Oh, mos def true. And the kids of Sea Org members have a very different experience from public members. But definitely in the case of Sea Org member kids, they seem to have no problem whatsoever traumatizing the hell out of them from a very young age.

Yeah, this is way more in line with what I’ve read. Maybe it’s different for the children of celebrities, just in case someone who the press pays attention to starts to talk about it? I wouldn’t put that kind of thing past the COS.

That goes very much against everything I’ve read about what happens to the children of Sea Org members. They’re basically warehoused in work camps and not educated at all. See: Beyond Belief by Jenna Miscavige Hill. The justification is that children aren’t actually chilren, they’re just smaller-statured vessels for…

Define “desperate enough.” I’m a comfortably middle class full-time employed happily married woman with one child already. I don’t want any more. If my IUD were to fail, I would probably terminate. I wouldn’t be plunged into abject poverty by having another child, I just don’t want one.

That’s an accomplishment whether it’s a 15-minute 5K or a 30-minute one.

I’ve said that I’ve lived in places I was in for 6-8 months. At a certain point, you do just get on with your day-to-day life and that’s kind of my cut-off. Was I paying bills, going to school or working, buying boring sad groceries, and staying in to watch TV/read most nights? Yes? Then I was living there.

There is no rule about putting down dogs that don’t conform. The dog should have been spayed and adopted out as pet-quality. Either your mom mis-heard or the “breeder” was looking for an excuse to get rid of a dog they didn’t want and telling a false sob-story.

Flygirl took a wrong turn on the way to being a spinoff of Lifehacker, tbh.

I get just slightly over 10 vacation days a year. If I’m going to shoot my wad all at once like that, I’m going to goddamn Europe and it will not be “miniature”!

Is it perhaps the presentation of something that took 10 days and $300 as “micro”?

In 10 days and about $300, I hiked over 250 miles of the IAT.

My son’s idea of “snuggling” in the morning is to come in and start ordering me around: “Mommy, you lay down there. No, sit up, there. You go off the bed. I get on the bed. I lay down here, you lay down next to me. Mommy, you have to sit up now.” And then he starts jumping.

I prefer this method:

This is why I prefer to travel alone. One person’s treasured unique experience is another’s hell on earth. When I’m in a new city, I really prefer to spend a lot of time just being in that city. Out in the streets, walking around, exploring. I tend to avoid art museums because when you’re in one (except for a few…

People need less guns and more Ativan.

Only tangential, but I like to blow people’s minds with this tidbit any chance I get:

This is probably illegal, fyi. There are rules surrounding who can be declared “exempt” based on the type of job they do or what their base pay level is. Unless everyone at your office is a manager and is taking home $100k/year, you can’t all be exempt.

Yeahhhh I think in practice this is not going to change that much, unfortunately. Labor laws are broken with abandon by employers across this great nation, on a daily basis. Without enforcement, and without a labor market that is tight enough that employees can feel like they can walk and not lose their home,…

Please screencapture this glory and bring it here!