Ah, here’s the flip side at my company though - there’s no such thing as “sick days” really, it’s more like “I’m sick... so I’ll be working from home.”

Depends on the workplace culture. My job just switched to unlimited PTO and I’m taking a 3 week vacation (sort of a special opportunity trip). I never would have dreamed of asking for that long a break at other jobs, but they signaled that this was the point of the switch - so you can take that trip to Europe or do…

I love Clue, which I have never opened. Look at all the papers laying out my plans for a blind trust... wait, not too closely though.

It reads to me like the lawyer was asked “How could the Instagram influencers possibly be personally liable?” and he came up with a theory to answer the question - a theory unlikely to hold up in court.

I’m white so I’m totally open to being corrected on this, but don’t understand why we’d want to keep a black-owned company that first found success in black markets from branching out into other markets? That seems like the point of the commercial to me - to show that the product works on all kinds of hair types and…

That would have been worse. If I had been selected after, I would have been outraged, “Who says the life I need to get back to is less important than his?! Just because he’s a doctor and has more money/prestige? Bullshit” Things happen, things get rescheduled, even for doctors.

I’m a born and bred NYer and pseudo-grinding on the dance floor was maybe the worst thing about childhood (men/boys feeling entitled to your body, lacking the skills to set boundaries around that). I’m glad to be an adult and go to places where you can just dance freely without having to fend off that shit.

“I Kissed a Girl” is a pretty f’ing homophobic song in it’s own right too. It’s all about performative female sexuality. It’s in no way a celebration of homosexuality.

I don’t think anyone was demanding the company market differently. I think they were just pointing out the absurdity of the social idea that women are responsible for child rearing, which is reflected in this commercial statement.

I think the point isn’t about who IS their market, but who SHOULD be. Why aren’t men buying diapers just as much? Isn’t it their kid too?

Doesn’t this make Trump *more* culpable, not less? If it was a plan Obama rejected, and Trump decided to go through with just to show he has bigger balls... that means Trump is guided by his ego before reason and willing to put American lives at risk just to satisfy that. That’s terrifying and irresponsible.

Yes, it is fraud and identity theft, undeniably - that’s the crime we’re talking about here. But your imagining of some poor woman whose identity was stolen isn’t necessarily true. It could be that. Just as easily could have been the number of someone deceased. Or could have been a family member whose number she was…

I’m not mad at this. Maybe it will give him some empathy toward people who are different than him and help him recognize others contribute to society in their own unique and important ways.

You weren’t eligible for crime victim compensation based on your immigration status? I don’t pretend to know all the laws in every state, but I haven’t heard of that being a requirement. Can I ask where that was?

Yeah, I know that a majority of white women voted for Trump, but I literally do not know anyone who did. Even friends who have always leaned Republican... they were ultimately not on board with his sexism and inability to form a coherent sentence.

It just seems to me like there’s enough wealth at the studio exec/pampered movie star level that could be redistributed to all those talented behind the scenes workers. I’d be looking at that before piracy.

I have a hard time being sad about pirating movies that have actors raking in multi-million dollar salaries.

The bird is the word. Everybody knows.