We've definitely prosecuted wars against armies that rape male prisoners (and probably more where it wasn't done formally).

Can't speak for all of Jezebel. I think women abuse power and it should be illegal in the same way. I don't think as many women get backed up in it by as many of their coworkers, because slut-shaming doesn't work both ways.

Now imagining that women have a union. Is part of SEIU, apparently.

My grandparents would be astounded that Boston (bean, cod, etc) had become loose. Maybe the inherited tightness has to be channelled somewhere?

No, the sides of an escalator are analagous to road lanes going the same direction — and the US passes on the left. (UK: on the right????)

I'm told thrift-picking has become more of a profession than it used to be, which explains why we don't find underpriced treasures. But even that doesn't explain why the junk seems to be going up faster than inflation.

Little Skipper's got a brand new boyfriend

I've run across people who explain that *conquest* is good, *immigration* is bad. Oy.

I really don't get how selfies or your concert neighbor damage *you*, though. I mean, it's sad to be around the inanity, but it's a different kind of bad than the no-cellphone world with no evidence or only Big Brother cameras on what happened in debated cases.

But your argument doesn't make much sense if *some* people *some* of the time have sensibly chosen to work without margin; it only shifts what the whole population can do if it's true for most people most of the time.

Note that I've made no reference to the OP's claims, only yours. We're good at critical thinking, and have agency, but are worked to our limits? Doesn't pass my critical thinking test.

Yeah, but I think you've talked yourself into a hole by describing the average person as tasked to exhaustion; either we aren't thinking critically about our own lives or we have no agency over them. (And if we have no real agency then we don't know if we're thinking critically, huh.)

I find the average person really…

You can just solve puzzles because they're fun/lovely: Project Euler is great for this (and gets really, really hard, and there are plenty of people to talk to PE problems about). And then if your life gets computerized in some way you'd like to customize, you have a head start.

Or was he from one of the departments where computer science is basically a subset of math? The theoretical research side of CS? Good stuff to have, but really not coder factories.

Critical-path thinking says first aid should be taught before use of the miter saw.

The argument for critical thinking is that it lets you deal better with being day-to-day exhausted (possibly by deciding that the game is rigged and trying to fix *that*).

Trilliums, lilies and potatoes?

I think those are charming!

I've been keeping mine that way for years, because I find it a more efficient use of total space — I resent the loss of the interior and the corners of the carousel. I went as far as getting square spice and herb jars so the drawers are literally full. (Then I had to put in stronger drawer glides, so.)

Don't know why…

That's very handsome and an ingenious way to let dishes drip-dry into the sink. I'm amazed the plants got enough light, even low-light plants.