Invalidating another person’s feelings is wrong because it is harmful to them. It’s wrong to hurt people, especially when they’ve done nothing at all to hurt you. *Everyone* deserves to be treated with respect and kindness. America’s acceptance of casual meanness and disrespect is a large part of how we got such a…

Rainwater hasn’t gone through calcified municipal pipes or been chlorinated.

Cheese?

Well, I’m not very impressed with YOU.

One of my very favorite breakfast places plays muted cartoons on their televisions on Saturday mornings. Great way to keep kids occupied so everyone can eat their pancakes in peace. The regulars dictating the content is a good solution.

For me, a condiment distinguishes self from a component in that I will reach for and pour over many different things. I can eat Tapatio on eggs, cooked chicken, or cottage cheese. Or sometimes I want Cholula. I put Sriracha on cheese and crackers, or pizza or roast beef.

Vegetarian lard and 100% saturated fat. You know, the stuff you’re NOT supposed to be putting in your body at every available opportunity.

Kids menus are dumb. 1. I should be able to order anything I want. 2. Segregating a wholly separate list of items for children is how kids become “picky.” A childhood spent eating chicken tenders will make a kid fat.

You think all the other io9 contributors write articles out of the goodness of their heart?  They’re *all* getting paid for the WORK of writing.  Chris is just being paid by CBS, rather than io9.

As someone who read all three paragraphs of your post (and not just your unfortunate opening statement) I agree with your overall point that a disturbing number of people are complicit in this, including the families of the victims. It’s the unwillingness of people to look further, to pursue their gut instinct, that…

Here are those numbers - trying again. (Love ya, Kinja! o_O)

And Super 8 is one of the best things I’ve ever watched.  He’s a superlative filmmakers, haters be damned.

Adjusted for inflation, Abrams’ Star Trek is the highest grossest Star Trek movie ever, followed by The Motion Picture and The Voyage Home, in that order. The drop-off was steady and aggressive after that. Into Darkness was really only rescued by its overseas box office, which was enormous (most of Shatner’s films…

It’s the chemical process by which heat literally reverses staling.

I haven’t been able to take Peet’s seriously for years. I frequented Peet’s when I was young and working next door to one. They refused to heat their pastries, on the hugely misguided belief that “reheating” food meant it was no longer fresh. You want reheated pastry? - go to Starbucks. You’d think their company was…

I’ve been on stimulants to treat my ADD since I was 7 years old. I’m a worthless monster without my medication so I share your pain. Sobbing in front of the pharmacist (and everyone else in line) sucks, big time.

That’s probably a large factor in their belief that people go down with one hit. I have to wonder if the gun industry simply evolved to support this belief - people don’t need AR-15s for anything practical. Their legality practically screams “let the peasants kill each other.”

I have to wonder if there’s a regional problem. I also have a really good track record with Amazon shipping. (It only falls apart if the order is being fulfilled by a third party, something I assiduously avoid.) I’ve frequently received items the next business day. One time, the order was on my porch when I got home…

“Negativity, as much as I can.”

This is America, son. We react to bullshit like this by getting the 4D Mag-Lite out from under the seat and casually holding it while exclaiming, “I WONDER IF THIS PICKUP HAS AS MUCH INSURANCE AS MY EIGHTY *THOUSAND* DOLLAR TESLA?”