In addition to the horrors you so accurately describe, there’s also the fact that outside of the highest-end genetic labs, there’s a wide range of errors that can easily take place in genetic testing. A significant percentage of studies involving genetic testing ultimately are proven to be bunk because the researchers…

Well I agree that this is a scary bill but privacy issues exist in state-run systems as well. For instance here in Denmark having a history of treatment for mental illness can prevent you from getting jobs, or a driver’s license. I just always feel the need to pipe in when people start to sound a little too…

Well there’s your health - and no, sorry not sorry, I’m not a HAES acolyte - I believe that weight loss can improve overall health and fitness in many people. But I’m pretty sure doing it solely to intrude upon a couple’s wedding day in order to try to shame the groom into regretting breaking up with you is pretty…

As someone who has had a gastric surgery, I wish/hope the show would/will deal with the struggles involved with the many side-effects of gastric surgeries. People would be shocked at how difficult it can be, and it may finally put an end to the notion that weight loss surgeries are “easy fixes” or some kind of a cheat.

I mean, she looks great, but it’s flat-out bizarre that somebody who intentionally enabled child abuse gets to have a reality show about how hot (or not) she is.

Not to mention, unless that netting is somehow hyper-sound-absorbent, those awful little shits are gonna be kicking up a huge ruckus in there, too. I can’t recall, the last time I was near a playground, thinking, “Yes. This is the noise I wish was going on inside a movie theater while I was trying to watch a movie.”

The only good I’d see this for kids that have developmental issues or on the Autism Spectrum where staying still is not always an option.

Wear red, go to class, kick ass in your studies and continue on being a bad ass feminist out to change the world.

Also...she’s like saying allthis while her picture on the cover of the magazine is right next to a bunch of headlines about weight loss. x_X

I wish I could do this but no one else would get it :(

Honest question, the Casey Affleck thing was settled 7 years ago. To my knowledge there hasn’t been any more allegations of him acting dumb and he seems to be relatively liked by other respected people in his field. Is it fair to keep bagging on him? I got arrested in my early 20's cause I was stupid once (drank too…

It’s rather gross he went after a college student over this. There really is a power balance between the two of them. It is unbecoming.

Any Emergency Response/EMT readers here? The fact that she impaled her leg and was pulled free by a non First Responder fills me with horror; if it had hit an artery, she could have bled out when the object was removed (or in this case, she was removed from it).

Why the hell did nobody call an ambulance? Or why didn’t she call it herself? And if she had a bleeding wound that needed 50 stitches, how the hell would anyone let her in his/her car?

Yeah, it’s REALLY hard to believe that Georgia’s law-enforcement professionals would conclude that a bunch of traumatized black people just couldn’t be deemed credible witnesses to a white supremacist attack, while allowing the criminal Klansmen to escape without incident.

It’s so normalized that the victim here (Alford) isn’t even complaining about the Confederate flags themselves. That poor woman— nobody should have to get used to such a thing, to the point where you publicly claim to be OK with it.

If only the action of one judge (plus a prosecutor willing to prosecute) was indicative of our entire justice system. Unfortunately, the police department’s actions tend to be the common outcome for these types of events.

I was confused by that too. “That is not me.” Who is it?

This is the silver lining in this awful story for me. I am completely amazed that Georgia pursued this case, used these laws to convict, and actually gave hefty sentences to these assholes.

“I’m so sorry that happened to you” as if it were a fucking act of god. I’m so glad these people are going to jail.