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I want to add: NYCLU is busing people up from NYC (and also some other places) to Albany on Tuesday to lobby legislators directly about this exact issue. So if you for some reason are free on Tuesdays, you should join in.

That SCENE where he’s FALLING FROM HEAVEN with ABS but also a MUSTACHE

I use Shiseido Ultimate Sun Protection Lotion because it’s SPF 50+, has a lot of zinc oxide so has decent UVA in addition to UVB protection (downside: this gives the lotion a bit of a white chalky cast; presumably Shiseido formulates with East Asia skin and cultural preference for paleness in mind), and is really not…

Only in my adulthood did I realize that there exist dozens of formulations of non-greasy high SPF sunscreens that don’t make my hands feel gross. It was honestly life-changing.

Harvard admissions basically tries to build a stock portfolio with the hopes of investing in people that will become rich, famous-and-not-in-a-Unabomber-way, or otherwise highly successful. This is basically them divesting of stocks that have shown themselves to be high liability.

If you live in NY, 100% check who your state senators are and see if they are either GOP, part of the Independent Democratic Conference, or the one Democrat that caucuses with the Republicans. The IDC espouses a lot of liberal/left values but has a tendency not to follow through on actual committee movement in the…

Ugh, this started happening to me within the last few years. I’d say one out of every 30 or so apples and peaches causes my mouth to feel weird.

Honestly, I live in NYC, and I order Domino’s because their $8 pizza is more than two-fifths as good as everyone else’s $20 pizza. Sure, it’s definitely not THREE-fifths as good, but that’s where I’m at on my budget.

Alas for ScarJo, then!

Right? Not Beck?

That’s not a reasonable comparison, though? You’d want to compare the first Alien to something made recently that was a top-tier sci-fi movie (say, Arrival), and compare the recent Alien: Covenant to something made around the time of Alien that was just meant to get a bunch of people in seats (so, let’s say, the 15th…

Speaking from personal experience: A professor I worked with told me that men and women in his graduate-level statistics class got equally good grades, but then only the men asked to work with him after finishing the course (this is a huge issue, because those Ph.D. students with a strong statistics background…

While I think it probable that your assertion about old movies suffers from selection bias (for instance, I’d like to see if the twenty-sixth-best movie of 1966 was actually so much better about narrative exposition than the twenty-sixth-best movie of 2016), I did really appreciate Chrono Trigger’s manner of…

So, reading these comments, it sounds like the modal experience for people in early stages of pregnancy or with invisible disabilities is that buttons and the like did not completely solve the problem of public transit difficulties, but did modestly increase their likelihood of someone offering them a seat. This…

Yeah I’m like what is the word when you feel both pleasure and deep concern at someone else’s misfortune, schadenschadenfreude or?

I’m an East Coaster for life, but boy I wasn’t upset to get out of Camberville after college.

“First against the wall” will, technically, be on the front lines of the revolution, logistically speaking.

Honestly I find this discourse tracing it back to Tumblr to be fascinating, because my reaction to this article was actually “this is nowhere near the level of the Great Harry Potter Fandom Meltdown of Aught Five (or whenever the heck Ron and Hermione got together).” That took place well before Tumblr was a thing.

Agreed. Nixon/Kissinger’s negotiation of the One China Policy was successful because they and Mao were able to work out specific vocabulary that means one thing in English, and 95% the same in Chinese and with the nuance that the PRC wanted but with plausible deniability from the ROC’s perspective. That’s a…