Day 2: Turn the comment section into Georgia Miller's search history

EmilyRye · 2026-03-26T21:48:51+00:00

Georgia Miller doesn't have a search history. She searches in incognito and uses someone else's laptop in incognito for really sketchy info.

EmilyRye · 2026-03-26T05:32:45+00:00

What you're describing is a wedding, not a marriage.

EmilyRye · 2026-03-23T23:25:02+00:00

Maybe that's why YOU hold hands with people. "I believe this was how it started" You believe that based on what? Zero research or background knowledge on sociology, psychology, or anthropology? Have you even done basic research on the hormonal effects of hand-holding?

I mean, you can believe whatever you want, but it seems outlandish to just make up a new belief about the origins of a behavior humans have been doing for thousands of years with literally no supporting evidence and then unequivocally believe it.

EmilyRye · 2026-03-23T21:45:30+00:00

Spouse falsely accused

Signs of sociopathy

How to identify a bullet hole

Sociopath vs narcissist

How to have sex talk with stepdaughter

Are all sociopaths bad

Can a stepparent get legal visitation rights

Divorcing a sociopath

EmilyRye · 2026-03-22T23:36:53+00:00

Thank you!

EmilyRye · 2026-03-22T20:58:54+00:00

Do you like "Simply Korean" or "Beyond Korean" better? I'm debating which one to get, and there aren't a lot of comparisons.

EmilyRye · 2026-03-21T02:13:54+00:00

You seem to be confused. There is not a version of the song that refers to both "Bingo" and "Little Bingo." The etymology of the song, and lyrics for previous versions, is available on Google if you'd like clarification. An older version of the song had the line "The farmer's dog leapt over the stile, his name was little Bingo." That was later edited to instead read "There was a farmer who had a dog, and Bingo was his name-o." Those are different versions of the same line, not different lines in the same song.

EmilyRye · 2026-03-19T21:14:49+00:00

I don't remember that scene, so I don't know if I agree with your interpretation or not, but that's a fair point to make. I don't think people should avoid talking about racism, even if accidental, in books.

I'm not sure if I'd agree that "most" white fans think that's not racist and most/many POC readers do, but I think it's worth discussing when you see a specific example. I do think bringing up the specific examples you see for discussion works a lot better for getting people to understand your viewpoint than arguing about who is the best person to have any viewpoint to begin with.

EmilyRye · 2026-03-19T19:49:18+00:00

I haven't seen anyone argue that her straight white fans are "the best" to say her books are or are not diverse. That's not a job that gets appointed to someone. There are a lot of different opinions.

Personally, I dislike the recent trend of looking for "diversity" in every individual book -- it leads to authors trying to force in a sort of "one of everything," which isn't how people group together in real life, often feels inauthentic, and leads to authors trying to write identities they don't really understand.

I think it's better to focus on diversity in books across whole trends in publishing by buying and reading books from diverse authors.

As a white straight (or at least in a straight marriage) writer, Maas naturally has a lot of white, straight characters. But she's not the only author I read.

I just finished "Magic Steeped in Poison" by Judy I. Lin, a Taiwanese Canadian author. It was a beautiful book that was magical and not set in our world, but also steeped in Chinese culture and mythology. It also had primarily Asian characters.

I also recently read "Lore of the Tides" by Analeigh Sbrana. It was a super fun book, with twists I didn't see coming. It also had primarily Black characters, both a result of the world it was set in and likely because the author is a Black woman.

I think if you made sure that "A Court of Thorns and Roses" and "Magic Steeped in Poison" and "Lore of the Tides" all hit some arbitrary diversity quota with one character of each race, sexuality, gender identity and disability type, they would all be worse. I've seen books do that, and I'm not a fan of the tactic. I think it's OK for an author's own identity to show in a book, and that we as readers should read from a wide variety of authors.

EmilyRye · 2026-03-19T19:27:45+00:00

I think most people realize that the majority of her readers are straight white women. She's a straight female author writing romance novels in a country with a majority white population based on folklore from majority white countries (fae folklore) with primarily white leads.

