Worker protections generally arose out of collective bargaining. Domestic workers are far more likely to be employed independently, thus have no collective to support them in bargaining.

Mine is frying leftover mashed potatoes with hunks of cheese.

Part of the problem is, the parents are usually on the side of the practitioners.

Also, rarely done in ways that are sanitary, almost always done in ways that cause long-term harm, and is a cultural--not religious--practice.

Uncanny Valley?

As if it’s not possible for poor people to receive nice gifts, to have owned nice things before experiencing a change of circumstances, to purchase secondhand. As if a rare fancy meal out would make the difference when measured against tens of thousands of dollars of debt. As if they had other options for their…

I hugged Neil Gaiman. He was MC-ing the Ig Nobel Awards one year when Amanda Palmer was guest musicianing for them, and had a mob of people go up for autographs and selfies after. But I lose signed things and didn’t have a functioning camera, so just asked him for a hug. He gives really nice hugs.

And kids get sick and daycare won’t take them so you miss work and you have to pay for a doctor....

Usually those are heavy enough that an individual couldn’t move them on their own.

Because clearly everyone has the ability to evacuate, has somewhere to stay, can afford to miss work due to an inability to get back when things open, doesn’t have livestock they need to care for, isn’t a first responder or medical provider, etc.

Saying your family is different does not, in fact, deny the truth of the majority. And, no, toddlers tantrum about all sorts of things. It’s what they do.

Eh, I found that stage super frustrating, but I miss nursing.

Did you ask all the toddlers you interacted with?

Most all kids start eating solids around six months. By a year, it’s not really feasible to produce enough milk to meet their caloric needs.

The vast majority of people who did go to school for engineering still don’t understand that.

People are allergic to all sorts of random proteins, but if a kid had a reaction after eating school lunch, I doubt they would have A) checked the ingredients in the school lunch, B) known ahead of time they were allergic to kangaroo meat, or C) tested for a kangaroo meat allergy in Nebraska.

The buyer probably hadn’t lifted the thing.

When my mom had “the talk” with me before my wedding, she gave me a handmade drawstring bag full of washcloths and lube.

This was about eating dead people cookies, not making them.

I mean, fair, but it’s not remotely true. Yale was founded before the Mormon Church.