I think this is probably at least partly gender? I feel like I'm fighting the whole world to make sure my daughter grows up knowing that she's the smartest person in town, but my son knows he's a little genius because, most likely because everybody tells him.

A lot of times I’m like “why isn’t this person writing for a TV show?!?” and then I realize writing for a TV show isn’t about writing prowess, necessarily, but the ability to gauge to critical thinking/reading level of your audience

I definitely should have gotten a comment like that a few times. I respect it.

She's not impressed!

Oh god, I first read that as "1989". I guess my brain made the swap because 1999 has to be the worst time to get a degree in Magazine.

I turned off the game out of rage. Hope they pull it out, but holy fuck.

imagine how sick you have to be to take up "pardon Eddie Gallagher" as your pet cause. the only difference between that and "pardon the BTK killer" is that the BTK killer was implicated in fewer sexually motivated homicides.

I thought this was about biotech before I looked at the graph.

If the Bears beat my Packers both games, we're making your partner take his bad luck back to the Bears.

Honestly I feel like this was part of the dynamic after the first Trump admin too, and the Biden admin's return to normalcy had the disadvantage of, as someone I forget who put it, "cooling the marks down" so they were good for another round of Trump

A lot of the things that I see people pointing out strike me as things that you could also get while processing a real photo in Adobe Lightroom.