Agreed. Some of the more enlightened among us sometime forget that people (even racist idiots, and especially teenage racist idiots) can learn. I’m hoping that things like this can help.

I approve of the goldfish only because I can make bets on marital luck based on the % of fish alive by the end of the night. (And as a bystander only.)

Much more so lately...look up the replication crisis (or replicability crisis) - almost nothing noteworthy in social psych from the last 10 years is holding up to criticism, particularly priming and other very widely accepted theories. (Other disciplines do have similar problems, but from my understanding, it’s more…

Update on this, and I’m getting 2/3 of my ideas anyway.

The only person who really matters in this case is that poor child.

older, more likely to have kids, I imagine more likely to be working in high-stress jobs that take more time away from health (because older)....

ughhhhh.....there are so many confounding variables here that this study (as reported) is all but useless. this is (one of the many, many) reasons why social science is getting so much flack lately. it’s forgetting how to science.

I’m pretty sure you just won all the internets.

No probably about it....

I’m actually confused about what you’re satirizing. Are you satirizing “basic bitches” or a stereotype of “white girls” (upper-middle class WASP white women)? Engaged Brooklynites, a few years off from bringing their babies to their local bars? Because that’s actually how this read to me. From the 100-year-old ring,…

Yesssss.....thank you for pointing this out. I felt bad for agreeing that this is a terrible humble brag, but this is why.

This is why Jolie is our favorite. She frees us from the greys. ^_^

I love everything about this.

I’m too sentimental. I think of my mother every time I put on jewelry that she bought me. I’d do the same thing with lingerie. /shudder

Yes! We always do this. I couldn’t imagine having to lug everything home from the hotel the next morning - or worse, have your parents do it when you leave for your honeymoon!

F THAT SHIT.

oh, it’s not that I don’t have the need for it. I bake or cook at least once a week, often 2-4 times. It’s just that I’m still using the hand mixer I bought myself in college, and could continue using it for another decade if necessary. A KitchenAid is one of those awesome luxuries I would never buy myself, but that’s…

No. No, no, no.

What is the business value for this feature? Why did they spend money developing it? Was it just to say they could?

weird! I feel like if someone wants to give me a crystal vase they should just go ahead and do it, because whatever they pick will be as close to my taste as it will ever get (that is, not at all).