I think we do know why these things happen. For one, Safe Haven laws aren’t really publicized the way they should be, and lots of people don’t know it is an option. But more broadly, the shame and stigma of unplanned pregnancies and the pressure on women actually makes it mentally very difficult (if not impossible)…

Its for people too lazy to make cocktails that taste good, or who want to get drunk fast.

Six year olds are generally exempt from having to be logical people.

I don’t know why it got so popular. It’s bizarre. My parents even gave it to my sister, despite the fact that they always had our middle names be deceased relatives’ names and we didn’t have a single Marie in the family.

Omg. One of my best friends in elementary school had a Danish mother, and at sleepover she would make us tiny puffy pastries in that thing and let us dip them in straight sugar. It was the best. I don’t think she used those stupid sticks to flip them, though.

If you’re between 15 and 35, I think half of the population had Marie as middle name.

I guess if a person chooses to eat gluten-free just cuz and never, ever tells anyone any rationale for why they do so, then I’d be okay with that. Good luck finding this magical unicorn.

Because every time they spread misinformation, it makes it harder for me to have my real disease taken seriously. You have no idea how frustrating it is for me to say, “I can’t eat gluten, I have celiac disease” and have someone come back with, “You know that’s just a myth, right?” or “It’s okay, this is low-gluten…

People can choose not to eat gluten; I don’t really give a shit. The problem is that the Venn diagram of “people who choose not to eat gluten because pseudoscience” and “people who are assholes/dumb” is a circle.

That brand is pretty good (great fake Oreos), but it’s still a lot of money for the amount of bread compared to non-GF stuff.

I get that intent matters legally here, but I really don’t think it matters morally.

Because when people claim to be gluten intolerant and then eat bread in front of waitstaff, it makes the waitstaff less likely to check things when I, a person with Celiac, actually need them to. Sort of like how calling every down mood “depression” contributes to society not taking depression seriously as a disease.

THANK GOD.

I don’t really think there’s much of a difference between “strangled her” and “caused immense trauma by illegally arresting her and then did none of the things you’re supposed to do with a suicidal detainee despite all evidence that she was indeed suicidal.” One is just a more proactive form of murder than the other.…

I agree that the third option is more likely, but I don’t think it puts the cops in a better light than if they’d outright murdered her. In their narrative, they knew she was depressed (exacerbated/caused by the illegal arrest) and possibly suicidal and did nothing about it. That’s just another form of murder, IMO.

IDK. Her supposed mugshot was really weird looking, and some parts of it implied that she might not have been standing when it was taken. But then again, mugshots are not exemplary photographs in the best of circumstances, and some of the evidence for her already being dead could be just really bad photography.

I dunno...I’d feel super creeped out by the fact that a stranger is just holding on to my biological matter too.

No matter what the mother did, it still isn’t right to punish children for it.

Neither KY nor the federal government have an anti-discrimination law, so she can’t be sued on those grounds, I don’t think. There’s probably some other grounds to sue here, but I’m not sure what they would technically be.

There’s no anti-discrimination law in KY, so it’s pretty hard for the federal government to strong-arm people into performing their duties. County clerks are not technically federal employees, so they can be protected by a sympathetic county or state government.