Our gym class in high school was graded for actual ability which broke my heart for the kids who were just not athletic/uncoordinated no matter what having to do a lay-up or push-ups. 

A what now?? I’m a regular runner and in peak condition and I would vomit blood running a six-minute mile. Maybe if something was chasing me that I was sure I couldn’t fight off. Did you go to junior high in East Germany?

My high school gym teacher was an unreasonably attractive and in his early thirties and I for sure never skipped a gym class. 

Bernie also voted for SESTA/FOSTA. I imagine because the optics of “save the poor babies from being trafficked” were better than protecting the lives and livelihoods of sex workers. 

That’s an impossible position for you and I’m very sorry for what you’re going through. No advice here, but sending you, I don’t know, internet love. 

For the number of chronic truancy she must have dealt with, having only 20 charges (which could have been disposed of in any number of ways) in one year actually seems low and like there was a great deal of discretion to use it only in extreme cases. In the case of the mother sentenced to 180 days, her kids were in…

Hold on. You don’t understand how a trial works, you’ve never empaneled or instructed a jury, nor have you ever answered jury questions about their instructions but... I’m the one whose bona fides are being questioned? Bold choice, bubba.

They are not ignorant of how statistics work, they are cognizant of how statistics work and believe they will beat the odds because they are better people. 

This. There has been a significant crackdown on Insta regarding sponsored posts, and “influencers” seem to be diligently adding “ad” or “sponsored” to their posts now. 

Chocolate oatmilk from Oatly has ruined me and I can’t find it anywhere in town anymore. It’s so damn good. 

Absolutely agree, those are all very important points. 

Great point and thank you for breaking this down. Maybe the follow-up to all this shutdown talk is tackling why so many federal workers are living on a razor’s edge of poverty, aka why can’t people who do an honest day’s work in service of us all afford to save money at all? 

Plus, it seems like most people here assume that juries will use this for ***good*** instead of for evil.

Jesus Christ. No it’s not. And it shouldn’t be. The last thing you want to task people with, in addition to having to grapple with concepts like “beyond a reasonable doubt” or “preponderance of evidence” is whether they think the law is fair. It’s chaotic and also creates a different standard every time, further…

Cause they’re not in the movie? Cause the movie’s message is damaging to women? Cause it’s not necessary? Have a nice duet with your nice costar and call it a day. 

It’s doubly weird since those kinds of disputes tend to be the most volatile things that LEOs can walk into. 

Right? If anything, I believe the danger is that first-gen and all subsequent kids stop learning their parents’/grandparents’ language and customs. Is there any immigrant kid that moves here that doesn’t immediately learn English? 

Let me tell you what happens one day when you try on Birkenstocks for the first time and you’re wearing warm, squishy socks and you feel so damn SUPPORTED that you’re like, fuck it, I’m doing this. And it’s great. And you’re not sorry.

it’s called branding, Alan!

Oh I most certainly did. In the theater. I paid $18 to watch this movie. AND IT WAS AWFUL. Gaga was lovely, Andrew Dice Clay as her dad was so cute, and Cooper can legit sing. If the damn plot didn’t glorify pissbaby men ruining women’s lives, it would have been great. I would have loved the fourth reboot to throw in…