Some of this does not make sense. If the drug is still in trial it shouldn’t cost anything on its own. The drug should be provided free of charge by the trial. They literally can not charge for it until it is FDA approved. There will be ancillary costs but those should not come to $400,000 unless he is required to be…

Considering how many minor league GMs there are, guys coming up in front offices of the Nats & other teams, etc, I really would find it hard to believe you couldn’t replace an Asst. GM for whatever his current salary/benefits package is PLUS another $500K.

From a bloodlessly capitalistic perspective (the most relatable perspective to the rich), it would be in the owners’ best interests to keep one of their employees alive.

It’s a slippery slope because if the Lerner family pays for this guy’s treatment, before long you’ll have people in this country paying to put other people’s kids through school, or you’ll be paying to put out a fire at someone else’s house, or you’ll be paying to pave roads that you never drive on, and that is NOT…

In all seriousness though it’s amazing that we live in, ostensibly, the greatest country on earth and even well to do people can’t afford health care.

‘what can we do better collectively?’

Why women don’t report, Part 3.

Like, what do the police actually DO these days?

Pro-tips from a woman in a technical role (IT):

They need to invent a word for when you have a laughing fit and a rage stroke simultaneously.

I basically had the same thing happen. I worked in a newsroom, and my schedule included a Sunday shift that was often a little slow. I noticed during one of my lunch breaks that the fridge was nasty. It was a brutally boring day, so I took 20 minutes and cleaned it out. A few weeks later it was nasty again. No…

Sometimes it has more immediate drawbacks. I volunteered to facilitate/time a meeting and my boss implied I would have a hard time both participating and keeping stuff on time.

In response to the flood of burners and, let’s face it, men moaning about how this advice is either: 1. sexist or 2. pointless because everyone recognizes these volunteer tasks and gives credit for it, allow me to present a small sample of the ways that I, a professional woman, have been asked to volunteer to do…

My first thought was this so-real scene from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend:

As a tutor, I realized at one point that in the centers where I work, I was the only one cleaning the whiteboards — not the male teachers, not the staff. I stopped and now go out and tell the staff (usually just hanging around talking to one another) and just stand there while the staff does it. I even asked a male…

In addition to shouldering more of this type of work, there are also studies showing that women also face backlash for *not* volunteering, or saying no when asked to do something; men are viewed as “busy” if they say no while women are viewed as selfish. https://hbr.org/2015/04/office-housework-gets-in-womens-way

Well, friends often share music with each other.

“We definitely think this is a strong idea, however it isn’t in our current road map,”

About the time Miller got fired from SV, a couple of the male actors did interviews (one was definitely Middleditch) talking about what a nightmare he was to work with and how happy they were he was gone. Many Miller stans showed up in these very comments to assure us emphatically and condescendingly that all the…