I’m not entirely sure that labeling Liberty University as “evangelical” is accurate. After all, there are evangelical churches which are fairly moderate in their politics. But Liberty University embraces full-on conspiracy theory thinking (e.g. that Earth is a few thousand years old and everyone who says otherwise is…

Fair and valid point.

I think everyone who has used communal laundry rooms has bad stories they could tell. The Splinter staff member who claims that communal laundry rooms are “better” than not having a dishwasher hints that they have bad stories they could tell: they just chose not to share them because then they’d be undermining their…

Shhh we’re not supposed to talk about the end of the show yet.

Obligatory music appreciation thread

If you eat outside of your residence you pay someone else to either wash your dishes or give you disposable dishes.

If you wear clothes outside of your residence you ... generally ... still have to clean your own clothes.

I guess it is possible to give your laundry to other people to clean but that’s a fairly expensive…

Of those three options I’d go with

I think the reason why “washer and dryer” is the answer most everyone gives is easy to illustrate by considering what happens if a residence lacks one or the other appliance.

No dishwasher: I cook a meal. I have dirty dishes. I need to clean them. In my own residence, I fill a sink up with hot water, add some soap, and…

Those unfortunate 7 kids named after Bronn. :-(

Image for joke included for people born after the episode, which may include at least one member of the staff of Splinter.

FWIW human civilization is going to have a very interesting 21st, 22nd, and 23rd centuries as we see anthropogenic climate change place our climate into a new “normal” and sea level rise, with temperature increases, rearrange which places humans want to live. So it makes complete sense to want to get at least some…

I’m sorry that Splinter has, so far, not chosen to moderate the comments on this article.

For the sake of the Splinter staff who is assigned to moderate these comments, here are the Kinja accounts to block for having tasteless comments on this article

https://kinja.com/vonolta
https://kinja.com/isitenvironmentallysafe
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Honestly I’m going to admit that I had forgotten that the United States of America, the country in the world with the largest Defense budget on the planet, currently had no Secretary of Defense. Glad to learn that I stopped caring about how terrible my country’s government is. Cool.

Saying as how humans will, if we want to survive on long-term timescales, have to leave Earth, what makes you “sad” that a human wants to start the spread of humans beyond Earth?

It seems to me that paying someone to pretend to be high while driving a “tricycle” is poor money usage. I would gladly volunteer to get actually high and then drive a “tricycle.” Y’all know where to find me.

Listening to Republicans talk about Trump is often very weird because they have to walk this delicate line between being upset at incendiery things he says or does and being accepting of the things he says and does that they approve of.

They don’t want him to be on their side. But he’s on their side. So they have to…

Yeah. Honestly kind of surprised she was let go but I guess some other online media place offered her a better salary or whatever. Oh well!

In the column Ms. Mair eventually claims that Mountain West people (personal divulgence: I’ve been one for the past 11 years) don’t prioritize environmental concerns but somehow are unique in wanting to balance environmental concerns with economic concerns. Her exact wording is

“[we] are simultaneously concerned about…

Definitely not at 736am local time, my brain can’t handle errors that early in the morning.

Exactly. She’s placing partisan interests as more important than respecting her dead father (and I mean, I kind of get it, her father wasn’t perfect) so it’s obvious she’s given up on things like ethics.