“If I had gone through this” - People who’ve experienced grief know that there is no proper way to grieve and no appropriate time to judge how someone else does it.

The thing you’re describing is a military coup. Yes, it would backed by a democratic election, but it is terrifying to think the United States would need the military to force someone out of office.

When Trump was first elected I was one of the people who indulged in fantasizing about finding a way to move elsewhere. At the time it was mostly in a - I’d rather live in a country that reflects my values and offers the benefits of say, nationalized healthcare and parental leave, - kind of way.

“Everyone knows” seriously? I don’t know that. The man is already far too old to be running. The democratic party is not going to put someone who could drop dead at any moment at the top of the ticket. It will be Kamala Harris, which isn’t very different but at least better than an octogenarian.

Biden has basically come out and said he’s not running for a second term. He called himself a “transition” president. 

Something I’ve realized while watching coverage of Belarus is that criminal leaders box themselves into needing to maintain power. When the president of Belarus gets over thrown he’s going to be arrested on an endless list of charges. He’ll be convicted and either put in prison or executed.

I think that cooking skills have less to do with housewifery than with social class. My mom and grandmothers, who all worked outside the home, were all great cooks because they had to be. They wouldn’t eat otherwise. I doubt it was acting that kept Nancy from learning to cook and more the fact that she (presumably) had…

Some campsites that pride themselves on a low environmental impact have composting toilets for shit only, campers have to piss elsewhere. This is because urine messes with the composting process. It also, surprisingly, makes a composting toilet smell 1000x worse than shit does.

Yeah, my read on this is Harry appreciated it because this is normal human behavior probably not common among British 1%-ers or, stereotypically, Hollywood actors. The woman said yes to an invite to “camp” in Botswana. Most humans assume any “camping” trip in a rural/wild place would include some lack of showers or…

Except that 20th - 21st century masculinity is centered on “independence”. This is why the people most concerned with traditional masculinity are so anti-healthcare, welfare, etc. 

Somewhere along the line prosocial behavior became feminized. Wearing a mask doesn’t have to do with fear for yourself or your own health but an investment in collective welfare. Wearing a mask lessons infection rates overall and saves others’ lives. For a long time conservative politics have been centered on…

An interesting quirk of genealogy and numbers is that basically everyone alive today has royal ancestry. Essentially, the human population has skyrocketed so much since the Middle Ages (fewer people lived and died throughout the whole Middle Ages than are currently alive today) that the odds are incredibly low that…

If this wasn’t reason enough to not patron them, the clothing shein sells is made of straight sandpaper. I think they do most of their business selling to people who want the (incredibly cheap) clothes for IG photos, not to actually wear.

I also feel like Ellen knows her audience (white women) and knows they’re a delicate bunch who need to be given a trail of bread crumbs in order to come around to the right side of history. Being too direct might startle them off.

You don’t have to believe all women. You have to not attack their character or drag them through hell because they make an accusation. The response from the media and general public in this case is EXACTLY the reason most women don’t report. I know I would probably not report an assault by an acquaintance, most…

It’s really great as a woman to know that since I’ve pissed off a few landlords in my time by 1. being poor and 2. knowing my rights people won’t believe me if I report an assault. Great.

Because Kondo wrote a book and then used it to sell things, which apparently Roman doesn’t want to do. But instead of saying that she decided to make it clear she also doesn’t want other women to do it either.

Yup. A lot of people conflate Konmari with Minimalism when they are really very different.

Just commenting to recommend Taiwan as a destination (whenever tourism is a thing again). It’s a beautiful country, small enough to see most of on a two week holiday. The food is great. The bullet trains and subways are cleaner and newer than any I’ve seen in the US. Ride sharing apps work there so you can call a cab…

People are unified on that, it just doesn’t mean we have to cover our ears and eyes and pretend a candidate is beyond criticism.