This just reminds me of the scene in Station Eleven when they lock the plane full of contaminated people in the plane and leave them out on the runway until they (presumably) all die slow and painful deaths.

I feel like pre-washing verses not is a similar issue in the quilting community. 

Sure. I could have read about nuclear physics there, as well, but it turns out that there are benefits to actually going to a school to learn. Which is, you know, why we require people to go to them for 12 years instead of just shoving them in a room with some books and not letting them out until they turn 18. 

Ah, that at least kind of makes sense. It is actually about crafts, at any rate. 

I mean, to me the most logical argument to that would be “then it should just be cheaper and/or free” but these people aren’t huge on logic.

One thing that this discussion has really made obvious to me is how deep the anti-intellectualism streak in America runs. My job requires that you have a degree, but it can be literally any degree, so I majored in English because I knew I would at least enjoy it. My life was enriched in numerous ways by having spent 4…

Yup! I mean, shit, I pay $350-ish dollars a month toward my student loans, and if I didn’t have them I would undoubtedly put some of that into savings, but I would also just, you know, go out to dinner more, or buy myself that second pair of running shoes, or save up for a couple of months and go on vacation, or a…

I can’t say I was expecting this, but good on Ravelry! Seriously, though, who goes on crafting forums to talk about politics? 

Also, the entire premise of the justice system is judging people on their worst moments. You don’t get dragged in front of a jury for all those times you rescued kittens or helped old ladies across the street. 

Oh man, I hadn’t even thought about that! I hope it gives them a heart attack. 

I know only two things about tennis: that having no points is referred to as “love,” and that Arthur Ashe played and excelled at the game. I know these facts only because “love” and “Ashe” are the answer to 90% of tennis-related crossword hints.

I just assumed they wouldn’t charge them, just like they don’t charge cops who gun down unarmed black people. 

I was once given the advice “you can eat anything you want, as long as you cook it from scratch,” and while I don’t always follow it, it has proven to be pretty good advice (the number of times I have bothered to slice up and fry potatoes for chips is zero, for instance). While brownies or cake aren’t good for you,…

I love oatmeal cups! They are so easy to make, and when you add berries to them they feel like a dessert even though they are pretty healthy. I recently tried the overnight oats thing (way late on that bandwagon) and was suprised at how good they were. I really thought the texture would be weird, but they tasted fine,…

If you go the overnight oats route then they stay pretty good and non-cement like. I usually use either almond, coconut, or regular milk for mine and they turn out just fine. I was worried that the texture was going to be off-putting, but I actually really enjoy them. 

Sugar and corn syrup, for sure. It’s amazing how much stuff that crap gets added to (including a can of beans[?!?!] I was looking at in the store the other day...) and it is just terrible for you. I had a similar experience when I got sent on rotation to Eastern Europe- we had to walk anywhere from half a mile (where…

instead of domestic terrorism simply because “there’s no domestic terrorism charge.”

I think it’s too early for that. Biden has 100% percent name recognition, and while that is a good thing for his campaign, it also means he doesn’t have much room to go up and a LOT of room to go down. Name recognition counts for a lot this early, but it doesn’t always predict where things will end up. We are already…

beginning of the Democrat candidates defining themselves with their far-left policy message

While Biden continues to lead in the state, with 22% of likely voters according to the poll, that number is down by 4% from an April Quinnipiac University poll. Equally noteworthy, Warren not only has overtaken Sanders for second place in California polling,