Healthcare too. Lab and nursing, for example, require externships which are (almost) always unpaid, but thankfully shorter in duration, though even a short duration - mine was 6 months - is difficult to swing when you still have to work to support yourself in addition to your extern hours.

For real. Plants are my thing and it makes me kind of inappropriately angry to see things like “Rare Rainbow Tomato Seeds” that are, uh, genetically impossible and obviously photoshopped. 

Well it’s not like Amazon does anything to curtail very obvious scam items on Amazon Marketplace either so.. I guess I’m not surprised, but goddammit Amazon, can’t you do better?

Seconding a gift receipt. Sometimes when you’re making a registry you don’t really know what you need/want, so it’s not the end-all of what that kid should have. But since a lot of stuff is really dependent on the parent’s personal preferences you can’t go wrong with a gift receipt.

Diapers and wipes, mostly.

That’s what’s so infuriating. Every gun owner is assumed to be a responsible gun owner until they prove they’re not, often irreparably. How do you ever know who will go on to do something stupid when they just haven’t done the stupid thing yet? Ugh.

Only tangentially related: I met an older gentleman this year who does first aid at various events around Minneapolis. He said that, by far, it’s the country concerts over any other genre where more people get stupid drunk, belligerent, and hurt.

It took my husband a couple years, tbh, to be able to say the actual words. And that was after a teary breakdown on my part. He’s worked on better communication since then and I worked on reading his nonverbal signs. I don’t think it’s, on its own, a red flag. But if you try to talk about it, what happens? Does the…

“I bought a crummy electric kettle. They must not work in America.”

Right there in the article:

Except you shouldn’t be using antibacterial soap?