You might want to look a bit more into what “gender pronouns” are and how they get used every day by basically everyone all the time.

SoCal, thank you. Us NorCal folks would just call it “95", as in, “Don’t take 95 unless you want to freeze to death.”

Sufjan has an enormous holiday set list, with quite a bit of excellence in there. The Bird and the Bee’s Carol of the Bells is also excellent. Sugar Rum Cherry and This Christmas are both top tier. And I’m also a sucker for the Squirrel Nut Zippers’ Christmas album, for better or for worse.

Other questions arise: What about those of us that already attended and paid back loans for college?

And in the pissness harass them.

Now now that’s unfair to Chic-fil-a. I feel like most of those folks would rather pretend that everyone is smooth and featureless below the belt, since you can’t spell “genitals” without “sin”.

I think you’re dead on about this being, at a basic level, a sex offender thing. Anytime you rope some nonconsenting individual into your kink, the idea that that should be grounds for placement on the sex offender registry should at least be aired, if not actually put into practice. Because, as you said, it’s often…

“SpaceX is saving the US government money on spaceflight”

“Musk’s companies did some pretty good stuff this year”

Only if you acquire wealth by tripping over a large gold nugget in the woods or something. Most large fortunes are built on exploitation. Which is bad.

The “particular reason” is the important thing, tho, not the rich part. And nobody ever reaches his level of wealth without exploitation, so I would argue that the being rich part is notable only because it indicates he is ok with exploiting people in order to line his own pockets.

Being rich is not a good thing.

Gold penis ring? Yeah, no way this was an “accident”. Dude’s an exhibitionist, and felt the need to rope some unwilling, underpaid service worker into his kink.

Yeahhh, the combo of “the return of Eastern European fascism” with “Hardcore Catholicism” has not made Poland a super cool place in the last decade or so. About a third of the country so far has declared themselves “LGBT-Free Zones”, and the ruling party has been working hard to roll back LGBT rights. I’m hopeful that…

That sounds amazing! I recall going to Poland back when they were slightly less overt about being total fundamentalist weirdos, and they served mini pierogis as the appetizer/bread whenever you went to a restaurant. They were excellent, of course. I’d love to go back, if they ever get to a point where being an openly…

Pierogis! It’s an immutable family tradition with us too. Also a potato leek soup, since what Polish/Irish holiday meal would be complete without some potatoes.

I’m also NorCal, although my family is Bay Area, and as we are landlubbers, we do a cedar-plank salmon for Christmas day. Also a potato leek soup and pierogis for Christmas Eve, since we’re Polish and not having potatoes and pierogis would make my ancestors rise from the grave to guilt-trip us.

Was really curious what that circular hole was, so I went looking. Apparently the soaking tub extends under the left-hand counter, and has its own porthole window. Which means if you take a soak, you have a nice eye-level window to the outside where any old creep can just look right in. This is certainly a project…

I mean, very few people would regard most forms of theft as a mental illness, unless there’s a compulsive component like in kleptomania.

Right?

I mean, I kinda get what this person is going for, but they’re coming at it from the wrong end. Being mentally ill does not mean that someone is a criminal, or that they’re particularly likely to be a criminal. But that’s not the same as saying ‘we cannot assume someone is mentally ill just because they’ve…