White people can and have (in the distant past) head the NAACP. It would be discriminatory to base the position on her skin color.

“All that said, ironically the collective over reaction to his comment is more damaging to women currently or dreaming to work in the sciences than his actual comment ever could have been by a factor of many.”

Nope. Best practices for suicide reporting recommend not using “committed,” which sounds like a crime or, to religious communities, like a sin, and “kill yourself” is just insensitive, crude, and poorly phrased. “Died by suicide” is the phrasing recommended by mental health professionals and the American Foundation…

this future is immeasurably better than the “white nuclear family eats turkey dinner pills around the telesensor after a long day at the button factory” future the boomers were promised

The world’s most awesomest grandpa ever.

“We have an ancient prophesy which tells of a boy...”

I live in california. They are stealing our water and selling it back to us. Do you really not see a problem with that?

Contaminated water is not a problem in this country. There are isolated incidents, but a boil order goes out and we move on. Bottled water companies draw from public sources, usually at a discount, mark it up 1000%, and resell it. How can you defend that?

Yes, access to clean drinking water is a fundamental human right, and you can go fuck yourself if you think otherwise. It has nothing to do with being a liberal and everything to do with being a fucking human being.

So a government induced famine is not a human rights violation?

I really don’t see that as passive aggressive. “I’m sorry, I didn’t hear you.” Ok. You’re sorry - legit apology. That’s normal. Also, you didn’t hear the person. That’s a statement of fact and lets them know that it was unintentional. That’s cool and a normal thing to say and makes sense. “You don’t have to yell”…

You must have ahead a cutting edge doctor. The DSM definition of ASD explicitly listed nonverbal as a key symptom up until DSM IV TR in 2000. some Drs in the autism field where advocating for an update for a while most garden variety pediatricians go by what’s written.

I knit all mine out of naturally shedded pubic hair (you can’t use it if it was removed un-naturally because then you’ll have made yourself look like an infant in the process and it’ll mean your partner is a pedantic pedophile.)

Before 2001 if you where at all verbal you could not be diagnosed with autism. We now know some where around 60% of people with autism are verbal with a large percent of them fully verbal. That change in diagnostic criteria covers the entire increase.

If she stripped down to sexy lingerie I’d be with you, but I appreciate her showing how the sausage gets made. Even the slimmest celebs are spanxed to the gills under their beautiful outfits and nude spandex is not flattering!

Between a hat made of tinfoil, and a hat made of sand, that you have to bury your head in, I’ll take the tinfoil.

You’re missing his/her point completely, and then ridiculing it because you don’t understand their view (your own words). It’s one thing to disagree, but another to be arrogant and insulting because their views don’t align with your own, or because you don’t understand them.

In all seriousness, even though I wouldn’t want to be the first person to try it, if this ultimately works, it could only be a good thing. Given the California drought, it’s laudable that a state is trying to find a way to more creatively recycle a waste product. Good for you, Oregon.

On the one hand: "I reached out to individuals who had interesting takes"..."the big shots were quoted in other articles"..."most of the disagreement with my articles stems from justifiable critique of the headline".

This article has some interesting ideas, but way overstates its case. Clearly the concept of a chemical imbalance isn't entirely a "myth"—the article itself suggests some version of it ("chemical imbalance—lite") may well be correct. Obviously, any full theory of depression should attend to its causes, but treatments…