Also? You aren’t just washing your hands because of what might have gotten on there while you were in the bathroom but because of everything else you’ve touched between the last time you washed your hands and then (money, doorknobs, elevator buttons, crosswalk buttons, etc.) I think of it as a chance to reset my…

I like to think of it as selflessly choosing to let other people who care more than I do go ahead of me in line. That way I save $40 and feel virtuous.

Picture weight is off-center; the two flanking people are pointing in the same direction instead of opposite directions; Nathen Chen looks like he’s tripped and is about to fall while trying to hug someone; and finally maybe don’t use a picture of one of the competitors that looks like it’s from the poster for a high…

Thank you for posting the tweet about Mark Mitchell - when I saw him in the kiss & cry I *knew* I should know who he was.

I couldn’t watch I actually had my hands in front of my eyes. He’s so good, but his nerves got him.

I think it’s more about electrical conductivity than temperature but yeah: no blood in fingers = touch screen thinks you don’t exist.

Oh tonight was hard to watch! He’s so, so good.

I have a circulatory condition (Raynaud’s) and my fingers don’t always register. This is not going to help.

Good point!

Yup. How much of the current wealth discrepancy between black and white Americans can be traced back to the combination of black people being kept out of unions and the GI Bill being unfairly applied? (Speaking as someone who knows that the GI bill in particular got most of her family on one side out of poverty.)

Which is such a perfect example of someone choosing ignorance instead of learning - “when we arrived in America we didn’t have white privilege and were discriminated against for not being white; therefore white privilege doesn’t exist.” That illogic makes me dizzy.

I just read that comment - if a white person gets mad about racism being called out against other white people, then they maybe aren’t as not-racist as they thought.

Same. She has every right to defend her reputation. And if she’s doing it as a maneuver to pre-empt a possible Feud season 2 about her and her sister, la Fontaine I like her even better.

Yup. Also bad editing decisions - how can you have the story right in front of you that is “one man has been permitted by a government agency to damage and destroy lives in our city over and over again, including his own family’s” and think that the story that needs to be written is “this guys life is so sad”? And…

Sacramento is so, so weird. Statistically it’s not as segregated as other cities of the same size. But the way people *live* is segregated. It’s like a bunch of small towns that just so happen to overlap.

And the more of them get written the more likely that writers don’t know how to write a good profile of someone who is, objectively, bad. The point of including the “humanizing” details is to remind the reader that this is a real person who really did terrible things - not to somehow imply that because this person…

I’m so grateful for The Root - I know all of you get an unimaginable (to me ) amount of shit from commenters and emailers and everything. The thoughtful analysis here is some of the best I’ve seen all year. I hope you all have a beautiful Kwanzaa and any and all holidays you are celebrating and a stellar 2018!

Watching one of those healed my trypophobia (fear of tiny holes.) The human mind is so extraordinarily weird.

I’m not a doctor but I have had lots of cysts so here goes - DO NOT POP - YET. For me there are two stages of cyst removal (for pea0sized cysts, bigger probably needs a doctor, smaller can be left alone). First the hot compress, drain and leave-it-alone stage. As long as the cyst is still under the skin it’s not a…

3 years! Amateur.