My fiance was the victim of an elaborate 4-chan prank almost nine years ago to “expose” what the neckbeards clearly thought were dudes sadder than they were. The idea was to lure men to Times Square thinking they were meeting a pretty lady (yeah, a little heteronormative) and then LAWLAWLAWL nobody would be there.…

My crazy ex’s new girlfriend wrote me to ask me a few questions about the scheming liar who ruined my life with her gaslighting, lying and and all around fuckery...she was gorgeous and funny so I took a shot. It’s been two years and now I’m gonna ask her to marry me. The worst relationship of my life brought me to the…

Stories like this are more likely to end with, “...and then he stole all my money and killed my dog” than happily ever after. 

Not mine, my parents’. They were/are both first-gen college students, and had athletic scholarships to a small community college in a rural area. They were both taking an anthropology class, and their instructor called them to her office because she felt sure they were plagiarizing each other’s work, in a few…

In 2011, I worked as a civil engineer for DoD and volunteered to rebuild infrastructure in Afghanistan. My first project was an earthen dam in the northwest portion of Kandahar City. An Army Captain emailed be about rebuilding it; but coming from disaster recovery in New Orleans, I was very opposed to giant levees. We…

Ever meet someone who had absolutely no idea that you were flirting with them? That’s me, dense as a neutron star. Back in 2004 my job hired a new woman who was as dazzling and brilliant as anyone I’ve ever met. But she was eleven years younger and way, way out of my league, or so I assumed. Plus it was work, I had no…

Wow...this person is clearly going through something tough and you’re coming at them for their grammar? Way to kick someone who’s down for no reason. Hope you’re pleased with yourself.

Hillary responding that she is “still learning” is vulnerability 101. This was the right response.

I agree with most of the other criticisms, but also want to add that I think it’s okay for parents to struggle a bit when learning their child is trans. Not everyone can come out of the chute fully woke.

Because it’s more on-brand for her to be *soooo embarrassed*, but a good sport than it would be to just go into it with a sense of humor about herself. 

Actually...

Natalia has some pictures floating out there with the Mans you will clearly see that they took in a child and are now looking after a young adult. Her prior family abandoned a child.

Ugh, that’s awful. Sorry Rover.

Felicity Huffman claims that her daughter has a diagnosed learning disability, and if that’s true I do have some sympathy for the impulse to intervene, though obviously I disapprove that she actually went through with it.

Ah, crap. Every time we lose one of you, it’s like losing a friend. We know we can find you if we try, but we both know we’ll grow distant, and over time, it’ll just be a faded memory of a good time in the past.

This is not true: https://greenstarsproject.org/2019/04/14/beyond-meat-sustainability-ethics-lca-impact/. Green house gas emissions, water, land use, energy are all significantly lower (like 0.2-50% of beef) with Beyond, etc. than beef.

I agree. Sometimes there seems to be no level of contrition or absolution that is going to be good enough for some people. The author does their self no favors to be so negative on Al. You can’t expect a person to simply inject “I’m so sorry” into every conversation and interview for the rest of their natural lives.…

It’s not that deep; as a pescatarian I just want to avoid the actual tangible negative impacts that eating meat has (and yes I eat certified sustainable seafood and not that much of it). I also like things that have been marketed as new protein-inclusive dishes i.e. dragon bowls, but trading on popular meat-based…

You could’ve adopted an American kid with only mild PTSD, but you went all the way to Ukraine and got a psycho dwarf.

it was i think part of a buffet type thing...like, “hey we’re having this lovely celebration of life blah blah come join us in celebrating” type thing...