When he’s underwater, does he get wet?
Or does the water get him instead?
Nobody knows, Particle Man.

You should probably direct this article to a white woman. I’m not her. In fact, I’m a woman from a country where female infanticide is the highest, where maternal care is one of the lowest, and where women are forced to sell their ovaries and have abortions and be shamed for not ‘producing boys’. GOT IT? GOOD. I’M…

To elaborate on a point I made quickly in a reply to someone else here, he’ll be read because of the themes at the core of his work. Setting, drama, comedy, and plot are all the tools he uses to touch on key themes about the human condition, and the way he delivers on those human themes will be timeless.

Vimes isn’t…

He’ll be read because the themes of what he writes go far beyond the idioms and settings he choose to portray them (I think you’re mistaking the two). The corruption/redemption themes of Moist stories, the coming of age themes of Tiffany Aching, the fighting the system from within themes of Vimes, these are what will…

A detail not included above, but is probably part of the AVMA recommendation, being outside is actually quite stressful for a cat. If there are a lot of other cats in the area, they have to establish a place in the social hierarchy, and that can be as nasty as you’d think. Couple that with the risks of weather, human…

Nope. Best practices for suicide reporting recommend not using “committed,” which sounds like a crime or, to religious communities, like a sin, and “kill yourself” is just insensitive, crude, and poorly phrased. “Died by suicide” is the phrasing recommended by mental health professionals and the American Foundation…

Thanks for the insightful reasoning.

Yeah, I've worked with illiterate adults in the past, and that's a total face-saving maneuver. "Can you help me pronounce...?" is a pretty standard way of navigating a world that is incredibly unkind to adults who cannot read.

Just a personal preference, I think you should drop the one from Jacob Salazar. That is a textbook example of a functionally illiterate person getting help ordering their food, not a dumb person being a jerk/insane.

I'm all for making fun of jerks, but sometimes a bit of sympathy for someone with a shameful problem…