I graduated college in the early aughts. When I started school Computer Science was a sure bet, when I finished it wasn’t:

Unless you’re going to a highly ranked school, and/or have a generous scholarship Law Degrees are no longer a sure bet. This has been true for at least five years:

The last recesssion - 2002 - was caused by the tech burst. I knew a lot of unemployed CS majors. It’s easy to feel cocky when you’re on this side of the lottery. Paradoxically, I have an Econ degree and I can code but I’ve never been able to get hired based on those skills. I’ve only ever been hired for my writing…

I think we underscore the impact of charisma and also of meeting people where they are.

You’re displaying pretty willful ignorance at what I’m saying and reworking it to fit your narrative which seems to be that race doesn’t matter.

Here’s the difference: the beauty of privilege is that your existence within that privilege means you don’t necessarily know that a problem exists. So a white journalist has ignorance as a reasonable defense as to why they may report race issues terribly.

Saying someone is repressing their black identity is not the same thing as saying that someone is not acting black. Two kind of poignant examples: I went to a pretty fancy college located in a town near a sundown town. All of the black kids on campus knew that if all four of your car’s tires went flat and the engine…

I have no idea why I wrote Twitter roulette except for the fact that I am very, very, very drunk.

I know I should be more empathetic but Baio and his wife have shown themselves to be asswipes and racists. I know I’m supposed to play the role of sympathetic negro here, but today I just can’t. If we’re playing twitter roulette there are some people I can think of who are MORE deserving (hello most of the tea party)…

it’s interesting to me that american women, on average, were thinner in 1989 than in 2015 but the miss america aesthetic was fuller than it is today.

They’ve actually distanced themselves from a lot of their old stuff because they realize now that it was misogynistic and not in keeping with their values as they’ve aged. You kind of have to at least respect an artist who is like yes I did this, yes it made me wildly successful and yes, it’s problematic but I was…

This is such a cool idea! Thanks for telling me about it. I want to smash things and then repair them with gold and silver. Except I don’t have anything to smash....must get more fragile items in my life.

to be fair... they’re both right.

So if tacky women were carrying around legitimate LV bags that would be ok?

Isn’t the fact that it’s so easy for guys to find clothes that fit within dress code also problematic? Very short shorts exist for guys, but your average teen boy can still find longer shorts. The women who want longer shorts struggle to find them.

I’ve never seen this but I had a ridiculous obsession with the Almighty Johnsons. Made me want to move to New Zealand almost as much as lord of the rings.

You had a rough farm share. More and more farmers out east are playing with mobile greenhouses (you slide a hoop house over a field) which enables for close to year round crop production.

You should be avoiding driscoll anyway as their laborers are suing for horrific conditions and there’s a general strike. I dunno if it’s over but I’ve been avoiding them like the plague. Also convention strawberries use some pretty awful fungicides.

There are soaps that are compatible with gray water systems: seventh generation and ecover are two.

A rototiller is not the only way to break up the land back there. If you’re willing (I’m not saying this in a snarky way) you can read a few books and try some experiments for much less than 20k (depending on the size of your yard and the plants you pick you could do it for as little as 2k). The downside is it’s a lot…