So its’s ok to call them fake if they got them for purely cosmetic reasons? 🤨

He’s a human being with family problems. Being royal didn’t insulate him from losing his mother or having a bad relationship with his father. Even if people can’t relate to him on an economical or social level, they might possibly relate to his familial issues.

“May the peace of the Lord be with you, and your spirit.”

Right - its someone claiming they are being abused, monetarily drained, and legally controlled by their family due to a disability and the article reads like a Jan and Marsha fight...

Came here to say this, too. Jezebel is once again talking out of both sides of their mouth. You don’t get to claim to support Britney, and then go back to the same gossip and trash-talk that is literally the poison running through her entire life. Do better. 

If not being in full control of your emotions is one of the legal elements for a conservatorship a lot of us better hope no one drags us into court.  

My thoughts exactly. 

I appreciate and sympathize with Spear’s feelings, but I hope her new lawyer tells her to knock that stuff off until she is out of that hellish conservatorship; because that is exactly the sort of thing the conservator’s lawyers can use to say that she is not in full control of her emotions and thus needs a…

Agreed. I love that - now that her metaphorical shackles are gone - she’s letting people haaaaave it. She’s ununderstandably brimming with pent-up resentment.

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I think that maybe it’s because there’s been a lot of focus on deaths and death rates that people don’t think about all the “long COVID” reasons for getting the shot. My sister’s a nurse and she laid it out something like this... “Well, maybe it only is 2-4% of all positives that die, but I can tell you that there are…

Back when anti-vaxxing was mostly a matter of childhood disease, I was one of those who mused aloud whether vaccines had been too successful too long—that we’d lost our institutional memory of how bad some of these “mere” childhood diseases were... especially if you were first exposed in adulthood.

Certainly social media is a huge factor, but there’s also the fact that people in rich nations face so few perils nowadays that too many people don’t believe that anything bad will ever happen to them. And/or they believe that if anything does go wrong, there are people and agencies who will immediately come to their…

Mitch Fucking McConnell had polio in his youth and it frosts my lizard that he’s not currently in an iron lung (or six feet under).  He survived something horrific, and now he’s doing absolutely nothing in the face of today’s horror.

I’ve heard those men didn't have those beards until they got their own show.

I’ve realized it’s no longer even slightly a joke that I end so many comments on the internet with “What I’m trying to say is: We’re doomed” It’s just… how things are now.

My uncle missed the polio vaccine by 6 months, and got infected. He was one of the lucky ones who relearned how to walk, but post-polio syndrome is unforgiving, and in old age (84), he’s lost all the mobility/independance he’d regained.

Pretty much it’s just a sickness for the unvaccinated now, something like 98% of all new cases.

“So how concerned should we be?”

My sister, brother in law, and year and a half old nephew are going to Disney World in late September. My sister’s a nurse, fully vaccinated. Brother in law is vaccinated too. But I’m very worried about my nephew getting sick. He’s just gotten over pneumonia AND an ear infection and had a covid scare recently but…