2/3 of American workers make $20/hour or less. That is roughly $40,000 annually and includes people with many years of work experience. That reality is why so many people scoff at advice like this.

I have double my salary in student loan debt, does that count?

New York City. That’s enough to afford a nice tent there.

Let’s consider Mary: who begins working at 25 years old, earns $60,000/year to start [and] gets a 2% raise every year.

It kind of struck me that I have a sweater I wear all the time that looks just like the ones they wear in the Colonies.

Given June’s despondence during this episode and the end of the previous, I thought she saw miscarriage/death as the best possible outcome: she blames herself for everything that happened to the other Handmaids and to Omar and his family, and feels like she deserves to die, but also like it couldn’t be worse than what…

What’s funny is that we did have gay men in the office and my boss was hyper aware of not stereotyping them.

Two things that DeepFakes is exceptionally bad at:
-Rendering emotion (the results always end up a bit dead-eyed, and it turns out that someone’s eyes not matching their words makes them look like a psychopath)
-Dealing with variable lighting and resolution

This is why it has mostly been used to create fake celebrity sex…

I did say “about to go”, not that he was in super saiyan mode.

Also, pick places that have a big menu and/or relatively middle of the road fare (Mexican, Italian, etc.) to accommodate a variety of tastes. I’m looking at you, 22-year old “foodie” intern who books our lunch meetings at vegan Persian fusion places.

Back in my day, a family of 7 could eat for a week for the cost of a buffalo nickel and a ha’penny.

That doesn’t seem like a real statistic. In their case, there was clearly something not right in his marriage, he was kind of a dope for cheating instead of divorcing his wife, but they also clearly did have a powerful connection. I know people who met their partners like that and were monogamous because that happened…

Haha! I believe we are well beyond consent at this point!

Thank goodness you got the whole Luke/Annie/June affair. Others have missed the point of why it’s in this episode.

I can’t be the only one who found June’s choices incredibly frustrating. I mean, maybe she’s never done anything illegal before, but you don’t poke your head out the window when you’re hiding from someone; you don’t yell loudly at the guy trying to smuggle you out of somewhere; you don’t smile at random people and…

God, I wanted to scream at the screen pretty much this entire episode. Every time June casually hung out near a window in broad daylight my brain was just !!!!!!

I like what this episode has to say about how gatekeeping in feminism is just as capable of divisiveness, and what it has to say about mothers and daughters. But Jesus H. Christ, does it fail from a plotting standpoint. June is risking an entire operation, and almost certainly got that guy’s family killed, just…

I was so annoyed I was livid. This is manipulative storytelling. I told my daughter that I was sure they would let June escape, because they had boxed themselves in a corner. If she didn’t, the hell that awaited her as punishment (by the rules Aunt Lydia established in the opener), would be too dismal for any kind of…

I may be reading too much into it, but I think Nick is underwritten because he was written as a typical wife/girlfriend character. He is only important as something for June to play off, and to advance HER tale. If this is what the writers are doing, I like it. Because, TBH, if this were a female character I don’t…