Right...so poor people theoretically have access to the money, but only if they pay it back with interest. That just isn’t comparable with receiving a lump sum, at all.

Your examples are all jobs that require a graduate degree or greater. There just aren’t that many Americans with grad degrees. Professionals in fields with less demanding requirements can earn a combined 100k in the big cities, but their cost of living is proportionately higher than the national average.

“It’s ONE banana Michael, how much could it cost? Ten dollars?”

You’re making the assumption that poor people won’t spend money productively. If I got $35,000 right now, I would put most of it towards upgrading my workshop’s equipment. I’ve needed to do it for ages, but never have enough cash to spare; at the same time, using old and fussy machines is a serious drain on my…

They mean biological sex (male/female/intersex).

I don’t want that old doctor - look at how many of her patients have died! This guy who’s not a doctor and never worked in a hospital hasn’t killed anyone, I want him to treat me!

RIFF RAFF just dunked on the President. This alternative timeline we’re on is dark and scary, but it has its moments.

I agree with your perspective, but I think you should consider PrEP a form of protection. It’s by far the best protection against HIV. For most gay men, that is the primary concern. If you don’t use condoms for oral sex (very few gay men do) you’re already at risk of contracting most common STIs; a mucous membrane is…

Of the millions of people worldwide on PrEP since 2011 or so, two have contacted HIV. That’s around the likelihood of winning the lottery or being attacked by a shark. In the 90s religious groups often used the 1-5% condom failure rate to undermine safe sex education, with overwhelmingly negative results; I don’t…

I don’t think it’s fair to extrapolate the behavior of one hardcore tweaker to everyone who’s taking PrEP. And yeah, of course the meds don’t work if you’re cracked out and forget to take them for days at a time; condoms don’t work if you forget to wear them.

No STI is a picnic - I’ve had several surgeries to remove pre-cancerous lesions due to HPV, and it sucks - I’m just saying that people who attend a sex party are adults who know the risks. Attendance isn’t mandatory; people who are worried about contracting an STI don’t go to a sex party for the same reason people who…

It’s true that orgies bring heightened health risks, but so do lots of fun things. Skiing, rock climbing, scuba diving, and even running marathons carry risks of significant lifetime injuries or other pathologies, and to people who don’t enjoy those pastimes the risk might hardly seem worth it.

THANK you! I’ve noticed that a lot of people’s ignorance of sexual health issues is exceeded only by their hostility to correction.

Kat something, right?

You are not going to be turned down for an organ transplant for using PrEP, and it is enormously irresponsible to spread lies about a medication that not only saves lives, but prevents the spread of a plague. The point of HIV meds is to prevent the transmission of (and deaths from) HIV/AIDS. If people are taking their…

IIRC Gorsuch had UNANIMOUS opposition. It is literally impossible to oppose him more than that. There were dozens of floor speeches and press conferences denouncing his appointment and McConnell’s totalitarian ploy. So much of the political power in our government is essentially regulated by the Honor System, which is…

Their house is on fire, and they’re yelling at the firemen for getting their books wet.

Ok, which GOP votes should she be able to get, the ones who believe in Genesis, the ones who believe in white genocide, or the ones who are terrified of a primary from the right? She has nothing to offer them as an incentive; there is no GOP priority she can or would trade votes for.

How is Gorsuch the fault of Democrats? Mitch McConnell changed 200-year-old filibuster rules so he could be approved over universal Democratic opposition.

The exerpt at the end of this article is the TITLE, not the press release (she does loooong titles).