Amazing name. $90k for an alcohol startup (even if they do re-distill existing spirits) is crazy low within the industry, and the difference between $90k of mostly debt and $4 billion is so insane that I promise most of the commenters here, including me, can’t fully wrap our minds around it. That really is self-made.

That documentary seems to be about two tangentially related things: animal abuse by the tourism sledding industry and whether or not dogs trained for sledding in the iditarod is inherently abusive.

He actually never said that, it’s just a really old (false) rumor: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/tommy-rot/

Keto didn’t “not work for me” I made a conscious choice to stop policing my food. It’s not the kind of thing a person should feel sorry about. 

A long time ago, when I had a different body, I did a for real keto diet. I didn’t call it that, I thought it was just extreme inspired-by Atkins, but I stayed under 50 grams of carbs every day and often managed 20 (20 was my goal). I lived almost entirely on meats (baked chicken), eggs, and meal replacement protein…

I have found shoes at Marshall’s that had no business being there and that is why I love Marshall’s. I check Marshall’s now the way my dog always checks the back left corner of our backyard fence: once there was a possum there, any day there might be another.

Deleted because obvious troll (even if I fell for it for a sec).

I’m not sorry it hurts when you exist. It should, you deserve it.

It’s been days, sorry, I have a life and shit.

Oh this is definitely a thing! I got into an argument on Twitter awhile back with someone trying to claim that Jane Austen—Jane fucking Austin!—didn’t write romance essentially because her work is too good and too influential to be considered Romance genre.

Ironic attempt at a point, there. As I wrote in other comments already, *I* don’t tend to care for romance novels. However, I understand that my personal preferences have nothing to do with the quality of the writing within the genre as a whole, and to assert an entire genre (which, again, is the largest genre in…

Video games have 60 years’ history, that’s plenty to talk about even if it is light compared to novels. And anyway, you brought them up.

I assumed you meant ‘badly written’; I used to think the same, myself. Until one of my good friends decided to become an author, I thought romance was beneath me—not because of its themes, but because I assumed it was all poorly written. I told her that I thought she should do regular fiction instead because I thought…

Sure: video games do not have the history of being undermined within the confines of a patriarchal culture. If anything, video games have been (often falsely) associated with men, to the detriment of women gamers.

Yes. I tend to default to defending the romance genre in most of its facets (since it’s so often maligned needlessly) but publishers make lots of bad decisions based on old market data or worse... assumptions.

Teak is still used for outdoor furniture all the time. I think you can buy from Home Depot? But it’s raised for that and the trees aren’t big.

It’s considered fancy in most parts of the US, most homes aren’t built with it so to install would require a very expensive retrofit.

Yes, the vast majority are trash and some of them are sickening (rape, child sexual abuse), but a few rare ones are favorites of mine.

I’d believe ereaders were helpful, but romance was one of the biggest genres of publishing before the Kindle got big, too. I (briefly) worked in a mall bookstore my sophomore year of high school and I still remember the romance buyers, who were voracious readers and often bought 5–10 books at a time.

I told my secrets to men online when I was a tween back in the nineties, some of whom told me theirs (significantly darker). I have a very good friend who I have been friends with for decades who quite literally ran away with a man she met online while a teen; it did not go well. I have experience with this kind of…