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I don’t like how we are all shepherded down this funnel of ‘workers’ in this piece. First we have the “struggles of working parents” in the first sentence, which is a nice, broad term to get me interested. Then we narrow down to “parents who freelance” in the second sentence, which kind of becomes meh (how many

Oh no doubt, just thought it was interesting. About a decade ago I worked on a project for a few months with a guy from Rotterdam, and the most impressive part of his English was the amount of idioms he identified and used.

“seven ways til Sunday” is an impressive American English idiom for an immigrant.

Dude, this story is like a week old.

Oh, I don’t think it says everything, but it also says something.

Indeed.

Got it. Yeah, that’s tough, definitely opened my eyes a little bit. My uncle is an alcoholic/drug addict who has been in recovery for 20+ years and he has no problem with people in the family at parties/weddings/gatherings drinking around him, so I was looking at it from that perspective.

I am curious about this in an earnest way. If the picture was different would the title have bothered you? Would you have clicked into the article with the same title but a different picture?

here, here!

lol it was posted less than four hours ago too

So the people that also voted for your preferred candidate are *dead to you* because of the manner in which they did it? By ‘did it’ I mean, actually still voting for your preferred candidate? Hm.

This is so good it needs to just be left as is in the article.

“there are few ways (in my understanding) to have events like this without have a ton of money. Few activists and artists, especially in this scene, have that kind of money.” What does this even mean? If you don’t have the money to do something safely, you shouldn’t be doing it. Also I don’t know what you mean by

Sheesh. I thought it was a mildly amusing and obvious oversimplification. Could be wrong.

Travel first with the pivot foot

Very insightful, thanks for the reply!

Reddit was busy ‘tearing itself apart’ yesterday. Be careful in that AMA, might be some r/the_donald folks lurking about!

Are you white? You chose to mention that your husband is white, curious if you are too. I’m interested in the self-definition of being an ‘other.’