmash of 3a/3b/3c type curls. This is the only hairspray I've ever…

Yeah, I don’t think I’ve ever flipped on an issue so fast in my life...

Duuude, chill. Pixar has made 17 movies and has 4 known in the pipeline. Of these 21 movies in total, 8 are sequels. Sequels are not inherently evil, and there is no evidence that Pixar isn’t planning to continue releasing original content just because their sequels do well financially. Inside Out came out last year…

It doesn't seem that strange that she could very easily have the mental capacity to understand "my husband is about to do something bad" and not have the mental capacity to make the next mental step of "I should call the cops." I don't know what kind of learning disorder she has or the severity obviously, but there…

I’m honestly surprised so many people seem to disagree with you here... I think for most adults in the US, if you had them play a word association game with Florida, gators would be in the top 5/top 10 associations. Yet a lot of people are indicating that they apparently wouldn't made the leap from "there are gators…