“You do get to follow and be followed across the communities”

Hmm... there are websites that already solve this. I use one called JustWatch. I select the streaming services I have access to, the country I’m watching from, and it only shows what’s available in those. It also has several very niche services in it where one can find some interesting stuff (Bollywood movies, for…

Looking at this discussion here from Brazil, were paid college tuition costs about $100/month, and government-funded ones costs $0 (when they don’t actually *pay* you to study), I cannot but roll my eyes. The US seems to be a great place in most everything, but in three of them it’s completely bonkers: electoral-everyt…

More woke? Well, kinda, as the anti-abortion crowd is at the very least more pagan than the pro-choice crowd.

A leaned man, I see.

Absolutely no restrictions. When I was a kid in the 1980's my parents and grandparents simply purchased what I wanted that they could afford, so I had from stereotypical toy cars and toy guns, to very non-stereotypical Barbie LPs and Carebear plushies. I loved watching from G.I.Joe and He-Man, to She-Ra and Jem and…

Why wouldn’t they like an unboxed man who, when he arrives home from a bad day at work, begins crying and asking for hugs and a petting?

Next step: teaching the majority of women to chose to feel attraction for men who’ve left the man box, rather than for those who’re in it. It’s a choice, right?

Oh, please. As a grandson of German immigrants I have both a German name and surname, but I live in Brazil, a Portuguese-speaking country, so absolutely *no one* pronounces it right, or even use the right word at all, and I neither correct them nor care.

About deodorants, the simplest solution is to buy those without any fragrance. They keep you from sweating, and block odors, but they don’t add a fragrance of their own. This is usually so you may add cologne or perfume, but you may use none of those and it works the same, with the added benefit of not imposing to…

True. The actual political problem is that the vast majority of these violent Trump supporters are people who’re disenfranchised. Newspapers are showing the story of some of those people, and it’s clear they’re people for whom the system has failed, and who lost hope they may ever find justice, so they resort to what…

Scientific measurements should become the norm for all sports participants eventually. Some kind of unified index taking into account testosterone level, bone density, muscle mass, muscle/fat ratio, height, and weight, so that every person, irrespective of being male or female, would have it clearly defined…

I’ll tell a very shortened version of my own story. When a kid I couldn’t stand rice and beans, the staple food everyone in my country eats twice a day seven days a week. It was so bad that, if forced, I ended up vomiting.

It works. Also, they now resent you, and these resentments, added to all the other resentments, will weight against whatever actually good you provided and taught them plus their own inner inclinations, and result in how they’ll act towards you in your old age. Let’s hope it’s a net positive for you.

I usually keep all the computers I have access to updated, but I use two Windows 7 laptops at work in which allowing Windows Update to run leads to a serious bug with networking support that causes the laptop to reboot whenever it connects to any network, no matter the interface: built-in Ethernet, built-in WiFi, USB …

Just out of curiosity, how large is it?

That’s called someone’s house.

They’re trying to make a living, not providing you a free living room out of the goodness of their hearts.

As a Brazilian who never visited the US I find this column quite interesting. The cultural norm around here is that people LOVE to camp at restaurants and talk. If a group of friends, any group, enters a place, it’s rarely to stay there for less than two hours, no matter the size of the place, how many stars it have,…

For whatever it’s worth, here in Brazil we pronounce those as: