WHOA. That Slate comment is a fucked up comment... but pretty perfectly illustrates my last point about adding moral shade to poverty, like these poor kids are “bad” because they are poor. Really fucking unfair to those kids and very sad. As if middle-class kids can’t be little law-breaking shits who are “resistant…

I actually get what you’re saying here. And you’re right, it all comes down to economics—any nerd like me who’s ever debated in Model UN eventually figured out that almost every problem facing most sovereign entities is economic at heart.

You gotta imagine though when two not just famous but actively famous, busy, working people at that level date, they probably aren’t even in the same city more than a few times a month together. It sounds like she just wants like a regular dude who is around and they can hang out with no bullshit, and I don’t know if…

I blame that Jack Nicholson movie.

I mean, you could just run but maybe do 10ks instead of marathons... that’s about as much as I regularly got into doing daily/almost daily; any more milage than that regularly and my body didn’t react well or I’d pass out/get faint.

This doesn’t just happen in Saudi... in a lot of places in non-third world Asia (including the larger Middle East here), labor is extremely cheap from the neighboring poorest countries, like $15/day and they do everything—cook, clean, nanny, drive. It’s indentured servitude. In Lebanon, almost every family can afford…

loooool

You sound like me. I’m introverted and not a morning person and would literally run the other direction trying to get morning coffee when Queen Bee was lurking in there, looking for a victim to pounce on and kill with pointless rambling.

OMG I get that too! I’m a designer, and exactly the same, I like to sometimes work at a coffee shop, but I’ve taken to picking a seat that doesn’t leave my laptop in full view bc inevitably some rando (always a guy) will have to make a comment on my work, or worse just sit there and watch in close proximity. I’m also…

this comment is awesome.

Yeah, not a Swift fan here but I can see how cool that would be to get something like that from such a sweet fan... and considering what it is, it’s a perfect kitschy thing to wear just like she is, on a chilly plane or while on tour.

How do you feel this stuff compares to DMT? Everyone is raving about that stuff nowadays... everyone wants to be the new acid, and I’m over here like SheeshTheseNames uh, what’s wrong with good ole acid

What?! Have you tried hanging around artists or musicians?

I think looking at my sentiment and focusing on a nonexistent direct comparison is ignorant. Stop trying to find nonexistent false equivalencies in my comment.

...I hesitated to write this, but juuuuuust to play devil’s advocate... I think some of this is the result of the artists/photogs/designers also wanting their creations to look perfect. There’s this kind of unspoken thing in visual artists that we overall strive either for beautiful perfection or purposefully ugly…

RIP :(

YES! I wish Americans would take the same attitude towards helping and investing in the poorest, most historically oppressed and troubled areas here at home. Often ingrained racism and classism and this idea that success is always directly tied to morality and entitlement and the repulsion towards “handouts” (thanks…

This is just so so amazing and heartwarming and, frankly, a great investment in the future. It abides by the truth that our poor, our refugees, our immigrants, our “swept under the rug” members of society aren’t going away by pretending they aren’t there. What better way to address the situation by ensuring these…

Hahahaha oh that poor girl. That would be just my luck lol

Well, yes but... Don’t forget privilege here. I had a job after school I had to get to because my parents had no money and I had to work for anything I needed or wanted. So it’s not always much of a choice. I’m also a die hard night owl, always have been. It was/is very very difficult for me to fall asleep before…