I’m on the west coast, have never used Bumble, and don’t know anyone who has successfully met someone on there. I’ve heard that its algorithm puts the same ten attractive people at the top of the feed, and these people are either robots are swamped with matches. I think there was an NPR story on it?

Plate tectonics is geology, no? Regardless, very little of this was covered in my classes. I did take American history nine years in a row, though!

Ha, yep! Remember this so well from being an American student in the early 90's. The map is much different, but your textbooks are the same. Ditto for anything about ‘current technology’ in science textbooks. In third grade, I transferred to a Catholic school, and the textbooks were even older. Like time travel!

To be fair, I, and I’m pretty sure most Americans had no idea that this was the case. But you know, you’d like your president to understand at least some of this. It doesn’t take much — if you’re the president, and are meeting with a US territory, you can just ask one of your aides, *whose job it is to fill you in* —…

Absolutely. And listen, Washington State by area is like 80% rednecks that complain bitterly about water fluoridation. It’s a small part that makes the whole state blue. Our state senate is a backward, homophobic mess.

Wait, really? Are they? I think of them as like Wyoming: red across the board and totally unjust that the five people who live there get two senators.

I mean, clearly whoever wrote the map has some rosy view of upper-midwestern states that is no longer justified. As someone from Michigan, I feel the disappointment deeply.

Michigan has Detroit, which had the lowest percentage of Trump voters of any other major American city. But low support for Trump is probably true of most big cities in the Dumbfuckistan part of the map.

Exact same at my company. Only black exec is the VP of HR, hired last year. Company is extremely white, with a few black employees in . . . HR. Non-black POC are more evenly distributed throughout the company.

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Actually, for a lot of minors in the US that get married, there’s very little difference.

Yeah, does SJP have a gambling problem, or something? Since the show aired, she did two SATC cash cow movies, and did a second HBO series. And she’s married to Matthew Broderick. She decidedly does not need the money.

MAYBE TOMORROW???!!! Anything is possible.

Yep. You’re starting a new relationship with someone while your recent ex is in her third trimester? Nope nope nope.

Wait, I had wrong information. It has nothing to do with Ireland specifically. It’s the same as the mad cow thing everyone else is talking about. I know a girl who can’t give blood because she was born in Ireland in a specific time frame. I don’t remember her mentioning mad cow, but that must be it.

It’s a little like that, yeah. Like if you were born in Ireland in some period in the 90's you can’t give blood.

Ohh, I love this! Also, no need for the quotation marks. Kennedy’s are royalty, 100x over.

Yeah, you have to grade on the WASP curve. Tee hee!

One of my best friends had an unplanned pregnancy with a guy she was dating less than a month. Five years later, kid is great, they’re great parents. Even if they had split up, I’d be saying this. Some people were super shitty when they first got pregnant. Can’t imagine how bored you’d have to be with your own life to…

I thought so too. It suggests that there’s no way she could have been in a monogamous relationship where worrying about STI’s isn’t an issue. Or that the baby was unplanned. Getting pregnant in and of itself isn’t a failure, or equivalent health-wise to contracting an STI.