I also think it’s funny that most people forget the life expectancy number is basically an average of when people have already died. It doesn’t actually mean any specific person is likely or not likely to reach a particular age. I am not even a demographer but underinformed public discussions about this topic irritate…

It’s almost as though this is the inevitable endpoint of body dysmorphia. If anything, people will want your weird plastic-surgery-enhanced body even less.

It doesn’t, because the Times does see fit to note that “The top spot for rat sighting complaints has been the Upper West Side” and this very article states, over and over and over again, that rat sighting complaints = evidence of gentrification. So while the article does not state the things you say in the exact…

okay thanks for clarifying 

Ehhhh . . . they think they know exactly what they are doing

This is the exact same thing as “there are so many problems in the world, why should any person spend any time at all trying to fix any single one of them.” 

We are talking about two different things. I didn’t say it’s the way to make change in the world. Everyone gets to have their own sense of morals (within reason.) The OP didn’t say basing investments on this or that specific issue is bad - they said basing it on “your morals” is bad. What else are your morals for if…

About 10 years ago, when I was in grad school, there was an Aldi right near my house. It may have been one of the first in the US, I dunno. I was poor at the time, so I went there one night with my roommate. I was so dismayed by how shitty the selection was, and how much the store resembled a gigantic automotive…

Right. It’s also objectively correct moral advice. All you have to do is decide which you care more about, you own sense of morals or your investment portfolio. 

So this is a little off topic but I knew Natalie Portman VERY slightly in college and I could name three different guys who had constructed whole realities around “going on a few dates with her” or being her “best friend” (for the gay one). I’m sure there were more. It’s not like we didn’t have other celebrities and…

My father in law is Mexican American (he grew up in Palmdale) and in law enforcement. He is a psychopath. He fits almost all of the descriptors in your first comment, with just a SLIGHTLY more respectful (but still enthusiastic) relationship with guns. He throws himself around like a fool trying to intimidate people…

LOL

Someone really should have told her, in like 2012, that her entire public image would eventually be reduced to jade vagina eggs and pussy steamers. It was totally predictable, and I feel a little bad she wasn’t warned.

This is the thing. Some liberal people also seem quite invested in the idea that there is 5-dimensional chess going on, which seems to be what Burneko is arguing against here. But it is not 5-dimensional chess to imagine that Trump does, in fact, want to be impeached, because it will be a fuckload of drama and he is a…

By who? MSNBC hosts? As long as Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity stay on his side and decently sized crowds show up to the rallies he continues to have, he won’t care that the “liberal elite” are calling him a coward. 

“I’ve seen otherwise reasonable people and critics fall for this and inch closer to the perspective of the alt right and incel types who sabotaged popular perceptions. It’s really a training ground for the political disruption they’ll undoubtedly be doing in 2020, as well.”  

Yeah, this really highlights the depth of the disordered thinking here. You focus all your attention onto this pinprick fact - you are not immediately identifiable as being traditionally physically attractive - and you basically overturn the table and say “well fuck that, I’m also going to develop a horrible…

Yes! Abandon your most deeply held beliefs because of the practical necessities of our fucked up electoral system! Vote for a guy you vehemently disagree with and see as the embodiment of the biggest problems in your party, because we literally have no other choices! Go America!

Do you have a source on this? I’ve been thinking a lot lately about his idiocy vs his brain-surgeon status, but I haven’t read anything that implies he is not actually a good brain surgeon. 

I can’t verbalize it exactly but I completely disagree with this.