I’m lucky with my employer in that I pay $0/year for my health insurance. I am unlucky because I cannot afford to use my free insurance due to a $5000 deductible.

I was thinking about those commercials yesterday when I picked up my fiance’s inhaler from the pharmacy. $45, and I thought to myself “For just $1.50 a day you can provide an American with lifesaving medicine.” We’re lucky that’s the only regular prescription either of us need, but it still sucks we pay $45/month just…

Um. That’s a strange take.

Here’s my better system:

Every morning as I drive to work, listen to NPR, and get angrier and angrier, I think “I should run for office.” I want to fight for positive changes, I’m fascinated by legislation and diplomacy and the whole shebang, but I think I’m too soft for politics. I’m not sure I could face the stress and volatility.

I am legitimately terrified of option three happening. It seems like all the groundwork is being laid for Supreme Leader Trump to rule indefinitely. Discrediting the media, arresting protesters, placing all the blame on the other party and its constituents (LGBTQ people, black people, immigrants). It’s horrifying.…

Mine is that I’m late for a math final in a course I’d forgotten I’d registered for and never gone to, sometimes in French or German (places I lived in real life). Lots of times I’ve forgotten to put on a bra too, so I’m self conscious on top of panicking about trying to pass.

Someone from Middle School added me on Facebook about 5 years ago and after I accepted the request, he sent me a long apology message for taking part in bullying me. The funny thing was, though I remembered him, I would never have thought to put him on the list of bullies because he was actually relatively nice to me…

I’ve often wondered, was I a bully too? I’ve come to the conclusion that I wasn’t. There were times when I wasn’t at the bottom, and in those times I could have spoken up for others. But why bring their ire and attention back on me? So I’d half-heartedly laugh when they teased, or pass their rumor along, anything to…

Child care costs are the biggest thing stopping us from having one. We live a frugal but comfortable life in the Seattle area but we need both incomes and it would almost be cheaper for him to quit working. I get paid more but his insurance is better (mine would be an extra $800/month to add a kid). I’ve been looking…

“Demographic transition” is a real term, not just one he made up, that refers to the shift in children birthed as countries go from developing to developed. The point about high birth rates is a valid consideration when allocating aid. Dumping billions into it won’t be a long term solution, it will sustain the…

I translated the full question and answer higher in the thread. You should read it. Context means a lot.

This is irresponsible journalism. At least post a clip that shows the question and response, not a clip edited to suit a French opinion paper’s agenda. Also, failli (which you translated as failed) means bankrupt.

Well, its still not the full clip because the end is cut off (http://senego.com/video-emmanuel-macron-le-defi-de-lafrique-est-un-defi-de-civilisation-et-non_500572.html) but here’s my best. It’s certainly not perfect because I’m dealing with a lot of ambient noise I couldn’t make out two bits.

I found the full clip: http://senego.com/video-emmanuel-macron-le-defi-de-lafrique-est-un-defi-de-civilisation-et-non_500572.html

The video clip they translated from is also heavily edited, and I suspect cut to make Macron look worse than what he said was.

Do you speak French with a native speaker’s understanding of nuance? Let’s not forget that the author and most readers of this article are criticizing a heavily edited (the cuts are obvious in the video), translated answer to a question we don’t know since we don’t get to hear it asked.

People were talking about Barack Obama as the next president literally even before he won his Senate seat. She has years to grow at this point, and she isn’t anywhere near as new to politics as Obama was then. And though I’m not waving a Harris 2020 sign yet, I’m definitely keeping my eye on her as someone who has the…

I think there is intentional symbolism here. She’ll go on in Manchester, and then the next show will be Paris, which also suffered a devastating attack at a concert. It’s a double fuck-you to the terrorists, and she has massive steel ovaries for her bravery and grace through all this.

I was just thinking this tonight. I moved across the country a year ago with my boyfriend, and we see a few of my college friends every couple months, but it would be great to have a couple girlfriends to go to brunch with or wine and paint nights. I also feel like most people like me if I put in all the effort, but…