That’s not a beard. THIS is a beard

A christmas tree, no matter how glitzy or plain, is not a REAL christmas tree without ancient macaroni, cardboard-and-glitter, or other ornaments clearly handmade by small children. Bonus if your own extremely elderly contributions are still around by the time your children start adding their own.

Hugs and kisses are pretty effective. Spoken as somebody with Complex Trauma due to family dysfunction who knows what a lack of these things does from personal experience. Give them time to talk about their feelings without trying to fix it or give advice while providing a sympathetic ear. Advice and fixing things can…

And look, he’s also ableist! What a surprise. That is, none at all. They might as well have a big flashing neon sign above their head that says “I feel so inadequate as a human being that I can only feel secure if there are other people to look down on, and I’m probably a psychopath as well who loves that bigotry…

Yep, MbP can be fatal - according to wikipedia, by the time of diagnosis, 6% of the victims were dead. Not only that, half the victims had siblings, and 25% of those siblings were dead. And the WebMd page on it is clearly designed with victims looking the disease up in mind - and the risks they face doing so.

Noticed this myself, and it’s infuriating. The Jezebel that originally got me coming to these news sites didn’t do that. The Thiel buyout seems to have neutered Jezebel. Not surprising, given Thiel’s attitudes toward women voting.

He’d be making jokes about periods, probably.

Provided it’s a male pedophile preying on teenage girls. Had he been targeting teenage boys they’d be singing a different song.

Racism is like drugs. Your brain on drugs = your brain on racism. Just say no to both.

Nothing. Nothing separates them. A Venn diagram of the two groups would be a circle.

To: Elon Musk
From: Executive Director at Gold-Plated Medical Care for the Ridiculously Wealthy, Inc.
Subject - result of your latest round of tests and diagnosis. Please find attached additional reports from; primary care physician, therapist, neurologist, proctologist, gastroenterologist, radiologist, sonographer,…

I didn’t get that impression from Juan_Carlo’s comment, more that Takei grew up with influences (eg the much older counsellor) that were very emotionally unhealthy (ie, abusive), and he could have been conditioned to think this was normal, and went on to repeat the abuse. Hopefully he has figured it out now, but he…

An (extremely) modest femme fatale!! I like!!!

Been a long time since I’ve done any cpr training, but I thought that if you’re doing it properly you will definitely break a rib or few?

Let’s all play find the Bug in the image of the full painting!!

Power. Teaching attracts two types of people - those who genuinely care, and those who like having power over others. Which is why bullying is especially high in these professions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullying_in_teaching

You are massively overestimating Trump’s empathy and good sense.

you’ve got a great mum. Mine insisted on telling me that she hated me when I did stuff she didn’t want me to do, which wouldn’t have been so bad if the behavior she demanded hadn’t been absurdly vague in description and obviously, horrendously about accepting her abuse of me uncritically and showing no ill effects…