It's a fuck you to that organized church, but not to religious people. I think another commenter made the point that if it were a company that was the problem then you would protest there. If the church is part of the problem, you protest there. You can't send a message without ruffling feathers, and people need to…

I think every movement has to have an extremist end and a conciliatory end. Look at the Civil Rights movement. While the civil disobedience crowd were not working with the more radical crowd, the radical crowd added the gravity to the situation to make those not directly affected wake up to it, while the civil…

And because we aren't so great on some of those issues ourselves. It's a sad state of affairs.

But it isn't the hair that makes her special, but her heart! That's what she learns at the end.

Hey, give GLaDOS a break. It's hard to operate when you are downgraded so drastically.

I think you are making a huge assumption that she can frantically touch someone. I don't know whether she can or can't, but I can totally imagine someone in such a situation having an anxiety attack because their voice is literally taken away. I think you're being way too dismissive.

It's not a temporary inconvenience for her though. She cannot communicate without the iPad. What if she had an emergency during take-off?

Actually they are falling into the gay marriage leads to polygamy and incest trap, not the bestiality one. Bestiality can't ever be legal because animals can't consent and we have no laws stating that they can; however if marriage is just a contract between any consenting adults then theoretically incestual marriages…

It is. The Darwin fish faces the other direction.

Yeah, the journalist is having his cake and eating it too by complaining about the problem while using the problem to ensure page hits, when he could have easily been one person rectifying the problem and interviewing Harper or Wells.

That map is fantastic! Someone does much more fun research than I do

(Purposeful double post just to make sure people see) Addendum, soda does not dehydrate you, but it does not effectively hydrate. I was very sloppy with my wording there. It takes quite a bit of soda for the diuretic effects to be anything other than negligible.

Addendum, soda does not dehydrate you, but it does not effectively hydrate. I was very sloppy with my wording there. It takes quite a bit of soda for the diuretic effects to be anything other than negligible.

That I totally understand. What I meant to say more clearly is that people who are absurdly incredulous about the diet drink fad don't like the taste and therefore don't understand that calculus. Also, this is anecdotal, but my friends who drink diet sodas drink what seem like absurd amounts of diet drink can…

But the fact that soda isn't seen as a treat is problematic. That the haters get butthurt over people drinking diet drinks is ridiculous, but that doesn't take away from the fact that people who drink multiple cans of soda a day have a strange relationship with food. Especially if they are doing it for hydration since…

Embrace Southern colloquialisms and call all sodas Coke!

Oh god, I used to work at a movie theatre in HS and so many people would ask for half regular, half diet and it drove me insane. I always wanted to say that if you want to have a treat with your movie, have an actual treat and drink regular, but if you are concerned about your health or caloric intake, don't drink…

It (DC specifically, but all diet drinks in general) tastes terrible (but people have different tastes, so that's fine), it has an even worse aftertaste (see caveat above), and most importantly it makes absolutely no sense to drink the diet version of a treat when the whole point of a treat is to indulge. If people…

No, I don't. I actually don't imagine that happens all that much if at all, but I don't think there is anything wrong with a formal dress code for faculty and administrators at a school, particularly if there is already one for students.