If you live in a place where shoes off are not almost universal and you are hosting any kind of event with lots of people have not been to your home before, warn people. It’s a disability access issue. People will adapt. But if it’s not common, people might not be prepared.

I don’t think you grasp how different this is regional. I was well into adulthood before I encountered this other than if it was like actively snowing.  Which is not say it people’s preferences are wrong, but if it’s out of the ordinary people probably don’t plan for it.

Thank you for sharing. We think these extremely traumatic moments would be burned into our memories accurately. But of course our brains don't work that way. That's a hard thing for people to grasp.

Yes, people do that because some people are basically covering up eating disorders by lecturing other people about why they should give up dairy for REASONS.

This will be an unpopular take multiple things can be true. 1) Some people are easily swayed by marketing claims or vague popular ideas about “healthy” that are unsupported or actually wrong. 2) Some people have can’t digest cow milk or are allegeric. 3) Some are avoiding animal products. 4) Some people are hiding…

While especially damaging to Black children, some educators have no business teaching any children. We don't want white children learning to act like.

Disenfranchisement of 750,000 Americas is kind of a big deal. And Maryland doesn't want DC. Because it would definitely tip the urban/rural and partisan balances in ways lots of Maryland really doesn't want.

South Dakota was part of France more recently than DC was part of Maryland. So no, we are not already in Maryland.

Me either. Also, I love your description of "making sense."

It's a reference to the conspiracy nuts who think the vaccines some how embed a chip in you.

I had to take my car into the dealership for what seemed like urgent recall work. My best friend picked me up and drove me home. We are both half vaccinated. We wore masks. 30 minutes in her minivan felt like a party. COVID has warped us.

Mallory never seemed to get the idea her relationship to NOI wasn’t really some special thing. But actually the it’s same story that anyone who found their way into some kind of religious organization during a hard time in life and then realized it had deeply troubling elements.

And it's not like getting someone to teach something very niche in a rural area.  It's finding a lawyer in DC.

I'm fairly certain that replacing her took about 15 minutes. The number of DC area lawyers that would adjunct at Georgetown Law is high.

Yeah, I don’t get it. I also really don’t understand the obsession with edge cases begging to validate their choices on the internet. Like no one who was saying “don’t travel for Thanksgiving” was actually concerned with things like helping an isolated person with deteriorating mental health move to live with family.…

I paid for cat accupucture. It did seem to relax him and he perked up to live another five healthy years. But I had also been diagnosed with MS and literally came home from the hospital to form letter about suspicious findings on my mammogram. I could not deal with anything happening to my cat. I'm not sure how there…

The number people that I thought were perfectly reasonable, who seem to think that the human involved in the biting incident should be fired because "dogs know" alarms me. I think animals can be good judges of character, but also, these are dogs that now live in an office building. So maybe that's going a bit too far?…

Do you call Ted Cruz's office everytime he tells other states having natural disasters to fuck off and die? Because he does that regularly. At point it starts to seem like Texas doesn't care about the rest of America, so why should we care about Texas. And this the kind of behavior that pressure would get Cruz to…

At some point you reap what you sow. Ted Cruz has actively told other states to fuck off and die during natural disasters and other events. And while I believe that no one is going to change Ted Cruz’s mind on say a $15 minimum wage, he’s a jerk about natural disasters in other states not as matter of principal, but…

I'd argue these teachers shouldn't teach *anyone.*