Finally someone said it!! Plane lands. Aisle seats: stand up, get your bag from the overhead, and place it in your seat. When aisle seats clear out, middle seats stand in the same spot and do the same thing. Families travelling together - person closest to aisle grabs *all* bags and distributes them. Then everyone is…

And, be prepared for the answer flip during your interview. I’m going to ask about it as a hiring manager - be thoroughly rehearsed as to exactly what you want me to take away with a big focus on how you’re ready to jump right back in going forward. I actually interviewed a person with a big gap, and she completely…

But: was this a murder for money? I didn’t see that she was particularly robbed, or exhorted, etc... What’s the connection? People make 6 figure incomes all the time, and post about it, or worse, post insipid instagram garbage about the new money places they go to or things they do/buy, and they don’t get robbed and…

Have you ever had chickens? They love insects, sure, but they will eat the shit out of grains if you let them - like, say, if they got into a garden or a field full of grass seed. They eat literally everything in the wild.

Thank you!! Your friendly neighborhood geneticist would like to remind you:

This. If you can’t do the material, maybe find other material? You’re saying there is no literature in the entirety of the western canon that tells a story of female empowerment that doesn’t require erasing black women? Like, nothing? In the history of literature?

This. Also, I assure you, everyone who feels the urge to pray is already doing so when the plane is shaking like a goddamn leaf.

Burden of proof in civil court is much less than in criminal court - all of us out here going “oh man he totally did it purposefully” can actually vote that way on a civil jury, not so much on a criminal jury if the DA doesn’t make the case airtight.

Yep. Taxpayers. It is absolutely enraging. There was a local case around here, in a not rich area, where a multi million dollar settlement was reached after a cop beat the absolute sh*t out of a young guy for no reason (well, no non-racist reason). Turns out, when the newspaper investigated, the SAME cop had cost the…

Yeah, I totally get that, which is why it’s so confusing that most of Europe bans surrogacy completely... Like, if your kids are GOING to drink, wouldn’t you rather they do it in your house where you can keep an eye on them and not let them exploit third world women? Wait, I think I dropped the metaphor...

Yeah, but then don’t most people just go to the third world and have it done there? India cracked down, but that was a big place to go for a while. Apparently all the clinics in India still exist, it’s just harder to use Indian women, so the thing to do now is to fly your Polish or Ukrainian GC for the transfer. Or…

Some of us weirdos really really love being pregnant but the actual kids - eh, they’re ok I guess... One day, I hope to combine my love of money with my love of attention, and my relative indifference to children, in the perfect storm of gestational surrogacy.

And maybe Walmart could try having people actually at their ship to store desks. Swear to Gob every time I go to pick something up (because i go out anyway and don’t want to pay shipping) it’s a ghost town back there....

Was she even “abducted”? Sounds like she was chased a distance and then was killed, and her body was dumped. Abducted implies she was transported, while alive, against her will. Do they have evidence that abduction was the case?

That would make sense to me. There’s too many pieces not adding up to “random hate crime against innocent muslims on Ramadan”. Still possible, of course, but it won’t shock me if it comes out in the next week that more was going on...

This was my thought. It’s awful quick to have a suspect in custody in a random attack - that’s why serial killers tend to get away with killing so long, they pick random targets with no connection back to them. Not discounting this was a random hate crime and the suspect was just particularly stupid, but I would place…

I was waiting for someone to mention this! A lot of international people aren’t too keen on travel to the US right this second, and Disney normally hosts a LOT of foreign tourists.

And isn’t that the rub of abusive men (well, people)? They have an amazing ability to be “really nice guys” in front of new people/outsiders. That’s why you always hear the “he was the nicest guy!” response after one goes off and, say, kills his whole family - because, to the neighbor, to his cousins, to whoever, he…

It’s also about getting between farms. In CT you can (could?) get a permit at 14 that lets you drive farm vehicles between properties. There are so many farms that have been cut apart, your family might own fields miles apart from each other, or ones where it’s impractical to get from one end to the other without…

I grew up in a little town in eastern CT, and all the houses in the center of town are historical. Like, majorly so. The town square has an original Charter Oak! Anyway, people would buy these houses, thinking they were just buying a house - and then the historical preservation people would come do their inspections.…