Between this, unmanning many of our oversees posts, recklessly calling the new nationalist Taiwanese president, and thoughtless Tweets about nuclear weapons...it’s like no foreign policy is the new foreign policy. We’re just going to stay here, build a wall around ourselves, and hurl Tweets at the outside world.…

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Seriously. I’m not religious, but some of her illustrations and annotations suggest that she has studied hard and also synthesized a lot of material. That’s cool.

Totally - growth and change are uncomfortable. I’m just keeping my hopes up for the new public transportation system.

My perspective is more from living there than regarding the numbers. People in my neighborhood now have to park on the sidewalk as a result of increased residencies without a comparable increase in parking. Ideally we’d all stop driving cars, but the much improved public transpo system is gonna be a little while.…

The problem is largely that homeless services are centralized instead of dispersed, which is how phenomenons like Skid Row came to be. While it is alarming to work at clinics in Skid Row and see the high concentration of homelessness, I am inclined to agree with you. Homelessness in CA isn’t worse, it’s…

Nope. Any adult who f*cks with travel during the holidays needs to be booted promptly. It’s enough of a shitshow without idiots who think their opinions need to be heard. 

One of the main problems with reading the research on the effects of weed and then basing one’s personally use on the research, is that weed is a plant with many different strains that is not controlled, and may be mixed with traces of random whatever depending on your source.

You’re damned if you do and you’re damned if you don’t when it comes to pregnancy.

Yes. I think you really hit the nail on the head for how this could be implemented well and why it’s important.

I’m not even sure if it’s worth engaging with this comment because it’s so uninformed that I suspect trolling. But, quick rundown of the info:

Very true for certain distances. Going through the millions of instances in which car travel is incredibly unrealistic or flat-out unfeasible would be absurd. Sometimes, air travel has to happen. Luckily, ‘lots of kiddos are willing to bottle-feed or nurse, which greatly reduces the problems felt due to changing…

Yes! I never understand the baby hatred. We were all once babies who were just as incapable of understanding the awful sensation of rapidly changing pressure.

Active listening usually doesn’t involve interrupting people, and it requires rephrasing it back to the person who originally spoke, not to a third person or a group. Moreover, active listening pertains more to someone’s expression of a personal problem, e.g. ambivalence surrounding a personal dilemma, and is a…

This picture makes me so, so uncomfortable. 

But like, isn’t that the entire point of all of the Gawker affiliates? I mean, when was the last time you read something here where you thought, “Wow, this is important. I wouldn’t be able to find another source to better cover this important topic.” I like these sites, but I’ve always seen them as more of a source…

“Men repeating a woman’s explanation of something in their own words - immediately following her explanation - for no apparent reason other than to hear the sound of their own voices” is how I actually experience mansplaining on a day-to-day basis. The most recent instance was in the middle of my explanation of…

It’s so infuriating. But, I mean, I also know abortion doulas who have helped their clients through abortions during which OBGYNs have openly berated the clients for waiting too long or for getting pregnant in the first place. So, unfortunately, little surprises me at this point.

You’d be surprised by how many medical professionals are comfortable with the cognitive dissonance of working day-to-day to fix problems on the individual basis, and then voting for politicians and policies that effectively create more problems for these individuals.

My hyperbolic mistake :) I do not have experience with any ODs on benzos alone, but I am increasingly concerned about their use. The latest evidence shows that they’re becoming a substance of choice among older adults, which I fear will lead to a lot of CNS-related problems (falls, etc.)