This administration’s obsession with security theater is Tony worthy. “If it’s an inconvenience, it must be safer!” I’m pulling a muscle with all the eye rolling.

Yeah, that’s not great either. Although at least cutting the cancer out is a concept everyone kind of understands. Cancer is bad, it should be taken out. ECT is something that the population at large really doesn’t understand well. Or, rather, they think they do because of TV and movies and they’re often very wrong.

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I’m going to assume by that you meant highly effective. :)

So my mind first goes to a bunch of military terms. Maybe nuclear option? Or maybe something with computers like a hard reboot? I acknowledge that it’s not easy. And you’re right - the common perception of “shock therapy” is of a drastic intervention, so it is effective communication. The problem is that ECT itself…

I personally hate being that guy, but I do want to take a moment to gently scold both Novak and Deadspin for their use of “shock therapy” here. Not only is that not the preferred nomenclature (which, you know, whatever, it’s a sports blog), it also perpetuates this unfair stigma about electroconvulsive therapy (ECT).…

Ok, fuck, it was 15 years ago. Damn I’m old.

Any word on whether or not this is a violation of his contract? Wasn’t that long ago that Jeff Kent had to lie about hurting himself while washing his car because he wasn’t supposed to be riding a motorcycle.

So it’s not your job to keep track of this, and I’m not actually upset, but posts like this are agony for those of us observing Passover this week/weekend. Want to thank a Jew for Challah? Maybe wait until next week.

A little easy thing that I think has made a (small) dent - I deleted my credit card numbers from my browser/lastpass/amazon etc. This way if I want to buy something online, I have to at the very least get off my ass and find my wallet. (Note: I didn’t do this for actual bills, obviously).

I’m not a tax expert, but my understanding is that your Traditional IRA provider is going to file form 5498 on your behalf, notifying the IRS that the amount you set aside is to be deducted from your total income. Of course, it’s also up to you to keep track of this and reflect it on your own return. It’s not the same…

If I’m understanding you right, your argument effectively is that “everyone should own a fire extinguisher, but ultimately it’s your choice whether or not you want your house to burn down”. And this would be technically true except that your burning house is incredibly likely to burn down my neighboring house, and…

Just to clarify, do you get to keep the 2 free games for the duration of your time with PSplus? Or do you only get to keep them for that month?

Just to clarify, do you get to keep the 2 free games for the duration of your time with PSplus? Or do you only get…

Hi Root! I’m basically the single most privileged type of person out there (white, cis-male, heterosexual, and a Jew to boot!), so I’m happy to have a place to read things that people that don’t look like me write. Hope you don’t mind interlopers like me creeping around.

This is still slightly worse than my preferred hack - AmEx Blue Cash Preferred gives you 6% back at grocery stores, where I purchase my Amazon gift cards. You get capped at $6,000 total per year (which obviously has to also include your groceries), but it’s still pretty good while it lasts. Plus you can combine it…

It rarely gets traction on Kinja since it’s not an amazon deal (and therefore there’s no well-deserved kickback), but there are sales and deals on console games all the time through the console store (e.g. PS Store). Just last week there was a big video game award sale that resulted in a ton of cool indie games…

It rarely gets traction on Kinja since it’s not an amazon deal (and therefore there’s no well-deserved kickback),…

Hopelessness is a symptom of mental illness. This, of course, does not mean that all hopeless people have a disorder. But it does mean the absence of hope represents a departure from full and complete mental health.

Expert opinion: Causing people to feel shame about their suicidal feelings is not likely to decrease their suicidal feelings.

Came to say this same thing. Not sure why this doesn’t get more love. We’ve had it for 6 years and use it 2-3/week without any problems whatsoever.

Came to say this same thing. Not sure why this doesn’t get more love. We’ve had it for 6 years and use it 2-3/week…

True story: This line helped me get into college. It cracked me up so much that I went the next day to tell my AP US History teacher about it, sparking a conversation and really strong relationship. When it came time to get rec letters for college, he cited this line as an example of my “taking history with me into my…

Easy on the chortling, there.