This is why I prefer to travel alone. One person’s treasured unique experience is another’s hell on earth. When I’m in a new city, I really prefer to spend a lot of time just being in that city. Out in the streets, walking around, exploring. I tend to avoid art museums because when you’re in one (except for a few…

People need less guns and more Ativan.

Only tangential, but I like to blow people’s minds with this tidbit any chance I get:

This is probably illegal, fyi. There are rules surrounding who can be declared “exempt” based on the type of job they do or what their base pay level is. Unless everyone at your office is a manager and is taking home $100k/year, you can’t all be exempt.

Yeahhhh I think in practice this is not going to change that much, unfortunately. Labor laws are broken with abandon by employers across this great nation, on a daily basis. Without enforcement, and without a labor market that is tight enough that employees can feel like they can walk and not lose their home,…

Please screencapture this glory and bring it here!

That is what he’s trying to argue and it completely falls flat because that’s not the same definition of “dignity” that everyone else is using.

You could just go hang out with the middle aged women for an hour? It’ll give you an idea of what women feel like going into a weightlifting gym.

My canned response to any and all #notall[whatever]:

This is all the more hilarious because honestly Oliver kind of soft-pedaled the gender aspect here. The vast majority of his statements were phrased as people being shitbags to other [non-gender-specific] people on the internet. He mentioned online harassment of women specifically a few times and his examples were all…

With you. And I get flamed on Gawker sites every time I say it, but whatevs.

Ah okay. Just as I expected: it was a custody battle. I know there are dudes who sincerely love their kids and want like hell to spend more time with them, but honestly, what I see way way way more often among my divorced friends is dads who blatantly give zero shits about their kids except as ways to control or get…

So what’s up with the father here? Are they divorced or what? Because this seems like a superduper dick move.

I’m banned from giving blood forever because I lived in England in the 80s. The year is now 2015, but I am still not allowed to give blood because of Mad Cow. The rules are conservative in the extreme.

#notallwhitepeople?

That’s bananas.

Up until a year ago I was making $15/hour as academic research staff with a Master’s Degree. Like hell I am paying the kid across the street that much. Here in flyover country, $15/hour is actually a living wage for an adult person with a family, not a teenager or someone doing a few hours of casual side-hustle.

Nerdy quibble: The faces in the trees are associated with the Old Gods of the Children of the Forest, not the Seven. Two different faiths.

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