Have you considered that maybe none of those people should be president?

I feel you. Permasingle on the cusp of 29. Nothing works. Dating is torture, the butterflies are radio silent, and everyone you meet is in a totally different place in their life. The Drake equation of finding the right person, you liking each other at the same time, and so on, it’s hard to make it produce sizable…

Trying to reason with people got us the Donald. It may be time to pursue more direct strategies.

In that Vanity Fair/Daily Mail picture, Katy looks a lot like Sarah Barthel from Phantogram.

As a women’s soccer fan who was around for the demise of WPS and is still hearing about the WUSA’s implosion, this gives me painful and familiar feels.

Aren’t most of the murders down there a cartel/gang thing? Who did this hippo disrespect? Did he know too much?

That’s the odd thing. A full grown hippo is hardly defenseless. These guys are lucky it’s not their bodies getting pulled out of there. A casual cow tipping expedition this was not.

Not much nuance in your world, is there?

An igloo?

The thing I keep hearing amongst sane Americans lately is that the leader of the free world is now Angela Merkel. Keep doin what you’re doin over there Germany; our hopes rest with you.

I think orthographic “should of” is just a reanalysis of the spoken “should’ve” rather than any change to the articulation. The addition of “went”, on the other hand, is a lot more interesting, because now you’re playing with tense and the like.

Combat in populated areas, not to mention warfare in general, is messy and causes a lot of human tragedies, especially when you’re dealing with the kind of scumbags that use women and children as ablative armor. That’s not new and different with regards to this operation; that’s blood-soaked business as usual. …

Well put. Season one Rory was all right, if sort of lightly snooty. By the end, though, she was a woo girl who’d burnt bridges people with less options would love to have erected. Jess, on the other hand, really got his shit together.

Transitive “borrow” is very common here in MN. It’s not a mistake in the local dialect, but obviously it’s not standard American English. I haven’t encountered it elsewhere.

Team Paris, but I feel you on Rory being kind of a tool.

Hey, I really liked the first half, especially as someone with a linguistics background. They get a lot of the elicitation strategies right. That ending, though. Sapir-Whorf doesn’t work that way, and god forbid the lady scientist not have some family domestic shit going on.

Elba is too old.

I’ve been Team Taylor right along, but I’ll be damned if Katy isn’t the one who has it together politically. Swift’s feminism seems suspiciously quiet in these trying times.

Again, doesn’t apply to tidally locked worlds because they won’t have a day-night cycle. Day and night are places on those planets. If they have sleep as a part of their biology, I’d guess it might be more like you’d see in crepuscular animals like cats, a little bit here and there rather than one big chunk.

Actual tweet?

Finally watched Arrival (I’m noting the pic). As someone with a linguistics background and at least a bit of a fascination with this sort of thing, really loved the first half. The second half... got weird/dumb. Protip: Sapir/Whorf doesn’t work that way.