Academic publishers are predatory. To be clear — it’s not a university keeping you from reading the paper without shelling out $45, it’s the publisher, Elsevier, Kluwer or whoever owns the journal. The authors get nothing but the ability to continue their academic careers for publishing in a given journal. The peer…

Just use baking soda. Nothing cleans a sink better. Wipe all the surface goop off, moisten the sink, sprinkle in a half cup, hit it with a sponge and some elbow grease, rinse off. Done.

Fuck them for using the Star Trek Font this way.

All nouns in Spanish are grammatically gendered, but some have an obligatory gender marker (ie: you can’t make a masculine-apple, it’s always got to be feminine), whereas ones that refer to professions or qualities that people can have tend to get to have their gender marking swapped around.

“Flaming sack of shit”

It also goes reallllllll well with chocolate. Put it in brownies or chocolate tofu pudding (5 ingredients: tofu, chocolate, sugar, vanilla, rose water).

You’re getting a lot of hate from people in the replies to this thread. I hope you are doing better at coping with that hate than I would be. I wish you strength and send you comfort in the face of them.

they’re just extremely, extremely pale.

The results of the study are tabulated below (and available at http://www.thelancet.com/action/showFullTableImage?tableId=tbl1&pii=S2468266717302402):

One thing to watch out for with these pans: the lids are glass, and don’t have a vent-hole. If you put them down while they are hot and have a lot of trapped moisture in them, they can form an airtight seal on your countertop. As they cool, the air and water vapour inside them shrinks, and not having any way to…

One thing to watch out for with these pans: the lids are glass, and don’t have a vent-hole. If you put them down…

Well yeah, but we wouldn’t have to if it wasn’t getting eated all the time by all these pointy-faced cat things. Fuckin’ racons.

Sandwich w/ Justin Trudeau?

Here is what happened in the UK when a man was wielding a machete and police intervened:

I don’t think we should remove these statues, because, like the disclaimer on racist Bugs Bunny cartoons says, doing that would be failing to acknowledge that our society did racist, horrible shit.

So I agree that the study of culture and linguistics is not in and of itself racist.

I would think of it as cultivating someone with whom you could have future so-and-so-is-in-town sex and/or threesomes.

This is why I am a Satanist.

I definitely read that as “My mother was a professional killer,” and I was suddenly very interested in the one thing she drilled into your head....

I’ve been here for a long time and I think I’ve been good and I’m still grey. Can I be ungrey please? It’d make my evening.

*Actually* being funny is part of the job. “Being funny” is attempting, but failing. Maher is not a good comedian, and this was not a good joke. I see no reason to defend it.