this really hit me as well. Dorland sounded like...a lot. But what happened to her (a group of people, whom she thought were her friends and peers, mocking her for years behind her back) feels like everyone’s worst nightmare.

What worried me is how many people identified with that mean-azz group chat and thought everyone has one of those. I’m not saying I never once talked behind someone’s back but to that extent? And past age like 25?

The un-plagiarized letter was still so obviously the same letter too! It was like a high schooler just changing one line at a time to not get in trouble. You'd think a professional writer would be better at obfuscating her sources.

ADHD here, and same. I feel like I’ve spent my life trying to keep my shit under wraps so I don’t harm or make others uncomfortable, but more and more I’m asking do any neurotypicals do that for us? Why is that okay?

If you’re over the age of 15 and would tell someone that you “value their friendship”, and then literally the next day talk mad shit about them in a group text or otherwise you might be a goddamn sociopath. 

Dorland inspired a different reaction, and I have never known why. Here was someone who was driven and passionate about many of the same things as me (writing, social justice, reproductive rights) but whose approach to those subjects made me feel insecure in ways I still find hard to pinpoint. We were friendly at…

The idea that a tele-workout instructor could be considered a “star” really does reinforce the idea that we’re pretty much at the very, very dead end of culture. 

I do not know who Cody Rigsby is. 

Lavatory. Singular. No way anyone would be allowed to have a gold toilet but himself. This is Donnie Two-Scoops, remember.

Because it was designed by famed industrial designer Raymond Loewy, who certainly knew what he was doing. It looks understated and still fresh and modern.

No one’s outraged that he wanted to use red, white, and blue.

It’s not like the Trump proposed livery had the Punisher sticker on the tail and Pepe in the presidential seal. Straight lines on a curved object just look a little derpy.

yeah and no.

Well, in this case, they’re talking about something that is treated as a public record for everyone else. You don’t get to probate someone’s Will (at least not in the U.S.) and have that Will not be part of the public record. No privacy at all on that score. The only way to avoid that is to create a Living Trust and…

I am an old, so I admit to having similar questions. In my defense of oldness, I actually could see the appeal of some of the YouTubers (not the assholes and racists, of course), because it seemed like they were making short, but not ridiculously short chunks of content that could hold somebody’s attention without…

Exactly. Fuck ‘em. If you don’t believe in medicine, you shouldn’t be working in medicine. 

So it really is all political, eh? I know that pre-Covid vaccine hesitancy tended to cross political lines — from the Goopies to the hippies to the homeschooling Christians — but statistically Covid vaccine hesitancy is dominated by Republicans (if not entirely).

Who would want an unvaccinated worker anywhere near their vulnerable newborn?  Good riddance.

So THAT’S how Trump met Fredrick Douglas and thought everyone was speaking very highly about him. Douglas snuck into the future by hiding under Lee’s mustache the whole time.

Who is extinguishing history? Getting rid of a giant, ugly statue doesn’t change the fact that Robert E. Lee was a traitor to our country. I know Trump is not a reader, but there are these things called books where a lot of historical information is kept.