Either at a partisan gathering or curled up under my bed in the fetal position while my dogs lick my tears, depending on how things look tomorrow evening

Plenty of excellent journalists have been tied to corporate publications for decades. A couple great New Yorker staff writers come to mind, like Jane Mayer and Ronan Farrow

This depends on the type of food.

Fresh meat? Don’t push it.

Tofu? What, is the bean curd going to curdle?

“Lost” seems disingenuous here if we’re talking about casualties. I thought they mean 10,000 died. Ig in the strictest sense of the word they lost then

To be fair, the one child policy is pretty misunderstood by most people

100% in person. You’ve got a much harder battle online. As someone else said, exposure is a big piece. Also just challenging some of their beliefs in a Socratic way

Drag? What do you mean?

That sucks. I’ve managed at a couple places and the only time I’ve ever had scrutiny on employee PTO is when someone calls out “sick” right before/after a holiday (we know you’re hungover). And that was back in the day when I did retail.

To the contrary, working at a small non-profit, they wanted us to pressure people to take their PTO so that they’d stay happy.

Purple is probably the only one that I’m aware of on your list where there’s a legit logic behind it, since dyes used to be harder to come by

It’s crazy how someone could get to “strong” after being at “holy shit I’ve been secretly gang raped my entire life and the one person I trusted the most was organizing it all”

Is “home brand” an Australian term? I’ve never heard store brands or private labels called that

“We oppress minorities to scare them away” is hardly a novel tactic

Beat me to it.

These people probably care as much about the ROI as anything else

At times, I find “unbiased” sources painful in how they pull their punches. It can be refreshing to me to find sources that are willing to write to their audience.

FWIW, non-profit does not mean unbiased. Nor are they necessarily more accurate.

Richard Head

Now find a good nickname for “Richard”

All we have to do is make him president elect! We don’t even have to inaugurate him!

Borderline doesn’t go away like that. It’s often a lifelong struggle. It takes years of therapy to come back from. There’s not really a medication for it

FWIW, this had “borderline” written all over it, even before you got to the part where he admitted his diagnoses. You know what you did, don’t let him put ideas in your head.

There are lots of great books on BPD out there. Don’t feel like you have to save him, that’s probably the guilt he wants you to feel. You should read up on managing borderline siblings, because that’s tough.

Check out Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble. One of the best books I’ve read on the subject

You know it’s bad when the person who makes everything into a joke admits that it’s fucked