To be somewhat fair,

This is rich. Fully 85% of these students will never do a day of labor in their lives, but they will want low prices even though their professional salaries will be higher out of the gate than even mid-level-managers in food service receive.

Where’s the part in the story where there was a misunderstanding of a question and where’s the part where it meaningfully impacted the adjudication of the case?

I suspect it was her 100s of appearances on TV, not her social media use, that made her a target.

I think not assessing a timeout for a incorrect challenge while the clock is stopped is a fair resolution.

It doesn’t take much judgement to agree that Wagner did not “land” on the center, since he subsequently jumped off the ground with two feet and blocked the FG with his chest. This is the wrong tree to die on, Arians. Loosen up the Kangol.

Is turtle beach anything more than a branding and design firm, building relatively cheap Chinese mfgrs? If I look on alibaba will I find the exact same specs for like $5/ea?

Can a prepay for future curses as well? I have a large family

I don’t think this a reasonable extension of hate-crime philosophy. Sure, victims were targeted because they were Chinese, but it’s not like you could fool a Maori or French person with this one. That’s like saying the three-card monty guy was executing a hate crime because all his victims spoke english.

Does Australia have American-style wrongful death civil cases?

No one? http://jezebel.com/is-the-uva-rape-story-a-gigantic-hoax-asks-idiot-1665233387

It’s hard for me to pin blame for the defamation on the reporter - even if she had an inkling that the story might not be true, there were influential journalists there to tell her she’d be an idiot to do any fact checking or engage her critical thinking abilities!

I don’t really understand what gaslighting is, but regardless, it’s something that I’ve decided as an adult not to do to other people. Folks do things for their own reasons and I’m not their arbiter.

Generally speaking, I’m pro “rehabilitation” and the concept that we can criminally punish people without destroying their ability to move forward with their life... and I guess I can understand that no amount of prison time or punishment will work as a deterrent (genetics is strong enough for 99.99% of us) to…

I would draw a distinction between “OK with being treated like trash” and “accepting being treated like trash”. I’ll assume the latter.

That just strikes me as totally arrogant. Who are you/I to decide for someone else if their motivations for doing X or Y are valid. This argument basically comes down to “you’re lying to yourself”. Is that gaslight-y or something similar?

Change might be putting it too strongly. We adapt so that our internal reward systems get satisfied.

I mean, I wrote in the post that you are responding to: “Rose is an unrepentant dirtbag”

I always thought part of cool-girl was that she was also someone you didn’t want to step to because she’d have no qualms about putting someone in their place; she’s the cousin of the bad-bitch after all, right?

But pretending is a kind of reality, right? None of us have a public self that matches our internal self, whether you are aspiring to be the “cool girl” or the star-quarterback-guy or doctor/lawyer/engineer in a stereotypical first-generation family or the mom-who-has-it-all. And heck, maybe you don’t love chili dogs…