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“My cat, who is nervous around strange animals, is getting nervous when I constantly bring strange animals into the house” - like, obviously? It almost seems like you’re angry at this cat for being anxious, in a situation where many many cats would… [more]
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Satan Is Real by the Louvin Brothers, which these days is mostly known for the hilarious album cover but which I find strangely hypnotic. Entirely spoken except the first and last couple lines. [more]
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In Search of Short Horror Collections
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Hammer pants come to mind. [more]
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I think you are massively overthinking this! At core the issue is: this guy is very dogmatic in his beliefs and is making assumptions about you and your relationship based on them. It sounds frustrating and not worth the effort you’ve been expending. [more]
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It was explicitly stated in the first episode, when they’re all reading the first issue of Lady Whistledown. They complain that she says their family tradition of naming their kids in alphabetical order is annoying. [more]
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Why didn't Frodo just fly an eagle to Mount Doom? Because that would have been really obvious and they would have been immediately shot down, which is why they sent the most unobtrusive possible people to do it secretly,… [more]
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Even if you do manage a solution for locking the door, that doesn’t solve your problem at all, because the first time they try your door and can’t get in, they will know you added some kind of lock against their wishes and they will freak out. If you… [more]
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Why ....why did they need to know how lizards have sex in zero-g? When does that come up? If it turns out that lizards are, for some reason, astonishingly fertile in zero-G, then maybe the larders of the generation ships of 100 years… [more]
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Obviously this is extremely dependent on where you’re from, but from a philosophical standpoint: 1. you’re from there and are now wherever you are, so why wouldn’t they be? and 2. you probably overhear and disregard dozens of conversations a day/week… [more]
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You guys… people who think we should have fewer cars are proposing making cars unnecessary via safe and convenient alternatives, not seizing your car and spitting in your face and telling you to go fuck yourself. But the fact that more than half of… [more]
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I really feel like I don’t understand what distinguishes autism and ADHD, since as others have stated, so many of these descriptions of autism sound like things I’ve been told or read about ADHD. It makes me wonder any of the terms for various kinds… [more]
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And if you’re interested in transportation policy, Streetsblog is a network of news blogs in different cities that does interesting reporting. [more]
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LA Times is good imo - I don’t live in LA but I read it for work. I’m in NYC and locally my favorite is New York Magazine (some longform but not primarily), and I also like TheCity.NYC and Gothamist (those are both free). [more]
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Can you link to any research refuting the concept of induced demand? [more]
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Do you think that if there were more and better buses and trains, people might choose to use them more? I’m not sure why your calculus here is cars vs. nothing. [more]
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I lost my dad a year and a half ago, too young. His death was the worst thing that has ever happened to me. But my relationship with him was, and continues to be, one of the BEST things that ever happened to me. Now enough time has passed that, as my… [more]
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Yes, I'm sure.
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You owe this guy nothing. Absolutely nothing. If you never responded to a single message or text from him ever again you would be perfectly within your rights. [more]
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If you didn’t have an existing loathing for this vet practice, and this was clearly just an error, would you really care? It’s not like they did something that could have actually led to your cat being adopted against your will. I frankly think that… [more]
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So… what is it that’s bringing you to tears about this stuff? Is it merely the fact that you think you have to throw it out? What if you just… don’t? Like what if you just decide you are going to keep this stuff forever, whether or not you ever… [more]
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I mentioned this post to a friend who worked for a vet office, and they had a take which might help reframe the whole thing: You DID request the records for rehoming purposes. Rehoming the dog. Think about it: if the admin who filled this out… [more]
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You could have ignored Trump’s tweets too, you know. There’s a difference between being aware of current events and obsessively following every word a public figure says. What actual, concrete good does it do for you to constantly know the latest… [more]
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Those compromises you’re not quite ready to make - what are some small, concrete steps you could take that would bring you closer to being happy to make them in a year or two? I am in a very similar situation right now, and for a chunk of last… [more]
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They are very DIFFERENT books, more different than two books in a series almost ever are, but that was one of the things I loved most about them. There are lots of straightforward SFF trilogies where I love the first one and then the next two feel… [more]
