The hard thing is to show patience, compassion; taking your time

It’s so sadly predictable. And I am reeling from a discussion amongst my extended family in which a couple of healthy, WFH millennial aged members were discussing how best to get around the current guidelines to get a spot further up in the line.  

I had a math professor who, at the end of the semester, hadn’t learned the names of his students. That doesn’t seem too egregious, except there were only three of us.

It’s not that it all doesn’t work. It’s that it’s ad-hoc. It’s like engineering a plane while just kinda guessing at the strength of the metal used to make it. It might work and might work well but then again, you might guess wrong.

You’re asking me why you, a young person, should be worried about a disease that mostly kills older people? Do I have to explain empathy to you? Do I have to explain that people over 55 are still people who don’t deserve to die? I guess if you hate your parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents, and all of the teachers you…

They’re just setting the stage for their triumphant rebrand as Lady Reconstruction.

In the video, Maggie is wearing a Mets shirt (which is technically classified as a Confederate monument because it celebrates a “lost cause”)

Before we all ragepoop our pants over the survey results, please, please, please take a deep breath and go read the rest of the survey.

Environmental toxicologist here - it won’t rinse out, it’s used to water proof clothing.  However, these are large compounds that are not likely to cross the skin barrier in high enough concentrations to cause the cancers associated with PFAS, those are caused by this chemical primarily in drinking water.  So unless…

I feel like people don’t get that you didn’t need to own slaves to profit off of the institution of slavery. The owners and executives of mills that spun cotton into thread made money, as did those of the mills that made that thread into cloth made money, the owners of the stores that sold that cloth made money. The…

“Or if I’m walking down the street or shopping and there’s somebody wearing Trump gear or a MAGA hat, I’ll walk the other way or try to put some distance between us because I’m not looking for conflict.”

Tired: shaking your fists at the clouds

Butt the exposure

And these are the people who are worried their kids could get autism from vaccines...

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Can we also add that nothing is “inherently alienating”? Actions become alienating in context. Something about her emphasis on “inherently alienating” really didn’t sit well with me.

I think the issue here is solely semantics. A phrase was created to speak to a very specific phenomenon, so when used to describe other things it doesn’t fit. Always happens with words outside of academic use. That being said, SO MUCH OF OUR SOCIETY IS BUILT AROUND CAPITALISM AND CAPITAL that to find a useful phrase…

Relationships are work, though. Not all work is paid, nor does it necessarily make sense to change that. But they are work, and they do involve labor. Being there for someone to rant to, providing them emotional support and/or advise, scheduling future get-togethers, figuring out how to communicate with different…

I don’t disagree that the term emotional labour is somewhat overused, but I wholly disagree with the idea that it’s antithetical to friendship to suggest that it involves a form of work. Friendships do take work, and in turn bestow value (in the form of personal fulfillment, not money). I love supporting my friends,…