Unfortunately, the ability to be a parent and the capacity to  have empathy for other living things don’t always go together.

Exactly. Should he have been arrested? Absolutely. But this was a revenge killing.

I don’t care if his base lionizes him. If he’s dead he isn’t doing any more damage.

Well, there’s this guy making hay out of faking Native ancestry:

They also made the show more rape-y than the books, for no apparent reason.

Your theory is correct. The death of the GOP in California is the canary in the coal mine for them. But it’s too late; they can’t afford to alienate their crazed hardcore base, because it’s all they have left, and if they play to the base then they alienate everyone else - and the ‘everyone else’ demographic is…

And they’re often the oldest of old money.

“The” California Superior Court? Which Superior Court? In California, superior courts are the trial courts. What exactly was the ruling and how did it “close the book” on the 10-year-old case? Was this a trial that ruled against the plaintiffs, or a summary judgment, or what? For an article that’s supposedly about the…

The original law included just a few potential (and very bad) carcinogens. But it’s updated every year, so now it’s an enormous list, and there’s no real process for vetting stuff that is absolutely dangerous and should be avoided from maybe-potentially stuff.

Arcs don’t always have to be major personality shifts, though.

I have no idea how I went through all those playthroughs of DA:O thinking Duncan was a good man when in fact he’s the biggest dick in the entire series who is not Solas.

But getting rid of harassers IS protecting the company’s interests. The problem is male execs who put their own bros-before-hos mentality (and their own harassment problems) over the interests of the company.

Hey, the generator’s page says it’s NOT recommended for use as emergency backup.

Hey, the generator’s page says it’s NOT recommended for use as emergency backup.

But that will be OK because he feels so, so terrible about it.

Sure, but that’s not true -this isn’t social media fights infecting the real world. Stupid and shallow fights between people have existed as long as there have been ways to communicate with each other, and stupid and shallow online fights have been around for decades.

“Just take a look at how the stupid confrontations on social media have become something you see in real life more and more”

“Recklessly”. Especially given the track record, is it really hard to admit that maybe they included this because they are sympathetic to it, rather than because they just foolishly didn’t get the problem?

You have a weird definition of “rational and cohesive thought”.

The fools who are always blabbing about how this natural disaster or that tragedy is God warning liberals about something or other are awfully quiet today.

Yeah, but then he pops up on everybody else’s feed.