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I dunno, as someone working an essential job in a grocery store for a non-living wage, this piece just goes right over my head. I *WISH* I had the education and skills to grind away at a non-essential office job, instead of grinding away at a job that keeps people fed, for less than $500 bucks a week. 

There definitely seems to be a dichotomy between people who had time to have these grand epiphanies about work and people who have just had to buckle down and log more hours at the grocery store (or wherever) because all their coworkers are falling sick.

I had a terrible epiphany this year and it makes me feel awful each time I think about it: I don’t want to work.

My 20-yr marriage ended a few years ago, no kids. We did not bicker, it was all passive-aggressive on his side and silence on mine as a result. But we had stopped having good days, much less sex. Anyway, he is the one who first said he wanted to split (well, emailed...) and I was so relieved, I moved out within four…

Sounds to me like they were made for each other. Neither has the guts to end it so she has gone aggressive while he plays the passive doormat.

That was a really sad read, life is definitely too short for that crap. You make a really good point about us passive folks. Being passive is still an action, and still holds responsibility. It’s good to be reminded of that.

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True, but we’d be doubly skeptical if they had nothing but old white dudes up there, so I don’t really blame them for noting there was a Black woman heavily involved.

Harriet A. Washington’s Medical Apartheid is a fascinating book that is also very difficult to read. Nothing to do with Washington’s writing, it’s the subject matter; chapter after chapter of horrors inflicted upon Black Americans in the name of science and medicine.

Also thanks to Henrietta Lacks.

My parents solved this one ages ago. Two full sized beds sitting parallel and separated by a nightstand in the master bedroom. One is extremely firm or near concrete as my mother puts it for my stepfather. The other is softer with lots of extra pillows for my mother.

It’s been working for them for... 30+ years.

She’s the generation before Boomers - the Silent Generation, the ones born during the Depression. Her daughter, born in 1957, is a Boomer.

I got laid off in March and have been quite lucky not to have been hard pressed to go back to work immediately. I just re-started my job search but realized when I got three calls asking for interviews today, I’m not actually excited to go back to work. I’ve been really enjoying the time off. I’ve read SO MANY BOOKS,…

Who the fuck wants to still be working at 87?!?  I’m 41 and ready to retire.  If I were a millionaire like her, I’d be chilling in my library reading all day and being tipsy by noon for my mid-day nap.

Thanks for reporting on this, it is very important.

Kudos to them.

Cuomo is just as full of shit as those Congress members who were all set to throw a lunch or some shit for new members, last week, until they got called on their flim flam fuckery, too.

I got certified (Schwinn) last year! It was actually fairly... easy? Especially because it’s a one day or one weekend thing, versus yoga/YTT- where that is an actual time commitment. So, certification is easy- but what I learned was, I don’t know if I would actually end up being a good instructor. It’s really fucking…

I can confirm that our goal is absolutely a full-blown matriarchy. First we gain the presidency, then we start oppressing the men.

We start passing laws on what elective medical procedures they can have to erode their bodily autonomy, pay them less so they’re more dependent on us, only test medication on women so it’s …