1. They also put him in a dark closet by himself to “calm him down”

The bigger mystery to me is, who watches these videos? Who follows these people and wants to listen to basic people spewing basic shit for 45 minutes, which could be condensed into 2 minutes but they stretch it out foreeeeever to get more $$$$?

That’s the part that really gets me too - they’re sharing info about his life and his medical situation that they have no right to share.  Doing so isn’t in his best interest, it’s just in theirs, because they want to make sure that no one thinks badly of them.  They’re clearly not equipped to be good parents to him,…

This ‘family as performance’ shit is angering in ways I cannot reasonably put into words using my mushy quarantine brain.

My friend was given back to the adoption agency after his first set of parents decided he was too sullen as baby. I think good riddance to those people, he ended up with a loving family and was too young to really remember that first family. These people publicly documented his stay with them so it’s out there…

A few things to add color to the discussion:

Norma had an extremely messed up life way back to her childhood. This does not surprise me. Just another case of evangelicals being just as shitty as I imagine them to be.

I mean, if her job is in fashion, and the salesperson’s job is working at a Chanel counter, and each is dipping their toes into the water of trying to return to some semblance of work, then this interaction would seem to actually BE a priority for them.

This is what I don’t get. The same department stores that are going bankrupt and closing are the ones responsible for driving people away from the stores and online. Service was better, staff was actually knowledgeable about the products, and if they didn’t have something they would order it for you. Now, you’re lucky…

Trips to department stores pre-lockdown was never productive anyway. I’d go to buy something, it wouldn’t be there, and would get instructed to order it online. From Neiman Marcus to Target, they have driven/trained us order online.

No one in Mississippi has ever seen the Æ character before. 

If they’re serious about this name, and I doubt it because it’s illegal in California where she gave birth, then I wouldn’t be surprised if they split over it.

He won’t have to.  The state of California already said no.  Birth certificates cannot have numbers, nor can the state systems support the Ash character.

I think you’ll find it’s pronounced starting with the sound of crying on the school playground and ending with that of a pen scratching a signature on to an emancipation document.

I look forward to May 2038 when this kid changes his name to “John.”

I think an undersold aspect of this is the death of the middle class. The ultra-wealthy are still buying Gucci, the rest of us have been demoted to fast fashion and athleisure.

“Like most brick and mortar retailers in the past decade, J. Crew couldn’t compete with online retailers like Amazon, a broader problem for the industry at large.”

I feel like this article is a reach.

I’ll be honest, I went on a fabric mask buying spree lately. There are a bunch of cute ones on etsy and Redbubble. My latest favorite is this Dolly Parton one: https://www.rageon.com/products/dolly-with-extra-hillbilly

For the privileged, a face mask is an expression of individual identity, essentially rendering its primary function meaningless.