a) she was a complete asshole about it.

Well, I'm just glad Chiang thinks so. Nothing is more irritating than an author writing a sci-fi trilogy and then complaining that their work is not science fiction, but 'speculative fiction' because it confounds their literary sensibilities, Margaret Atwood.

You shouldn't make fun of those commenters. They might come from somewhere that doesn't value common sense.

Ooh boy I can't wait for the arguments people make trying to defend laundry detergent lady. SOME PEOPLE AREN'T FAMILIAR WITH YOUR HIGH-CLASS FANCY KITCHEN STORES AND SO MISTAKE THEM FOR TRADER JOE'S ALL THE TIME! MAYBE SHE WAS FROM A DIFFERENT CULTURE WHERE COOKING OIL LOOKS LIKE OUR LAUNDRY DETERGENT! IT IS…

Even without the Palin association, there is something squidgy going on with Puppy Jake.

Why is preparing food not worthy of a livable wage? Why should we support industries that lobbied for deregulation and wage cuts so that they could insure a steady stream of both workers and customers (often one and the same)?

Someone once wrote Dan Savage (of Savage Love) asking, "I like doing x. Am I weird?"

Having never seen the musical, I had a whole lot of issues with the movie. There was one in particular that I couldn't put my finger on though and it was this - her storyline just kind of... disappeared. There was nothing more there. She got what she wanted and was happy and the end. Given everything else, it made no…

I was just talking about this on twitter. I'd love to see Avatar-style all-ages fantasy for many cultures. Pre-Columbian America, Aboriginal Australia, Africa, Polynesia, etc.

Has anyone that described this building as a teardrop ever seen a teardrop before?

I wish there were more people in the world like this grandfather. If there were, we wouldn't get so many people out there unable to process simple facts like "I'm sorry, your password can be reset, but it's going to take a few minutes." "Well, that is UNACCEPTABLE." Really? I think you'll find if you really sit…

It's not that I have anything against Maria—in fact, I hope she's making videos off of these fetish (would you call them fetish?)

I know people who are into ASMR and I would never knock it. It's a way to relieve stress and anxiety, it's free, and people who use it are being proactive about self-care.

Oh yeah, totally logical. When I place a to go order and they ask for a name, I'm always like, "Let me show you the facebook page of the person the order is for." Restaurants love that because it's so much more efficient than just saying, "Steve." What a wacky misunderstanding!

Makes sense. It's so much harder for them to get married and have it be respected, I think it's not done as lightly as it may be in other cases. Straight couples sometimes feel the need to be married because they're pregnant, because it's expected, because they want sex (religious), etc. Gay couples get married…

Yeah, it's hard to see how the spotted owl managed to last for all of those thousands upon thousands of years before Europeans showed up in order to save their feathered asses by instituting "balanced approaches to forest management". Constantly dicing with extinction, year after year after year. In fact, I'm…

Oh fuck you so, so, so hard.

I'm glad restaurants are coming up with a way to pay their servers fairly, I'm so sick of this sub minimum wage bullshit. Like last week for example, I had to come back from visiting family so I could work the Friday after Thanksgiving. I rushed back from my trip and went straight to work to have one table all night…

Probably because like most people she can't just pick a job out of a hat and suddenly be employed. People work where they have to work.

Yeah, like — most of what Mags does is ostensibly to free his people from FUCKING GOVERNMENTS THAT HAVE CREATED LITERAL DEATH MACHINES WHOSE ONLY PURPOSE IS TO KILL HIS KIND.