Also, $50,000 a year is not a lot of money for a family of five. If we went by that paycheck and the annual sum surmised, $25,000 in 1996 would mean they were struggling more than was depicted. I sure hope somebody got fired for that blunder.

I get how the offense could linger, marinating in a feeling of foolishness for not realizing that no company would ever tweet that and expect it to be taken at face value.

Bonus points for namechecking Vecna, but I’d have gone with trying to steal his eye and/or hand for the real nerd cred.

Depending on the state, the law pretty much views them as doctors (but I agree with the sentiment, obviously).

I worked for a while preparing reports for doctors for expert testimony, mostly car accidents, which included a lot of chiropractors as well. I always thought it was funny that most of the chiropractors who were reviewing other chiropractors’ work on behalf of insurance companies generally had unkind things to say…

It’s weird to think about how recent evidence-based medicine is.  My whole family loves chiropractors, whereas I’m suspicious if I see that a doctor has a DO rather than an MD after their name.

Who’s viewing it negatively here, though? The fact that Leonard DiCaprio came to your mind when thinking of a counter-example (which is who I thought of, too, while I was reading the article) is sort of evidence that people do make those punchlines. It seems kind of puritanical to view consenting adults dating a lot…

Username/comment synergy.

It’s weird how much I love Jeffrey Characterwheaties compared to how much I hated Rafi. (I mean, I hated everyone on that show, so I guess it’s not that weird.)

Precisely, which is why puissant and pulchritudinous people predominantly pass on parleying on Parler.

I agree, but I still think it was unquestionably harmful, like many other things, because most people just aren’t going to rationalize it the way we did. I don’t know if that means we should stop making movies that challenge us, though. If trans people were fully accepted in society, we could make whatever movies we…

The argument at the time was that infidelity to one woman doesn’t make him not a feminist in general. The criticism here basically amounts to the fact that not enough people jumped to conclusions based on not much information, which is still and will always be a wise thing to do. I do hope more and more people…

I’ve clearly stumbled into a more involved story than I thought. It just seemed like a dumb Twitter pile-on over somebody trying too hard to be funny in a self-deprecating way, based on a very cursory reading of the article above.

Yeah, I was definitely using “hate” in the soft sense, as in hating on someone. I also skimmed the article, but it’s Great Job, Internet.

I really don’t get the hate. At least, aside from the political views, which would require knowing who this dude is. It’s not “objectively stupid.” Objectively inattentive to labels, sure, but it probably worked fine for human hair. Also, people need to stop using “objectively” the way they use “literally.”

I think it was the shortened version of it, actually, which is offensive in the same way an adjective to describe an individual’s developmental delay (which I don’t use, either, because it’s all become offensive now) became the truncated R word, which was always a slur found mostly on North American playgrounds and in …

I was really afraid your story was going to end with them sympathizing with him and giving him the pardon, so that’s something, I guess.

Seriously. You’d think all the hackers would have to do to mollify him would tell him that he was allowed to come after they took a bunch of his money.

It’s short for Hoobastonk.

Yeah, but the problem there is that so many people found a fucking nipple horrifying enough to have that reaction. It was obviously planned by Janet Jackson, too, unless they were plotting against her and slipped the tearaway garment into her closet without her knowledge (not as implausible as I’d once have thought,…