I’m sorry about your sweet Ollie. It makes perfect sense to have him cremated to bring him home if that’s what your heart needs, whatever the cost of it vs. other things you need. Cookers and whatever else will always be available, but the cremation is only available now, and you can keep him forever. Other stuff can…

What a beautiful sweet cuddle kitty! Congrats!

Thing have been crazy recently, and I need a little commiseration/encouragement. Maybe advice. I read these a lot but don’t often comment because I’m bad about knowing what to say, but I hope that others here are wiser than I am. Long, emotional post warning.

What he’s really trying to say with that (fake) map is “You can’t impeach me, I’m the president!”

I worked at Ann Taylor for a few years, and naturally there are posters around the store showing models in the season’s clothes with the name “Ann Taylor” printed along the bottom. A man waiting on his wife by where I was standing at the register pointed to the poster over my shoulder and asked me, smirking, “Is that…

You’re right that they won’t suffer much in the way of consequences. Some people will suck up to them, some will avoid them and badmouth them amongst themselves. Maybe there will be a snide joke at their expense in a campus newspaper that would be embarrassing if having billions of dollars didn’t give them an ego that…

It’s not just that he has these sycophants telling him how he’s so amazing for handling all the crap he gets himself into, it’s that he has to tell other people that they told him this. It’s beyond pathetic.

By “books” he means “newspapers,” and by “newspapers” he means “online news articles,” and by “online news articles” he means “anonymous posts in a conspiracy forum.”

I usually laugh so hard I cry when I read AI-written things (e.g., recipes, Harry Potter chapters). But this is too pathetically realistic to trigger the same response for me.

Yeah, I respect the coolness of the concept, but after seeing the movie Sanctum, no way would I ever recommend someone go cave diving. Nope nope nope.

There is that.

I’m a bit embarrassed now I was so long-winded on Friday. TL;DR: My best birthday, I got to scuba dive in Hawaii with dolphins in the morning and then manta rays at night. My mind was blown watching these amazing, wild creatures. It was awesome—in multiple senses of the word.

That’s awesome. I think it’s so sweet that no one bid after you yelled out it was your birthday. Speaks well of Padalecki fans :)

The perfect place to write the next great American novel? Or the perfect place to film the next season of American Horror Story?

We got a Casper through Costco (I was a bigger discount than Casper’s frequent promotions) but returned it. I liked it, though I didn’t think it was a dreamy marshmallow cloud or whatever they quote people as saying in their ads, but my boyfriend found it too hard (he’s primarily a side sleeper).

That’s awful. I’m so, so sorry.

When I was 8 one of my friends had a birthday party where we all got picked up in a limo. I definitely thought it was the coolest birthday ever! The next year we had to write an essay on a “special memory” and my 4th grade self thought, yeah, it’s totally that limo birthday party.

For my 26th birthday, I was on vacation with my boyfriend on the Big Island of Hawaii. We were staying on the Kona side with his brother who had a job at a company growing algae for biofuels or cosmetics or something.

I think it is very likely that none of the individuals existing today on Earth would be here if it were not for rape. Trace anyone’s ancestry back for some ten thousand years or so, and at some point you’re bound to find one or more instances of rape.

There are some advantages to having the fortresses open for battles 24/7, but I think ultimately it works better overall for PoGo to have designated raid battles with 1 hour countdown timers. People know to show up when it hatches, so everyone gets there at the same time looking for everyone else. They could still…