Siri is a 68-year-old woman from Georgia who was married to a former two-time NHL All Star and has a tabby cat named Boo.

In Pennsylvania, Amazon could qualify for certain property tax abatements for a period of 10 years, depending on where they locate, and Philadelphia may offer them a 10-year exemption of the city’s Business Net Income Tax, but the hundreds or thousands of employees would still pay Personal Income Tax to the state;…

Thank you! And now he’s trying to play on the paradox of tolerance, pretending that tolerance is a moral absolute and that being intolerant of bigotry is bigoted, so that’s fun. Dismissed!

Except that your bigotry is not actually supported by science. The DSM hasn’t included homosexuality since at least the Reagan Administration. Why you aren’t in the grays is beyond me, but your comments seem to fall under Kinja’s definition of “hate speech”.

Those are things largely outside of our control. Certainly be active, push for change, write letters, call your Congressmen, join the union, vote, take an active interest in your local government, and show up, but also take charge of what you can control. At our most fundamental, we control how we react to our…

That can definitely be frustrating, and this is certainly extreme, but perhaps there are other areas where you can find savings and stretch your goals out over a longer time frame. There was no way I was paying off all of my debt in a year, but five years was a lot more do-able. Living like a hermit for five years is…

I had a teacher in high school that did this when the administration cracked down on lit candles in classrooms. The whole corridor would smell like Christmas trees in December from her pine-scented candles. I loved it (though I could imagine that getting nauseating for someone who is more sensitive to such things).

I feel the same way about television shows: I absolutely hate devoting my time to a series, getting invested in the characters and the plot(s), only to have it get cancelled or, sometimes worse, extended to the point where they have exhausted their original vision and are just trying to milk it. Give me a…

A good point about presuming: sometimes that apparently able-bodied individual is having a painful sciatica flare-up and desperately needs to sit down to stop the shooting fire running up and down his leg and back.

No, the triangular colon indicates the preceding sound is long. So /ɜːr/ is actually all one sound.

Fascinating - are you American? I think I remember hearing of some European schools using nibs well into the second half of the 20th century, but I am not familiar with that practice stateside.

Is there a way to make “Niksen like Nixon” work?

I think we might have different definitions of respectful. This kid was funny and made some good points using humor and biting sarcasm taking down ridiculous, tired, and fundamentally racist narratives surrounding Columbus, but I am not sure how writing “blah blah blah” and telling your teacher to shut up could be…

This might be kind of missing the point, but switching to whole bean and freshly grinding for each pot makes a world of difference, even for cheap coffee. Sure, you can go crazy, but just using fresh ingredients is a simple way to make pretty much anything taste better without going down a rabbit hole. Or half and…

I certainly wouldn’t say no to three batteries, especially when you are working with someone else or need the shop light, but if it’s just me, the batteries charge so quickly these days that I haven’t run into a problem yet. This is a great argument for staying with one brand so they can all use the same batteries.

I certainly wouldn’t say no to three batteries, especially when you are working with someone else or need the shop…

I love the inflation calculator! I just went there and was checking to make sure no one already posted it. It is particularly handy when reading old books to get a feel for the amounts discussed.

I usually shrug when I see tool deals on here as they are often not much better than going to the local Lowe’s or other big box hardware store (especially if you have one of the ubiquitous coupons offered), but this is a pretty solid deal by any standard. DeWalt makes a good product and 20v is plenty of power for a…

I usually shrug when I see tool deals on here as they are often not much better than going to the local Lowe’s or…

There was at least a time when he was wearing Makers & Riders pants while golfing.

Looks like VW’s answer to the Eddie Bauer edition Fords: Volkswagen United Colors of Benetton Edition.

Many years ago, when I was a still a dumb college sophomore, I had a roommate overhear me talking about him with the live-in landlord: we were complaining about how much time he took in the shower and implying he was rather effeminate and high maintenance.