You are so right - those “insecurities” are her survival skills. It is not normal in a healthy, mutually trusting and respectful relationship to have a secret app on a dating site. She is not “insecure”. She is justifiably wary, distrustful, and hurt. The onus isn’t on her to fix those feelings. The onus is on her…

About a year before we broke up, I found out from a friend that he had a secret profile on a dating app. I tried to forgive him and restore trust in the relationship, but I couldn’t overcome my insecurities.

I don’t know if that’s aimed at Dolly specifically and I myself have not listened to the podcast but I’m getting the vibe that after a half century of being married to someone you do get weary of them because that’s being human. I don’t think she’s implying that she hates her marriage and/or is staying married for…

Don’t be selfish. She’s a treasure of humanity.

The thing about Dolly you got to admire is throughout her illustrious career , she took grief about her looks and style and you know a lot of it had to hurt...but she kept on being Dolly. She kept singin’ and smilin’. For decades. And she’s still going! She’s still standing being who she is. Fan or not, you got to…

She is a national treasure.

she got her law degree from Harvard

Not only is Katie Porter a lawyer she got her law degree from Harvard where she was an editor on Harvard Women’s Law Journal and graduated magna cum laude. Oh and she is also a tenured professor at the University of California, Irvine School of Law and literally wrote a textbook on consumer law.

The fact that anyone thinks hospitals are making money off of COVID is so insane to me. If they’re making money, why are they laying people off?!? I work in healthcare (not patient facing, so at home) and we’ve had our retirement contributions halted, our cost of living raise canceled, no new hires, and our entire…

It’s really common to be in denial when you get sick, particularly with a potentially deadly disease. My dad had lung cancer and was given six months to live and he was telling everyone his palliative 10 day course of radiation was going to fix everything. He was a lifelong smoker and watched his mother die of lung…

Biden may have won but Americans have to grapple with the fact that half the country has basically gone off the deep end and Trump may be gone soon (fingers crossed) but his conspiracy-addled base will still be there for a long time. 

These people need to be challenged, tell them to provide a death certificate or gtfo 

I work in insurance and there is a woman in this very building who does health insurance and spouts that particular old chestnut. That makes me very concerned about the soundness of our health insurance department. 

It’s a mix of value judgments and betrayal.

COVID deniers are very likely to believe in bootstrap philosophy and think that people who get sick from it are “weak” or did something dangerous to get it. They obviously believe that could never be them. 

The COVID deniers also probably can’t believe that the politicians,…

A lot of these claims stepped from this (singular) reclassification.

Open the thread and read the whole thing.

One of my idiot coworkers was claiming a friend of a friend was killed in a drive by shooting and the hospital listed his death as covid-19. These people will believe anything that fits into the worldview they want to have without any evidence, and no amount of evidence will convince them otherwise.

The evolution of the HIV/AIDS deniers decades ago. See: Tommy Morrison. 

All this talk about “Chris” and “Elliot” and now all I can think of is this guy...

My female friends hate it when they walk by a construction site and the workers there yell things like, “Hey, did you know that Adams passed the sedition Act of 1798 that prohibited the publication of false, scandalous, and malicious writing about the President and Congress, but deliberately omitted the Vice…