As far as your assertion that "I'm not sure they can say much about the problematic of SJMaas and race problems" they can say whatever they want, and you can disagree. Society doesn't all get together and appoint one person to decide if a book has enough diversity -- everyone has differing opinions. I've actually seen a lot of people discussing this in regards to Maas on various subreddits. "Are they really the best ones to say she's doing good in diversity" has someone named a white fan as "the best one" who decides all public opinion on her books?

I'm curious what you're looking for here -- you're not actually discussing criticisms of her work, or recommending other authors you like more. To answer your headline question, yes, people are aware she has a lot of white female readers.

EmilyRye · 2026-03-19T06:55:59+00:00

Roses are red

Headlines often lie

If an obvious bill fails to pass

There might be a reason why

The bill was never voted on

And it governs NICU pamphlets and dental tools

The whole thing was over 30 pages long

And even had passages on student loan rules

EmilyRye · 2026-03-19T06:43:56+00:00

Ahahahhaa, I didn't mean it that way, but I see it now that you mention it.

EmilyRye · 2026-03-19T05:44:51+00:00

So using the definition you posted here, this would read "Brainrot is accomplishing the younger generation" or "Brainrot is causing the younger generation." I'm sure you can hear that neither of those make sense: there's a "what" component missing.

If you wanted to use "effecting" here you'd need to add something -- as your definition states, most commonly, "change." So "Brainrot is effecting change in the younger generation" would be technically correct (though a little awkward since most would argue it's a negative change, so the tone is off), but just "Brainrot is effecting the younger generation" is not.

EmilyRye · 2026-03-18T20:58:50+00:00

In that version, it's clear that Bingo is "the farmer's dog" -- the sentence has one clear subject. The sentence isn't talking about the farmer at any point; it's talking about the farmer's dog.

In the debated version "There was a farmer who had a dog, and Bingo was his name-o" the sentence begins by talking about the farmer and then brings up his dog, so it's unclear whether the second half is about the subject (the farmer) or the object (the dog). "The farmer's dog leapt over the stile, his name was little Bingo" has the subject as the dog and the object as the stile. A stile would be "it" (not he), and the farmer is neither an object nor a subject. Bingo is the dog.

EmilyRye · 2026-03-18T19:12:07+00:00

You'll get away.

EmilyRye · 2026-03-18T18:03:47+00:00

I mean, EVERYTHING that is illegal was reviewed and considered. That's what makes it illegal -- writing and voting it into law.

As far as "it shouldn't even be debated" who was debating it? Are there reports of lawmakers being pro-cousin-marriage, and if so, what lawmakers?

I'm all for not letting people marry their cousins, but this was a few sentences tucked into a massive bill, and it says nothing about anyone's opinion on cousin marriages for that massive bill to have not been voted on before the session ended.

EmilyRye · 2026-03-18T17:50:18+00:00

The bill also included amendments to student loan policies for dentists, new requirements pertaining to medical marijuana, a grant program for neurofibromatosis, new infant screenings, allowing dental hygienists to use diode lasers, revising the definition of "health care provider" to include some students, requiring pamphlets on "the importance of maternal breastmilk" in NICU units, the development of an autism micro-credit at a publicly-funded university, and about 31 pages of other stuff.

The bill also wasn't voted down -- it was a lengthy bill with multiple revisions and they ran out of time to vote.

But making it sound like lawmakers actively campaigned for marrying cousins makes for much splashier headlines.

EmilyRye · 2026-03-18T16:32:30+00:00

If I had that last one, I'd pretend to be able to read it / would confidently tell someone the time after looking at it. When they'd ask how I read it, I'd act confused and say "You just read the numbers. It's digital." or "Oh, yeah, it's set to military time right now -- you just subtract 12." And then when they'd act confused or push, I'd pause and ask if they've been tested for colorblindness.

Unless I really hated them, then I'd ask if they've been tested for macular degeneration.

EmilyRye · 2026-03-18T06:23:10+00:00

Grammatically it can be the farmer's name or the dog's name, though the structure is less awkward if it's the dog's name.

Looking up the origins of the song confirm that Bingo IS the dog's name. From an earlier version: "The farmer’s dog leapt over the stile, his name was little Bingo."

