have you ever noticed that the same people who give over-packers shit are inevitably the same ones who forget their toothpaste and need to borrow yours? Or complain about being cold until you offer to lend them a sweater? Or opt out of an activity because they failed to bring the right footwear? Under-packing is not…

Rape is traumatizing and fundamentally unfair. Also fundamentally unfair? People who have underlying health conditions who need to isolate during the pandemic. If you cannot wear a mask, you fall into this group. I’m sorry that your trauma is once again making your life difficult to navigate, but you cannot put others…

After a Google, I guess she only filed for divorce in 2016. But 2016 feels like it was decades ago.

Not all people wear masks and, out of those who do, not all people wear masks correctly (sealed tight to their faces). Add to that the problem that masks don’t filter 100% of particles and it just doesn’t work. Masks cut down on transmission, but they don’t eliminate it.

My friend’s sister was absolutely down for the count for two days out of every period. I don’t know how/what medication she used to get better, but her period was absolutely debilitating. My understanding is that it’s still bad, but she can at least make it to work now. 

The Jolie-Pitt divorce trudges on.

No problem! I prefer those shows, too, but they are able to work with those budgets because the hosts are actually the contractors. I assume that they waive a lot of the labor costs because they’re making money from the TV show itself. Jonathan Scott is rarely on the job site (I don’t believe that he’s the actual…

As CineCraft says, there is nothing inherently wrong with having a foot fetish. But Quentin Tarantino can go fuck himself because he sucks women’s toes without their permission. 

The older I get, the more I realize that parenting remains hard even when your children become adults. I’m sorry, this sounds like a really frustrating situation for you!

This kind of behavior is really disgusting to me. When our condo was on the market, we had TWO people come through in the space of a week looking to use it as a hotel alternative. We had one of the only affordable listings in the area, so it was depressing. We didn’t sell it to either of them, though, but you couldn’t…

Wow, it sounds like your FIL backed off from the idea and everything and your wife plowed ahead regardless. I wouldn’t know what to do with such a spouse!

I certainly thought so, but no. There are articles that can explain the one-way valve much better than I can if you Google “valve mask.”

It’s not just you! I get those masks here and everywhere else, too. 

That figure actually makes sense to me. Renovations are extremely expensive because labor costs so much. A modest new kitchen will cost you $20k. New floors, installed throughout a home, are around $10k. Bathrooms are $5k if you don’t move any plumbing and choose inexpensive finishes, $10-15k if you’re moving stuff…

Is the problem that she always takes her dad’s non-expert advice and it goes disastrously wrong?

Oh! Sorry. It’s a mask with a one-way valve. A lot of N95 construction masks have them. Since you’re just trying to filter the dusty air and not trying to control disease, it filters the air you breathe in more effectively than the air you exhale. https://healthnewshub.org/health-news-hub/top-news/do-not-use-a-mask-wit…

Don’t wear a valve mask. It does not filter the air you exhale, making you seem like a sociopath. (I wore a valve mask for a solid month before learning about this, so no judgment.) 

At my school, every single one of the women teachers are concerned and have expressed concern via email/phone to the administration about returning to in-person teaching. On the complete and total other hand, several men teachers have encouraged the return to face-to-face instruction. 

Nothing like cleaning all surfaces to defeat an airborne virus!

Solicited advice that is retroactively unwelcome goes wrong for myriad reasons, so generalized advice on that subject probably isn’t useful. As with any conversation, do the most you can not to hurt the person you’re talking to and offer various disclaimers with the advice: “this is only how I see it,” “there might be…