Did you change a lot since your teenage years or are you mostly kinda the same inside but have better coping mechanisms? I can’t say I miss high school, either, but I’m not a radically different person 20 years later, either. 

It looks like Ariana Grande if she stopped cosplaying as a “spicy Latina” or “light-skinned Black woman” and was at home doing face masks and watching a true crime doc on Netflix on a Sunday night. 

There are many better alternatives to Biden and I’m actively working on getting one of them through the primaries. He’s not my guy, but I’m not going to act like a petulant child because I didn’t get my way. Someone is gonna get elected president, and I don’t want it to be Trump.

You’re dumb af. “Aside from that time that you worked around the clock for weeks in the dark, it was great.” What are you, 12?

You don’t see how working nights for 14 weeks, 18 hour days, away from your loved ones and a regular human life would be a little more stressful than a small stage production of As You Like It? Mmmmk. 

He’s not gonna change because he’s an old man who was born in 1942. This is who he is, how he was raised, and what was socially acceptable at the time. While norms are changing, a hug to show affection is a still a norm. It may not be a thing you personally enjoy, but it’s not an aberrant behavior. Changing your…

You mean all things that can be easily grasped by hand and are healthy? In Japan, there’s a whole ritual around a baby’s first solid food experience where they get, you guessed it, fish and sticky rice and veggies. That baby is over a year old, she has teeth!

If you watch the HBO documentary about the last season, you’ll see why another 2-3 seasons was just not possible. The entire production staff and crew were on the brink of a mental breakdown. They’re essentially doing several motion pictures but on a TV schedule and budget. I felt properly chastised after seeing the…

Totally. I’m lucky to have good insurance and even I avoided the ER until the last minute for an actual emergency because I was worried about how much it was going to cost. I can only imagine what that’s like when $1000 would essentially ruin you. 

Yeah, of course. But I also have to have them vaccinated for other things, and when there’s an outbreak, even canine flu. It’s common sense, lots of dogs in a small space, kinda like a classroom! 

Thank you for this super important comment because that’s the thing right: There are a million hoops to jump through, conditions to meet, and loopholes that make it hard to get healthcare even if you technically kinda have “access”. So like, you have “access” but you’re paying a huge amount. We need to do better as a…

That’s true except when it’s literally there on the packaging. 

Kids are covered by Medicaid (separate CHIP and Medicaid programs) so any child can get vaccines, but it’s effortful and still takes time and patience and abilities to navigate a language, etc. It’s “available” but is probably not that accessible. 

They won’t let me take my dog to daycare without proof of vaccination, and those are arguably “just” animals. I don’t know why we allow any vaccination exemptions at all unless medically necessary. 

I was also able to get boosters at school so stopped here to say the same. Would it be so hard to have a mobile clinic in the first week of school to administer what’s missing? It solves for parents not being able to make the time, probably saves money because it’s a bunch of kids at once, and you have accurate…

Yeah I mean, it’s right there on the packaging though - Gillette Venus. We’re not stupid. In fact, we’re so not-stupid that we figured out they charge less for men’s razors and blades and that men’s blades are sharper, so we just buy the men’s. 

Gilette men’s razors are marketed toward “cis-blokes” and Gilette women’s razors (whatever that means) are marketed toward women. I’m not sure where dudes got the idea that a “company that only caters to men” is now opening itself up to more people cause Gilette sells a fuckton of razors to women, too. 

No, of course not, or at least, nothing that I could quantify reliably other than my gut feeling. Anecdotally, I’d say that seeing women, on TV, competing at the highest level, regularly, and getting paid is inspiring/aspirational/nice to see that you can get paid to do something you love the same way the men do. Even…

You had me until the last sentence. We don’t need to see women competing in order to take an active interest, but seeing women competing goes a long way toward helping us get to “I can do this, too.” Representation matters. There was no girls league when I was little so I played with boys until I was 15. When I…

This splintering is creating a new problem that will morph right back into the reason people stopped their cable subscription in the first place... When you start adding up $10 here, $12 there, a middle-of-the-road cable package doesn’t seem so bad.