Perinatal hospice care:

Your taxes go to SO MANY objectionable things. That this, which is a 100% necessity, is the thing you choose to whine and cry about like a little girl is just insane.

As a non-parent myself, you need to speak for yourself. The way I see it, people who have kids are taking one for the team and society should support them. You were once a child, you know. Children are the ones who really benefit from these policies. Stop being so damn selfish.

When one group benefits, instead of being mad about how you don’t get that benefit, why not build upon it, instead of disparage them? The “I’ve-got-mine-so-fuck-you” attitude of “personal choice” is repugnant.

Hey man, if you want to cash in on that sweet, sweet six weeks of post-natal leave, by all means go have a kid and let that shit absorb your life and empty your bank account for 18 years.

This week also saw Scotland allow agender identification as a legal status (ie passports and such) and for trans folk they can change their gender on their birth certificate as easily as their name now (ie no more panels deciding whether or not a person is male or female).

It’s a good thing I’m not here to make friends, because I voted for ordering in.

Medicine and the human body are weird. If something works for you, then it works for you and I’m glad you figured out something that made you better. My problem lies in insurance costs that come from unnecessary testing. Thyroid function, Lyme disease, celiac. All of these cost money to the system. And few people…

I read that as describing the people who have no demonstrable laboratory abnormalities that still claim to have hypothyroidism. I know several people like this, some of whom use “natural” thyroid supplements which are supposed to boost energy and promote weight loss.

I’m sure that these women are suffering. Whether their efforts are best spent chasing the specter of chronic lyme which (probably) isn’t real, is questionable. I too suffer from an “invisible” chronic pain disorder (chronic migraines) so I get the “you don’t look sick” thing, but I just can’t get behind long-term…

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This is how it ends. Not with a bang or a whimper, but with a buzz.

I’m a pilot for a major news and media corporation based in NYC. I get to see every corner of the world, experience cultures vastly different from mine, but what keeps me going to work is the natural beauty of Earth, once you slip the bonds of gravity. I’ve watched the sun rise, fall, and rise again in a single…

I’m an elementary school teacher. I like the freedom to be creative in planning my day, and the flexibility of my hours beyond the ultra rigid time that the kids are actually there. I get a good amount of time off to compensate for the extremely high stress levels, and I feel like I have a positive role to play in the…

I work for a state university. My department supports STEM outreach in grades K-University levels. I have lots of kids and grandkids and love helping to put STEM in their lives. I support all kinds of interesting technologies. 3D printers, scanners, high speed photography, mobile classrooms, telescopes and all kinds…

I design bridges for a living as a structural engineer. Aside from the challenge and variety...at the end of a project I have a physical thing that I can point at and say “I did that.” Also, that thing will be in use for the next 100 years (hopefully).

The diverse patronage. I’m an IT Specialist in a library.

Sometimes I feel like there’s something wrong with me because crying kids don’t bother me. It does bother me when kids cry because they have abusive parents though, but usually that’s not the case. Usually kids just cry because they’re bored or hungry or agitated. I can’t get mad at them for that. The only reason…