You don’t have to feel sympathy for her. Having people, doesn’t matter who, telling their stories like this is something that unfortunately needs to keep happening from now until election day because the American public has the attention span of a two-year-old, apparently.

I had a similar system for a while because it actually made a pretty big difference in my rates and I lived in a state with insanely high insurance premiums.

I’m of two minds...

They truly don’t care about anything ... that normal humans would recognize as reasonable motives.

Pointing out hypocrisy has never been effective because people will always find a reason to equivocate or find circumstances in which it is acceptable for them to do something they do not want others to do.

Sometimes there is nuance there. Most times its just hypocrisy.

She was sobbing uncontrollably, she asked me if I wanted to keep the baby (to which I said no), I gave her the amount of cash one would need to pay for an abortion, I dropped her off at a healthcare facilities that provides abortions, ..... HOW WAS I SUPPOSED TO KNOW SHE WAS GOING FOR AN ABORTION???!!?

I think many Americans (at least the GOP) are now fully immune to hypocrites whenever it fits their agenda. They truly just won’t care about this.

I hear diesel just falls from the sky and is collected in buckets. Definitely zero downsides to this way of getting diesel.  It also produces nothing more than water, oxygen, and trace amounts of Old Spice when burned, so it’s great for the environment.

The transmission is an automatic (pun intended) $10K discount vs. a 6-speed car.  I believe that’s having an impact here.

I’m currently pregnant and work for a non-profit full of women who have had babies. This will be my first. We have no maternity leave policy. Basically it’s - take all your vacation time, take all your PTO time, apply for short term disability so you get 55% pay for a measly 2 weeks... and then FMLA is a thing in…

It looks like you’re going to be the stay-at-home parent for a while, then!

Don’t even get me started. My husband is an MD (advanced fellow) and we are reviewing two employment contracts at the moment. Mayo Clinic of all places gives just 80 hours of paid parental leave, and the other place gives none. I luckily get 16 weeks at the job I’m currently at, but my last job I got none. For our…

Banning abortion benefits investors and corporations in general while reaping the rewards from a complacent workforce that is continuously forced to work for companies for pennies, so it’s no surprise the GOP have been pushing for it.

Remember, we’re capital, not human beings to the country’s leaders.

“The cyclist deserved it because one time I saw a cyclist roll through a stop sign”

Fuck Texas. Fuck cops. Fuck that Jeep guy. Charges should be more serious than a misdemeanor. He could have killed the cyclist. No, you don’t fucking joke around like that.

The somehow even more fucked up part about all of this... anti-abortion assholes are saying “You didn’t read the whole story, she was able to go to Indiana”. Like somehow having to cross state lines to get something she could have got locally last week is NBD and that things are still normal.

this 100%, the biggest issue with trucking companies is that the hours can be insane, they structure pay in such a way to that even get decent wages you basically HAVE to falsify your rest book, and even then you’ll likely make less than someone working half the hours at walmart after all the maintenance, fuel costs,…

Sounds like management needs to take a harder look in the mirror. 

“Apparently full benefits and the ability to make up to $250,000/year won’t cut it.”

I actually went through the trouble of registering a WSJ account. Didn’t see anything the $250k earnings part in Florida. However, note this paragraph after the bit about the “driver’s advocate” position: