I think you can’t use the 6.2 number as your baseline cause that number is inherently going to have high risk populations (like transpeople, but also sex workers and gang members and everything else). A better analysis will break out murder rates by demographics like race/ethnicity, religion, SES and other factors…

Yeah, it’s like they have trouble separating a country, Israel, from a religion, Jewish. Israel is run by the Likud party (a conservative party much like the neo cons in the US). Objections to Israel’s foreign or domestic policies have nothing to do with “Jewishness” and everything to do with a particular party’s…

I think part of the issue is that it’s extremely difficult for people to separate anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism--and this affects individuals on both sides of the issue. If you’re an anger-filled anti-Zionist, it’s rhetorically easy to slip into anti-Semitism while dangerously conflating Netanyahu’s militarism with…

Our vet keeps saying ours is astonishingly healthy for a cat her age and with kidney failure. She grudgingly eats the food, and she’s not on real medication for it just vet prescribed supplements. I sort of hope that when it’s time she does just curl up and go peacefully. Its just so hard knowing what an amazing…

It sounds like an on-the-spot, improvised solution because they didn’t realize how far his health had declined until it was time for him to walk to his people and wasn’t able to.

He lives in a storage soace, not a crawl space.

I’m not on the left coast and that’s what I thought, too! But it sounds like they’re describing an attic? A crawl space is scary, probably has no windows, and is where serial killers keep the bodies. An attic is not ideal but may be do-able.

Maybe this is a regional dialect thing, but out here on the Left Coast a crawlspace is the area under the house, above the dirt but below the floor. What he’s in would be either an attic, a chase, or an old mechanical room, although it’s hard to determine which of those things it is from the photos.

Jamie Fraser in a crawl space ...I’d just pretend we were in his cave. Hot.

Drunk enough to go home with a guy who lives in a crawl space but not drunk enough that you couldn’t climb up the ladder to said crawl space.

You forgot “and for existing”

Dude. When you are quoting Stephen Colbert the CHARACTER without irony...stop.

“I don’t see color or race” is like culturally tone deaf go-to phrase A-number-one.

“funny how you don’t criticize women of color for straightening their hair.”

Honestly the only thing that got me excited was Kim Basigner popping up.

Amazingly, there is almost no actual kinky sex in a three book series about kinky sex.

I don’t know how they managed to make sex so boring.

A romance author blogged about the book series and it isn’t really about BSDM, but rather a super emotionally and physically abusive relationship.

Let’s be honest. Most Americans can’t even speak English correctly and still criticize foreigners.

Yea, this has all the hallmarks of someone for whom English isn’t their first language. It is some micro-agressive bullshit to point that shit out.

“Frank’s posted a plot-thickening, grammatically unfortunate statement.”