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So glad I asked this question. Just spent a couple hours in the Ace Brooklyn lobby, editing by literal firelight. This rules. I am gonna become such a lobby rat. Thanks everyone! [more]
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Sister, have I ever been there. I find confidence attractive and neediness unattractive, but I think sometimes my calibration gets a bit off, and I start seeing a totally normal level of interest as neediness. Usually this happens when I have… [more]
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The golden rule does not apply to people who are brazenly using you and abusing your goodwill and timidity for their own selfish purposes. [more]
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Honestly, if a company has gone to outrageous lengths to insure it’s literally impossible to pay them money for a movie, who are you hurting by pirating the movie? [more]
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Extremely unpopular suggestion: This fall, I saw a rabbit fur coat in a vintage shop for a relatively low price and impulsively bought it, thinking I ought to have something nicer than a down coat for if I ever went somewhere dressy. The first… [more]
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Places to write in NYC
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From your link: In common parlance, a devil's advocate is someone who, given a certain argument, takes a position they do not necessarily agree with (or simply an alternative position from the accepted norm), for the sake of debate or to… [more]
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women are still having to put up with this retrograde bullshit that asserts that men are the real experts on how women should live our lives, because we are just too emotional. Which is, of course, laughable, as the thing that gets… [more]
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Just as there's such a thing as being too close to an issue, so too is not knowing a god damn thing about it. But if I don't give a fuck about anything, then I get to be an expert on literally everything! [more]
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It's well established that strong feelings make us less able to make correct appraisals of things not more able. That wouldn't even be controversial on any other subject. Are white people the #1 experts about issues affecting black people,… [more]
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Might as well just suspect everyone you meet at that point, though. Looking both ways before crossing the street isn't the same as accusing cars of trying to run you over. It's using common sense to protect yourself from harm. [more]
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I see less value in "me too!ing" the general sentiment, and more in poking around the edges, pushing back against what seems like quasi-overreach/speculation/conspiracies, looking at something from different angles, etc. Did it… [more]
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Specifically: Larson answered this time. “I see that you’re merely expressing real hurt, and for that I am truly sorry,” she wrote on July 21. But she also changed gears a little. “I myself have seen references to my own life in others’… [more]
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Imagine they just got dumped or their dog is sick or something. Do you think it will help or hurt your friendship more to come into that situation and say "Are you avoiding me?? Why??" Alternatively, if they ARE avoiding you, there is… [more]
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There was a moment or two when I suspected they had ALL been told to watch the wrong movie and each thought they were the only one. Totally wish they’d done that now. [more]
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George Chauncey's Gay New York. It's a very detailed account of pre-WWII LGBT history and it radically changed my perspective on gender and sexuality in a way I found much more affirming. The ways we understood sexuality and gender back then were… [more]
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Yes - I have a friend who works with medical students and has said that that’s the reason so many of them are children of doctors themselves. It’s not so much that the parents took any specific action on their behalf; it’s just that the idea of… [more]
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Google suggests that while marmalade does have vitamin C, it has a lot less than actual oranges. Good question though, this totally hadn’t occurred to me! [more]
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And now finished ep 8 and just, wow I know this show is not gonna be for everyone but my gay ass could not be more delighted by this incredible nonsense. Can’t wait for the rest. Also whoever is responsible for that beard deserves an Emmy. [more]
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I certainly believe nepotism is real; I just think it’s one of many, many factors that work against our culture being a meritocracy, and not the most important one. Privilege is not a synonym for nepotism. Access to opportunities denied to other… [more]
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We always made the Libby’s pie and then covered each slice in homemade whipped cream - and I mean COVERED, like, no orange is visible whatsoever, an inch thick on top, sides covered too. I need to do that for myself this weekend, the family’s far… [more]
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Starting to think the only responsible move is to chop down every almond tree in California [more]
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Back in 2017 I had a coworker who was into bitcoin. I asked him what it was all about one time and once he had explained, I was like “so it’s kind of like Beanie Babies?” He was not amused by this. [more]
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In the comments the poster says the prof liked it so much that he shows it to subsequent classes every year. [more]
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Now I want to append “Meanwhile, an alien parasite crashes to Earth in a meteor” to every IMDB movie synopsis ever. Against the backdrop of the Civil War, the manipulative daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a turbulent romance with a… [more]
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