A woman can sleep with a man to try to get promoted. But, there’s no guarantee that man will follow through.

If Kamala slept her way all the way to the VP job, she got people to follow through on their promises. That means that once they’d slept with her, they were so desperate to do it again that they followed through on their promises until she was a heart beat away from the presidency. She must be a modern day Helen of Troy, but for sex, not beauty.

Imagine what she could have done as president. Any peace deal where the negotiators were straight men: solved. Since that’s most of them, world peace would have been within reach.

Kids just out of high school may legally be adults, but they’re not emotionally mature by any stretch. Their brains are still developing, and they’re not making very wise choices.

Professors are in a position of power over them. Even if it isn’t their professor, it may be someone who is a friend of their professor, works with them on a project, or serves with them on some committee. If a professor pressures a student into doing something sexual, can the student turn that professor down without ever worrying that it might affect his/her grades or graduation? If there’s a bad break-up, a professor could make all kinds of trouble for the student. A professor is in a position of relative power throughout the school, and a student is in a position of very little power. This is especially true if the professor has tenure and is very difficult to fire as a result.

Really? I can’t think of any place where it would be allowed. Maybe a grad student with a prof from another faculty, but not an undergrad and any prof.

What’s interesting is that the Voting Rights Act has been used to gerrymander states to elect more GOP members.

The way you gerrymander is by creating one area that overwhelmingly goes for one party, and a bunch of other areas that very slightly go the other way. It’s often hard to come up with a legal pretext to do that (back when that sort of thing mattered). The voting rights act said that not only was it legal to create districts that would give black voters a majority, it was necessary. How do you do that? You group all the black voters together into one district, thereby creating a strong democratic-voting district. What side effect does that have? It creates a bunch of other districts that are not democratic-leaning so the overall state goes Republican.

If other laws still mattered, Republicans might have been fighting to save the VRA because it was their best tool to legally gerrymander in their favour. But, with the modern “laws don’t matter lol” supreme court, it’s different.

It’s not the posting of the image that’s unusual. It’s the professor getting themselves into a situation where the picture might be taken. Horniness can cloud the mind, but surely they’d still think of doing it in their office, or at a motel instead of a student’s dorm room, especially if that student has a roommate.

Yeah, that’s the hard to believe part here. A professor having sex with a student is believable. A professor having their photo taken while they’re in bed with a student by that student’s roommate and while they’re in the university’s dorm? That’s a lot harder to believe.

Only if you close it tightly. And having the computer in the drawer means that you’re less likely to knock it off onto the floor. Potential damage to a charger cable vs. potential damage to a laptop – one’s a lot cheaper.

The fisherman had a large family who loved him. His fishing only took an hour or two per day, so he had a lot of time left over. When he could, he loved to play with his kids, take naps with his wife, and play guitar with his friends. But, he was also available when needed for other things. If someone needed help moving, he could help. If they needed to go somewhere, he could take them in his boat. If another family in the village was going through a rough time he could stay out a bit longer, catch a few more fish, and provide for them too.

Then, one day he became ill, and treatment was expensive. He was so loved in the village that everyone took up a collection to help him. They also saved money on his bills by doing as much as they could for him. Instead of having nurses feed him and bathe him, his family and friends did that for him. Since he lived in Mexico and not the USA, his medical costs were not obscene, and he was able to pay for them all, just owing a few loans to other people in the village.

For a while, he spent a bit longer out on the boat, catching a bit more fish to sell to pay off his loans. He also took the son of one of his friends out and taught him the trade, and for that, his friend wrote off that loan. A short time later his loans were all paid off and he went back to the nice, easy fishing lifestyle.

The retired banker had no friends. He had no family. His first and second wives had divorced him because he spent all his time at the office. His kids no longer talked to him, they knew him as that man who always promised he’d come to their soccer cup finals and violin recitals, but never made it. His 22 year old sugar baby had ditched him as soon as he got the diagnosis. He did some research and decided that the best doctors in the world for his condition were in Dubai, so he arranged a private jet to Dubai, rented an apartment for a few months, and hired round-the-clock nurses to take care of him, and a personal chef to cook whatever he needed. The doctor in Dubai was the best, but he was no fool. He quoted a very high price for his services, and then when the banker was in the pre-op room, he came in, announced he was ready to go, but that there were a few other costs he forgot to mention, and he was terribly sorry but the total price was actually triple the original quote. But, if the banker wanted to back out, there was still time. The banker grumbled, but assented, silently appreciating the doctor’s hustle.

While he was under anaesthesia, his rivals struck. He’d made plenty of enemies over the years, and so when word was out that he was going under the knife, they planned their revenge. The banker was too proud to be fully retired. He still actively managed most of his money, and had a lot of it tied up in leveraged bets. His rivals jumped on them, spreading rumours on social media and calling up financial news outlets. If the banker had been conscious and online, he could have responded to the attack, but as it was, his positions were crushed ruthlessly.

When he came around after his operation, he checked his phone to see hundreds of urgent messages. He started scrambling to catch what he could. But, in the meantime, his latest payment for his nurses hadn’t gone through, so they walked out. Once he stopped the bleeding (money bleeding, not blood), he’d be able to hire some new ones, but that couldn’t be his priority yet. He had only hours left to fix his financial health, if he didn’t, then his own health didn’t matter.

And then Trump bombed Iran.

The pic could also be titled “evening showerers waking up in the morning”.

But really, it depends on your job. If you work outside all day and get sweaty and dirty, you probably want to shower when you get home. If you show up at that job 12+ hours since your last shower with a bit of sweat etc. it doesn’t really matter.

OTOH, if you work in an office with closed windows and lots of meetings, you probably want to be (and want others to be) as clean as possible when they show up in the morning. When you go home from that job at night, you’re probably not particularly dirty and not in bad need of a shower. So, unless you want to shower twice a day, you might as well wait for the morning.

Randomly say “stop mansplaining!” in the middle of a conversation.

Sorry about the back pain.

Especially true when it’s something like flour which can be massively different in density if it’s poured or scooped or packed in.

If there’s one ingredient where you really don’t need to use a specific brand it’s salt.

“Hmm, the stab wounds show that this guy was stabbed by an ultrasonic vibrating knife!”

“Really? Those must be rare, what can they sell, maybe a dozen of those per year?”

There are many other kinds of salmon though, and some of them are native to parts of Japan, like Hokkaido. It just wasn’t traditionally part of Sushi. Even tuna wasn’t considered sushi-worthy for a long time. It used to be food for poor people.

Also, Salmon sushi isn’t a Japanese thing.

Stupid English. I read “windmelon” as wind(1), not wind(2). I couldn’t figure out how you could wind a melon.

1. as in turning and twisting
2. as in moving air

French is weird.

Christianity is much older and more mysterious than recent events, but a lot of people want to make the USA a christian theocracy.

Internet companies have become way too used to hiding behind Section 230 of the Communications Act which allows them to say that anything on their sites was created by a user, not by them, and therefore they’re not liable. This made sense when the Internet was just chronological forums and there was no way for the operator to know that something defamatory or illegal had been posted.

They’ve managed to maintain that fiction, even when hand-picking content they want to show. Now they have algorithms that scan all the content people post, even videos, decide which content is going to generate the most views, clicks and engagement, and choose to prioritize that content, even if it is illegal.

But, now, with AI, they’re actually the ones generating that content. There’s no user to hide behind anymore. Let’s hope that the courts say that section 230 doesn’t protect them here and that they’re liable for all false claims made with AI, just as they’d be liable if it were an employee or the boss who posted it.