A middle name can also be a good backup for other reasons. For instance, a colleague of mine is an Italian immigrant to the UK, so he’s given his son an Italian first name and a British middle name, allowing the boy to decide once he gets older which he wants to go with. 

It’s more like the friend letting you play with their toys, but secretly sabotaging them before lending them to you so that you can’t have as much fun as you want, then pretending it was all an accident when you call them out on it.

Obama made a joke about sending predator drones after boys who dated his daughters, so I don’t think it weighed on his mind anywhere near as much as it should have.

So... we’re pretending that the direct-to-TV Mean Girls 2 doesn’t exist then?

The world is a random place that cares naught for telling a good, fulfilling story. People can do everything right and fail due to bad luck. People can do everything wrong and succeed due to good luck, then go on to chide others about it.

SPOILER WARNING for endgame discussion:

Sadly, that won’t be possible. Judges are given immunity for decisions made in the course of their jobs, so they can’t be sued for bad decisions (no matter how bad). They can, however, be removed from the bench, but I can’t comment on exactly how that can happen (a recall petition maybe?).

The discussion is premature, but trans representation has been historically so bad that I think it’s forgivable if people are on edge and on the lookout for red flags. The original Catherine already stepped on a few big landmines with Erica (SPOILER WARNING: deadnaming her, having a shock reveal after a guy slept with…

The only reason you should consider it is for your own safety, given the frequency of men having a bout of trans panic and taking it out the trans woman they just slept with.

One notable distinction is that with loot boxes, there’s no secondary market for the loot, while for any sort of physical object, there always is. This means that even people with addictive personalities are going to be well aware of a way they can simply shell out a flat amount to get the card they want (which for…

If you really want to take the easy way out, learn Scots. It’s so close to English that the average English speaker can probably already understand most of it with a bit of effort (basically, imagine English spoken with a thick Scottish accent, only more so). The drawback is that it’s basically useless to learn unless…

If anyone ever tries to claim to me again that Republicans actually care about balancing the budget, I’ll know exactly what event I can point them to to prove them horribly wrong.

Michelle Obama never wanted her husband to be president

The problem there is that PC gaming is almost nonexistant in Japan. This means that for PC ports, we rely on a Japanese company looking to the global market, which has never been a strong suit of Japanese companies (Sony being the one big exception when it comes to video games). We’re lucky enough to get translations…

Posting on behalf of my mum, here’s her precious pup, Keiki (which means “little one” in Hawaiian):

I wish someone like you had been there to warn me before I married Mr. Resetti...

That would require something explicitly illegal being done. While the Whitefish scandal might fit the bill for that, I’m not sure the general piss-poor response actually qualifies as illegal in any way. Given the number of people suffering and dying because of it, it damn well should count as mass murder, but the…

The failure mode of “clever” is “asshole.” You failed at “clever.”

Over here in the UK, this has inspired people to speak out about abuses by members of Parliament and other government officials, so there’s one other “industry” which is seeing the fallout too. Even if the far-less-public subject of astrophysics research that I work in, an institutional bullying scandal broke news…

I got a laugh once from a localization that decided to subvert the “actually 18" thing by just taking it to the ridiculous extreme: “Well, she might look 13, but she’s actually 32, so it’s fine.” Pretty obvious they were forced to age her up and decided they might as well highlight the ridiculousness of it.