Why do you live in that hell hole?

That...boggles my mind. There are people who not only want to live under Nazi rule, but want to add the whole Stepford Wife experience on top?!?** I...yeah...I guess I’ve lived sheltered existence...

I’m confused. I don’t spend any time listening to delusional anti-intellectuals or Nazis. All three of those points make no sense to me. Maybe someone can help me out here?

I lost my job at the end of 2015, spent almost all of 2016 as you describe, and then got a job that turned out to be Instantly Awful. ...so now 2017 will be spent looking for a not-awful job. Fuck, I’m exhausted.

I didn’t say much of Western culture hadn’t adopted the Gregorian calendar for convenience (and sanity — imagine trying to schedule a multi-calendar, multi-time-zone conference call!), but popular adoption (and ignorance) doesn’t change the origins. New Years is in January only on the Christian calendar. Most other…

...and the non-religious New Year’s Eve/New Year’s Day.

1/4" split loom tubing!!!!! Seriously! I’m on my second 100-foot roll (in a tiny apartment, no less) but it’s saved my ...every-damn-thing-that-plugs-in, spared my house from going up in an electrical fire, and my cord-obsessed cat, Parker, from frying her brain. (Also spared me from having to carefully solder my…

Hey now! My clothes are ill-fitting and my apartment interior is drab. I still know how to construct an English sentence!

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While I’ve never committed quite that level of head-up-own-ass travesty, I tend to think in paragraphs made of run-ons. Many commas, no semicolons; few periods. When I was very young, I would just go, go, go— all forward momentum, like starting at the apogee of the first hill of a rollercoaster with no slow…

Wait. To whom are you referring? That could be literally anyone mentioned in the article...or the transition team...oh, god, that’s depressing.

“Sodding” is British-English slang, a pejorative that would be approximately the equivalent of American-English’s “damn” or “f*ing.”

How do you spell “sodding” if not as written? You double the terminal consonant before appending the “ing” to make it a gerund. So, “sod” becomes “sodding,” right?

Men don’t raise the children! That’s for the lowly womanfolk, silly billy!

I’ve been told many times that I was going to hell — in school, and later, amazingly, at work, for not being Christian/the “right kind” of Christian. While it never made much impact on my personal outlook, what astounded me was that people can go through life truly believing that some portion of the people they meet…

I was scrolling down this thread to give this very reply. Thank you.

At the very least, we cannot rely upon the unseen “adults in the room” to save us. Time to be self-rescuing princesses! (And princes. And whatever the gender-neural young nobility in deep doo-doo might be...I haven’t had coffee yet, but EVERYONE is welcome to come help rescue us from this nightmare.)

Make her uncomfortable with talk: get stabbed with a fork. (Deservedly so.) Actually try to physically threaten her? HA. You’re toast, son.

Especially weird, given that the majority of the last human city, Zion, were POC.

I’m terrified. But I also don’t know what we (and I’m not even sure how to define the “we” here — Americans, world powers, sane and well-meaning individuals everywhere?) can do.