Y’all, do not miss this most excellent video by Mandy and Katherine Patinkin.

A friend of mine who works in tech praised the VA app for its security. And he is a person I trust to know this kind of thing. Sadly, my state hasn’t bothered making one.

Where I work, we get a lot of unsupervised middle/high school kids after school. I have absolutely no qualms about correcting their behavior. It’s harder with kids who are with their parents, and it’s definitely something that takes practice.

I think it’s more complicated than that, but I’d like a source that isn’t Shonda Rhimes to talk about it. (This happened on Scandal, but under wildly different circumstances. 

I don’t know about you, but I have never in my entire life had anything to say to a grieving parent except, “I’m sorry for your loss.”

I saw that graph once about carbon footprints and how choosing to have one fewer kid was the biggest impact, and I’d be lying if I said that didn’t factor at all in my decision to have only one. But it’s one of many reasons, and I struggle to define which is the biggest reason. It absolutely varies. When my son was an…

I'm thin and have high cholesterol too. For years, even with me telling them I'd had a high result in the past, no one ran more tests because im young and thin. It's probably genetic, but no one seems fussed about the fact that a thin 30 year old has cholesterol in the 170s. 

Marathon runners and yogis have a lot of free time for those hobbies. Being vegan isn't cheap. It's not just about choices, it's about having the opportunity to make those choices. 

It tests the amount of luteninizing hormone, but it does look and work similarly to a pregnancy test. And like I said, it's not a binary test- the darker the line, the more of the hormone is present in the urine. 

A toilet based ovulation predictor would be pretty sweet. IDK how it would work, but there absolutely is a chemical change in the urine that predicts ovulation. There’s one kit that has proprietary tests- pee on them and put them in a machine that gives you a happy face if you’re about to ovulate. Most others are very…

The only thing I could see other than a balloon payment or a variable rate loan, would be if she stopped paying her taxes and insurance and the bank was paying them, then adding those to the principal balance of the loan. Maybe two things happened- if her fixed rate period expired after adding taxes and insurance,…

Yeah, people don’t always read the fine print and don’t always know that the balloon payment is coming. OR they expected to refinance when that happened and then they couldn’t, since the house didn’t have the equity. 

AFAIK, the problem is your temperature shows that you ovulated after the fact. Three days of a sustained rise means you ovulated. The only ways I know to predict ovulation before it happens is by using urine tests and monitoring your cervical fluid. There’s a lot that would require user input, so a wearable would be…

Oh, I hope things go well for you. That's so scary. Lots of love. 

Yes, I’m going to vote for pro-fracking when the alternative is pro-fascism.

I think that it needs to be set on a state or even county level, and set by a formula. The federal government should focus on setting a standard- so a specific % above the poverty line or living wage in the state/county/city. Smarter people than I will have to come up with the exact formula, and determining what a…

I think there is a thing that does this, but it’s usually marketed as for people trying to get pregnant. There is one that has FDA approval to call itself birth control, but not a lot of people seem to use it. I’m not sure I’d trust it, TBH. 

But also wearables only JUST started admitting that women wear them. For…

I used to think this, but it’s just conceding to them that not wanting to be pregnant isn’t a valid reason to need birth control. You shouldn’t have to “prove” to people that you need it for medical reasons, not whore reasons.

I’m not a teacher, but I work in public service. Our empathy is being weaponized against us and it’s not okay. We get told that we should want to put our health at risk to help people. 

“Imagine taking a drug designed to target a healthy part of your body and make it stop functioning.”