If it helps - I give you permission to not go. I know the world tends to lose its collective shit when people cut their parents or other family members out of their lives, but you don’t necessarily have to put up with it.

Most kids don’t believe “this hurts me more than it hurts you” or “this is for your own good.” Fortunately, I didn’t have to deal with it, but research overwhelmingly shows that it doesn’t work the way all the “spare the rod, spoil the child” types think it does. A meta-analysis of 75 studies spanning 5 decades of…

And the lesson they learned from corporal punishment was that if people aren’t doing what you want, you get to use violence on them.

If you need more help, there are services like Daily Action that will push you a text, with a link to a quick explainer, and will then connect you to your appropriate Congresscritter’s office when you’re ready. If you’re really nervous that day (or the phone lines are jammed), services like FaxZero have special lists…

Since copper cups dissipate heat quickly into the drink, it may feel pleasant when holding it on a hot day, but your drink will warm up fast.

Since copper cups dissipate heat quickly into the drink, it may feel pleasant when holding it on a hot day, but your…

I have bad news about turmeric, at least for IV infusions... http://www.10news.com/news/team-10/encinitas-woman-dead-after-i-v-infusion-of-turmeric

It’s actually “Reliabitaly.”

Best of luck to you. My brother-in-law damned near killed himself with alcoholism. He had the fortune to have his liver start working again during his long ICU stay, as there was no way he was going to get on the transplant list, but in that time his kidneys had shut down (started up again as well), he had a small…

Yup, to my mother as well, in the mid-’60s. I don’t think any of her brothers went, though, or graduated if they did go.

“Look at me on YouTube,” not “hey, fucking stalk me IRL and yell outside my house!” Just a tad different.

Not to mention while “trying to catch the L/bus/etc. and otherwise get where I’m going” If I were head-scarfed in winter to keep the cold and snow out I’d look similar.

That was my thought - lowbie position, maybe a part-timer due to schooling.

Since she worked during school, she may have had a part-time position that lowered her seniority relative to others?

Neil Gaiman: “I was reading a book (about interjections, oddly enough) yesterday which included the phrase “In these days of political correctness…” talking about no longer making jokes that denigrated people for their culture or for the colour of their skin. And I thought, “That’s not actually anything to do with…

I see you’ve updated your post, as yes, it’s definitely not bound by HIPAA as I stated. There are restrictions under ADA regarding employers disclosing reported information about disabilities - except as needed to disclose to other managers regarding capabilities - but I’m uncertain whether this would count. (I’m…

Yup, thank you. He may well have violated some kind of internal policy at their workplace (or maybe not), but that is not a HIPAA violation. It is deeply shitty.

I work in an office, and I hate dresses/skirts, so these capsule wardrobes really hit me hard. I’ve seen too many that just say ‘so take that dress and then put a nice blazer on/wear jeans under it/throw on a cardigan over it’... I admit that dresses are easy-mode for getting dressed, but just hate them. I feel…

Punitive damages, I assume.

Plus two of the things she listed were tools, and of them, the curler helps make your lashes look better without the use of makeup.

Turns out it’s pretty good when applied directly - so it’s great here - but not efficient for, say, destinking a room/fridge: