5 minutes is a total dick move unless your physical safety is threatened. If someone's taken the time to meet you, regardless of who initiated, you can spare 20-30 minutes of conversation. Hell, half that time is usually taken up by waiting for the coffee or whatever to get made anyways.

The other day I'm driving with my wife. The opposite direction of traffic is backed up for a block or two, and this big pass van comes fully into my lane (over double yellow, the whole deal) to try and scoot into the left turn lane half a block ahead of him. Considering he blocked my path completely, about all I…

Granted, I'm looking at this from solely the POV of the person doing the initiating. And giving that hypothetical person further benefit of the doubt by assuming they're actually curating their message choices and not sending messages at everyone with a pulse.

Well, if you're picking seats, the usual custom of leaving a one chair "buffer zone" kind of becomes a dick move because solo moviegoers are very much the outlier.

There's that, too.

It can be maddening, though. It'd be one thing if there was a way to verify that the message was received/seen, because then you at least know that they weren't interested and not that they haven't checked their profile in a week or whatever. When you put yourself out there like that, it can be a real mindfuck…

To her point, if she was really trying to console a friend, then make your excuse and leave the date early. Its a legit reason, especially if you intend to see them again. Once is rude, but understandable, given circumstances. After that, staying in the theater is just making it clear you're not interested in movie…

He's said that he'll occasionally come up with one for them if the mood strikes him.

Ok, so to give you a lot of benefit of the doubt… what's your point? Because, whether you realize it or not, the only one that comes through here, at the moment, can be paraphrased as this:

The laws and procedures we have for dealing with stalking and intimidation are woefully inadequate, though I'm at a loss for how to improve them. They're very difficult to prove, and can often lie in the eye of the beholder, so it makes dealing with them very tricky. Whenever somethings difficult to prove,…

Option 1: stick this needle in your dick.

I think Sessions is really caught in a tough place here. On the one hand, he really gets a hard on for giving people long prison sentences. On the other hand, well… you know. Guess this time bloodlust wins out over prejudice.

I'm also not sure why Dan needed to spend more ink on ridiculing the Letter Writer's ability to make a clever anagram than anything else. Especially when Dan has said that he often changes them or makes the up outright himself anyways.

There's really only one thing I have to say to PASSION'S suggestion:

No, you're right. Its a total Into Darkness move.

On the third hand, it definitely sounds like zero fucking was going on in regards to this particular date, so your point is triply apt.

Facebook.

Thus my continuing problem with identity politics, especially as a political platform. Its inherently a divisive way of approaching the world, and thus a pretty crappy way to build consensus.

It does. I just put it in spoilers as a courtesy to the four people that haven't subjected themselves to BvS yet.

It's not a mistake. It was exactly the right reaction at the time.