I cannot begin to understand the pain and anguish and unrelenting grief of losing a child. But then to have to cope with that on a public stage with strangers saying the asinine bullshit that is all over the media? I cannot fathom that. But to do it with this grace? That's simply amazing. I hope they can find peace…

I couldn't read through your entire post of rambling victim-blaming, but I want to say regardless that Ohio (the state in which Rice was fatally shot) is an open carry state. White people can literally walk into Target or Chipotle with a fully loaded AK47. White kids can run around with toy guns and no one bats an eye.

I think Tamir Rice's mother should probably feel somewhat responsible for what happened for letting a 12 year old play unsupervised in a park and letting him carry around such a dangerous toy

The responsibility to change perceptions is not on these four mothers or other victims - rather it is on those whose senses of reality are so riddled with (un)conscious prejudices that they would mistake a teenager for a "demon" and a small 12-year-old boy for a 20-year-old man.

"Because it's clearly not possible for a man to be unhappy about a woman rejecting him unless he's a raging mysoginist who was made the way he is by the patriarchy."

If he was rejected by a man? Possibly, like I said, it's an issue with society. So that could be a potential cause.

I don't know, I think it's more conditioning on some levels. Some would likely be down to potential issues with anger, sure. But what he did has been done as a prank numerous times before, without "mental issues" being brought into it.

Similar boat here. I figure: fuck the Red Cross and FDA and everyone else involved, the dead who needed blood are on their heads, not mine.

This reminds me of when I was donating blood to myself when I was 13 (I was about to have a major surgery) and a couple came in to donate (two guys.) They stated that they had already been tested, brought the paperwork and had only been with each other for years. They got turned down and said they would have to…

Can you lie? Sure can. However, I believe they maintain some kind of database to see if you've ever been deferred before. I was honest once and am on the lifetime ban list. Want to know why? When I first met my husband, he was a heroin user. He stopped within a few months of us dating, but when they asked me if I had…

I'm not, no. But dauggter says they were told "this is what these are" and we're explicitly not allowed to touch them. This was part of a discussion about medicines versus drugs, why a person might take drugs or abuse medicines, and what the effects of those drugs would be on the person, the person's family and wider…

"All of these used to be dicks.... who's hungry :)"

Bad news: if you're still bumming cigarettes, you didn't quit.

oh sweetiebee. never go to kotaku. it's like the elephant graveyard. you must never go there, simba.

People forget that chlorine is dangerous because they're so used to encountering it in pools, etc, but chlorine gas is straight up poison. I was once in an accidentally-overchlorinated jacuzzi (extended-release dispenser broke and released all the chlorine at once) and just breathing the chlorine that evaporated from…

Being a furry myself, I'm very touched that so far most of the comments on here are so kind, vs the ones over at Kotaku which did become a shitshow..

I used to have a pretty good friend who was a furry. They (single person - this friend is genderqueer) were certainly quirky, but there was nothing "wrong" with them whatsoever - in fact, they were an extremely talented artist and all round cool human. We lost touch towards the end of high school but then and I…

Thank you for already being better than Kotaku's comments about this.

I know furries don't get much respect, but this is seriously uncool. Chlorine is not something you fuck around with — it's easy to kill someone, and even over-chlorinating a public pool can cause a health emergency. I hope they catch the person(s) responsible.

That is not how I play PC games at all, liar.