If they’d been autonomous they’d have cameras and data recordings and I wouldn’t still be getting calls from my insurance company because the other involved insurers are contesting fault. I WASN’T EVEN IN THE CAR, FFS!!! Yet I’ve had to record phone testimonies like 5 times and it’s still not settled. (Oh, and in the…

So, get this: I have been in four (FOUR!) accidents this past year (three happened one right after another in adverse weather conditions). In each and every case, I was legally and fully stopped. In one instance, I wasn’t even in my vehicle. I could not do jack shit to avoid any of these accidents without putting me…

Does it work on an actual computer I can plug into my TV, though? (I think expecting a channel on my oldscchool Wii is probably unrealistic, but how does one watch this on not-a-phone?)

Oh yeah, I hadn’t thought about the mess aspect. That is legitimately useful.

I’m also curious. Is there any reason for this to exist other than it not being hot to the touch? I can understand why people in places where kitchens are smaller and space is at a premium would want that feature in a stovetop, but I have a full range and 5-burner stovetop that is quite separate from my workspace. If…

Oh, mos def true. And the kids of Sea Org members have a very different experience from public members. But definitely in the case of Sea Org member kids, they seem to have no problem whatsoever traumatizing the hell out of them from a very young age.

Yeah, this is way more in line with what I’ve read. Maybe it’s different for the children of celebrities, just in case someone who the press pays attention to starts to talk about it? I wouldn’t put that kind of thing past the COS.

That goes very much against everything I’ve read about what happens to the children of Sea Org members. They’re basically warehoused in work camps and not educated at all. See: Beyond Belief by Jenna Miscavige Hill. The justification is that children aren’t actually chilren, they’re just smaller-statured vessels for…

Define “desperate enough.” I’m a comfortably middle class full-time employed happily married woman with one child already. I don’t want any more. If my IUD were to fail, I would probably terminate. I wouldn’t be plunged into abject poverty by having another child, I just don’t want one.

That’s an accomplishment whether it’s a 15-minute 5K or a 30-minute one.

I’ve said that I’ve lived in places I was in for 6-8 months. At a certain point, you do just get on with your day-to-day life and that’s kind of my cut-off. Was I paying bills, going to school or working, buying boring sad groceries, and staying in to watch TV/read most nights? Yes? Then I was living there.

There is no rule about putting down dogs that don’t conform. The dog should have been spayed and adopted out as pet-quality. Either your mom mis-heard or the “breeder” was looking for an excuse to get rid of a dog they didn’t want and telling a false sob-story.

Flygirl took a wrong turn on the way to being a spinoff of Lifehacker, tbh.

I get just slightly over 10 vacation days a year. If I’m going to shoot my wad all at once like that, I’m going to goddamn Europe and it will not be “miniature”!

Is it perhaps the presentation of something that took 10 days and $300 as “micro”?

In 10 days and about $300, I hiked over 250 miles of the IAT.

My son’s idea of “snuggling” in the morning is to come in and start ordering me around: “Mommy, you lay down there. No, sit up, there. You go off the bed. I get on the bed. I lay down here, you lay down next to me. Mommy, you have to sit up now.” And then he starts jumping.

I prefer this method:

Here in Pittsburgh with the snow and the rain (oh god the rain) and the hills upon hills upon hills, Subarus are everywhere. There are like 5 Foresters just on my block (one of them is the same year and color as mine and confuses the hell out of my toddler and dogs). My parents (libertarian Boomers, ugh) have had 3…