Thank you for being an informed voice, here. Meant in all seriousness. This sort of discussion is why I don’t venture over to Splinter, often.

I am, because this is what mitigating negative social determinants of health requires. I work with physicians in a major urban area, and routinely want to smack the shit out of any MD or DO who wants to sanctify themselves as an advocate for the underprivileged and underserved, but shows zero basic understanding of…

Damn—wet wool makes me cringe just like nails on a blackboard

When you put it like that “pee-tape induced WWIII”, I can’t help but think it’s perhaps the most fitting and appropriate end to the human race.

Uh, that was the land-grabbing technique of choice during the first few decades of the US’s existence. It never went away.

I propose something different: severely mitigate the societal advantages that owning property (a house, land, etc) brings to everyone. The basis of starting this country was to allow people from various European countries to obtain land, territory, people. Founding fathers were all thirsty landowners who wanted to…

No, I would have hoped for that, actually, given the nature of the whole thing. It was dense, moist cake. Could have been used in place of spackle.

Idiot who loves to cook + no skill + no self-awareness + belief that because a pastry chef married into the family that this means idiot possesses actual skills because proximity = attempts at cooking, like that horrific cake

No, you are not an asshole. I say this as a person who, in good faith, ate a piece of dark chocolate stout cake with whiskey lime(!) frosting last year, baked lovingly by a new coworker who desperately wanted to impress her new coworkers. It sat like a rock in my stomach, and obviously the totally contrasting themes…

Damn you. I love you.

Guffaw and snort, here, working at home. Dog came in from the living room to check on me. Thinks I’m crazy.

Ah, the mythology of Teddy Roosevelt. Roosevelt’s successor, Taft, was actually a greater trust-buster in terms of success and number of trusts busted.

Ha—this is pretty awesome. States the disturbing obvious, but in a fun way.

I’m in. Want me to start the crowd-funding for this one?

No one in his family can dress, per the top photo in the VF piece you linked. Tiffany’s choice of color and dress makes her look like an unappetizing pierogi covered in kinda lavender vomit sauce, and Melania’s working on sports bra uni-boob.

Has FB given any sort of timeline for notifying all 87 million? Although today is the start day, I’ve seen no notifications that match descriptions of what you posted. Is FB simply not notifying certain accounts of their status, or is this a slow rollout?

No, no—they don’t get to come back in this time.

Hello, person.

No shit. She decries every principle he lived his life for. Every time she breathes, types, speaks, etc.

Oh honey, this was so common years ago on Jezebel. Par for the course. And it’s why a very small number of us old-timers started new accounts and come around Jez rarely. Jezebel ultimately has always been about the thin skin, and a certain type of feminism.