I remember studying ROWE back when they first started it—the founders mentioned that involuntary turnover skyrocketed during the first 6 months of implementation, because it became really clear who was doing well and who wasn't when the structure of the workday was eliminated. Guy who abuses the policy would've been…

Isn't being closeted but married functionally pretty difficult? Like, you won't wear a ring? And will you tell people you live "with a roommate"? And not invite your spouse to spouse-y things like company events? Or not take advantage of partner benefits because then your employer would know? I'm just trying to figure…

Can we also talk about the Burke reappearance episode? As you mention the basic premise is terrible, but the small moments left me breathless. When he tells her he doesn't want her? Then they yell at each other and she gets to hear him admit how all-consuming their relationship was for him? That is the validation of…

My cat would not have gotten on my lap at all unless I cleared everyone else off of the sofa, and lay down on it with a book or tablet paying exactly zero attention to the cat for a minimum of ten minutes. Then she'd jump right up on me and purr her little heart out for as long as you like, as long as I did not move.…

there were no full-body photos because then we'd be too far away to see those eyes. Nothing else matters but those eyes.

This. If I take my weight and subtract the portion which is body fat according to my doctor, the weight that is left would still be overweight! if I had literally 0% body fat!

I guess I'm talking about more than comfort eating... I'm talking about veggies rotting in my fridge while I order into the office because I'm not leaving til 9pm, with no warning in advance. Or not being able to drag my ass out of bed for a morning run because I stayed up too late working the night before, and the…

For a lot of people, particularly type-a people or those of us who've flirted around the edges of eating disorders, calorie counting can make us crazy. For me it turns from "hmm I wonder how many calories that was?" to a game in which I try to one-up (or down as the case may be) myself each day until suddenly I'm at…

yeah, the instant stuff that's sold in the cereal aisle, as opposed to the canned or bagged stuff sold in the baking aisle which is indeed just oatmeal. Even that distinction I had to make right there is telling—at some point someone decided to put the unsweetened stuff in a whole different aisle.

The packets of oatmeal. Yeah, I know better now, but that's what "oatmeal" meant to me growing up, so it's the first thing I looked for.

yeah, that's my baseline for just working... including the time it takes me to do the basic junk like showering and getting dressed and feeding the cat, I wind up with around an hour a day for all meals and exercise. Something's got to give, but it's really hard to just go "ok I'll give up the job I trained for years…

I've done similar at various points, and the one that gets me is oatmeal. The amount of sugar added to oatmeal to make it palatable is the most outrageous thing I've ever seen.

I'm imagining some old-timey peddler on a street corner now, singing out, "bootstraps! Get yer bootstraps here!"

I could see it as a death spiral—being less active encourages weight gain, but carrying extra weight also reduces energy and makes exercise harder (both cardiovascularly and in more mundane ways like thigh rub or getting in your own way during yoga). So whichever starts the cycle, once you're in it, it just keeps…

I'd also love it if someone examined the effects of the economic downturn on obesity—I fully admit that I don't exercise as much as I should and eat takeout from the food court in my building too often... But what else am I supposed to do when I'm doing two people's jobs?

It's more like they pretend that the campus cops *are* still part of the police. So you think you're doing what you need to do, but in reality the people you've just reported something to are basically overhyped security guards.

Actually many times it's left quite confusing for students. For instance my university had it's own public safety department, and we were told that they were responsible for any activities within a certain radius of campus, and LAPD were only called for off-campus issues. It took most people til their senior year to…

and they don't even succeed at that.

Whatever age you set it at will be arbitrary. Some people are 18 when they're still in high school, some people are in college or in the workforce. Some people at 16 will be complete immature idiots, some will be able to handle it. Age will never be a perfect measure of this, so all we can do is try the best we can to…

Sure it's a stunt—but like many news stories, it's a stunt that has a decent purpose behind it.