I always asked for the bartender’s name until I moved out of the US. Then I found out that in some countrys they are VERY uncomfortable with you asking that question.

But part of the problem is that asking is part of the emotional work. Recognizing that it needs to be done, planning it, delegating tasks, all of that goes unseen.

He has a blind spot alright, but it’s not “having a tendency to default to engineering-driven, quantitative solutions”. It’s failing to listen to the people around him who don’t look and act like him. A black man tells him about diversity issues and he probably subconsciously decides that the black man can’t be…

Clinton’s a “girl”? She’s 68 years old.

Really? Any other country? Most countries in the world are quite conservative, especially on social issues.

I agree. Also, Atherton is a great place to raise kids who end up being extremely classist. So if that’s your goal, go ahead and raise your kids there. I just hope for everyone else’s sake that they never run into anybody who was raised in a city that didn’t have a median income of $100k+.

Well, they’d be citizens, they just wouldn’t have a birth certificate. Which is also terrible, of course.

That’s his last name. (I was confused too, but in the article linked his full name is written as Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez.)

It’s not like all relationships start with a male stranger asking a female stranger out. If they never did it again, we still wouldn’t go extinct as a species.

Yeah, I think Berkeley was the first city in the country to replace it (according to Wikipedia). This is a weirdly not exhaustive list, considering there are other California cities that have done the same.

Ugh this pope.. Whether or not he met with her, if he didn’t know the details of her case then why did he run his mouth about conscientious objecting? Kim Davis is not a conscientious objector in any sense.

I disagree with you on the demographics part. First of all, we should at least include Filipinos in the group of victims of war atrocities (possibly other nationalities, but I know about Filipinos only because I have relatives that suffered there during WW2). Second of all, according to Wikipedia, there are between…

I totally agree with you on this. I would also like to mention that I find it hilarious (and very typical) that this German newspaper left Germany out of their country-by-country breakdown.

I don’t think they’d be included, since that’s not a case of *one woman* being killed. That’s how I interpreted it, at least.

I absolutely hate the argument about wanting the whole family to have the same name. My parents kept their last names when they got married and then gave my mom’s last name to their kids, and we NEVER had any issue with having a different last name from our dad. Maybe people sometimes assumed he was our stepdad, but…

But she’s not and never has been. There is no royalty in Germany anymore (since long before she was born), only former royalty. Her ancestors were noble, sure, but they have no real titles now (just a lot of money and a castle). She’s not a princess.

She’s very clearly going to / coming from the gym. People often wear tight clothes while working out. And their request for a pushup bra is creepy anyways.

The fact that you think of Jasons Statham and Bateman as hot dudes is kind of part of the problem. They’re both old (Hollywood old) and one of them is balding. If it were women in their late 40s with any obvious physical flaws you would be singing a different tune.

Not exactly.. it depends on your actual teeth. It has nothing to do with being coddled. I know plenty of people who got theirs removed in the USA and got only local anesthesia. I personally was knocked out but I went home right after; I’ve never heard of anybody getting theirs removed in the hospital until now.

To be fair, some parts of the Bay Area still break Google Maps.