I’m worried this is going to be my dad. He’s lucky in that he lives in a rural town, so he has many fewer disease vectors he’s around per day. And he takes this as evidence that he doesn’t need the vaccine...even though most of his family caught it and he just accidentally didn’t get it. Yes, he’s very lucky. But he…

The great thing about the internet is more geniuses get a platform. The worst thing about the internet is more crackpots get a platform.

Almost certainly. It’s like how people let up on Nazis because WWII was far enough away that it seems like “it could never happen again” to the modern person.

My dad has chronic kidney disease, very late stage (like one step before he goes on dialysis) and him and my mom are utterly terrified that the vaccine will have some heretofore-unknown side effect where it damages your kidneys and then he will have killed himself or something. I keep telling them there is actually no…

I reached empathic fatigue with deniers long ago. At this point, it’s their choice to risk death. I just wish innocents (people who can’t get the vaccine for legitimate medical reasons) wouldn’t also suffer because of these nutjobs.

I am truly shocked to find out this man is white. And that’s a very sad concept within itself.

I don’t understand the appeal either. Like, okay, so a girl gets interested in an older guy because that’s a thing she might like, she has so-so sex that she’s not entirely ready for but due to uncertainty she tries it anyway, her friend totally sabotages her attempts to deal with the situation and sends him a curt,…

He was the only candidate that really leaned on UBI, which has a lot of fans. Myself included -- I’m sad he’s apparently bad at a lot of the other issues out there.

You’re definitely weeding out the racists. If they can’t tell you’re the kind of “Asian” they find “unattractive,” then they’re just being douches if they’re disappointed when they find out. It’s not about attractiveness, it’s about their dumb assumptions.

Messaging is super important to like...everything? Activism is dependent on messaging. And using a group name as a proxy for “just the bad members of that group” or “just the flaws of that group” is a great way to get the people who aren’t a problem to get really mad about things. It’s human nature to not want to feel…

I’m the first to say that animal shelters seem a bit pointless (ferals take up so many resources to rehabilitate, IMO they should all just be rounded up and killed and used for carnivore food and cheap fur products), but if these people wanted to improve their community in a personal way, don’t whine at them. Just…

This is not new. My hometown has been doing it for decades. The fish, or a cross, or a Bible verse sign, or something -- those are indicators that “I am like you” to the customer. It does cause people like them to trust them more.

I believe you can be a shitty person and still contribute some good things to humanity, so yeah, separate the art and the artist. Otherwise we’d just kill all the shitty people for being wastes of breath, because they could produce nothing worthwhile for society ever.

Eh, c’mon, people love scary and creepy stuff. It’s why horror exists. You’re never going to take that and rubbernecking out of humanity.

Something unsettles me about people who try to dig up dirt on people trying to separate their professional vs private lives. This is an extreme case where the dude is a Neo-Nazi, but I hope we don’t ever end up with less cut-and-dried cases where people’s pseudonyms start being unearthed on a routine basis.

It’s tenable for doing one thing: lying in the sun. That’s it. Any movement and it’ll get displaced. In general, small bikinis are just like that — for strenuous swimming, you really want a one-piece, and for getting in the water at all, you want at least a bit more coverage and tightness on your two-piece.

And the thigh gap. No way that woman has a Barbie Doll thigh gap like that.

Some people’s labia are pretty neatly stowed, so they would work okay with these bikinis. That said, it feels like these are for posing, not for moving.

They understand that fear of litigation drives most organizational behavior in America, so they’re going to use that to keep schools from letting trans kids use their choice of bathroom. This is just a trans panic defense.

Seriously. They’re fucking hair beads. Any adult pitching a shitfit about some kid’s hair beads needs to grow the fuck up and get a life. I don’t care what the rule ssay.