You’re absolutely right. I just signed up on .ml because I was a reddit refugee and it was one of the largest instances, and it got the fastest updates. Like a year later, suddenly everyone’s talking about me like I’m part of some crazy cult. I bet well over half of .ml users don’t even come close to the extreme stereotype, but are considering going to another instance just so we don’t get bullied any more. It’s likely going to be a self-fulfilling prophecy.

This is dumb, but I actually don’t blame the couple THAT much. It’s probably a shitty sexual education coupled with the taboo of talking about it. I went to abstinence-only sex ed back in the day, and all we were told was “sex before marriage is evil,” and basically nothing else. If it wasn’t for my church’s (yeah, seriously!) really good sex-ed classes, I would have been dumb as bricks.

The DARE officer at my school (anti-drug police officer supposed to scare you straight) was actually yelled at by my health teacher for saying “sharing needles can cause STIs, oh and also wear a condom.” A teacher shouted “Abstinence only, no condoms!” at a bunch of ninth-graders. Moron. Although I guess the kids in that class wouldn’t have had trouble getting pregnant.

Is this done in the style of A Softer World?

Carrot in a Box is legendary because of Sean Lock. I watch at least once a month

But then they might be kidnapped by a bulging, beastly man in a blue leisure suit!

If tomorrow we banned non-self-driving (NSD) cars, sure. But in most countries, grandfathering in old cars is going to happen for a while. Which means that self-driving and non-self-driving cars will have to share the road.

I could see some transitions possibly. For example, on a 4-lane highway: “In 2027, lane 1 will be separated by a barrier and only allow SD cars. Lanes 2-4 will be for NSD cars only. In 2029, lanes 1-2 for SD. By 2033, NSD cars will be banned on this highway.”

I think that’s also the problem today, albeit of a different sort. I had a friend who was very seriously into the “punch Nazis” meme on the internet a few years ago. But he would often talk to us about it and finding someone to punch. He sometimes said shit like “I could just go to the Republican national convention and start punching people.”

If it floats your boat, punch Nazis. But don’t punch everybody you disagree with because “not supporting universal healthcare” is not being a Nazi.

Calvin dated Susie in high school, but it just never worked out. He and Moe met up in their twenties at a music festival and ended up reconnecting after Moe apologized, admitting that he had bullied Calvin because he was insecure about how confident he had seemed back then. They had both come out after high school, and ended up dating, getting married after a few years. This scene depicts their oldest of three children, Hume.

For more, read my 246-part Fanfiction, “The Tiger Inside of Me,” available at why did I spend time writing this.

To be fair, they’re not always spoilers. Sometimes they’re irrelevant! Probably spoilers this time, though.

“Stop laughing,” the department chief said in an interview with WLMY. “This is a wheel problem for us.”

Yeah, swing states are where it’s at. From Nate Silver’s forecast, the states most likely to tip the election (as of today, Oct 9).

No thanks, I’m not into Pokemon

I don’t think this is the original album cover. I remember that Weird Al was on the CD I had.

Would your answer change if she was actually 18? It still seems crazy manipulative. In some countries, the age of consent is 16. Would this be okay if she’s 16 in one of those countries? (Let’s ignore countries below that age)

I struggle between two ideas: One, where I believe that at the age of majority, a person should get full rights (voting, emancipation, legal, consent, medical, etc.) and it seems wrong to let people vote but not make choices about their body (like drinking alcohol). And two, protecting the young from themselves, like by restricting labor, or setting smoking and drinking ages higher than a majority age, because those damage still-developing brains way more.

We can fight about what the age of majority should be (16, 17, 18, 21?). I would definitely be okay if this tweet was about a 30-year-old, but I’m not okay with it being a 10-year-old. But whether it’s 16 or 18 or 22 where it crosses the line is tough for me.

I miss NX. My company uses SolidWorks, and it’s…okay, I guess? But I’m aggravated on a weekly basis because it doesn’t do something that NX could. But cost is the issue. I think you can get like 5 SW licenses for the cost of a single NX one.

It’s one banana, Michael. What could it cost, ten dollars?

Animorphs is a fun kid’s series about changing into animals and fighting aliens! Also the brutalities and hard decisions of war, the terrible consequences of pacifism, and all the kids get PTSD from the awful battles they fight and the atrocities they’re forced to commit. Also Area 51 has an alien toilet!

I read this, moved on, then came back like 3 minutes later to upvote. Slow brain but great joke.

I don’t usually wear dress shirts to work except for big presentations, but how on earth does it only take you two minutes? Are you only counting active time ironing? Or ironing 10 shirts in one session and giving the per-shirt average?

Start to finish, from getting out the iron, plugging in to start up, setting up my ironing board and laying out a shirt, waiting to heat up, ironing the shirt plus flipping it around and ironing again, then putting everything away after the iron cools down, it’s usually like 15-20 minutes for me. Maybe you can do something else when the iron is heating up, but it still seems like at least 10-15 minutes. Still a short enough period to not be a huge hassle once a week, but way too much to do every morning.