It’s certainly good news, but I’m wondering what their stance would be on accepting nonbinary students. “Not a man” is a core part of my identity (along with “not a woman”), so I might not be able to attend either a male focused or female focused institution following these guidelines.

It’s so bland it almost doesn’t feel like Star Wars. If it’s going to be a white human dude at least give me a reason to care beyond “he’s sad, but won’t show his emotions, and we aren’t even invoking the Jedi fear of feeling strong emotion to make *that* interesting.”

Thanks for the article, my two fellow grays don’t understand how harrassment and underpayment are used to keep women out of “desireable” jobs dominated by men.

It reminds me of the "we shall overcome" quote, and the idea that it was for the racists to overcome their racism. It wasn't. The racist's role is to BE OVERCOME, and to start changing themselves to be less racist if they can. Everyone wants to be a winner, when the right thing to do is admit you deserved to lose.

Can't help you there, she's awful.

Mosquitos actually do have an important ecological role. The larva can grow in a single drop of water and eat only flecks of dust from the air that land in the water. Then when they turn to mosquito adults, the swarm is THE generic insect that acts as a dietary staple for a lot of other animals like birds, bats, and…

That’s just because prisons are horribly isolating and people generally like to work meaningful jobs. It’s the lack of pay and the refusal to hire them as firefighters afterwards that makes the program unethical. It's like how you might like your own job, but you wouldn't like your boss stealing your paycheck and…

I’m so mad at how Haiti has been treated. Without the US/Citibank stealing their entire cash reserve and the ludicrous terms that all slaves were freed on the condition that they incur massive debt to France, they’d be one of the most impressive island economies ever. They still are, really, having paid that monstrous…

Specifically in regards to diet, we’re way too far into shaming and punishing territory already and it hasn’t helped. Even doctors will dismiss fat patients with “try a diet” without ordering tests to see if they’re sick with an unrelated problem. That attitude has absolutely made people less healthy by denying people…

Thanks for the laugh. This article and comment section have had me crying and it really helped. It's so small, but it helped.

Aughhhh. On the one hand you believe there is an unlimited store of wealth to be created by “smart investment”, on the other hand there is no money to give to children, people with diseases and disabilities, and the elderly.

Fuck off. The only strawmanning I did there was claiming you thought your friends deserved their money. The rest of it is true. A billionaire is not orders of magnitude more impressive than a millionaire.

“I don’t need as much money as Bezos to have a good life.”

Millionaires have nothing in common with billionaires. You say that your millionaire friends worked hard. They did their best, and they got their million dollars. Do you really think a billionaire works 1000x harder than your millionaire friends? They work 40000-80000 hours a week? Nah. Are they 1000 times smarter?…

If I’m remembering correctly, there’s a secret you’ve missed. Another bird person who can tell you the story of the bird-wizard. As far as I could tell, the bird-wizards staged a violent coup, destroying every last egg of their species in the process. The wizards are extremely evil bird people squatting in the ruins…

Fucking finally! It’s been a few percent shifting from Strongly Approve down to Approve out of embarrassment for months, and I wouldn’t trust that to change votes.

They aren’t repaying a debt to society, they’re paying corporations that give nothing back to society. Maybe you’d have a point if those earnings were reinvested in the prison and the prisoners, and helped ensure adequate guard/inmate ratios and payed for programs to lower recidivism, but that doesn’t happen. Instead,…

I believe some Japanese families were intentionally separated from their children. Also Native American children were kidnapped and forced into “schools” as another horrible bit of USA history to compare to. I’d consider the slave trade another example of family separation too.

The game has a built-in handicap system where every time you win three games in a row your deck gets a handicap point and every time you lose three games in a row it loses a point. As long as you have no handicap points you can draw up to six cards per turn to refill your six-card hand (no overdraw is possible without…

Even if you personally won’t care what a Mercy is doing, she does frequently look at her team. For big fights where no individual player is clearly the person to watch, a Mercy can be recruited as an impromptu camerawoman live on the scene, especially during Valkyrie.