A few months before covid hit, I moved back in with my parents for two reasons: to finish my graduate degree while saving money to buy a house. I was a year away from graduating, and figured that I would be in the market for my first home probably in 2021 or 2022. All I wanted was a small home in a safe, walkable…

Plus, we do nothing to incentivize builders to build starter homes. The inventory of these homes is very, very low, and they are in demand, but no builders will build any. I live in an area of the US with a low cost of living, and when I look at the top 5 home builders in my area, none of their offerings would be…

I think you’ve hit on a crucial difference that the original article doesn’t take into account very much: How you close read a literary text is very different from how you should close read a textbook or journal article. These are two different kinds of reading with two different aims. I think it makes perfect sense…

Hahahaha fair enough. I’m sure that were there a Brecksville chicken, it would be just as mediocre as Barberton chicken! 

This. People focus on the pay, but the other stuff plays just as big a part in my experience. Restaurant work means you’re working when other people are having their leisure time, for the most part. Even if you like restaurant work, it’s not sustainable long-term for a lot of people. Eventually, you want to have some…

Good luck with that. Unless there’s a written agreement in place, it is unlikely that a US judge will allow the kids to leave the country while a custody dispute is going on.

I’ve actually found this style of headphone to be not great for the gym. Gyms often play music and even when they don’t there’s a decent amount of ambient noise (weights clanking, people talking, announcements on the intercom, etc). Since your ears are open with the bone-conducting headphones, you get competition…

Once you get out of the Appalachian corner of Ohio, this type of pizza is not A Thing, thankfully. Even when I lived in the Appalachian part of the state, I never encountered this abomination. 

Fellow NE Ohioan here. What is Brecksville fried chicken? I’m familiar with Barberton chicken, but wasn’t aware that Brecksville had something like this. Google was no help. 

We’ve come to expect this level of fuckery from Republican in Ohio. But it’s still so, so frustrating to have to constantly be fighting against it. My only consolation at this point is that I don’t think many voters will be fooled by this. I think once people get to the ballot box, they’ll have already made up their…

Plus pretty much every Republican lawmaker at the state level. And their absolute assholery around the upcoming vote on abortion rights. 

This x1000. “To serve and protect” is the biggest bunch of bullshit out there. Police departments have literally gone to court to get rulings that state they have no obligation to do either of those things. So what is their purporse? To reify state power. 

So maybe, just maybe, this film wasn’t targeted toward you, and that’s OK. Men are so used to every piece of media being produced by and for them, that they make these sweeping judgments about stuff that maybe they’re not the key audience for. I can’t stand the original Ghostbusters, but I recognize that I wasn’t in…

Let’s not pretend that this actually signals that Phillips is now refusing to support Masterson. Or that she is now acknowledging his guilt. This is about asset protection, pure and simple. She’s dividing their assets/trying to put as much as possible in her name so that it can’t be included in civil suits against…

Her name has to be Karen, right? Because I cannot imagine the girlfriend of an HOA president being anything other than a Karen. 

Pretty much everybody in my elementary school band rented instruments (I’m also 40...when did that happen?!). I think very few of us owned anything. By the time we got to high school, pretty much everyone who stuck with it owned their instruments, I think. It’s good you’re not pushing your interests/instrument on your…

I’ve lived in Ohio my whole life, all around the state, and never heard of this. Then I read Steubenville and it all made sense why. Steubenville is a very, very strange place. (Even stranger is Franciscan University of Steubenville, arguably one of the nation’s most conservative Catholic colleges, where psych courses…

They all look like something that should be featured on Kitchen Nightmares with Gordon Ramsay.

In my experience, this sort of arrangement exists at every school with regard to band rentals. And it gets pushed so hard. My siblings and I were basically told that we had to play the instruments that were already in the family, so we played clarinet and flute and piano. My mom wanted a cellist in the family, so she…

Don’t give them too much benefit of the doubt. I was propositioned by a police officer when I was 20 (and looked younger). He invented a bullshit minor violation and then told me it would “go away” if I got into the back seat of the cruiser with him. He did it with such ease and confidence that it couldn’t have been…