if it’s a knife you carry everywhere and therefore already in your pocket. I don’t believe his excuse, but I’ve had knives fall out of my pockets when rushing to use the bathroom before.

That seems like a roundabout way to get out of a speeding ticket.

maybe the policy is unevenly enforced, but I have definitely been served at more than one McDonald’s location when on foot in the drive through.

And for people in low tax brackets, the Saver’s Credit is supposed to do that, but it’s been restricted and crippled to the point of uselessness.

I don’t think they have a case. I’m not a lawyer, but I think that people are allowed to discriminate re: renters if they share the space. So, if the listing was for a room in their house, the hosts can refuse to rent to whoever they want to; however, if it were a separate apartment or house that the hosts didn’t live…

People’s fertility decisions and capabilities are their own business, but I’ve always thought it was odd how people try IVF etc. before adoption. Given a choice between giving an already existing kid a home vs an expensive medical intervention that may or may not work, I think I would spend my time and money on the…

hehe OMG

Especially because, after the adjustment period of finding fun things to do within your budget (or buying the equipment for fun things with lower marginal costs, like tools, sports equipment, board games, etc.) you probably have a much better idea of which fun things fit within your budget than they do. . There are…

with that said, a friend of mine who was there and who happens to be Asian kept getting mistaken for B.D. Wong. He looks nothing like B.D. Wong. (and is also more than 2 decades younger than him....)

There’s also the inherent awkwardness of laughing at a racism joke on national TV with your coworkers and bosses and potential future coworkers and bosses, in an industry with few jobs, in a very politically-conscious setting....

I like CSPAN, but his HDMI1 joke cracked me up

Because one is a parent and one was a child. I’m not saying that children can’t physically hurt their parents, but it’s the adults’ job to take control of that shit, or ask for help if they can’t.

Now, if the illustration’s 60's mom could show me how she’s levitating that baby, that would be a cool trick.

ehhh, I have pretty bad cramps with my IUD, but I felt sick and headachy all the time with the Nuvaring. I’m still angry with my [male] gyn for misrepresenting the side-effects (as a literate person who read the pamphlet that came with it, I wasn’t completely surprised, but it was still unnerving to hear “Oh, you…

if she doesn’t that’s her choice, and getting married is her and her fiance’s choice, and neither are really anyone else’s business.

IUDs are still contraindicated for people without uteruses, including most men.

The funny part of it is, neither of us think religion is a deal-breaker, in general, and we’re both pretty chill about current applicable matters, so it feels oddly petty to break up over something that won’t be an in-our-face issue until an undetermined future point, especially if there’s a chance that we’re…

The particular sticking point for me is asking the other person to stop doing something that they find benefits in. I think the surface benefits of not practicing a religion to an atheist would be outweighed for someone who *does* believe in the tenets of a religion by the stress and cognitive dissonance of…

as someone who wouldn’t ask such, but has been asked effectively to “deconvert,” as you describe it, it’s especially frustrating, because at least if you want someone to convert to a religion you probably think joining has some spiritual (or other) benefits, but asking a religious person (who isn’t doing anything to…

....I mean, yeah if she were a nun...and crazy...and homicidal....