It’s not always about who can make more - it’s not right to tell someone they should not keep a job they love (if they love it) because you happen to make more than they do, so they should stay home with the kids and forget any ambition or love of their job that they may have had. Not okay at all. I would not marry a…

Again, so, what happens when your wife wants to work and suddenly you don’t know who will be taking care of the kids, because surprise surprise, if she wants to work and you’re not willing to stay home, then YOU are a bad parent by your standards.

So, by your standards nobody who has kids is allowed to have any great career ambition? You do realize this means we basically won’t have ambitious people, right?

Also, so...it’s OK for you to have a kid and earn $60K, and you “know who is raising your kid”, but what happens when the person raising your kid realizes…

Having your not-yet-potty-trained kid pee in public like that, often holding them in a certain way to control the direction of the pee away from the kid him (or her) self. Sometimes with poop too, but with that it’s more common to try and have them do it over a sewer grate. Pee happens anywhere. I used to think that…

This sort of thing is surprisingly common in China.

I actually live in Taipei now. Compared to Taipei even New York is a joke (New York’s system is 24 hours and more comprehensive but takes longer, has less obvious/convenient connections - for example, there is no clear line between Brooklyn and Queens without going through Manhattan) - and is much, much less safe and…

No it isn’t. Ever been to Dallas? Houston? Hell, Poughkeepsie? Public transit is NOT “widely available in all cities”, only the major ones, and even in those it’s not very good. New York is the only city in the USA with “good” public transit.

This is false. Most cities have a bare bones bus network that actually is not sufficient to get poorer residents to work. Not everyone lives in cities - most towns smaller than a mid-sized city have no public transportation at all. It is 100% bullshit nonsense to assume a.) public transit where it does exist is…

Public transportation has to exist for it to be an option.

Bullshit.

Not every town has buses. In my hometown you couldn’t take the bus to work, because there LITERALLY ARE NO BUSES FUCK YOU. Not everyone who can’t afford a car “takes the bus to work” because most American towns and many cities lack public transit.

It is not a “choice” necessarily to drive an Audi when an…

Yes. I genuinely like my job. I might work fewer hours, and I might do it on a volunteer basis in underprivileged communities (I’m a teacher), but I’d still do it or something like it.

I honestly had had no idea either, and hadn’t even connected it to gypsies, which I hadn’t connected to being a maligned group, because it’s just not a thing here. A few years ago a friend mentioned it and I was all “oh, that makes sense that it would be derogatory and why, not cool”...but it wasn’t culturally…

Solutions don’t exist if the victim doesn’t know about them, or doesn’t even know her own age to know she could be free from her caretaker.

She couldn’t have left at 18 because
a.) she didn’t know she was 18 (!!!!!!!!!)
b.) where would she have gone? who would she have gone to whom her mother hadn’t already co-opted? How would she even know how the world works to find a job and place to stay?

Even if she did comprehend this I feel like one could make a case for this not being as legally/morally objectionable as pre-meditated murder under other circumstances. If I were in that circumstance and I fully understood the legal and moral ramifications of murdering my abuser, but I truly saw no other safe way out,…

I agree, though I actually don’t think she should go to jail at all. She is not going to murder other people, I would say this counts as a sort of self-defense for someone who really saw no other way out and didn’t have nay way to know she had other options not only thanks to her mother-abuser’s actions against her…

The old “the USA is also bad, therefore you can’t call out anything China does” argument falls flat with me. I’m not denying that the USA is bad, but honestly, China simply is worse. That’s not to say we’re great, just that we’re terrible and China’s abhorrent. The government is, anyway.

I would say Applebee’s is a place where strange people go to get horny and a little drunk.

I get that people buy books with titles that make them look and feel smart but which they never read (look at like half the rich people libraries and law firm libraries in the US), but do people really go to the bookstore and drop real money on books just because they happen to have the right color cover?

I don’t.