I have friends who have psychologically diagnosed mask anxiety, and guess what? They wear a fucking mask. The truth is, there are zero valid reasons to not wear a mask when you’re out in public spaces. The unfortunate thing about this situation is when you don’t wear a mask, you are absolutely putting other people at…

I’ve never been to Burning Man, but I go to smaller local burns, and we’ve had some go virtual -- honestly, I can’t recommend it. It’s maybe worth it if you have a community of people you generally go with (like a camp), but IDK, just schedule like a zoom happy hour for that. Burns are so much about the experience of…

One of my most leftist friends made an excellent argument that I’ll try to summarize — voting for Joe Biden is essentially voting to give drug addicts access to clean needles. Will it solve the drug crisis? No. But is it infinitely better than just not doing anything? Yes. Plus, having access to clean needles means we…

Some bidets come with a blow dryer attachment, but the one I have at home does not, and generally this not a huge issue. Sometimes I wipe quickly after, sometimes I don’t, and it’s generally fine. My butt may be a little wet, but it dries pretty quickly. 

I don’t know where you’re getting your info, but she literally had more people vote for her in the primary, so logically, she has a better than Booker would. It’s one of the reasons we have primaries, to find out who has more base support. Of course, you can be a baby about it and pick up your ball and go home,…

Yes, I hear people cite HIPAA often and it’s particularly unnerving because it’s not even a medical accommodation law. 

Masks are a great time saver. Think about how much time you’d waste trying to figure out if a random person was a selfish asshole or not. You’d have to talk to them, interact with them. Now it’s easy! You see someone walking in an enclosed public area with no mask, and you know! That person is a piece of shit! It…

A friend of mine recently asked me how moderate a democrat would have to be for me to not support them, and I thought about it and decided they have to be anti-gun control, anti-abortion, anti-climate change, anti-immigration, anti-financial regulation, anti-voting rights expansion... basically, if I can’t point to a…

I’m a hundred percent with you. My idiot parents have already gone to a restaurant for dinner and my mom has gotten her hair done and gone to gym several times. Like none of this is over! The one luxury I’m allowing myself is that my partner and our friend will be going camping (driving in separate cars) in a few…

It’s not a Broadway show, this isn’t about excitement. This is about who can get more votes. I would prefer to have Charles Booker in the Senate a million times over Amy McGrath, but that’s not the only thing at play (in fact, it’s probably the least at play). It’s about who can actually pull more votes. Booker…

I don’t know either, and in that sense, I think Booker and McGrath have an equal chance of beating him (but by virtue of McGrath getting more votes in a primary, I’d say she has a slightly better chance). I really liked Booker, I think he ran a great campaign, but do people like not remember what happens at the end of…

So hold on --- no one filed a legal case against Argento, but she did in fact lose work because of those allegations, and people in the Me Too movement spoke out against her and disassociated themselves from her. As you said, she’s working “on a small scale,” so like yes obviously this had a negative effect on her…

But it doesn’t seem like he actually backs off, it seems like he sets a timer for the minute that person turns 18, then makes sure to keep up just enough contact that when that timer goes off it’s not totally out of the blue to reach back out. 

You understand the difference between dating someone who is a younger adult, and literally waiting until a person hits the legal minute on 18 so you can finally have sex with them after you’ve been sure to keep up your contact with them consistently for years (some call that grooming)? 

From what I understand -- heat is what kills the virus. So, why not blast your mask with a hair dryer for a few minutes on a high setting? I mean sure, wash it as well and hang it up to dry, but the heat of the dryer is what does the trick. Alternatively, you hang your masks in the sunlight. 

I hope she can handle a room full of Andy Garcias.

I love Jenny Slate and I love Missy, she’s the character I most connected too as someone whose hormonal state matured way faster than her body as a preteen (omg, the school sleepover where Missy’s fantasy is just everyone talking about how great she is, I think that was taken from Slate’s standup and I feel personally…

Also an archivist here — on the one hand, it sometimes bothers me the term is not more professionalized, on the other, that’s probably a good thing. In any case, I’m unsure of whether you can call her an archivist or not. If you archive a collection, process, describe, accession, maintain, etc., whether or not you…

We’ve already agreed that her character feels strongly about having the baby. So, if a person is strongly set in that way, I 1) don’t really know why saying the word itself makes a huge difference and 2) feel like it wouldn’t make sense to go into a substantial discussion of it as an option, which kind of brings me…

For masks to work, everyone needs to be wearing them when you cannot physically distance from other people.