Unrelated, but in my age group so many people only have friends roughly the same age as them or younger (youth culture and all of that). Or, if they have older friends they have friends that still are oriented toward youth. I think it's really important to have much older friends. I have a friend in his 70s who is…

Yeah we act like we ended slavery but we didn't. Also, companies like Eddie Bauer utilize slave labor to manufacture clothing. They pay them less than $1 an hour, which is ironic because criminality and unemployment are linked (which is NOT the same as poverty and crime), but if the only place you can find a job is in…

There is no way that she cooks five days a week for her husband. Maybe five days a week when she's not working, Either that or actors/actresses all lie about how long the hours are on set.

You don't even have to trot out that minimum wage is barely like slavery, since so many people (farm workers, domestics) in the US (i.e. traditionally 'black') jobs don't necessarily make minimum wage and aren't afforded protection under the law, and slaves, actual slaves pick our produce:

the scale isn't the same, but have you looked at farm workers lately:

They serve them with soup on the east coast too and I like them so much I buy bags of them on their own. They're basically oyster crackers.

My really traumatic eczema was caused by allergic reactions. I'm not saying you stop your HRT but pay attention to your body. There are often early symptoms (does your mouth ever hurt after eating a food? or your throat?) that you're allergic to the thing you're eating.

You probably are having contact dermatitis from the sheets. Also normal detergents have a lot of really toxic chemicals in them and I'm not using them in the general "toxin" sense. I'm talking legit things that are hazardous to your health: endocrine disrupters, neurotoxins etc. No one ever should use fabric softener,…

I get that and I don't disagree, with this:

As a New Yorker who deals with that less same. I got into an accident once when the UN was in session and POTUS was there and it took THREE hours for the cops to show up because they had two stabbings to deal with and all of the extra man power was devoted to UN/POTUS.

Do you really think that there's never a wedding scheduled on that golf course? Any day he scheduled unless he did it months in advance (which would be its own security risk) would have an event there. The alternative would be that he never play golf.

There's an article in this months (next month's ) smithsonian on king's legacy. And while I will not repost the full article here, this bit kills me:

The world at large doesn't know if the one on my finger is the one he proposed with or not. I feel that the symbol of my love is the act of wearing a ring on that finger, not the object itself. Arguing that the ring itself is a symbol of our love comes too close to validating those horrible people who complain about…

It actually is a rejection. A ring you buy yourself isn't really a wedding ring, it's just a ring. Like the whole thing is symbolic (and made up by Debeers but that's another issue), but your husband proposed to you with that ring and you're basically saying derp not my style. Like taking it outside of the fraught…

I think the question is frequency. My parents introduced me to alcohol when I was quite young 7/8 but it was always a holiday thing so maybe three to four times a year? I actually delayed drinking till I was legal because I didn't really love alcohol in general. I grew up pretty Catholic and ditched communion wine…

You're welcome! I feel like blood screening agencies get a bad rap. I mean, I get it - people want to contribute - but calculating risks is HARD and you're weighing people dying from lack of access to blood supplies, to dying from your blood supplies (and the lawsuits related to that). And since 'good blood' and 'bad…

Does Italy and Spain's "risk based assessment" include a line that excludes, for example, men who have had sex with other men in the past year? Telling me that it doesn't "ban gays" but rather uses "risk based assessments" without telling me what risks it assess is lazy journalism.

Sorry, no. Prions have incubation periods of as long as thirty years and routine cleansing of hospital equipment doesn't destroy them. Plus there's a suspicion that lots of people may be Typhoon Mary's - silent carriers of prions who never get sick but are highly contagious to others:

It is not three weeks. At minimum it's six weeks and even then 5% of people who test negative within that window are actually HIV+ but with an antibody that's too low to notice. Hence the recommendation of retesting at 3-months after possible exposure. If you're immunocompromised for other reasons (cancer for example)…

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