Which is exactly why I’m ok with basically making it a lice check only, since the original literacy test was used to basically turn away anyone deemed undesirable and laws requiring said test were passed in the wake of the anti-Chinese-immigration movements of the late 1800s.

Rants like this is so hilarious. My ancestors came to the US in the era where it required little more than a rudimentary literacy test and a lice check, and the opinion seems to have shifted to “Well, immigration is hard now so fuck people who got in easily!” rather than what the discussion should be, namely “How do…

You just described one of the major reasons that pharmaceuticals don’t pour money into some drug and vaccine research avenues, due to the incredibly low profits that they would reap compared to the millions needed for development. Besides, high costs are a part of the field, and we deal with expensive stuff due to…

I’m a microbiologist and geneticist, and much of my education and career is around work that has been born from research on HeLa cells. I’d argue that a huge portion of what I and others like me know today is thanks to this invaluable cell line and how it has advanced modern medicine and science.

Stop trying to blame the church for kids killing themselves. This is a multifaceted multireason problem. No one factor can be pinpointed.

Woo, Maria! Our Senators are doing some damned good work as of late; I only wish our Rep. Cathy McMorris Rogers would grow a goddamn spine and stop voting entirely GOP party line and pretending she’s not fucking over her rural farmer constituents.

While I do think some left voters need to consider compromise when it comes to a candidate who’s good-but-not-perfect, at the same time the DNC and Dems as a whole need to fucking pivot already and realize that the Resisters are not asking unreasonably radical demands, but rather asking the Dems to return to the left…

Nope, rightie. I lucked out for basically the entire checklist of possible characteristics aside from being neurotypical; white, male, cishet, tall, middle class, etc. The biggest thing that cheeses me off with my ADD though is that parents basically knew, but didn’t ever tell me or get me officially tested; my dad…

Yeah, the procrastination was me too. When I finally realized as a sophomore that I had to figure out how to study, despite never having really needed to before, that was fucking hell. I tried probably every study technique out there, from listening to class recordings to printing off powerpoint slides rather than…

Oh man, the hyperfocus. I apparently turned rabid as a kid when it was time to stop playing with LEGOs, and even today I can sink into a task and look up to see four hours elapsed without batting an eye. You say ‘flying by the seat of your pants’; did you find yourself going from like an effortless grade-A student in…

Apparently Stratera’s pediatric exclusivity patent expired May 26th, so judging from what people are saying about a 6-month window before generics start cropping up I think we’ll (hopefully) have Stratera generics available before the end of this year.

I think the biggest change for me was realizing that remembering shit like “what I’m doing tonight/tomorrow/this weekend” is something I can just, y’know, remember rather than having to resort to using calendars and phone alarms (thank god for cellphones and kitchen timers).

Oh my god, I feel like you are me. I’m 27, finally on Stratera, and feel like I found the cheat code for the world that lets you function like everyone else manages to do without fucking up and letting things slip by and pile up. I lucked out and have a very well paying job so the $175/month before deductibles kick in…

At the same time, though the “we need to stop fighting each other!” argument is used to curbstomp the smaller and often more-threatened group’s concerns. If each group supports the other and participates in marches for the others, that’s all fine and good. What’s not ok is when you get one group pushing their goals,…

True. They missed a big opportunity to make him the recurring big bad instead of Grevious, and just show Anakin’s ruthlessnesss by murdering some helpless rando instead.

McGregor and McDiarmid, along with Neeson and Jasckon,  are definitely the best parts of the prequels.

Yeah, the bit about “hey look at this even worse depiction of whitewashing lol2trigger4u” is gone, along with the reading comprehension fail.

I did bring up that he’s a Mexican actor playing an Indian character; it’s right between the two pictures. Reading comprehension much?

I agree with your first paragraph, but

That is an utter crime in and of itself. Inner Universe sets the bar for some of the best anime intro music ever created, and almost all of the rest of the GitS OST is fantastic as well.