Yeah I mean Google’s problem is that they keep mothballing services instead of just evolving one system/merging them together. That’s what I mean by actively hostile to messaging users. It would be better if they just exited the space entirely.

Hmm, sounds more like you’re shitting bull.

Have you looked into fostering? In my state (Florida) they have an option of “foster to adopt,” which is where you are qualified as a foster home and then you set a preferred criteria for a placement so that if the child is cleared for adoption, you’d be a preferred adopter. Of course, there’s absolutely no guarantee…

I have a guess how you got DNA on your computer.

The man who stopped my career in its tracks is on this list. I didn’t know there were other women who had suffered the same thing (his name is in red, so there are multiple accusers ), I didn’t know his name was on it, I didn’t even know the list existed. Guess how I found out? Stephen Bloody Elliott’s lawsuit, that’s…

So, my paternal grandfather is something of a man of mystery - for someone who spent half his life in the 20th century, he left almost no paper trail at all.

So we had my uncle do a DNA test (this was several years ago), and Ancestry at the time was a lot more coy about interpretation than it is now. It basically said…

The inexpensive tests are not whole genome sequencing.  So, they cannot clone you.  Not even if they use frog DNA to fill in the gaps....

Counterpoint: I only did one of these because they give you hard science information on a number of tests I don’t know where I would have got otherwise, the “ancestry” part of it was just fun. The ancestry part can be scary, because you could conceivably find out your family isn’t who they thought they were, but…

Of course his ass denied it. Has there ever been a rapist that said “Yeah I did that?”. Nope. Piece of shit. Bye, go rot in prison please. 

I did the same when I took up freelancing on the side. The level of performance/quality didn’t suffer, but I certainly did, coming home from the full-time job and going straight to working some loooong nights.

Known serial abuser of women continues to abuse more women unhindered, volume 9015671. Meanwhile some bleat about “cancel culture”. Because society would rather invent a phantom problem than have their playlists inconvenienced by violence against women.

Treat each day as follows:

Praise. Or worse “why did you let me sleep in?” This phrase is no longer used in my house. Men. Like the nipples on their chests fucking useless.

• No one, NO ONE is irreplaceable.
  

I am forever in awe of my college roommate for this reason: she’s a good cook, but her husband doesn’t know it. When they first got together, she intentionally screwed up everything she cooked for him.

My husband’s insidious version of this is to come staggering out of the bedroom on a Sunday late morning and beaming at me as I am up to my elbows in dishes and mooning “Thank you sooooo much for letting me sleep in!” To which I hiss, “I did not let you do shit, motherfucker.”

Thank you for all of this. I have a question I’m curious if you have any insight on:

Yeah a lot of lower end and “family” restaurants are pretty badly managed on this front. Particularly old places.

I’m sorry for whatever pain you’ve endured. My parents are always great at laughing off whatever anger or discomfort I feel about something — sometimes fully erasing the event, other times just erasing my feelings. Thanks for responding.