Yup, exactly. The continued promotion of the Puritan work ethic, whereby anything less than 40 hrs a week is shameful sloth, will only entrench a neo-feudalism in which we are disposable servants of the investor class, or cannon fodder for their civilizational war.

My Dad has said many times that the best thing possible for our nation and the world right now would be if he goes under permanently with a massive heart attack. And he’s had two (despite being healthy and kind!), so he knows how agonizing they are, and doesn’t wish harm on anyone.

Yea, it’s definitely an economy of churn - that’s what I meant by the hamster-wheel kinda insanity. Didn’t mean to suggest that you were prescribing 80 hr weeks for everyone -glad you guys have found a system that works for you, and kudos on your drive! Part of my discomfort is probably that more than 40 hours a week,…

Fuck, a minimum 80 hr workweek is the respectable lifestyle goal we should all measure ourselves by now?

Yea, I thought that, and prob should have... but fuck it. I can be pegged easily enough by anyone half-way invested in doing so already, and until the opposition is rounded up into re-education camps, there’s not much anyone can do to me anyways.

Yea, he really isn’t all there, in so many ways.

He said that he and Bibi may come up with a Deal so great, the people in the room may not even be able to understand it, though.

Ha, same. And he’s got the same cold, affectless, reptilian gaze and delivery as Putin.

Maybe both French Canadians and Italians can be silenced by hand-cuffing them?

I pass your citizenship deprogamization test, psychic Canadian comrade! (Except for loving the Royals - although i dispassionately can appreciate them!)

I know that guy. All of them.

I would disagree to some extent, based on the context and adult supervision involved.

Wow. Yes, that’s pretty much the same explanation I received. The contempt for our ability to take in and understand medical risks, once informed of them, is astounding. It’s not difficult to understand that they don’t protect from stds, and there’s plenty of warnings for iuds of slightly increased risk of…

Ha! Good guess, but thankfully, haven’t lived in OC yet ;)

Yea, it pisses me off in principle, mostly just for its sheer irrationality... I mean, did he really think his refusal to give me an iud would keep me from having sex?

Wouldn’t want to inflict him (of course they were both hims!) on someplace that had much fewer choices of physicians, though :-/

Seems so weird, old-fashioned church-lady judgey, and anachronistic, took me a minute to catch on when it happened, too.

Religious Freedom!

Well, I’ll be generous and say that I suppose it probably makes sense for a typical OB/GYN to be concerned with fertility issues.

Haha, yea. First 2 doctors I tried to get IUDs from had a policy of refusing to insert them into unmarried women.