OK, I’m sure I do live in a different place than you do, and I probably have different taxes and housing costs to match. But for perspective, in most jobs the compensation for working extra to cover for lack of staff is “absolutely nothing”. And statistically you’re more likely to get hurt as a delivery driver than a…

...has Dan Savage never done Gay Halloween????

I think COVID costumes are (potentially) funny actually. Every single person on Earth went through a shitty experience and sometimes people deal with shitty experiences by making fun of them.

Last I logged in I had something like 438,000 so I’m not too concerned. You could earn a theoretically infinite number of miles from dailies. And then if you wanted to spend them you had to make a special trip to the ATM and then INDIVIDUALLY BUY EVERY ITEM (e.g. if you wanted 10 Nook Miles Tickets you had to click…

And the “happy ending” is her... attempting a creative writing degree at a state school in Montana? Even if everything goes GREAT for her, she’s screwed.

PLEASE, let’s normalize “none of your damn business” as an answer for questions about people’s bodies.

“When a man has found his dream girl, he will ditch his old ways and become the man that she expects to have,” says one post.

a BLATANT ploy for Justin McElroy’s attention...

I seem to remember a bit of throwaway dialogue in one of the Assassin’s Creed games, where the protagonist said when he used to work in a bar he’d serve up a “Shirley Templar”, which was a Shirley Temple with gin. 

The thing about turning on the broiler for a few minutes if you forget to pre-heat....

My favorite one is definitely:

Speak for yourself, the Pokemon gym at my office is apparently exactly 41 meters from my desk.

“Government job” covers a LOT of territory. Most of your everyday phone-answerers and form-fillers are, after YEARS of service, just barely going to reach “enough money to buy a house” salary. If you have some absurdly specialized knowledge or work your way up to a position of genuine power, maybe you could get to 6…

I love this. Absolutely made up but stated with total conviction. Exquisite.

My folks didn’t let us (3 sisters) have Legos as kids... they didn’t want to step on them scattered around the house. Still, I don’t think they would have made that rule if there were boys in the house...

Bernie is required to have a residence in his home state and also needs somewhere to work out of in Washington D.C., so he literally does need at least 2 houses.

Are we still doing “Person of the Year”? I think Lil Nas X should be Person of the Year.

The question is whether these “community spaces” will truly be open to people who have no intention of buying anything, or if it will be a Starbucks situation (where they can’t MAKE you buy something, but they CAN call the police on you if you’re the “wrong type of person” and set yourself up there).

In August 2020, 32-year-old Joseph Dawson was arrested and charged with a hate crime after pulling down a “Back the Blue” sign at a gas station in Garfield County and using pink spray paint to cover the “blue” with “bisexual.”

This reads to me like they wanted to give Bridgerton some award, but none of the “real” ones.