Every 2-3 months or so I’ll get annoyed by how cluttered the fridge is and bring the trash can over and start liberally tossing shit into it.  If it turns out that underneath that clutter there is a bunch of spilled/dried-up food that will also annoy me, I’ll do a deeper clean.  

There are a lot of areas (primarily in communications and messaging) where the Biden administration and other Democrats have not handled this pandemic well, and deserve to be criticized.

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Humans have been going into space for decades. This is not a major scientific breakthrough.

Everything in the “Apologize” one is exactly right. It just seems like it means a lot when you are willing to demonstrate accountability, both by explaining why you’re doing the things you’re doing, and by apologizing when you’re wrong. I also think “Authority figures can be wrong” is a critical lesson for kids to…

I blame Google for doing evil.

My favorite genre of internet discourse is white people earnestly arguing, at great length, about whether some dumbass piece of content, that inevitably falls somewhere along the spectrum from “blandly and boringly inoffensive” to “tepidly offensive but still quite boring,” is “racist” or “problematic” or whatever. …

But what if you genuinely just don’t like it at all?  It seems like the author (who I think I misgendered by accident...mea culpa on that one) just didn’t like the film, period, and didn’t find any redeeming qualities in it.  You may disagree that there are no redeeming qualities in the film, fine, but it’s a bit…

She didn’t like the film.  I don’t think she’s going to have much good to say about it.  It’s nice that you found things to like though!  You should write your own review instead of trying to account for everyone else’s taste.

What costs do you think you are being burdened with?

We live in a society. Part of living in a society means thinking about how your actions affect others, and acting for the common good. If you can’t be bothered to do that, feel free to withdraw, fuck off to the woods, and die within a month and a half because your image of yourself as a rugged individualist who…

It says personhood begins at conception! There is no objectively “right” point at which personhood begins (nor, incidentally, when exactly it ends, which is at least part of the reason there are laws against corpse desecration, and why we strive to honor instructions in wills, etc.). Have you defined personhood…

I guess I’m confused about what you’re arguing here or what you’re even urging us to do. Do you think we should engage with the “pro-life” argument on its own merit and without mischaracterizing it, or not? Because I don’t think “Well, my skin cells are also alive” is doing either, nor is it a very convincing argument…

This is all right. I would just say it goes a little bit further than “it gave retail establishments a reason to stop their mask policy.” It made it all but impossible for any business to even have a mask policy. Plenty of places had trouble enforcing a mask policy when masks were mandated by law for everyone.  It…

Most people like easy and definitive statements from places of authority but that’s not what a science based organization is meant to provide.

As another person in recovery, I believe John Mulaney should do whatever helps him live a happy and fulfilling life, whatever that means to him. I’m not sure how it helps you stay sober to have people judging every personal choice you make in recovery and implying that any little personal misstep (none of which are…

This sucks, and feels so completely counterproductive. Going into recovery is, by definition, hard. And one of the things that I found hard about it was the feeling that people who knew the issues I had with drinking was basically having to publicly admit that I didn’t possess the control that most people possess, and…

Part of my argument is that “life” is a red herring introduced as a rhetorical place-holder for the religious concept of the soul.

Conceding meaning what? You said you would win the argument every time if you engaged with the argument that once an egg is fertilized, the result clump of cells is a human life. But that’s not a provable thing one way or another, so I’m not sure how you “win” that argument. If someone believes that an embryo or a…