I think I read up to 5 at one point, but now I just reread through 3. And yeah, people who are comfortable dealing in absolutes are not going to be able to view that scene as anything other than an unforgivable act of a husband against his wife.

Edward Rochester locked his mentally ill wife in the attic for years, but I still love him and consider him a generally pretty decent man. I would be unlikely to love Eddie Rochester of 2014 for doing the same thing, obviously. Context!

Here's the thing, though: you can't ignore context. It's very possible that in two centuries everyone will be a vegetarian and the people of 2000 America will be seen as monsters for regularly consuming flesh. For a person of 2200, they might piously state that the people of our time have no excuse and are all "bad" -…

For his time, I think he's a good man. And able to change, which is a strong mark in his favor.

Ya HA, I KNEW it was her! She sang for BSG too - very distinctive voice.

Jamie is a good-hearted man who sees the unfairness with which his world treats women and attempts to fight it as best he can

Yep. The kid thing is irrelevant - if you're going to construct a huge recreation space for residents, you should zone part of it for people with dogs.

Correction: Joel is an Editorial lead, not a tech lead. Not a huge difference, as he's going to be leaning on tech to reprioritize.

I'm not Joel, but I imagine that there would be a route for hobbling burner accounts so they could only post text. Though they'd have to analyze how that policy would effect tips... Though maybe it's a toggle where a burner account posting an image has the image hidden for all but mod/editor accounts? That does still…

You have to understand that part of moderating is accepting exposure to this kind of thing as job-related. Clearly in this case it was excessive, but you can't start from a position of "mods should not have to deal with this at all". Because that is quite literally the job description: protect readers from viewing…

Oh fuck right off - and yes, I mean you, not Joel. Tech teams have a list a mile long of shit that needs to get fixed. They prioritize, like everyone else - they have different teams pulling them in every direction, because business needs one thing, marketing needs another, a specific advertiser needs another, a new…

You are actually FAR more annoying, with your mix of unhinged anger and constant attempts to class people in a shifting situation ("murderer", "murderer-defender", etc). Even if you do have good points, they're getting completely lost under what seems to be a very firm pursuit of a predetermined conclusion.

Okay, I'm excited for the beefcake, but what actually happened is that 3/4ths through the promo I suddenly shouted "BEAR MCCREARY!"

Why on earth would it be considered more probable that a woman would be an intellectual peer "only in her mind"? And why do I suspect that your use of the word "prime" is limited to only a woman's appearance?

My nutcase doesn't have access to cats, though I'm sure she'd like to. Right now she's stuck stalking pugs and mini pinschers. She will also quite literally climb a few feet of trunk to chase a squirrel, and then will stare at anything above 10 feet for the next few hours, just waiting to spot that furry bastard again.

Also paw-on-face. Shoulder, face, sternum - really anywhere above your ribs is prime target area for a collie wanting some attention. Weirdly, she also very deliberately play-bows and sticks her feet on top of mine if I'm getting ready to take her for a walk?

Mine is amusingly precise when it comes to me napping. She allows me around an hour in bed. At the hour mark she starts making a warbly squeaky-gate noise, which means that's quite enough of that, thank you, get up and cuddle me.

YES. What is it with the legs?! Mine is a nutso who will squirm and finagle to get on your lap, then plant a foot right on your sternum and push you away so she can stare at you all "I know it's too hard, but... Don't fall in love with me."

I just got back from the park after my own border collie drove me insane with 45 straight minutes of chinonknee chinonarm bigsighagainstknee pawonarm snoutunderelbowHOIST! thatdidn'tworkchinbackonknee SIGH pawonleg snoutunderelbowHOIST! headjammedagainsthip snufflingsnuffling...

Yeah, he's really good about that sort of thing - from the start he kind of said not to worry about slip-ups, and luckily any slide has always been laughed off.