People... abandoned warehouses are where the spiders live. There is no touching and making out in these kinds of places. Someone is going home with spider bites on their butt. This PSA brought to you by Citizens Against Warehouse Kissing.

See? This is what happens when you give a mouse an Oscar, then he’ll want a Nobel.

IF you could get the carton open. And if you asked an adult for help they would tear it apart while jamming their big filthy thumb in the opening. This is where my childhood OCD started.

We didn’t even get straws. We had to drink directly out of the cartons like animals.

This guy sounds like the kind of person I’d chew my own arm off to avoid hanging out with.

Right. Remember when Michelle Obama was given such shit for saying that she was proud of her country for the first time in her adult life? How is it any different to say “Make America Great Again,” implying that it is currently NOT great?

It’s the other way around. Take your chances with her than Trump. Hillary is not perfect, and is a lying sack of shit politician, just like all politicians.

Please point out which things are made up, considering there are quotes of Trump’s exact words.

I think the point here is that autopilot encourages distracted driving. It is an invitation to not pay attention and rely on the car to take car of itself. With imperfect technology, this is dangerous.

Lets play a game called: Guess when Wall Street got the press release.

I think you’ve finally crystallized for me what I don’t like about the trigger warnings issue. It’s not that I have a problem with giving students a heads-up. It’s that I’m well aware of how teenagers and early 20-year-olds behave. “Look at how sensitive I am to the concerns of the day!” “Yeah, but I’m MORE sensitive!…

The thing is, a lot of employers don’t want to hire disabled people, period. And the problem with that isn’t “disabled people are broken and not normal” but rather “a lot of employers are discriminatory jackasses.” I’m sure my disabilities do regularly color others’ views of me and make them think I’m less capable…

If people are opting out of readings because they are upsetting, they should withdraw from that class entirely rather than that lesson.It’s not fair to the professor or other students.

That was glorious, you’ve expressed my thoughts on the matter far better than I could ever have!

I think it’s just that Gen Xers see the raging hypocrisy of “trigger warning/content warnings/safe spaces”. Gen Exers were the latch-key kids, we exposed ourselves to things that were different, unnerving, scary, challenging, etc. To be afraid, or challenged, simply by others’ use of words it’s in all honesty,…

I specifically hate the idea of PTSD being an illness or disability. It is an adaptive response to highly threatening situations. It is a survival mechanism; it is how people live through sustained danger. It is the nervous system learning it needs to be prepared. That’s not an illness, that’s a strength. In nearly…

The blank stare of that student, an undergraduate who is extremely comfortable with upsetting material, haunts me in the same way that the wagging finger of the student activist haunts the imaginations of others.

🌟 Bonus star for “footstools.”

I took ancient Greek in high school and I remember translating the Odyssey and getting to a part in the banquet hall that had young boys going under the tables. I thought I had translated it wrong, but the teacher told us ‘nope, that’s exactly what it means and it’s exactly what you think, the ancient Greeks didn’t…

Your position makes sense, but I’m unsure it addresses at least some of the anxiety around trigger warning, justified or not. I think a lot of people see trigger warnings as a way of banishing ‘problematic’ texts from the classroom, or at least changing their context a lot. While in college I experienced one or two…