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.

When mammal penis bones are dried, they are called pizzles!

Same experience. Catholic school, not a Catholic myself, my dad is a university prof in a STEM field so I grew up a big science nerd, and nothing I was taught at school contradicted solid science. Religion was taught in religion class, and science was taught in science class. They didn’t overlap. (And the Catholic…

It depends on the brand. Some still come in the big round plastic things and some come in various other permutations, like the one you showed.

I found the comments on the original story about this so infuriating because people were like, “It wasn’t intentional, so it’s totally not sexism!” No, it’s totally sexism that people see something where the gender isn’t clear and automatically call it “he” without even thinking (even in a situation where a major plot…

In my semen? That’s a neat trick considering I don’t have testes.

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!

I have no energy left for this argument anymore, but the logical knots people will twist themselves into to justify outdoor cats are just head-exploding. What other domestic animal do we just let roam freely around, even in the most dense, urban environments? Would it be okay if I let one of my dogs just roam the…

Well, no. It’s that this particular project is needed in cities, but not presumably needed in rural areas where there are plenty of flowers naturally occurring, and plenty of places for bees to hang out.

Well, remember, this isn’t a Norway-wide project either (at this time). It’s Oslo. So a better comparison would be to ask whether any cities in the US would ever do this, and I think there’s several contenders for that. Any city that likes to pride itself on its Green cred could absolutely accomplish this. I could…

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.

I work at a large university. Definitely spheres of silence up in here. There are some units where, if they tell you anything, they have to kill you.

strictly platonic suburban cuddling

Every time I think I’d like to visit Japan, I remember that it is home to a whole lot of scaryass bugs. Nope.

Yep. I feel like I’ll be stuck at Angry Jerk forever, if anyone scratches the surface. My moving on has really just taken the form of being able to just walk away and not talk about it. But if someone presses me? I’m still an Angry Jerk.