“...based on their take on the current Youth trends”

“In general we’re careful, we are good listeners, we had to work harder to be taken seriously, and we know what we don’t know, among other things.”

Do you mean to suggest that your kids’ ~conversations~ with Alexa go differently than their conversations with Actual Human Beings, because your kids somehow do not think of Alexa as an Actual Human Being??? Perhaps they don’t even think of reciting commands at an internet-powered electronic device as a “conversation”…

I don’t know how much good it will do, but this bit of anecdotal evidence may be somewhat useful:

I’m so sorry about your crappy family. (No crappier than any other family, perhaps, but still not a terribly comforting presence at times like these.)

Yeah, a bit of boob diversity (beyond their thoughtful mix of perfectly-spherical pale boobs and perfectly-spherical brown boobs, all with identical nipples) would be the least they could do – at that could actually make a meaningful difference to a lot of women, many of whom have never really seen a realistic range…

Hey now, don’t blame Millennials for the shenanigans of advertising agencies run by Baby-Boomers and Gen X-ers! They may be trying to pander to us, but they’re the idiots coming up with this stuff.

Yeah, I get why it may be a bad idea for young children – too young to fully grasp the difference between a robot and a human – but generally speaking, people are always freaking out about how kids are going to cope with certain situations because they don’t believe that kids can pick up on situational nuances, when…

Oh, I’m sure he’s sweating bullets, but only because super-duper-ultra-powerful white guys are so terribly threatened by the prospect of being downgraded to mere super-duper-powerful white guys.

“Innocent until proven guilty” is a legal standard; neither your personal judgement, nor general public perception, nor corporate publicity management needs to conform to legal standards. He is to be presumed innocent by the government, and the rest of us are free to acknowledge the obvious truth of the matter. It’s…

To be fair, I’m sure it’s much more difficult to figure out what you want when there are children to consider. It’s one thing to say “Screw this, I hate you, your very existence is a threat to my personal sanity, and I want you completely out of my life forever” when it’s just the two of you, but Brad and Angie have a…

Reminds me of one of the most essential Daily Show clips of Trevor Noah’s tenure:

Worry not! According to Wikipedia, sexual coercion can ~actually~ be an advantage to females because you see, if the male can only mate with her by physically dominating her, then that means her offspring will have good, strong genes. Evolution is always looking out for us that way!

There are a million reasons to feel bad for chickens, I’m afraid. :/

Ha! I don’t have any personal experience with chickens, but my understanding is that this is something that happens most often when there are multiple roosters and one of the hens is particularly ~popular~ with all of them, so she keeps getting her feathers plucked over and over and over again.

Okay, you totally caught me with my pants down. My bad! Heh heh... 😳

Well, at least that’s something! They should still fire the copywriter who came up with that glibstrosity, though. And the flight attendant who deemed the gay couple irrelevant...

As someone who is right there with you in the camp of Dehumanizing Horrible People Is Counter-Productive And Intellectually Dishonest, I’m a bit weirded out by your description of the family as looking “like nice people.” For just about every person on the planet, there’s at least one group of people with whom they’ll…

P.S. The realities of mating are not pretty, no matter the species. Just google “duck corkscrew” if you want a good example of how desperate female animals can be to avoid it...