I LOVE how people just casually suggest that working from home is equivalent to maternity leave, like it’s so easy to work while caring for a newborn. The first three months with my second born were so intense that taking a shower felt like a major accomplishment.

Exactly! Had to read the whole thing to get to the end to get their first names! I had to google

Thank you. Who the fuck are they?!

I have absolutely no clue

Am I old? Who are these people?

That doesn’t change the fact that the job is worth far more than most of them are getting paid. It is manifestly unfair, and it’s an institutional problem. It does not matter if they took it as a side job even though it’s really full time, it does not matter if they took it in an attempt to further a career as a…

I believe this is called Money Shot Economics—if you’re in close enough proximity some is bound to splash on you, too!

It’s really not. Cheerleading is a highly gymnastic sport with an injury rate far higher than football.

I am so so so sorry.

This may not be romantic, but it does make sense to me. The judicial system is not like a religious court that can issue an annulment.

People still do! A few years ago, our family all went out in the back of the farm and cut down a beautiful spruce. We were quite pleased with ourselves when we put it up, but then this weird smell started to waft from it as it warmed... It was deer piss. The deer had marked the tree, and our farmhouse smelled for…

Chocolate is pretty much the only sweet I care for, tbh. My preferred snacks are cheese, olives, nuts, kettle chips, baguette with salted butter, then chocolate, then pie, then ice-cream.

Yeah, maybe this makes me a bad person but the first thing I thought after reading this story was “why on earth did those doctors try to ‘save’ that baby?”. They didn’t “save” him so much as condemn him to a life of pain and misery.

Maybe I’m missing something but it doesn’t say anywhre in that article that she delivered the fetus or that it was outside of her body after the abortion attempt. The hospital should have treated this as a miscarriage due to self-induced abortion attempt.

I don’t want to think about what that poor kid is going to go through.

God, that was awful.

The overuse and misuse of antibiotics has created several species of “superbugs”

In the U.S., the prohibition on double jeopardy in the 5th Amendment applies to both bench (judge) and jury trials. It covers not only the verdict, but all legal determinations and proceedings related to the prosecution. Basically, once evidence is introduced, the state gets one shot on the charged offense (and any…

Never mind the sarcastic and ironic comments, this is very enlightening brief summary of the US space program since the last moon landing. It wasn't the aliens on the moon that kept us from going back, really, it was the politicians we kept electing to serve in DC.

All for fighting a war that's impossible to win. Though I'm sure it's made a bunch of dubya's friends more wealthy than ever.