I hope you are aware that multiple men who committed rape (including a child) and serial sexual assault still have their Oscars.

But rapists and child rapists should keep theirs for sure.

Weinstein and Polanski still have their Oscars.

Good Hair is exactly what I was thinking about. It puzzles me that a joke in this vein was something he would mess with.

This reminds me of my mom (with whom I had a complicated relationship, but cooking and baking was always safe ground).

I often look through the stuff on the inventory. But I never read the actual text.

I often look through the stuff on the inventory. But I never read the actual text.

Yes. Well we had a computer in our house before most people. Probably because my dad was a computer programmer (for mainframes at big telecom companies between the 70's-2000's... I’m not sure how he got started, but he was drafted when he dropped out of college. The army determined his brain was more like a logic…

Yes, I framed selling my house for basically the same amount I paid for it (while also putting 40K into it for repairs over 8 years) as making 20K being our own landlord for 8 years. A small 1 bedroom apartment cost 700 / month when we bought our house. We paid 1200 a month to live in a 1000 sqft, 3 bedroom house.…

Yeah there are two sides to this coin.

The thing about anecdotes is there is always the opposite anecdote. I got a mac after recovering data from a catastrophic failure of my second windows laptop in 4 years.

I was thinking exactly of this (and a few other examples) when I read a few comments! There were language geeks who were pissed about Shakespeare writing dialogue that reflected common usage of language. And now half the phrases you look up the origin of credit him with their “invention” which of course, is just that…

Ah.. but being a science person I can assure you there are many/myriad (non-technical) sentences in which you most people would find that the singular verb form doesn’t pass the “sounds weird” test. So I would say both your sentences are right. Sort of in the way that Fish is pluralized as both Fish (more than one…

RE countertops. Several years ago (maybe 13-14 actually) we purchased a butcherblock counter top from Ikea and it was an exceptional deal (I can’t remember how much but it was probably half of what I thought it would be). We bought the thickest oak option they sold then. We used it to replace an old counter in our old…

You usually only get committed for short periods of time until you are no longer “a threat to yourself or others.” Basically a crisis situation, you are stabilized and then released. A few days usually, a few weeks if the person is willing to stay, or a court can be convinced there will be harm if they are released.…

Knowing that it doesn’t have Aldis Hodge in it basically means I wouldn’t have watched it anyway. He made the show... without his sparkle no amount of  “competence porn” will be entertaining enough.

not sure how long it has been an option but apparently they have a build your own expression, that includes exponents and factorials... could be fun for making for students.

Ah yes. I won’t go into details, but I did a bit of the very first research about native plants and insects and their multitrophic interactions.

Ha. yes. But no one is planting knotweed... at least not since it was introduced decades ago as a soil stabilizer (hello, Kudzu). We’ve learned quite a bit since the mid 1900's!

I can imagine the whole thing may at least have made his kids more likely to comply with demands to stop using their phones and go the hell to bed. If only because paying that fine may mean they can’t afford phone service for them anymore.

Yes. Given that he has a diagnosis and has refused to do what is necessary to be healthy, he should be held responsible. Not only does having a mental illness not an excuse for his behavior, this sort of public behavior being attributed to (at least in part) his mental illness, casts a dark shadow across people who…