Well, no, actually people did consent for it when they signed up to use Facebook. If you didn't read the terms of service when you accepted them, or you forgot that they said "Facebook owns this data about you, and can use it however they want consistent with their privacy policy", then that's on you.

You first. While you're at it, seek help for your terrifying delusion that everything is out to kill your kids.

Cleaning all the soap scum out of the tub on a regular basis is not a "standard"—it's a fucking chore that needs to be done properly in a healthy household.

Does not compute.

Sure, the first time, but you'd get used to it, like before you were vegan. (Also training your body not to be able to digest animal fats doesn't seem like a good idea in the first place.)

Yes, but that reason is that four-year-olds don't want to be at the mall by themselves so there's no reason to. It's not because a mall - or any other public space - is a death trap for unsupervised children. That's an astonishingly stupid paranoid delusion. Christ, listen to yourself. By your account we should all be…

Take it from someone with a background in historical garments and costuming - there are no "timeless looks", which is why you look like such a prat in all your old photos.

"Ratio"? Never heard of it, who sells it?

Except that, no, a mall isn't more dangerous for an unsupervised child. Why do you think it would be?

I suspect that if you told them that it was your intention to take an ID photo that looked nothing at all like your day to day appearance, you'd find that odds were good they'd object. The kid looks super-femme with his makeup on and doesn't, I suspect, without it. That's cool, but his photo ID isn't a place for…

"I was always strong academically in math and science, so I [was able to calculate my likely salary working in those fields, so I] studied engineering in college [instead]"

Wtf are you talking about?

Where does that feeling of "just laugh it off, he'll stop in a minute" come from when we're being held down on the floor?

Bit of a looming caveat, though, isn't it? That puts the advice firmly on the level of "here's a way to save big money on airfare - fly your own self there*! (*provided you can flap your arms hard enough to create lift.)"

That's a lot of money to give to my bank and, you know, not ever get back. Because otherwise the bank is going to re-order my transactions to make sure that I overdraft, right? Nice scam, I guess - "give us your money, or we'll take your money."

No, but I'm too tall. Nothing your granddad bought in 1970 is going to fit me; nothing anybody bought since then is going to hold up long enough to be in a thrift store.

No, I think you did. If a place is dangerous to take a four-year-old, you shouldn't take them there. It's not going to be less dangerous just because you don't leave them alone there. Parental supervision isn't Power Word: Shield.

I'd love to have "fewer but better" clothes, but let's be honest - the expensive stuff is just the cheap stuff with someone's name (or that little fucking alligator) embroidered on it. It's not going to fit better, it's not going to last longer, and it's going to be made by the same sweatshop kids in Bangladesh as the…

She chose the less safe option because it was the most expedient.

Well, that she didn't actually break the law and didn't endanger her child and therefore didn't deserve a "sentence." That's what's inappropriate.