I feel like prior to Impossible Burger and Beyond Meat, various meat substitutes cried wolf by claiming they resemble meat in any way, which they absolutely did not. Now people don’t believe Impossible or Beyond Meats claims. Including me. I only tried any of it because my husband wanted to. I was floored by…

The people who experienced this rare condition were all women between the ages of 18 and 48.

I love that I can always tell which article Claire wrote on headline alone. This is no exception. 

One thing adults might do before teaching their kids about money is explore their own relationship to it. We all have weird issues around money that we are in danger of passing down to kids. A good book with a terrible title is “The 7 Stages of Money Maturity.” It walks through the most common hang-ups around money…

That’s nice to know. I am glad. Just so you are aware, women are targeted with our first names in really condescending ways as well. In text alone, without clues in voice or body language, it can be unclear.

My concern is also fuel - cost, availability, environmental impact, and safety.

My first thought was, how would a model B fit into Musk’s “S3XY” naming convention, and then, duh, “B S3XY”! Of course.

Sounds like a good excuse to finally buy an Alfa Romeo Spider.

Yes, but its a good one because it enables to me to skip the article and go straight to the knife fight in the comments between Elon fanboys and, you know, reasonable people. Its fun 100% of the time.

In the case of Sonmez, let her cover it, knowing she’ll better understand certain aspects of the story which helps them produce a better product, and then they just need to do their jobs, which is to make sure she’s doing good due diligence on her reporting (i.e. editorial oversight). Pretending they don’t know…

I don’t think Washington Post reporters have that “locker room” talk with their editors. Their toxic buddies, sure. 

Yes, BurningInMyNetherParts. That is the point. They aren’t screening. Not that they should be screening. They should not. But, if they are relying entirely on volunteered information, it is going to be skewed because some victims talk openly about surviving sexual assault and (essentially) no rapists talk openly in…

The point is that if they don’t take care to ensure that reporters who sexually assault people are writing about sexual assault, then they shouldn’t prevent reporters who have been sexually assaulted from covering sexual assault - if the stated goal is to be objective. Its one sided, therefore biased. The point was not…

Are we to assume people are comparing similar cars that only differ in how old/new they are and in mileage?

As I wrote to WaPo shortly after reading about their decision not to permit this reporter to write about sexual assault, “do you screen your reporters for whether they have committed sexual assault before you decide whether they can report on it?” We all know the answer is no.

Do people really eat in their eat-in kitchens? I have always found these so weird. I don’t have one, but I imagine if I did I would want to put an armchair and end table there instead so I can be comfortable talking to the spouse while he cooks.

Oh my god. Just reading this made me feel murder in my heart, and it didn’t even happen to me. 

I am a little worried some bosses might tell employees to come in sick but wear a mask. I used to send my colleagues home (with zero authority) when they came in sick and if they refused to go home, I would go home and work from there because I didn’t want to get sick. I know that is taking quite a bit of liberty, but…

I’m an economically privileged jerk with no kids yet, so who cares what I think on this subject. (Answer: no one and that’s fair.)

I want to believe this good news, but I recall that the nasal swab test is very bad at detecting non-symptomatic infections. Basically, the less mucus you have to swab, the more likely you are to get a false negative. And the false negatives on this test are really high. Like, at the lowest point, 20% (80-100% at…