Yup. My husband was able to pay off his student debt (albeit not nearly 200k fucking lol) in four years....but only because I was paying for our rent for those four years....but only because I was tremendously lucky enough to have my grandparents pay for my college so I could focus so heavily on rent with my income...

That is always the example I use when I want to give someone a really obvious crash course on what generational wealth (or inequity) is.

I have no dog in this fight, but I suspect a good chunk of it is that many SW fans viewed McGregor’s Obi as one of the few really good parts of the prequels. Seeing him return probably has a lot more built in interest than the dude who played young Han.

Eh, I think that saying “life begins at conception” has a very different connotation than just discussing “life,” because our legal system codifies different types of lives in very different ways, and I don’t think that it boils entirely down to the “amount of control we give the government over our bodies” as you…

Hell, come see us when you’ve had your first pregnancy scare, or the “oh shit, I could NEVER have a kid with this person” moment.

I definitely agree that it felt like a disingenuous phrase thrown out to lend some kind of feminist credence to Murphy’s argument.

People believe that abortion will help them because of “the patriarchal structures which insist that the womb-less male body is the default,” Murphy said, and that treat pregnancy like a disease.

Long before the current presidency, my father-in-law referred to the idea of his son taking my last name as “a little too San Francisco for his tastes”.  I still use that term all the time these days.  :P

Ahaha, I commented the same in a reply to someone else. They are beings of pure spite and toxins.

I think hippos for wrath is solid, but I think wasps have this one.  Wasps are there to ruin your life out of spite.  

It’s so weird how hair works. I have a friend whose hair went from dead straight to notably curly after a pregnancy (and has remained curly for years).

There’s no monolith—I’ve seen reactions from friends across the spectrum about this sort of thing.

I literally pulled back from the screen upon seeing that mouse, as I imagined my sweaty palms interacting with it after approximately ten seconds.

OH! I almost forgot to mention.

I would also highly recommend the Intuos line for anywhere from hobbyist to professional. I’ve used Wacom products for years now (back when the Graphire was their “professional” line and the prices were way higher for their bottom of the line stuff, but that was all I could afford at the time). They’re reliable*,…

The amount of stammering and sentences cut short there (from the WP transcript, he talks about the ERA briefly and then says “I agree that everybody, once they, in fact — anyway, my time is up. I’m sorry.”) makes me feel more like he simply had no answer to the specified questions and just tapped out, ahahah. 

I always find question dodging frustrating (and that's hardly something unique to Sanders; everyone does it) but that RISE UP, RISE UP rhetoric to every question was so fucking grating I wanted nothing more than for the moderators to cut his mic.

The second half of that interaction, wherein he valiantly tried to equivocate support for a state’s right to choose whether it would or would not create bussing policies with actual support for bussing policies, and then shut down and literally ceded the rest of his time because he couldn’t come up with a good way to…

Same! I don’t mind reading them, but my conversations aren’t in public forums; they’re with friends offline or privately online. I don’t need an echo chamber when I’m talking about fiction—I often have different views than my friends—but I just don’t have the time or energy to oh-so-carefully tread the waters online.

I always find that sad.