yeah, i should’ve said “produced” instead of scripted. ultimately it’s the same thing, at least in casual conversation. ‘scripted’ means that there’s a degree of contrivance and influence on what’s happening when the cameras rolling - otherwise it would be a waste of the crew’s time to charge their batteries and…

That said, the countless “Isn’t this the point of the show?” comments should fucking tell you that it was something more than some consensual hook-up. So, like, maybe spare us that particular comment?

reality television is highly scripted, and everything that happens usually fit under the pre-existing contract.

I am so confused by this. I’ve never seen the show, but I thought the whole point was to get good-looking damaged weirdos to have sex on camera. Isn’t that the whole idea?

Both the Democrats and the FYGMs have, in fact, raised record-breaking amounts of funding for the 2018 and 2020 election cycles already. NYT ran an article about it. The Rs are currently beating the Ds by quite a bit, too.

Of course Rotting Orange Feces does things right.

My hot take about a bunch of spoiled lifestyle bloggers spending money to have a bad time:

Good for him.

I had sort of suspected she was transgender before I got to that point in the article given the statistical improbability of a cisgendered girl in that era being so into Final Fantasy games and computers.

Or if it was a judge in Iowa, he would never say, “a judge sitting in the middle of a cornfield”

The happiest parents I know are the ones that cheerfully admit they don’t always like their kids. Sure, they always love them, but there are many times they really wish they could just go out mountainbiking, or to the bar, or to play dungeons and dragons, or go sailing... whatever.

I get the sanctimommy a lot my daughters school is full of wasps who all want their daughters to be stepford wives and the fact that I don’t want that makes me the enemy.

These people are women who define themselves not as human beings, but as accessories to other, more important human beings. “I’m a wife and mother”, they bleat. So am I! I’m also a chemical engineer, a skiier, a cook, and a published author. But these people are fundamentally sad.

You’re actually defending this? And here I was being naive and thinking we were all in agreement that United was shitty here.

I legitimately thank you. I have never felt so old as I did this morning when I read this and had a complete and utter loss of comprehension.

I’ve got two airlines on my do-not-fly list: United and Southwest.

Well, everyone knows that United breaks guitars.

Sorry, what? There’s a person named Busy, and they wrote “suddenly a light shined from behind this bearded man”, and everyone - including People magazine - picked this up and ran it as a story?

Now my... Best Buy seems to have a whole PC Gaming section. Its the same size as the Xbone and PS4 sections. But contains no PCs.

“Not a surprise sadly. Peripherals have been on the decline for a long-time...”