Considering what these places consider “treatment”? Torture. They’d torture you.

“they didn’t choose it” sounds a lot like “they can’t help it”. And “they can’t help it” still makes it sound like it’s a bad thing.

So essentially these parents have thrown their daughter away. When she gets out she is never going to speak to them. It would have been kinder had they just kicked her out. At least she could have gone to the family members who actually care for her.

Somewhat related to the topic, when people ask if being gay is a choice, I say that the correct answer is “no it’s not”, but I think an even better answer is “so what if it was”? I just never understood why some people care so much about others being intimate with members of the same sex. Seriously, how does it affect…

Heaven help any poor child sent to these bullshit prison-farms.

I’m so glad for Sarah that not all of her family are shitlords. My heart breaks for the kids at the facility that aren’t that lucky. All of these military-style/hard labor camps for “troubled” teens should be illegal, they're abuse straight up.

I remember that line from TNG, the one where they unfreeze some human popsicles from the early 21st century or whatever. But then by DS9, there does seem to be a more or less common currency called gold-pressed latinum, the currency is even mentioned in TNG in the last couple seasons. I guess the idea is that even if…

Gold is pretty useless in the Star Trek universe unless it contains Latinum.

Gold-Pressed Latinum.

“The economics of the future are somewhat different. You see, money doesn’t exist in the 24th century. The acquisition of wealth is no longer the driving force of our lives. We work to better ourselves and the rest of humanity.”

I’m so sorry — I’ve been there. My last job was a contract position, and I was very excited when the company had to offer me medical insurance because I worked 40+ hours a week. It came through just when I was having a lot of severe digestive issues that necessitated a lot of doctor/specialist visits, and I thought it…

This is the most frustrating aspect of medical insurance IMO. Even when you have it, it often isn’t nearly enough. So people pay exorbitant premiums, co pays, deductibles, etc., and STILL are ruined by medical costs. Infuriating. I am self employed and pay a high premium, have around an $8,000 deductible, and high co…

I’m going in next week for a follow-up ultrasound and imaging because breast density rendered my first mammogram ineffective. I’m extraordinarily lucky because I have excellent insurance — neither the original mammogram nor the follow-up required a co-pay (I’m also getting a CPAP machine with no co-pay, which is…

I’m 29 and recently found a lump in my right breast. I went to my OBGYN, who felt me up for a solid 20 minutes and then sent me to a clinic to get a breast ultrasound. It was there that we discovered for the first time that I have cysts, which I’d never had before (or maybe I did but never noticed?).

The other great one is finding benign but large tumors that the doctor recommends removing for comfort and because smaller cancerous tumors can hide behind large benign ones on mammograms, but the insurance company deems it a “cosmetic” surgery that they have no interest in paying for. Even though as a frequent flyer…

Cave Johnson: I don’t want your damn lemons

It’s happening. Deal with it, nerds!

The more ripped you are, the better your chances are to survive the MURDERVERSE

Honestly, I want this to succeed both creatively and finanically as much as possible because so much of this hate is based on some bullshit idea of a childhood being tarnished by it. Yeah, like Ghostbusters II didn’t do that already. And if this ruins your childhood, I shudder at how horribly fucked up that must have…

From the makers of Turbo Kid you say?