Neon Gumbo’s like 90 seconds, so I considered it but didn’t include it since it’s mostly a transition piece.

Fair. You could probably cut one or two songs (Oh, Maker, Neon Gumbo, or Make the Bus come to mind) and the album wouldn’t be much worse for it.

It’s sort of her 3.5th album, if you count Metropolis: Suite I as half an album. Definitely not second.

ArchAndroid is an incredible album! Highly recommend you check it out. It’s really a tour-de-force of genres that shows her flexibility as a singer.

I just want them to be happy together.

See, this is why I wanted to hear the perspective of someone with more knowledge in the area! My knowledge of how SEVIS operates is pretty low, mostly just cursory.

Eeeeeeeeeeeehhhhhhhh normally I’d agree with you Hamilton but honestly, that’s such an obscure provision of immigration law that even I, an immigration lawyer, had never heard of such a thing. I can also find no evidence that the provision has ever been invoked, though. Would be interested to hear the perspective from…

Yeah, that was kind of my impression. Like... people in relationships can do shitty things to each other that’s not abuse. If everything is abuse than nothing is abuse.

I agree wholeheartedly with zuludaddy. You’re good people!

I agree, I appreciate your response. Take care!

Sure! But I don’t really buy the reframing of that as domestic abuse. It’s certainly shitty and awful. We’re pretty much arguing semantics though, since I think there’s a very different connotation to “abusive” than to “shitty.” One can be shitty to a partner without being abusive, I think. 

And, to be clear, as I said above being a person who hurts others due to HORRIFIC trauma in one’s past is absolutely a mitigating factor. It remains interesting to me how frequently the path a man takes in the course of healing himself often results in him then causing emotional trauma to women along the way. If…

Cheating on someone is not abusing them. It’s just not. Stop.

You know that the NFL was paid millions of dollars by the U.S. Military every year to push pro-military propaganda, right?

My parents handed me a copy of “Doctor Ruth Talks to Kids About Sex” when I was like 10-11. And that was pretty much the entirety of my sex education outside of the internet. And as toxic as the (at the time still fairly new) internet was for me as a teenage boy, I can’t imagine what it would have been like had I been…

Hah, I’m a lawyer and she’s a math/computer person (no PhD, yet...), so like... I can explain the law to her pretty easily but it’s hard the other way around! So I’m sure my GF occasionally is like “ugh this is so siiiiimple” while I sit there wide-eyed and confused.

Ahhh, so jealous!

Once I punched a bear as it was walking into the bathroom while I was walking out at night while camping

A small part of me thinks that if I ever encounter a bear cub in the woods I’d try to hug its adorable cute little face, rather than running in terror from mama. Bears are just too cute. Especially this one!!

Man, lot of us lawyers responding to this post. We’re a sorry bunch.