“But Obama...” Nuh uh. Shush.

Last I heard, this hasn’t changed.

I think it’s a troll. I would not feed it if I were you, despite the temptation.

This post is Hitler’s wet dream. I am also a regular person with all the same stuff you have, yet I also manage to be able to have some small amount of empathy and compassion.

private all girls school for the win in this regard. it never occurred to me that boys might be smarter than girls during my time at Balmoral Hall School for Girls. we considered ourselves capable in any field we were interested in and this was the grossly misogynist 1960s and 70s that i was a private school student. …

For me, being smart was looked at as being an uncool thing, even starting back in early grade school. This was the 1980s. I knew I was a smart girl, but I never wanted to come across as too smart. Kids would taunt you for being too brainy or doing better than them. You only wanted to be just smart enough to get…

Sometimes I wonder what alternative universe I grew up in. When I was a kid, I always thought girls were smarter than boys. The girls in my classes always made better grades, were more studious and participated more in class. There were probably twice as many girls in my gifted program then boys.

This might be a good time to recall something of which many of us are ignorant in our own history. It is estimated that 10 to 30% of Africans forced to our shores as slaves were of Muslim descent: many of them spoke and wrote in Arabic; some of them Hafidhs who had memorised the entire Qu’ran and could recite it in…

If everyone leaves, he’s not president of anything anymore. I say all 50 states disband and reform as the United States of Not Trump.

:-(

I’ll save you some time: they take absolutely no personal responsibility for Trump’s election.

I’m not sure who we’re talking about (I’m the “IT guy” here, but I’m a programmer in a small company). My issues have mostly come from 3rd party support - recently, Bethesda (Doom) and Nest (thermostat). I got Doom working on my own (after reinstalling Windows) but my Nest issue still isn’t resolved.

No, but endlessly restarting your computer and being transferred isn’t, either.

Constance Wu is a badass. Doing the thing your conscience tells you is right even if it could hurt you (career-wise, in this case) is honorable and beautiful and I am really impressed by her speaking up. I also agree with her re: Casey Affleck. What a turd.

Are you talking about the Wannsee Conference, as in when they planned out the Final Solution? That happened in 1942. Let’s put that in perspective. Hitler came to power in 1933. That was nine years before they “had a plan” and “laid it all out.” They started with concentration camps (“detention centers”) for political…

Yeah, because that’s definitely what the GOP did when Obama was in office.

I’m going to guess that this is the reason—DeVos, Puzder, Sessions are worth devoting lots of energy/time.

I can only assume (hope?) they are backing him because they have bigger fish to fry in terms of the cabinet nominees (like they’ve made a deal that they’ll back him if so-and-so doesn’t back someone else?). This still feels like a betrayal, but there are worse cabinet picks, imo.

I babysat my parents cat (who I reared as a kitten and she loves me when she doesn’t hate me) during Halloween. I put on my witch costume which consisted of a wig and a cape and she got so freaked out. I thought it was funny and maybe chased her around a bit. She hid somewhere and I took off the costume and hung out…

My cats have been chatting with each other a lot today. One makes a noise and the other jumps off my lap and runs over to them and then they make noises back and forth. I am pretty sure I’ll be dead by nightfall.