“then watch him on Joe Rogan’s podcast”

My mom taught older grade schoolers, and she would tell them a variation of - honey, i’m really sorry, your name is very beautiful in your native tongue, but here people may make fun of you because it is different. This isn’t your fault, people can be mean, and I will stop it if I see it, but if you want me to call…

Tim Horton’s is also the reason many University Campuses cannot go Fair Trade. They refuse to use a third party reviewer, and instead claim they have their own internal process. Which means we just have to trust what they say, and they keep things very opaque.

How do you feel about cheating and microwaving the sweet potatoes for 5 minutes before baking to reduce the wait for delicious sweet potato?

how do you make the white pepper not taste like wet dog though?

yes, exactly! I find it tends to come with a soupcon of ‘i believe in rehabilitation and they are sharing their story, how rehabbed, how brave’. As if a public, or semi public, admission of previous misdeeds somehow makes it OK.

Don’t worry, I feel the same about the States, and would piss on them equally.

I hate when an audience or member of the public ‘forgives’ an abuser.

A native French speaker would be a better source, but I’m pretty sure it means ‘passed around’.

They have one word for rape, one for gang rape. We have descriptors, gang, statuatory. If you’re conservative you get extra ones too, like ‘rape’ rape.

This is awesome. You’re doing a great job, just by thinking about this stuff and most importantly, because you care and are trying.

Yup. France. Bastion of moral upstandingness. Place that has a special word for gang rape because it happens so frequently (tournante). President is the victim of a predator that they idolize cuz she has a good wig, they have a special word for gang rape because it happens so much, and the last rape case I remember a…

No one complained about Coogler’s statement. Or Lin Manuels.

Eaxctly.

I’m really sorry to hear that happened to you. I hope you’re healing, and thank you for helping fight.

this got a legit chuckle from me.

Eeee I didn’t know about that.

If calling it burnout instead of depression helps people identify unhealthy mindsets, I’m kind of for it. I think the only thing this is missing is, if these do not work, see your doctor.

Jolie’s film used problematic casting techniques with a vulnerable group, but she went to Laos to find her actors and actresses.

it may be clean, but i certainly don’t want to touch it. even second hand, as it were...