I usually answer this one, with: “But why would you lay it end to end, seems unnecessary.” :-D

“New York to LA? Great. Wake me up when you get to the moon.”

I also feel like those comparisons always make the numbers sound overly impressive. Like you start to get impressive-sounding distances even at pretty low numbers of units. Especially if the product is relatively large like a couch or something.

I actually admire the ingenuity of the folks on the assembly line who came up with this. Tesla will get the quality details worked out eventually. 

fortunately I, Elon Musk, am not the litigious sort. 

It’s written in the bottom of the bucket and the father reads it after the ice is dumped on his head.

Isn’t the problem people blowing up shit and not the gender reveal? You didn’t do much at all to convince me that the parties (as in the original) are a problem, just the escalation — all of which could be a baby shower or announcement and have nothing to do with gender revelation.

The more someone talks about how blessed they are and how grateful they are, the more I suspect they’re trying to convince themselves, not me. 

“And right now, in 2020, I’m not sure whether/how anyone is in a good place.”

You can also do this with adults who ask, “why don’t all lives matter?”

I think part of the problem is that these people WANT to find conspiracies. I see that the same way people used (many still do) hang on to religion because it tells them easily understandable explanations to things they don’t know or understand. And to many, that’s reassuring, and sometimes even give them some sort of…

It’s ridiculous because, if anything, Covid related deaths are being under reported.  Deaths reported as Covid related account for only 90% of the excess death totals for 2020.  Estimates based on actual science instead of just facebook conjecture estimate we’re already well over 200k Covid deaths this year.

I have a cousin that is a RN in Ohio that is a COVID-19 truther. She has been passing this stuff around (and infecting other family members with the crazy, using her appeal to authority... she IS a nurse). Nothing I or other sane family members (including an aunt that is an ER nurse in Atlanta who saw some of the bad…

I have trouble with armchair experts on anything, to be honest. I mean, I don’t understand how someone who apparently think of themselves as relatively intelligent, can pretend that most (if note every) doctor, epidemiologist, researchers and scientists on the planet (this represents MILLIONS of people around the…

Do I have to explain that people over 55 are still people who don’t deserve to die?

Beth’s explaner worries me because it’s more than two sentences and requires the person listening to have a basic understanding of causality. So, it’s not likely to actually convince anyone who needs convincing. 

replying to the grey...

Loved the politeness of your post. I also want to point out that the balance bikes let you skip the training wheels and are awesome.

I just want to politely point out that he didn’t have training wheels.

Obviously visiting now is a terrible idea. But a mixed-race guy couple is pretty common in most big cities around here.