I don’t think this is what signofzeta is suggesting, but when I took a natural disasters course, they made a more reasonable suggestion. The prof said that we should look at assessments of flood risks, and have the government pay to relocate the most vulnerable residential neighbourhoods and ban new housing…

I am such a sucker for stories about people fighting for the right to do science, math, and engineering. Also, I love the idea of movies that are about people coming together to achieve something great. I am so excited for this movie!

Feminist hair has different chemistry; male tears are like Panteen Pro V to us.

What baffles me is that they bothered to expand the selection of hat, shoe, and outfit colours, but not skin colours. I understand that adding in new body types and hair styles requires a bunch of extra work, but if they have time to add more clothes colours, they really should have time for skin.

Also, I think a less…

I too knew many theatre kids. I’m only 30 though!

Yeah, when I was ~3 I remember my parents telling me to put on my shirt because girls have to be clothed in public. It was a hot summer day, and my dad was topless, and I got so mad that I can remember it 27 years later. I’ve basically been on a `gender roles are bullshit’ kick ever since. A sex book that mentioned…

Wow! I really enjoyed this article. Most Lifehacker articles have this funny but embellished style. Here, you are giving away concrete advice, but with pose that flows and draws the reader in. I find this really impressive because it is so hard to present facts and advice artfully. Also, you have just given away the…

100% agreed. I commented to another replier that my issues with it back then were in part due to an unsophisticated mental-model of sexual orientation. I completely frame the world in terms of a spectrum of attraction now. (I have come to the point that I believe any label of gay or strait is technically incorrect.…

Oh, I don’t worry much about it now. At this point, I am a believer in the fact that everyone really just falls on a spectrum of attraction that dictates the frequency of when they’re attracted to a given gender. I think a person who currently self-identifies as gay because they are attracted to the same sex 99% of…

Same here. I basically had the same experience when my high school boyfriend came out as bi, but everyone said he was gay. Out loud, I railed against bi erasure, over-reliance in stereotypes, and people co-opting his right to self-identify (though I had never heard those terms at the time). In self-pitying moments, as…

Me too. I’d change a few elements in any one of those rooms and be pretty happy with it.

Yeah. Your poke-hangs sound totally normal. I also go catching pokemon with a friend of mine, and it isn’t romantic (though still fun bonding time). But we only go for 2-3 hours, not all night. And I invite my husband.

Sounds like you’re hanging out together, which is the best part!

Yeah. I don’t think she should have to play tons with him either. I meant that I could see the feelings you mentioned in your first paragraph motivating emotional cheating. I totally agree that staying out until 5am is odd. My husband is currently unemployed and an avid gamer and he rarely stays up until 5am on any…

I agree that it sounds like a divergent interests issue. However, I’m pretty into Pokemon Go, and I wouldn’t dismiss as staring at their phones as harmless. Since it came out, I’ve had multiple evenings of wandering the city chatting with my husband as we hunt for pokemon and take down gyms. We talk about work, travel…

I don’t know about visas, but it’s cheap to fly from Canada and there used to be super cheap packages to good resorts from Air Canada Vacations, Sunwing, or exitnow.ca. While I was there, I met Americans who had flown in from Mexico, and that was well before the US travel ban was lifted, so I’m sure it’s do-able now.

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But she’s supposed to wear it every day for the rest of her life. Imagine wearing something you do not find nice looking or comfortable for every moment of the rest of your life.

Yup. Mr. Mathematician bought a 200$ `proposal ring’ and then we got to go ring shopping in Paris (where he proposed). It was horrifically romantic! In the end, I went for proposal ring and used my engagement ring as a wedding ring.

I mean, this person has to be full of it. Aren’t most houses in NA >200K, and isn’t 25% the standard minimum downpayment? To me, a ring is less than 10% of a proper downpayment. There is just no comparison between buying a ring and a downpayment on a house... It’s like saying “lucky my husband doesn’t like superhero…

You are so right. I almost never recognise them. I once had coffee in a shop with Kiefer Sutherland and had no idea. In the past week, I unknowingly walked by Lea Michelle and sat back-to-back with Lewis Black at a restaurant. I know about all this because my husband pointed it out later. I did, however, recognise Kit…