I am dying laughing (not to be morbid, but it cracks me up that we feel so similarly even though it sounds so different on the surface). I think the reason I went into neuroscience in the first place (in all honesty, I work in animal neuro but I think it’s still why) is because I always want to know WHY. With my…

I love that episode!!! (Probably because I love Debi Mazar.) My partner is a social worker, so SVU is our MST3K hahaha.

LOL. Well, I do appreciate the clarity, and you make some great points. I will say, from the legal side, that I’m not presupposing anything, and—TBH- the people calling for her head here are really, reallllllly not getting the issue. From a legal perspective, all I’m pointing out is that— if she “knew” wrong from…

This is the second comment I’ve made on this post where I have to apologize for not wading through the greys to see if anyone’s responded (Kinjaaaa!) but: I think the judge was just saying that the line of causation as we are familiar with it wasn’t there. The legal system has been very, very slow to catch up with the…

I apologize if someone has already said this, but while I 100% agree with what you’re saying— that mental illnesses can be very complex— the legal interpretation of sanity is very, very narrow and fairly straightforward. If she knew/knows that what she was doing was “wrong,” then she is sane, according to the courts.

T…

This is gonna get buried, but I was born in ‘82 and, fuck, people forget that these guys are OLD. HRC is older than my parents by nearly a decade. So she likely did and said (and even, I know, shame on her, thought) things over the course of her three decades in the public eye that are not progressive, good things…

Yes! She has had a very cool life— I didn’t realize it until I looked her up recently, but, man, I am just overall jealous and impressed. I really loved her as Cuddy on House. And TBH I am glad, now, that she wasn’t Carrie— the show has aged so, so badly. (I rewatched it all recently and cringed pretty much…

That show, man— for every “true” or “painful in a REAL way” moment, there are three that are so farfetched or painful in a BAD way. Though I gotta say I still like it a lot even with all its faults.

Fillers will do that. Especially if he got them in his cheeks/nasolabial folds. He almost certainly got Botox, as well, because of the limited mobility of his face. You can actually tell by how his smile looks now vs. before:

Or freaking out that the scan didn’t catch what’s wrong with you, but it’s going to rear its ugly head five years from now after you’ve been lulled into a sense of complacency by your clean full body scan!!!!

I was just about to see if someone had mentioned this. I’m a woman, and I have been on/off SSRIs multiple times in the last 30 years, and dated many, many men on SSRIs (like attracts like!).

Loss of sex drive/sexual dysfunction: it is not a rare side effect, at all, at least anecdotally, for either sex. More…

Yep. Everyone being all, “Don’t they know what a lame duck is????” Oh, they know. They know.

But they’re banking on the general public, who had one year of “social studies” 40 years ago, not knowing.

And they have the research to prove that people think “lame duck” means “you’re not allowed to do anything,” or that it…

It really is. I think the interesting philosophical question is why a person would feel that we would be better off as a society when things are, strictly speaking, held as much as possible to a standard that is no longer possible in the general sense. (Though I think the answer here is kinda obvious.)

Or why such a…

It’s interesting because Scalia and his cohorts are basically the Court that took the interpretation of the 2nd Amendment from “militia” to “personal firearms ownership.” Which we’re never, ever coming back from. Ever.

I am so, so fucking sick of this mantle of “originalist” when literally any person can see that some …

Yeah, I think it was phrased in such a way (because of the common colloquial usage of “’[dude] had an abortion’ meaning ‘the person he impregnated had an abortion’”) that the intent of your comment was ambiguous.

This is the second time today I’ve said “I hate Candace Cameron Bure”out loud.

THIS IS THE BEST THREAD OF ALL TIME.

IDK why your comment of all those that mentioned this quote made me have to comment on it, but FUCK, right??? I’m an adult going through so, so much school right now and I basically *have* to take out loans not just for school— because I don’t have 120K in savings at age 33— but also to partially support myself (omg,…

TBH a dinner/cum rally has EVERYTHING. I would attend that. Dinner-cum-rally, eh...

I am sure you’ve already gotten a trillion replies, but this is bad logic. If you do not understand why that was said in this case, or why it continues to be said in cases like this, then you don’t understand rhetoric or implication.