Well done, Copper!! And welcome to little baby Copper. I’m so delighted to hear your birth experience went so smoothly.

I made it to SNS!

Yeah that’s arguably them being petty (or starting at petty, possibly obnoxious or even evil), but it’s not you being petty. 

She sounds amazing and I bet she’s glad to have you to support her. I would suffer a lot more without my partner there to pick up the slack and pick me up too, literally and figuratively, during a flare.

No, not at all, I feel like we’re expanding the discussion, not disputing anything!

Yeah, absolutely, it doesn’t have to be all-or-nothing, and it’s possible to overthink or over-police this, and make a social gathering more, instead of less, stilted and awkward. (And some people are perfectly happy to spend time together just chilling on separate screens, chatting casually, and that’s fine, and…

Sure, not much fun if you’re a normal person, although I would argue still worth it. But for them? They have all the time in the world because they don’t have real jobs, they brought their nanny and probably other staff so it’s not like they have to Parent all by themselves like common peasants, and they can travel in…

I’m outraged over CEOs crossing the country on a weekly basis. I consider flight commutes one of the most evil and destructive things you can do, especially if you’re rich. I’m less furious with, like, computer engineer on €40,000 with young family at home whose company insists they fly to another city regularly, but…

I totally agree! There are situations in which acting to offset emissions makes sense; Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland, travels predominantly to UN climate summits, she’s like 80 or something so it’s not safe for her to go in a racing yacht (but I bet she would if she was younger!), and she’s got this whole…

Agreed, and there are ways to show “these two characters kissed” on film without the actors literally kissing, if you’ve got any imagination whatsoever.

I would feel super uncomfortable if I was out with a group and they proposed this. I guess the idea is you pick something that everyone can easily afford (the board game one seems reasonable) but picking up an extra round, or dessert, or the entire tip on top of a large bill is not trivial. I’m still a grad student,…

Sorry to hear your wife is also living the chronic illness life. It’s no fun!

It’s “a historic” on this side of the pond and “an” sounds really weird, cause we use a hard h sound; to me it’s like insisting on writing “an horror movie” or “an whirlpool”. See also: herb.

Actually (and this is going to make you think I have even MORE to put up with!) I have CFS/ME, so everything is draining all the time! So pregnancy is surprisingly manageable since I’m already used to folding in naps and rest days and stuff. And luckily, in my case, pregnancy and fatigue don’t “stack”. For some people…

If I have a quiet week sometime (unlikely in the immediate future; I’m almost 8 months pregnant and trying to finish a PhD!) I think I could top the Ruby League if I tried. And I might do that at some point, to say I did and to see what the prize is! So I guess maybe each week it’s a handful of people who are making a…

私も ! This happened to me too, almost exactly; I’m an excessively fidgety person #ADHD and I thought I’d use Duolingo for French (and Irish and German) which I already speak badly, but ended up taking up Japanese on it and I enjoy the Japanese a lot more, AND the leaderboards threw me way off when they showed up a few…

Same; I finish in the 20s in the Ruby League every week without thinking about it. I don’t think the leaderboards really offer much, but they’re obviously trying out different things (like the “everyone work together to get 20,000 XP overall and we’ll give you ALL lingots that they quietly dropped after a couple of…

Try the novella winner, Artificial Condition, Martha Wells. I love William Gibson(‘s recent novels, not so into his older ones) and Salvatore and I like several of your other favourite authors. I also disliked Uprooted (although I did like Fifth Season, but I’m a geology nerd so that helped!). Also Nnedi Okorafor’s…

I agree with you (although I haven’t actually done it, I don’t wear lipstick often and I know the two colours I like). Nothing is sterile outside of clean rooms and operating theatres. If you give it a good wipe before and after, it’s no more dangerous than making out with someone, forgetting to wash your hands before…

Someone on Twitter said they confirmed that Smartwater has no deal or anything with this eegit. I’d say she’s a chancer, she probably hoped/hopes to wrangle this ~viral feel-good miracle~ into a proper sponcon deal with them. IF they’re smart they’ll laugh her off, cause you’re dead right, no one wants to drink Traffic…