I particularly enjoyed 5FootAssassin’s opener:

I mean, sure, he’s almost pure Irish, but he seriously looks like he’s going to burst into flames at the first hint of sunlight.

‘You literally look like you wake up and die everyday...’

Ha! “semen hued”. If My semen were that color, I would run to the doctor!

Didn’t read (yet) so not sure if the link makes this point, but I always think of survivorship bias anytime a wealthy and successful person shares their philosophy on how to be like them. They never consider that many people do the same things and fail, and will fail forever, and never consider how much luck plays a…

Damn. That’s some Richard Feynman-level thinking that guy had. I aways remember a famous quote of his:

The story gets a bit apocryphal sometimes, so I looked up the details. This cool dude is the one who exposed the survivorship bias and drew attention to what people weren’t seeing (the downed planes). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Wald

In the US you would be dead, your house and all your assets would be seized and liquidated, and your family would spend the next ten years getting collections calls at all hours of the day and night.

“But that’s because the people who die from having no insurance are not around to tell their stories.”

This is like that story about WWII airplanes. People were seeing these planes come back full of holes, and they were like, well we need armor where all the holes are. No, you need armor where the holes *aren’t.* The…

I am happy to pay my National Insurance contributions and would be happy for it to increase to be safe in the knowledge that when my daughters have babies, or get sick, or if I need more medical care, I don’t have to bankrupt myself just to get the help I need.

The biggest lie Americans, especially conservatives, love to tell ourselves is the one about self-determination and self-reliance.

I’m so glad you wrote this. I wish more politicians could be forced to read stories like yours so that they understand what the difference is like between having good insurance, and shitty insurance or no insurance. Republicans will still claim, “Oh, nobody dies in this country because they don’t have insurance.”

You’re falling into the fallacy that because gymnastics is a good thing, institutions like the USAG are therefore necessary. Then once that becomes an established truth, suddenly the USAG becomes more important than the athletes, after all, athletes cycle in and out, but these officials stay the same. The athletes now…

Every single person who looked the other way, who discouraged Nassar’s victims and their families from speaking up and speaking out, should’ve had to sit in that court room. And they should be reminded every day that they could have saved some of his victims from torment if they had just made a fucking phone call.

Only that there might not be enough salt to prevent it from rising again.

I don’t know what kind of awards can be given to judges, but she should get one for this.

To see them finally being allowed to say exactly what they wanted to say, and to be heard, believed, and embraced was incredibly powerful.

Stop it. yesmeansyesblog.wordpress.com/2011/03/21/mythcommunication-its-not-that-they-dont-understand-they-just-dont-like-the-answer/

ewwwwwwwww what the entire fuck? Men can only do what you let them????????? why do you hate yourself and other women so much? booooooo go away

Jesus Christ. Did you actually read the whole thing? It’s horrifying that you think men should be doing any of that shit.