In addition to the massive creepiness, it’s somehow perfect that a person who is an OBGYN can be so blinded by ideology that he forgets how bodies work, as if every menstruating person has a regular cycle, and knowing one detail about that cycle automatically reveals what medical procedures they’ve had.

Each representative has a limited amount of minutes to ask their questions; uncooperative witnesses know this; so they purposely fill up the time by rambling and not answering the questions (Jeff Session and William Barr are masters at it).  So she nipped that in the bud and claimed back her time.  Do you not know how…

This right here. When he went on “listening sessions” in key swing states after the 2016 election that’s when I knew he aspired to public office. A book on how Facebook will fix the country will be next.

So, that’s Rep Katie Porter, D-CA. This is only a snippet of the inquiry - there’s more to it than what’s in the video - but she’s referring to the horrifying accounts of what content monitors have to go through and how terribly they’re treated by FB. The point she’s making is that if he’s not willing to do it for…

All of his pretend contrite sorries and pretend humility that these admirable women refuse to buy into!

A thing of true beauty. I only watched AOC’s portion yesterday (I’m in her district) but HOO BOY Rep. Katie Porter gave it to him good.

He’s not being a hypocrite. Sounds quite clearly like he’s saying, “I wanted you to show your body before because that benefitted my image and my ego, and I want you to hide your body now because that benefits my image and my ego.” His message has been very consistent: he believes her body belongs to him, and he is…

Fewer than 10 people have died. 

They tried banning alcohol once, it lasted 14 years, but didn’t stop people from drinking.

At this point there are 530 confirmed deaths from vaping-related causes and counting.

Cigarette smokers being respectful of others’ discomfort - that is a big generalization, and I wouldn’t necessarily call it respect. The law says smoke outside, they go outside. The law says don’t smoke within 20 feet of the doorway; inevitably someone smokes 5 feet from the doorway. I live in an urban area and this…

Curious how old you are and if you’ve ever been a non-smoker in a room or restaurant full of smokers, which is what we all experienced before laws started to change rapidly in the mid-90s. I’ll take someone’s vape cloud in my face over cigarette smoke from 200 feet away, any day of the week.

Yep, cigarette smokers have had far more respect for those around them than vapers for at least the last 20 years (that’s how long I’ve had friends/acquaintances that are smokers - can’t comment on how it was prior to that.)

The issue is a huge amount of the people who got sick were using black market cartridges with unknown substances in them, mixed with THC. The stuff you get at a grocery store or gas station isnt making the vapers sick

We (well. some of us) also sit in wet saunas for 20 minutes at a time breathing in water vapor.

As much as cancer sticks. Not more than. Why are flavored cigarettes, cigars, and alcohol still allowable?

Ok, but as someone who works in pharma, specifically in the drug development side of things, this is a pretty standard response to unexplained deaths and serious adverse events directly linked to a product. Just because vaping is cool* doesn’t mean that industry caution should be thrown out of the window at the…

To be fair, I have known a few people who successfully quit cigarettes after transitioning to vaping. The difference, though, is that they didn’t keep vaping. They used vaping to transition away from smoking completely and now abstain from both which is surely a lot healthier than replacing one form of addiction with…

It’s likely the 20% that didn’t report THC use are probably lying about it. The fact that that the overwhelming majority of illnesses is coming from THC vapes in states with no legal means of obtaining THC is a huge tell with this story. I agree with Esther’s premise that banning all forms of vaping is just going to…

Of all things to have as a habit, a mild legal stimulant is the least of my worries. I mean tons of high schoolers are addicted/dependent on caffeine, yet no one is proposing banning frappuchinos or sweetened coffee. I get that historically, the ways to fuel the habit for nicotine have been saddled with serious health…