“He could have called the police and waited from a distance, or just gone home.”

I mean, don’t you need to be a little nutzso to either love or hate yourself - since you are both the subject and the object? Don’t you need at least two personalities to pull that off?

Simple. Instead of saying “you should love yourself!”, tell them the reasons why you love them.

I had never heard Chinese opera before this. If I am being honest, I do not like it much. But I would never mock or denigrate another culture’s art just because I don’t personally like it.

According to this article from InsideHigherEd, legal experts are split on whether Biden has the authority to unilaterally cancel student debt or not.

Thank you for this additional information. 

First of all, thank you for the work you do in HIV prevention.

I am 100% in-favor of criminalizing the knowing transmission of a deadly disease to a partner. And that’s what AIDS is. You are signing someone up for a lifetime of medical expenses, in the very best case. If you are American, you are signing them up for a lifetime of interactions with a predatory medical system that…

*squints at you*

“Exactly, the problem with this Socialist way of thinking”

I live in an area of the country where masking during the first phases of the pandemic was measured at 95%+ compliance. Even here, compliance with the no-longer-enforced mask mandate is probably 70% now. No one is willing to lock down again. My county announced it would not enforce a new mask mandate, despite high…

The pardon doesn’t erase the fact that Plessy was convicted. In practical terms, there is no way to erase that fact. Plessy v. Ferguson stands with Dredd Scott as one of the worst SCOTUS decisions of all-time. It’s also one of the most famous SCOTUS decisions ever. So long as there’s some historical record of American…

This XKCD seems relevant. Ganked from 21stCenturyPeon:

What period of time are we talking about?

“If any of you cared in the first place you’d do your own research, there is plenty compelling reasoning/information out there on possible use cases but the majority of you are too far up your asses honestly.”

Spoken like someone with neither the knowledge nor the skill to write a comprehensive explanatory post in the…

“As someone who is invested and understands NFTs, and their capabilities waybbeyond what is currently offered, it just saddens me how much kotaku and its writers have dug in against NFTs.”

As someone who was extensively active on the WoW Closed Beta forums and wrote a lot of guides to both Warlocks (pre-launch) and Paladins (post-launch), I *wish* the problem had been limited to Tigole.

“Gun lobbies and arms manufacturers have decided school shooting and other shootings are a normal part of life.

Happened multiple times this year:

Turkish Delight is so disappointing. I was v. unhappy.