I’m somewhat convinced that political change happens at the speed of generational death, regardless of how hard or not we try to change it. People will have beliefs and vote according to them, and culturally, countries tend to get more liberal with time. We’re not going to see a major decrease in racism until the…

Internal birth control methods (pill, IUD, implant, etc), condoms, and period products should all be government subsidized and free to the public. No one should have to worry that they can’t have sex with their partner without having a baby or catching something. No one should have to pay through the nose to not bleed…

I hear you so much.

From what I can tell, she stole from the super-rich. Why do we really care, again? They have the money to burn. Anyone dumb enough to fall for her stories and not cotton on after a while, is the sort that loses money anyway.

Yeah, if Obama had started out like Trump, he wouldn’t have made it through his second year.

The ability to fall in line would actually win us anything.

My theory is that evil people don’t stress about all the bullshit they do, whereas everyone else is actually worrying a bit about how their actions affect others. Stress is harmful to the body.

Ideally, prison is to keep dangerous people away from innocents while they either pursue reform or while away their days in deliberate resistance to reform. In reality, it’s all tied up in our moral fabric, and that will be hard to change. It also, of course, has that nasty racist bent that we’re trying to work out.

So now that a *good* person is finally taking advantage of capitalism, we’re mad? Why do assholes get all the money and we won’t let nice people get it?

Once you’re in The System, it’s hard to get out. Suicide attempts especially (and doubly so if you’re hospitalized) are held against you forever. Doctors will ask about them before most major procedures. You might get denied certain treatments years later for fear you’ll suddenly jump off a cliff, even if you are…

I don’t know too much about the Britney situation, but I do know about the mental health system in general. Once you’re in it, that shit sticks. Do everything you can not to become officially part of it. Namely, do not get hospitalized if you can avoid it, because that’s a permanent record.

Ah, come on, you know that’s not the definition people are using. You’re skewing very much to the positive here. Here’s how I usually hear these words used by people skeptical.

You should be propelled to the top of this comments thread and the whole thing closed, because you ended the discussion quite well here.

Oh my god, no. Derpy is a word that has crossed into the slang lexicon just to mean “silly” or “weird in a goofy way.” Just...stop trying to pathologize a word that isn’t.

There is a very odd middle ground where people dislike the death penalty but really, really want an equivalent for people they think are particularly obviously monstrous. It tends to take the form of a sort of “walking dead” situation or “exile in your own country” — you get to be out of prison, but you get no basic…

What the guy did was heinous. I’m honestly curious what kind of poetry such a person writes, in the same way that I was curious what Hitler’s art looked like. (Answer on the latter: better than untrained artists will do, but definitely lacking in some technical artistic skill. Creepily mundane for the art world.)

It’s the principle of the thing, really. I don’t want to foster a work culture where people are judged based on something so trivial as what their email reads. If you don’t have racial slurs in your email, or whatever, you’re basically good to go in my book.

This answer doesn’t encompass just how fraught the whole topic here is. No, after a year of dating, I don’t think anyone is ready to say, “Are you depressed and do you want to feel better?” That has so many dumb implications: that depression is voluntary, and if the person wanted to feel better, he would’ve; that it’s…

There are no heroes. Teachers, doctors, and scientists are not saints either. Also, for the record, engineer here: we Google shit and Youtube shit *all the time.* It’s how you learn these days.

Yup. Adele found this out, now Rebel Wilson.