Dear everybody around my age:

Was going to star anyway, but “bless their hearts” and “takes all kinds” put you right over the top.

Men can and should organize themselves to fight toxic masculinity. Men cannot and should not expect other, more marginalized members of society to organize against toxic masculinity on their behalf. They can have solidarity, but those people are busy trying to stay afloat in a world designed to drown them. I think…

I don’t know about a men’s day, but men are unquestionably also victims of the social order that puts certain men at the top and all other people at the bottom.

That’s a given: rich people don’t ride the bus.

If you’re not sure you want to grant an app access to something, deny it and see what happens. Many of the apps I use work just fine without access to whatever it was they were requesting. You can always grant it later if something doesn’t work right.

While I’d be a fool at this point to think the worst imaginable thing couldn’t happen, what with all the worst imaginable things that have been happening lately, the fact that Me Too has led to an unprecedented number of women running for and winning office makes me think that this would be quite the uphill battle.

if people like Feinstein was concerned about “facts” she would’ve given that letter to the FBI months ago

they will nevertheless confirm an accused sexual predator to the bench

Doesn’t bother me either but I still understand why people might want to avoid disruption from something that’s just a test anyway.

So I assume this is a compromise bill? The Democrats wanted them to run background checks, and in return the Republicans wanted their trash state governments to be notified so they could harass them?

What godforsaken hellhole do you live in that plays Fox News at fast-food restaurants? The only public places I’ve seen it are 24-Hour Fitness and the lobbies of random tall office buildings.

If a nuke is headed to your town there is literally nothing you can do. Cold war disaster drills were to make people feel better (and hate the Soviets more, and get scared enough to do whatever the government told them). I’d rather get vaporized going about my mediocre life than get vaporized after worrying about it…

Yeah OK. But that’s a reason for you not to turn it off. It’s perfectly reasonable for another person to make a different cost/benefit analysis.

I learned a lot from this bizarre non-sequitur so I’m starring it.

Fortunately, with the odd exception like OP’s lunatic professor, most professors assign arbitrary minimum lengths because they’re too lazy to do the actual work of reading and grading papers. They’re not going to do extra work to catch you; that would defeat the purpose.

The length requirement exists to force the worst students to do more work without requiring the teacher to actually pay attention to its quality. No decent professor uses it, because the best writers will struggle the most to reach it.

You’re a goddamned hero.

This is for national emergencies. There is no way to defend against a nuclear attack so all that would do is cause panic, and a flash flood at the national level would truly be something to behold. Also you wouldn’t get the text because every cell tower in the U.S. would be wiped out.

Weather alerts are local. If the United States has a national weather emergency, we’ll be far enough into the shit that it’s unlikely our phones will still be working.