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that isn’t really a problem with cultivation so much as distribution and waste (we can adequately feed everybody on the planet with all the food that is grown on the planet; it’s just that an enormous percentage of it goes in first world garbage cans). it’s the systems and incentives that are fucked up, not the…

Oh, I’ve interacted with Neil Gaimon before on something political. Also, I tweeted something lightly making fun of Betsey Johnson’s bankruptcy (I can’t remember the exact context), and she favorited it, which made me love her.

Oooh, let’s make this a celeb twitter encounter thread:

Soooo it looks like this is just a marketing stunt rebranding less fatty (likely less-flavorful as a result) avocados, since the linked article says “It is a product marketed under the brand Isla Bonita, of Eurobanan, which features a selection of avocado varieties with 30% less fat than the avocados that can usually…

Oh, come on. This is what “food scientists” are wasting their time on? The UN said last year that we are facing the biggest global crisis since 1945 with 20 million at risk of starvation. How about figuring out how to grow crops in inhospitable climates? But no, instead we need slightly less fatty avocados. For crying…

It actually might not be illegal. A small business can always claim that the accommodations requested aren’t reasonable, etc. It’s bulllllllllshit but it might be legal.

it is illegal as hell, but it doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen.

I just watched a friend go back after the standard maternity leave to her place of employment and was told that she was no longer the project manager (a job that offered her a route to promotion, travel opps, etc )- the guy who they had doing her job “temp”…

What this really is about fathers who aren’t doing their part of raising the kids. They want to be there for Kodak moments, and let their domestic/reproductive slave(many people like to call this a wife) to do all the cunt work. This is something nobody is talking about, whole societies are expected to support women…

There aren’t more male nurses because men are better supported in STEM and long careers so they end up in higher paying jobs, like physicians. And women might dominate pediatrics because working with kids is considered more socially acceptable for them. The other job you mentioned, sanitation workers, is also a gender…

I will respond to you, because this shithead will probably dismiss me. Male nurses actually earn more money then women who are nurses, it is thing called glass escalator. So every man in a industry that it is full of women is going to earn more and be in leading positions. Fields that are full of males will be giving…

But we never assume that about men. We never think, “Oh, he can’t be a physician and a father.” What this is really about is the load of childcare is placed on mothers and we have little to no supports for women after childbirth and childcare. I wonder if other countries who have more supports struggle with the same…

Small industry, easy to get blacklisted in the area. No money for a lawyer. Most staff makes under $15/hr and I only make mid-5 figures for crazy hours and responsibility with $200k in student debt. I’m pursuing other opportunities. I talked to the staff member who was threatened with unpaid leave and she doesn’t want…

Since you’re not grey....

Are you in the US? Because that is illegal as hell.

Good call, mr burns. It’s not as if having more surgeons would result in a net benefit for everyone. Who the fuck needs doctors trained in complex procedures, I’ve got google and webmd. Bootstraps all you selfish surgeons, bootstraps!

Except, it’s only women who suffer from having children during this time period. Men can have all the kids they want, because the whole field and process is built around their biological realities and the assumption they have a wifey at home to take care of everything else.

So when’s the good time, do you think? Med school? The possible fellowship after residency? When they begin practicing as a licensed physician and they’re in their mid-30s?

I’m a veterinarian and I’m pretty sure I would be threatened with firing or at least lose a huge amount of income if I became pregnant at my current job. Staff members who became pregnant were banned from doing anything the owner thought might be harmful, despite what the woman wanted. Major job functions required a…

Thank you, dear. I’ll accept the thought as the gift. 😘