Realizing that my parents were not remotely equipped to be parents is about the only thing that lets me deal with my childhood. It doesn’t make the abuse and neglect any more ok, but it made me understand that it had nothing to do with me. It’s something I dealt with but it’s not as much a part of me that way. I know…

Language control as an IMPORTANT part of this process is fiction. It makes people who want to be seen as or consider themselves ‘allies’ feel like they actually did something progressive while doing absolutely nothing about it. It is not progressive to say ‘white people can’t say this’ and flash a little grin like…

I guess what I am saying is that even if you’re a good ally, you can still mess up and treat people badly. It’s not as bad as what a lot of people face, but that doesn’t make it right.

It definitely makes me uncomfortable because I would hate for anyone to think I was calling a person that. But it also makes me really uncomfortable to put so much emphasis on what color a person is who says a word, especially when it takes up a lot of energy that isn’t being used on actually being a decent person.

Who is this we? I have never called a black person a nigger in my life. I did not own slaves. I sincerely doubt that my ancestors, a bunch of Indians and Western European mutts, owned slaves. I was the first person in my immediate family to step foot in a university so I’m going to guess I wasn’t conferred a financial…

I am super suspicious of anyone who says someone is any objective specific size, because every brand of bra and different styles within that same brand will fit differently. So how do we reconcile this knowledge with using a fitter?

Pretty sure that some Jesus guy or somebody said literally, exactly, the opposite. These motherfuckers just cherry pick what they want to believe out of their stupid shitty book; if it’s from Leviticus in the fucking OLD TESTAMENT (far closer to the book of them gosh darn terrists) then it’s literal language to be…

It is a third world country, you just don’t notice because we have relative creature comforts (unless you are part of the disenfranchised poor or homeless in which case lol you’re fucked).

You’re stating the obvious. This is something to aid medication dosing, it’s not positioned as a replacement for human assistance in actually taking the pill.

With some tweaking one could probably assign multiple meds to the same code, allowing those of us who take a handful to keep track easily. I’d be shocked if they don’t already have a plan for a 7-day pill box type device that allows that.

What you described is just passive aggression. You’re not clearing up a misunderstanding, you’re trying to put someone in their place for explaining something you didn’t need explained. Asking for clarification would be asking them if they think you missed something about how MNO works, not going ‘well if you’re so…

Really groundbreaking idea that not properly measuring food leads to inaccurate calorie counts.

Gasoline is a necessity. Microbeads that destroy marine ecosystems and wind up in our food chain are a lot of damage done for no good reason.

It’s almost like being or professing to be a Christian isn’t any sort of protection against problems that everyone faces, especially those of your own making.

Yeah this only applies if you can’t control your spending. We don’t carry a balance, period. We treat the credit cards like debit cards and the transactions are tracked in our budget (love ynab) so we only get to spend what we’ve budgeted.

I managed to get mine stuck one of the first few times I used it, had to have husband fish it out.

Something like 1 in 4 people is sensitive to SLS; it tears up my mouth if I use toothpaste with it, and I prefer sulfate-free shampoo because regular strips my hair. It’s nice to have products that don’t have it for those reasons, but it isn’t a harmful ingredient!

It turns out that love doesn’t pay the bills???

No. Mentally ill people still have agency and responsibility. What you said is utterly infantilizing.

What a strange way to say ‘Chuck it in the trash.'