I’m a graphic designer and I also studied engineering and had one year of advanced calc in college... found out that what I wanted was more art oriented, still ended working for aerospace with an Art degree so please shut up about how artist don’t know math.

I didn’t realize mathematics only included calculus and science only included organic chemistry.

Can academia just put a suspension on insecure science and math majors who feel the need to piss on every other field of thought? We get it, you can do the stuff other people use calculators for. You can stop talking about it now.

I am the director of education at a VFX school where students have to take physics, scripting, and coding right alongside figure drawing, landscape painting, and storytelling. I think you might be a bit out of touch when it comes to what ‘the arts in education’ means in 2016, but if you’ve ever played a video game,…

You know what else is important? Understanding language, rhetoric, reasoning, argument, logic, etc.

I am so sick of this bullshit prioritizing science and math over the humanities. People who can’t evaluate argument, recognize propaganda or understand history and sociology are much easier to manipulate, even if they…

Fine, I will stick to the thing that is the point: Product liability cases against multinational corporations tend to have far larger payouts than personal injury or civil rights cases against municipalities. Municipalities have shallower pockets and a culture of negligence within them reaches fewer people (see also…

The reason everyone gets up in arms about the hot coffee lawsuit is that it’s frequently brought up as evidence that the civil court system is broken and that people who file personal injury suits are more likely than not lying or exaggerating, when that is not the case. The only people who benefit from tort reform…

I agree that the Hot Coffee case has nothing to do with this one - so why bring it up? But since you did - when you demonstrate a complete lack of understanding of something that you reference specifically to make your point, people will point out your obvious lack of understanding of that thing.

Hey asshole:

Not to waylay the point however, the case of the coffee is a lot different than you think it was. That coffee case involved 3rd burns in the groin and thigh area from the coffee being far too hot, skin grafts and on top of that, she was the passenger in a car that was parked when she spilled it. The family just wanted…

She was awarded for her medical bills, that coffee was well into dangerous temperatures and caused third degree burns on 6% (eta actually it may have been 16%) of her body. It almost killed her. She was in the hospital for 8 days and needed skin grafts. She originally asked for her medical bills but they refused.

If she wants to be “respected for her mind” then maybe she should focus more on her music and not trying to have as ridiculous an image as possible.

Yes, because she just “made” it without any difficulty or effort on her part and she’s certainly not qualified to speak about the sexism in the music industry after working her way through it... Let’s ignore the fact that she has stated that she was raped by a producer as a budding artist. That’s certainly not sexism…

Did you even try to convince them that you were just an actual moray eel who needed to get away from the grind for a few days? Worth a shot probably.

Buuuut thinking the sweatshops that make shit for those places use a lot of underpaid women workers.

It always blows people’s minds when you tell them that Nguyen is pronounced something closer to “win”.

Gee, it’s nice to know that to Gawker Media, we women folk are just here for celebrity gossip.

I still love Pissing Contest, Saturday Night Social, Sunday Night Signoff, and the Slot, but Millihelen and Kitchenette on Jez and LifeHacker After Hours were great blogs.