And when mothers are allowed to keep their babies? They literally warehouse them. Parents in Sea Org are still often forced to work 80 hours a week, so their children are kept in childcare which... the conditions that have been described are horrific. Neglect, abuse, and then when the kids reach school age, they are…

This election seems to be mainly a referendum on how many people just want to watch the world fucking burn. How nice for straight white dudes that they were born wearing an asbestos suit.

I was just searching for an image to use in a presentation yesterday and the terms I was using mostly returned stock art. All of Getty’s stock was heavily watermarked already.

The property tax thing is so dependent on where you live, no one can make any general pronouncements on it at all. In my city, reassessments have been a political football for a couple decades. There are anti-windfall laws on the books saying that even if reassessments are done, the taxes can only increase by so much,…

Indeed. And you have the option to roll them all right into your mortgage payment. I write one check a month and some of it goes to escrow for payment of taxes and insurance, and some of it goes to principle and interest. And all together it’s way way way cheaper than renting.

For me, this is 99% of the reason to buy. Owning a house can be a pain in the ass, buying/selling a house is stressful as fuck (hello, doing it right now), etc etc etc but we’ve been paying the same dollar amount in mortgage since 2007 while meanwhile in my city rents have at least doubled, if not tripled depending on…

I studied abroad in PRC in the 90s and taught English to grad students (at one of the top 3 universities in China—these folks were older, smarter and just all around way better at everything than me except speaking English) as a side hustle. I became friends with a few of my students and wow things got weird when…

Cersei is nowhere near as smart as she thinks she is.

No, Vitals just has a weird hate-on for calorie tracking in favor of random fad diets that eliminate entire food groups and aren’t sustainable for anyone who enjoys a wide variety of foods. Keep counting your calories. I lost 35 pounds in about 9 months and have kept them off.

I love my Fitbit and have been wearing it for over a year, but remember exercise alone does not generally make you lose weight. Diet is for weight loss, exercise is for fitness.

Yep. I also lost 35 lbs with calorie counting last year (so far I’ve kept it all off for over 6 months now). You have to be honest with yourself and when in doubt, round up, not down. And never ever ever “eat your calories back.” The amount of calories your burn in a 30 minute cardio session is, like, half a cookie’s…

We live in a 2/1 ~1000 sq ft home right now but we’re selling it and getting a bigger one (not that much bigger—an extra 500 sq ft would suit me just fine) because with two adults and one child, we can’t all have hobbies in such a small space. Nothing, at least, that requires you to keep equipment out for more than a…

I’m in Pittsburgh and before I switched jobs in 2014, I was making $30k. I’m married so our household income was double that, and before we had our kid we were able to take vacations every couple of years and we own our home and all that stuff. In many areas of our life we still lived like grad students (used…

Nah dude, it’s cool. Pittsburgh real estate is going bananas right now and it’s pissing me off so yes, by all means, everyone STAY AWAY FROM PITTSBURGH IT’S SO TERRIBLE DON’T EVER MOVE HERE

Stop flipping your pan over and get yourselves one of these:

It actually is the other way around for men. Men who have kids are more likely to get more money and more promotions because they are “providing for a family.” Women in the same position get paid less and get passed over more because they “aren’t fully dedicated to the job.”

All of my local pols are Democrats and perfectly fine, and all the exurban and rural Republicans that have as their single mission to fuck everything up for everyone state-wide would probably rather die than set foot in the den of iniquity and sin that is The Big Scary City. They might see a black person! Or two men…

Yeah, but consider that she left (resigned, was asked to leave, potato potahto) Science Based Medicine because she was alienating such a huge swath of that blog’s readers—people who are already skeptics and already on her side. She often uses research in just as dishonest a way as the people she’s fighting against and…

Those two kind of deserve each other, tbh.

She seems to just completely lack nuance or a sense of the very recent history of obstetrics (twilight sleep was the norm until well into the 70s—it was not that long ago that we were literally drugging women, often against their will, into compliance during birth). She throws basic respect for women’s autonomy out…