Your title might be wrong, even if the “fruit” reference is not. These folks could be thinking of dioeciosm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dioecy. The whole organism can possess one sex. Some fruit-bearing plants are dioecious (like papaya).

[Gawker not Gimlet]

I think Gimlet has mangled some of the message here. Bits are right. But in others:

I’m surrounding by a business community that likes to begin letters, sometimes and sometimes not under a subject-line, with “Your letter of 1 Jan 2018 refers.” No object. Not, “...refers to the above subject”. Not “I refer to your letter”. Just ostentatiously dropping off after “refers”. I can’t help but wonder if…

There are some great ones above (enormity, reticent); misuse of “I” as an object. I was so surprised by the ‘entitled’ statement that I furiously searched. OED, etc. support the meaning above, but see the first example in Merriam Webster.

Vegetarian for 30+ years, for ethical reasons. Desire for ‘meaty’ stuff never went away for me. I love the Impossible and Beyond Burgers. Interesting that I even remember enough about the flavour to recognize they taste ‘meaty’. But it’s not like nicotine cravings. More like chips/candy.

I’ll be bold and say the ratings themselves are completely meaningless and should not be relied upon. You’ll see that where your President has been undertaking a royal visit has the same rating as Sierra Leone. Moreover, they’re not benchmarked against domestic things like the National Terrorism Advisory: it could be s…

This matches my take. Both yummy, Impossible edge. Important to note that both companies just do the patties—so the fixings at one resto can skew it.

Hold on, hold on. That picture could be St. Lucia, but I think it’s actually somewhere not on this list at all (like brutally expensive Bora Bora)

1. Dispose of cat. 

“Do I love my partner? Does he/she love me just as much?”

Greenco to Shep: “We need you to sell garlic presses as an impulse buy”.

Greenco to Shep: “We need you to sell garlic presses as an impulse buy”.

I think you’re incorrectly assuming that this will be unregulated space (some coder’s whim) and incorrectly assuming this calculus has no precedent. We administer millions of doses of medicine to healthy people every year, in the knowledge that we will make some number seriously sick. (*Not anti-vax rant, I support…

This reminds me of the quote attributed to Bismarck about law and sausages...

I’m pretty sure this column required more legwork than the Pentagon Papers.

I’m relieved to report that “wokely” still isn’t a word. 

Interesting numbers, and it’s an interesting prospect to just focus on the dirtiest. But I think there are a few more buried assumptions in there. One is an inelastic demand for (full-size) trucks and their use. If you can trigger a switch to cleaner classes of vehicles, your hybridization of the dirtiest generates…

I know peeps, who makes a video trailer for a book! Thankfully, there is a silver lining! This is also a video trailer for a podcast talking about the book—which is also an audiobook!* What better way to defeat Haidt than to coddle your mind with his own material!

I’m no expert—but there are reams of resources on the net. Lots of short searchable stuff. This course is nice, if you have the time.

I read the headline and said to myself, “Please god, do not say ‘more emoji’”. Hallelujah. I no longer have to write B-A-D-G-E-R in a text message 15 times a day.