Yeah, the district by me is only reporting cases if the student was at school within 48 hours of their positive test. So they’re effectively not reporting any positives that have resulted after a student has been quarantined more than 2 days. So it’s impossible to know if it’s spreading at these schools.

I just can’t believe this because it would be so simple- study participants could be getting routine covid tests, regardless of symptoms. 

Except going through the wrong puberty can be devastating and can’t be reversed. And no one is letting kids make the decision to seek hormone blockers without parents or other adults guiding them. It’s not like it’s EASY for people to access this medical care already. There are multiple adults who have to help kids…

Most trans people report knowing since they were very young. Toddler aged. So for a child that has been insisting that they are not the gender they were assigned at birth for 5-10 years, it’s not something that people don’t have a long time to think about it. Hormone blockers grant them extra time to decide if they…

I’m going to regret engaging this topic, but no, this isn’t lifelong, it just gives them an opportunity to delay puberty until they can be sure. Going through the wrong puberty is hell on these kids, and fucks them up way worse in the long run. It’s VERY difficult for kids to access these hormone blockers,…

The only time it’s inappropriate to use gender neutral pronouns is if someone KNOWS the person’s gender, but is choosing to be vague because they don’t want to affirm that person’s gender. People do sometime use “they” when they are trying to talk around someone being trans, and if they know better, it’s a jerk thing…

Exactly! A year and a half is not a short time to date. If both people want to get married, they should know by then if they want to be married to each other. Like, not everyone wants to be married, but for people who do want that, they don’t have to date someone for 5 years to figure out if that’s the right person. 

Gifts are just not my love language. I wish we could simplify and not do so much with holidays too.

I hope the progressive movement can still be a thing come 2022, but if Biden can’t get much done, some who voted for him will become cynical and will vote for whoever the Republicans nominate in 2024, and it could be someone worse than 45.

I guess I should rephrase- I’m not voting for Biden again, so I hope the democratic party spends the next four years finding a candidate people want to vote for. 

It makes ABC a lot of money.

From the linked article:

I’m going to be REALLY mad if the DNC expects me to vote for Biden again in 4 years. 

Yes, pricking the crust keeps it from bubbling up when you blind bake it. We always do this, and don’t fuss with weights. 

It’s cold and keeps the butter from melting. I just got a fancy marble rolling pin and it is AMAZING. It’s almost no effort to flatten the dough and it stays cold too. 

But doesn’t legal malpractice exist and don’t lawyers have an obligation to their client to not file unwinnable cases? Do lawyers make them sign a waiver saying the lawyer said not to do this?

Yes. The shape of them makes them more susceptible. Think about iceberg lettuce- its a head and you throw out the outer leaves that have protected the inner ones and then wash it. Romaine is like a funnel into the inside leaves.

Yup. It feels like a commentary on the year. 

The population of Harris County is larger than the populations of 25 states.

They’re claiming that drive-thru voting is an illegal expansion of curbside voting, which is only allowed for people with disabilities.