All I can say is that if I could knit anything I would be so proud. I have tried to learn every couple of years since I was 7. I hate the knits I see in stores but every fall I have to settle for the least heinous hats and scarves and wear them all winter.

Let me guess- toothless as a result of an epic bar fight?

I’d pass. He’s hot and you want him but what happens after? Can you be sure to avoid him if you never want to see him again? This guy handles your food after all. You know what they say about shitting where you eat.

There are thousands if not hundreds of thousands of these parents around. This is the new normal.

All in all. People are better now. Imagine this scene when the slaves would get whipped or the second class citizens could be lynched for ‘disrespect” and people on both sides of the counter knew it as sure as they knew the sky was blue. Now, they could have refunded her and kicked her out or even just kicked her out…

Actually the dividends and bonuses will also increase for most corporations. Most of them are diversified so if a sizeable proportion of the population has more money to spend, even if it isn’t directly in their flagship business, they get that money.

All true and I’ll add that if Gates operated his business in a culture where he had to either wait until his product was bug-free before selling it or had to refund people whenever a buggy program or upgrade crashed your computer and you had to waste time and money to fix it there is no way he’d have tens of billions…

Early 80s my 2nd grade teacher told me the kids wouldn’t like me because I was a tattle-tale, I immediately told on her to the principal and my mom ( used the school secretary’s phone to do it).

Your plans are back on track:

But if both siblings should have had the same father and mother and because of the sperm bank’s negligence they don’t isn’t that damage? Of course, one could argue that being genetically compatible is only useful in the unlikely event that one of them gets an illness that requires some form of transplant from a…

Amen! I wouldn’t work in a fast food place. Even when my starting salary after university worked out -after expenses, cost of school loan repayments, etc- to what I’d earn at a fast food restaurant I was happy as a clam in my air-conditioned office where the work I did sitting in a comfy office chair got me praise and…

Yes but if you’re overcharged at the automated cash it is also because of a barcode linked to the wrong price, rescanning doesn’t change that so if you really want the item you have to get a human being to check the price and enter it correctly for you. I’d rather put my items on the human cashier’s conveyor belt in a…

There wouldn't be since in both cases the items are scanned by their barcodes and if you see an error you still have to get a human to correct it.

I completely agree with all your points. The one that should matter most to consumers though is that if fast food workers earn a living wage there will be less turnover.

Ah, you should have described her from the start. Black,trans and a flashy dresser? That was not shade, just genuine, though awkwardly expressed, admiration. You should trust your style more, I bet she was right and you looked great and confident.

Yes, and that is why I loathe them and others like them, they didn’t even have the decency to look up many of these men who were still alive when they were financially secure and find some way to pay them back. Too busy supporting their drug dealers and gold-diggers to do the right thing by those they owed for…

I agree with the very last part of your statement about it not being a decision by the victim and a conscious choice by the predator. I never implied that you said it was about how they dressed but I can’t help but notice that the professionals who deal with predators always seem to insinuate however subtly that the…

That still happens but you simultaneously have black artists being successful and with distribution systems like Spotify or iTunes making it so easy to buy any music you hear of within seconds, all it takes is one person pointing out that so and so’s song sounds like x’s and a number of people will go buy it to find…

It counts to me but it wouldn’t to someone who could back then make an album in that style and then sell it as his own invention to billions of white, brown and asian people around the world who aren’t the 12 million black people who would know better.

Yeah, but by then black artists couldn’t be ripped off because their music was only played in black clubs as it was before the 70s so Richards didn’t see any reason to listen to it anymore.