I’m kind of amazed that grad students are managing to get unionized before adjuncts, but at least progress is being made. If it keeps up, hopefully it will spread.

“The benefits they receive far outweigh any advantage the University receives from student-performed teaching or research,”

If there’s one thing we can agree on, it’s that rich people have too little voice in our elections. I can’t wait for random heirs and heiresses from across the country to tell me how to vote in my local election!

I mean, I’m not saying I don’t appreciate the story - I do. And I think it’s good that we’re handling death in increasingly honest and healthy ways. But yeah, I found it really off putting. And jarring. Like, why would you even notice the brand of car that drove her to the place she chose to die in, much less that it…

Yes. That is it exactly. He looks like the saltiest, sea-dogged three year old.

That does not mean science should concern itself with sanding down every cliff or balcony or ledge in the world.

It’s impressive how casually “space colonization” and “megastructures in space” are tossed off as potential solutions to some of the problems created by longevity, like the challenges of long term human habitation off-planet are something to which we just need to apply a little more gumption.

My lord, I love her.

I am six feet tall, and just thinking about having to sit crouched on those fucking twee little stools for all formal meals until the end of time is making my knees ache and my head pound and my rage build. Imagine trying to eat Thanksgiving dinner folded in half perched on a stool!

2nd wave feminism called, they want their transmisogyny back.

body stocking will always be better than booty shorts you vanilla cone

Why?

Here’s my problem with that argument.

The top one looks like

I absolutely loathe that saying, because it ignores a lot of fantastic writing like Douglas Adams who make a career out of exposition, but it’s probably true more often than it’s not. I also hated my parents telling me “practice makes perfect” because I run on pure spite.

Soooo many words to say nothing....

ok but here’s the thing-

We know that the families lost the lawsuits and that the theaters claim that they did all that they were required was upheld by the court. I’m not going to say that the families were greedy. Grief is a hell of a thing. But the lawsuit was really shaky to begin with.

Nobody is reading the Deadline excerpt:

More like “JESUS CHRIST CUT OFF LEGAL’S PHONELINES AND LOCK THEM IN THE BUILDING UNTIL I GET OVER THERE.”