I’ve learned to code in three distinct iterations to varying degrees of success:

Agreed, but I think you meant to respond to earhart.

Or maybe it’s a system of communication and communicating that takes longer than a weekend to learn?

Haiti is not in the West Indies, geographically yes, culturally no. You wouldn’t refer to a Haitian as West Indian because they aren’t.

What the article ignores is part of the reason why black women are leading the charge is because a number of professions, home healthcare workers and domestic help, generally, were deliberately excluded from federal wage legislation because they were jobs primarily held by black people. The reason farmworkers now are…

I post this a lot:

I pay, regardless of protest, if I don’t want a second date (so he can’t say I used him for a free meal or that MRA bullshit). I let him pay if I do (as in I’ll offer but I won’t fight). Once the relationship is going I try to go dutch, or figure it’ll balance over time.

I did squid, sheeps eyes, pigs, sheeps heart. But one class disected cats.

That’s insane. I believe you but it’s insane.

Plus, what about people who are the drivers? Or are pregnant? Or are on meds where they can’t drink. Even simple ones, like you shouldn’t drink on antibiotics. Or maybe, they just don’t feel like drinking. I don’t drink when I think I’m getting sick (but hot toddy’s once I’m sick - don’t question logic). So many…

I was told contin but obviously it could have been codone. Percocet is addictive too though. And acetemenophin has its own problems (I like my liver). I don’t think people should go through a surgical procedure by biting down on a stick and getting drunk first, but I do wonder a lot about the routine use of pain…

I’m not arguing over whether or not users should be criminalized, I’m arguing about your math. You are comparing apples to oranges. Illegal drugs kill about 1000 because so many fewer people use illegal drugs. In a given month 24.6 million Americans do an illegal drug, roughly 210 million Americans drink alcohol. The…

Or given that tonsilectomy is an acute and not a chronic injury you can prescribe pain medications that have a much lower risk of addiction. You say downthread that you’re running an advocacy group for chronic pain addiction - acute and chronic pain are very different and should be treated differently. Too many people…

There’s actually a broader discussion around the degree to which opiates are necessary. Oxycontin wasn’t even introduced until 1995 and it’s introduction is pretty lock step with the rise in heroin use. We over medicate pain in this country and that’s a problem, because we underutilize non-narcotic mechanisms for…

But about a hundred times as many people consume alcohol as consume illegal drugs. You can’t discuss mortality numbers without factoring usage. If 4,000 people took heroin last year, and 3,900 of them died, it is much more deadly than if 1 million people consumer alcohol last year and 10,000 of them died. Heroin (and…

Two things:

Warning this is kind of rambly:

Fun fact mineral based sunscreens are effective and unlike Oxybenzone based ones, aren’t absorbed through the skin. Oxybenzone in particular is a problem for young children who don’t yet have the enzymes necessary to break it down once in the body.It also bleaches coral reefs.

I really like this line :

I’ve had really bad peels from doctors with license that they know what they’re doing. The truth is doctors don’t know your skin as well as you do - my skin cleared up immensely when I started taking treatment into my own hands. I’d be pissed if I had to go to an aesthetician to do a peel now. It’s significantly more…