How is it trolling? We’re talking about soul food i.e. southern cooking- what the racists in the article likely meant when they said ‘black people food’. That picture is straight up soul food which is eaten by people of all races. Posting a picture of the food that the article is about isn’t exactly the same as…

Quad-carb! Biscuits, mac and cheese, potatoes and breaded fried chicken. Nothing’s sadder than realizing that the only vegetables are cole slaw or some type of greens/beans with pork in them.

People already do. Both on foot and in other cars. Some people in Baltimore like to play pedestrian chicken and swear up and down that if they get hit they’re going to sue.

Totally thought that was a Tenga Egg for a minute. Shows where my mind is tonight.

It just never makes sense to me especially when it’s someone with a reasonable, just different, view point. It’s such an outsized, pile on of a response.

Yeah, I don’t get that. It’s not like you personally popped open someone’s stasis pod.

I’m hoping that’s what they mean. His behavior, up until his willingness to sacrifice himself, wasn’t particularly heroic.

I remember reading quite a few romance novels back in the 80s where the woman was kidnapped and then fell in love with their captors. One book had a Celtic princess kidnapped by Vikings who then went on to fall in love with and marry her kidnapper even after he kept her as a slave. In these books love makes the woman…

This could totally be a romance novel plot. First she would be mad but then she would come to love him and come to appreciate the depth of his love for her. It would just be in space rather than the usual woman kidnapped by Native Americans/Vikings/Outlaws/Highlanders.

I can be empathetic and still think his decision was shit and not excuse his behavior. People do horrible things to each other out of desperation (or at least a sense of desperation) all of the time. Those decisions seem like the right ones to make at the time. Sometimes they turn out to be the right decision in the…

I think the main difference is between choosing and having it forced upon you. If you choose to live a solitary existence, I think that you are less likely to struggle with some of the mental instability that comes with forced isolation. But if it’s forced on you and you enjoy some level of social interaction,…

This. It would be good to talk about Sanger as a person and as a product of her times without either lionizing her or demonizing her. She was a product of her times - as unpleasant and difficult and downright awful as those times were for a lot of people. Eugenics and racist/classist beliefs i influenced all manner of…

But very enthusiastically asinine

Thanks for the recommendation. I’ve been looking for something for arm bumps

I’m going to say no because the idea of essentially asking/forcing/coercing women to endure pregnancy for the good of the state is pretty repellant. Choice is the key. If women choose to have children because they want to or because there is a financial or cultural incentive to do so then fine. But what happens to…

The same way it’s trashy and disrespectful to use both veterans and active duty service members as political props while doing fuck all to actually help them.

Black people have a legitimate reason to be suspicious of a lot of things in this country. Eugenics was used a way to justify forced sterilization procedures on a lot of ‘undesirables’ including black people and, even though the Tuskegee experiment is the most famous it’s unlikely that it is the only time that black…

Same here. Not only did he give me weird tingles while watching Empire Strikes Back, I discovered my interest in slash. My Han Solo and Lando Calrissian got up to all kind of naked times on Bespin

I have a fuzzy one and a light summer one. I rarely wear them at home though because I get too hot. I take one with me when I travel though because I feel like it’s more appropriate than running around in just panties and an old t-shirt.

I like the idea of bathrobes but I always find myself wearing light hoodies and sweaters when I’m home sick because I get too hot wearing my actually cozy fuzzy robe. I’m currently wearing my mom’s robe now but mostly because it reminds me of her. No wonder she always have the fans on and the windows open in the…