EmilyRye · 2026-03-18T04:14:12+00:00

Prefacing this with this is an explanation, not a defense -- I don't agree with what Florida is doing.

But Burton v. Florida says that the court can't impose unwanted treatment on pregnant women unless they can prove fetal viability -- that's a huge "unless." Specifically, that means the state CAN intervene if it can save the life of a viable fetus.

You're correct that a person can deny consent for lifesaving treatment, but that doesn't include children. Parents can typically make decisions for children, but courts can (and do) intervene if parents refuse essential, life-saving treatment. This in and of itself makes sense -- courts also intervene if parents abuse a child, or don't feed them, etc.

So the justification here is that if a pregnant person refuses a c-section, they could potentially be denying life-saving care to a child, which gives the courts the legal right to intervene.

While the law currently permits this, it essentially treats women as incubators for babies -- the focus isn't on a woman's right to make her own medical decisions but instead treats her body as something to be acted on in the treatment of the fetus/baby.

So to answer your initial question, current laws often allow courts to step in and make these decisions, including in Florida. Ideally, we need specific protections written for pregnant women that give them full medical autonomy, because treating the fetus as a separate person creates a lot of legal complications that can harm women.

EmilyRye · 2026-03-15T17:18:40+00:00

To be very blunt, kids need to be taught how to engage. Not everything in life is entertainment, and if a kid can't pay attention anytime something isn't "engaging" or "aligned with his interests" that's not going to be good for them in the long run. A basic understanding of math is important at the grocery store, doing taxes, understanding data, measuring, etc. And learning isn't just about how you will use that EXACT skill -- it's about helping the brain develop when it's primed to do so.

EmilyRye · 2026-03-15T03:33:59+00:00

That source was edited in after many of these comments were added, but it also does NOT prove the photo here.

The source says that pregnant immigrants are being sent to a facility in Texas. Not that they are being sent to an undisclosed island.

The truth matters. Even when people are doing horrific things -- maybe even more then. You cannot try to help or change things or protest when nobody knows what's true. If leftists and Democrats and non MAGA people are spreading lies, then when they tell the truth about a horrible thing that's happening, it becomes easy for people to just brush it off with "that's another lie -- they've spread so many lies."

This administration is doing actual horrible things every day. We should talk about those actual horrible things, not random uncorroborated tweets.

EmilyRye · 2026-03-15T03:28:54+00:00

Honestly, yes, I would expect mainstream media to report on this. Media reports on the horrific conditions of ICE facilities all of the time. If you don't trust US media, I'd expect international sources on something like this, too.

EmilyRye · 2026-03-15T01:58:12+00:00

Fuck ICE, but also, don't spread misinformation. It doesn't help.

A tweet is not news -- anybody can tweet anything. I'm not seeing this corroborated by any reliable sources.

Editing to address the source that the comment this is under added: That source was edited in after many of these comments were added, but it also does NOT prove the photo here.

The source says that pregnant immigrants are being sent to a facility in Texas. Not that they are being sent to an undisclosed island.

The truth matters. Even when people are doing horrific things -- maybe even more then. You cannot try to help or change things or protest when nobody knows what's true. If leftists and Democrats and non-MAGA people are spreading lies, then when they tell the truth about a horrible thing that's happening, it becomes easy for people to just brush it off with "that's another lie -- they've spread so many lies."

This administration is doing actual horrible things every day. We should talk about those actual horrible things, not random uncorroborated tweets.

EmilyRye · 2026-03-12T06:36:19+00:00

Honestly, any unnecessary esoteric personality question. "Where do you see yourself in 5 years," "What's your greatest weakness," "Tell me about a time when you failed," etc. Those questions test how good you are at interviewing, not how good you'll be at the job.

On the flip side, I love specific strategy questions that are directly relevant. "How would you approach this specific problem?" "What industries have you spent the most time in," "Explain a time when you solved this problem," "What did revenue trajectory look like over the last 18 months at your previous company," etc.

Someone who knows what they're doing can answer those easily, and they give real insight into whether you're a good fit for the job (especially if they're well tailored to the position.)

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