I guess it’s spoiled not to want to die in your own school, eh?

Aside from what everyone else always said - no, this is not a “rare moment of solidarity and common good will.” Many children across the country are walking out of their schools precisely because we are not unified - because many of their legislative representatives are telling them to their faces “We’re so sorry that…

I tip a base rate of 20% and then I just double the number in the tens place, then add $1 if the number in the ones place is higher than 3. So On $41.67, you do 4x 2 = $8. That’s a tad less than 20%, technically (my calculator tells me 20% is around $8.33) so if you wanted to round up you could always just add an…

Yeah, this is what I came to say. We tip waiters at full-service restaurants because technically under the law, their places of work don’t actually have to pay them for their table service - they’re shifting the cost to you, the customer. Your tips (in theory) take them at least up to the federal minimum for…

Well, that was/is the original meaning of the word “ghetto.” It didn’t refer to socioeconomic class so much as it referred to racial/ethnic minority group membership. It originally comes from areas that Jewish people were restricted to living in in Europe, then expanded to include places where minority immigrants…

One of the other myths is that kids growing up in the hood even in technically single-parent, mother-headed families don’t have any father figures or male role models in their lives. I was reading a research paper a few years back that found that even when a black lower-income child’s parents were not together, their…

That’s actually what the Monitoring the Future study says. It doesn’t say that the kids believe that they are only vaping flavoring; it says that’s what they are actually doing:

I’m not even sure that an out of school suspension will help curb the problem of vaping. People are treating this like it’s just a behavioral issue rather than a legitimate public health issue.

I doubt it. It’s more about the heavy regulation. Illegal drug dealer pre-legalization weren’t checking ID before selling. They didn’t care if you were 14 or 40; if you had money, you could get drugs. Dispensaries are under such scrutiny that they have heavy checks on age. I live in Washington state and you have to…

Is your kid’s school doing anything like a drug education campaign or bringing in the county public health educators or something? Not DARE - a program designed by public health experts that actually works. Because it sounds like a lot of schools are taking the devices away and focusing on the potential academic…

His response to her was EVERYTHING.

Vegetarians don’t eat fish, but they do eat animal products like milk and eggs. There are some people who call themselves vegetarians and eat fish, but technically they are pescetarians.

Came here to say this (well, not the Alphas part, but the Jabari are based on a tribe that uses gorilla imagery and that is supposed to be a gorilla’s grunts).

Yes, I also went to an HBCU (Spelman) and the Washington v. DuBois debate was examined in a lot more nuance. I think the general sentiment when I was in school is that both men had good points, and that Washington’s efforts in the area were just trying to get black people on the map AT ALL. He realized to a certain…

It’s not. I’m a woman and I do this; I know lots of women who do this as well. I don’t want to get down in the weeds and mush about feelings and shit; I want to fix problems and move onto living my best life. (And, on the flip side, I know a lot of guys who DO want to get down in their feelings and want acknowledgment…

This is definitely a people thing and not a gender thing; my husband and I have a different version of the same discussion all the time. I’m much more solution-focused and if something is bothering me I want to fix it. If something is bothering you, I want to fix it. I’m a problem-solver to my core; people come to me…

hmm I know different industires are different but in mine, five years is enough for senior status. you can definitely be training people after five years. 

He wasn’t a raging remorseless psychopath, though. He expressed sorrow for having to kill “his own people” to achieve his goals, and the background given made it clear he wasn’t a psychopath, either. There were several scenes where they explored his emotional depth and differential motivations - this was about more…

Loki is a terribly boring villain, IMO. He’s quirky and funny but that doesn’t make him the best.

But it IS an artistic masterpiece.