“Could easily have been prevented” by them not being racist assholes.

It completely defies credulity that his death is not related to his testimony.

I’m literally crying at how joyful this is.

“Hard done by” as a sneering summary of the experience of being a slave is where I started wanting to punch him in the face as opposed to just roll my eyes.

Love this, love her.  

Here’s hoping their families are safe places to return to and they get some professional help to unpack all the bizarre shit that living with him had to consist of. (I’m saying this as someone who stayed in an abusive marriage several years beyond figuring out what was going on in part because, if I had turned to my…

This is well said.  There’s an absolutism to the liberal / conservative / republican / democrat labeling currently that makes actual discussion pretty near impossible.

My father was a prisoner in Dachau, Mauthausen and Ebensee.  Based on what he described, except for the gas chambers, the immigrant detention centers are well on their way to competing with what he experienced.  They’re certainly now on a par with the Japanese internment camps.

The other aspect of this that needs to go away is the belief buried in a comment to the effect of “liberals aren’t capable of forgiveness” (referring to Kashuv’s situation). Liberals aren’t in a position to forgive because they weren’t the ones injured by Kashuv’s racism. The people who were injured aren’t obligated…

Sentencing guidelines make me rage.  Only 8 years for rape?!  

What I got out of this is that Marc spends most of his time thinking about his subject matter, rather than doing meta-analysis about how he does his work. He has his work focused into three main swim lanes, outsourced the detailed scheduling to a manager because it’s not an area of strength for him. He seems to use…

I'd love to know what backpack he uses. I'd like to more effectively live out of mine and am curious how other people use theirs and what they enjoy using.

Meetup dot com is how I found tabletop gaming groups in my area, and there are lots of other interest groups there too. Knitting, hiking, book clubs, etc. The goal is events and doing stuff with other humans, not dating, so it’s very low pressure. There are also singles event groups for different age ranges but again…

This is the best one of these I've read, mostly because he gives lots of detail and has similar brain-quirks to mine. Lots of good stuff here for me to think about incorporating into my own setup!