anyone else reminded of Dallas Buyers Club? I hope all ends well for her and they make an Oscar darling of a movie about her story.

Sorry, James, that’s factually incorrect. From the OED:

oh christ, here we go...

yeah, my forehead is as smooth as glass. Pros and Cons.

My feeling is that anti-vaxx is a special case of the Dunning-Krueger effect.  Anti-vaxxers tend to be middle class or wealthier and have college degrees.  The know a little bit so they think they know everything.  But they are wrong about the part they think they know.  And cannot be corrected b/c the think they know…

like everything else in the world, nothing is 100% bad or 100% good.

you should probably look into getting the Chicken pox vaccine now.  I’m pretty sure adults can get the vaccine too, and while chicken pox is relatively mild in children, it can be life-threatening in adulthood.

I mean... peppermint oil probably does have an anti-microbial effect.  But so do a lot of things, like soap and water, that you shouldn’t put INTO your eyeball.  I got a giant squirt in the eye the other day with a lime wedge that squeezed akimbo and I was SURE i had a chemical burn on my cornea.  But lime juice is…

OMG SAME. Now b/c Botox has left me with only headaches in my eyebrow/eye area: peppermint oil no longer helps. I can’t put it within a couple of inches of my eyes unless I want to be crying involuntarily all damn day.

My best friend is T1 diabetic.  Until *shockingly* recently, that diagnosis was essentially a death sentence.  Another friend of mine has pernicious anemia.  Another condition that was a death sentence not all that long ago.  Now these ladies are living pretty much entirely normal lives with normal life expectancies. …

I’m pretty sure that the chance of contracting measles once exposed is damn near 100%.  It won’t take much for it to spread outside the community.  And FURTHERMORE what difference does it make if it’s localized?  She’d be fine if all the children in the county died of measles?

Hae was his ex-girlfriend at the time of the murder, and I had thought that Rabia was his cousin?

I don’t know why the continuing coverage here hasn’t incorporated the additional detail about this woman’s condition. The family was super clear, she isn’t vegetative.  Not that it changes how horrific this situation is, but it is relevant.

point of clarity: the article said he admitted to “talking” to her.  Not to taking her.

apologies if I participated in a pile-on!

like the tagline of my fave podcast (Sword & Scale): “the worst monsters are real.”

I get that your question is a hypothetical wondering what would happen to someone who did something similar but was acting in good faith.  I think the thing here is that an individual looking to help this girl genuinely would never ask for video evidence.  It wouldn’t be necessary.  They would simply counsel the girl…

it’s pretty likely that they didn’t have a warrant yet or had no reason at the time to think she would be at his house.  Without more information there’s no reason to condemn the police for their actions.

heyo just finished my 3rd Whole30! and I agree on that, hunger doesn’t seem as bad while Whole30-ing...

Hubs and I have been doing a version of “intermittent fasting” for a few years, we skip dinner twice a week.  The first few times are hard, for sure, but you kind of re-pave those pathways and it gets way easier.  Now hunger doesn’t seem as disastrous as it used it.  And the mornings after we skip dinner I’m usually…