Have you ever heard of the boxcar theory of time? It’s also known as chronodisplacement and sounds a lot like what you experienced. The idea is that instead of a continual flow, time is a series of instants hooked up together like boxcars. Normally you experience things as continuous and smooth, but occasionally some…

Disrespecting the beliefs of others speaks more about you... not them. You don’t have to be religious but you also don’t have to be offensive or condescending. 

I was recently driving home from work on a nice sunny evening. The stretch of road this happened on is a slightly uphill, very long block of a parkway, with a very wide (maybe 40 yards wide), sparsely treed median to my right. Since then I’ve tried to count about how long this entire event took and it was probably…

What is it with this “no eye contact” on set shit? Do the stars who “enforce” this think other people are stealing their souls? That a smile or nod is way too much to ask in a work environment?

I’m a fairly private person, and don’t post on social media that much (a lot of that is because I don’t like the way I look in pictures, not because I’m better than people who do), but Chrissy Teigen posting about her miscarriage (or even a regular person posting about her miscarriage) is hardly exhibitionist or…

I would also imagine that anything she posted might run the risk of getting comments and questions about the pregnancy that would be extremely painful to read. It’s like if everyone at work knows you’re pregnant and you lose the baby, you know that until each and every person knows that, you’re going to get the…

I think this was a stillbirth, not a miscarriage. So sad. 

Cultural expectations around sharing online are still evolving. The hate on Teigen is from people who are uncomfortable with the direction its moving and not self aware enough to realize the issue lies with them and not the media or the participants.

idk who cares, let people post selfies and just appreciate that they are feeling pretty that day, and stop making assumptions on why people do it.

Maybe the part of the problem with American culture is that we are constantly asking the victims of bad behavior to change their behavior instead of the perpetrators. I have truly never experienced a culture like this and I am a child of immigrants and lived lots of places.

that was my thought too - she otherwise would have to log on and deal with people congratulating her for a baby she isn’t carrying (painful) or deal with the press leaking the news first (also painful). I wish she COULD give herself the space to mourn without posting because that just looks so raw of an experience RN,…

Yeah I can’t imagine going after someone who just went through something like this, even if I personally find it bizarre and exhibitionist and narcissistic to constantly post pictures of yourself and document your life for an audience on social media.

A lot of hospitals offer photography in situations like this, so its not necessarily a glamourous photoshoot. I’ve known non-famous people who post these on their social media accounts to essentially say, “they existed in this world. they will be remembered.” It wasn’t thirsty or fake for them to do it, and I think…

who gives a fuck how Chrissy chooses to deal with her grief, that’s up to her. if you have the option to hate on her pain or not hate on her pain, just choose not to hate on it.

Can Kinja or G/O media do something about the racist troll who keeps popping up in the comments? 

My suggestions, for when Zayn and Gigi take time out of their busy schedules to read this blog: Alice, Louisa, Roberta, Anne, Brunhilde. Thank you, and congratulations!

No, it doesn’t mean everyone gets to just choose their own prison and guaranteed go to their chosen place. Never said it did?

It’s cool how I pointed this out, and people are reacting like I’m going out on this super far limb to defend the system and Aunt Becky. Couldn’t be further from reality. Sheesh. Trying to get…

Everyone gets the chance to submit their choice of prison, usually related to how close it is to immediate family. The judge then decides if they request is reasonable, and they go from there. My mom is at Victorville, and she asked to be sent there from Texas because it’s closer to me. It sounds wild, but it’s very…

My sister was always a lousy drinker. She never had fun when she drank. She usually went from crying to angry or vice versa. She also had a tendency to get really bad tattoos when she was drunk. She would end up with things like a lizard or a butterfly paired with a Red Hot Chili Peppers or Sublime lyric.

Am I crazy, because I was certain that you could get it again since the beginning? I can’t remember what sources I was following, but I was baffled by people who had already had Covid taking risks like they couldn’t get it again.