Porn actors still get HIV, despite the testing. You can contract any number of STIs and have false negatives or periods of time when the tests can't detect an infection

Good. Obviously, testing isn't enough. Performers still contract HIV and other STIs, despite the testing.

"....decades in the past, often because they were silenced for that long out of fear."

Absolutely. What is new is that people are so much more media savvy now that they have become almost too cynical. Hence the "I hate myself for responding to this," posts.

Please see my reply to SlutPanic. This is actually pretty fast, given how much is involved.

Oh sure. I'm just saying that just because it is intended to sell more product, that it can't also be genuinely meaningful, and that we shouldn't have to hate ourselves for "falling for it."

They can't just cut a tie like that instantly. The trustees and the faculty have to weigh in. They have to sort out how it will affect their overall endowment legally and financially. Even if they wanted to do it the moment they heard, it takes time to do those things.

Me too! I finally figured out I have chronic low blood pressure and orthostatic hypotension. Not sure the cause, I just do what I can to avoid becoming dehydrated and stand up reeeaally slowly all the time. And if I ever feel woozy or nauseated, I have to sit or preferably lie down immediately. Morphine also makes me…

I haven't actually fainted after giving blood, but the two times it's almost happened have been after I donated blood at my dad's office (they give out really good gifts to donors) in the middle of August. The first time it was while I was still at the office and I saved myself from fainting by shoving an Oreo in my…

If you want people to care about humanity dying out in ~5 billion years, I don't know what to tell you. Most people can barely comprehend hundreds of years (we just don't live that long as an organism). Also, humans can't even get along peacefully right here on earth, why would you want us to possibly run across…

Exactly! We are completely insignificant in the cosmos, but we have a chance to be so much more. But as you said, maybe we don't deserve that chance. I'm so tired of telling people what I study and having them reply, "Why should I care?"

1) I got a job! It's part time at a local women's shelter, which while not exactly full time DV work beats no job!

Gawker and Jezebel by extension figured out long ago that doing Kimmel, Fallon, SNL, Colbert, or Stewart posts are easy clickbait. They get people looking everytime.

I think it's just easy clickbait. Easy to write, easy to get some clicks.

I know. They could have put a Taylor Swift post in that spot!

No, you did really good. I usually push it to Redneck Defcon Five and scare the shit out of myself. :/

You did fine. He was unreasonable, and it wasn't safe for you to back up. He escalated the situation. I'm glad you stayed in your car.

I just need some bitch space to vent. Feel free to ignore the tl;dr as you will.

i liked facebook soooo much, till I realized I am seriously fucked up and lonely as fuck judging from all the shit my "friends" post. I realized I have no friends. But I also have a mugshot from a dismissed arrest where I am in tears and look like shit online and nothing I have done has gotten it off- so humiliate…

Same. I thought I would miss it and I totally don't. I understand why some people keep it, but I think a lot don't realize how aggravating and invasive it really is.