I'm in my late 40s, single, own a house independently, responsible for all my own expenses.
I've definitely gotten way less conservative as I age. I don't rage at paying taxes because I want my neighbors to have nice roads and schools and healthcare and food and food educations even if they're poor, even if they're immigrants. Because that's what Jesus world want me to do with my money: provide for my neighbor.
I'm a critical care nurse.
We do not dose based on gender. We dose based on height, weight, and individual response/tolerance of a medication. Nobody cares what's in your pants when we're giving you drugs. Definitely no one is taking your bone density into account. I literally just sent out the tiniest little old lady from our critical care unit yesterday on the highest dose of metoprolol I've ever seen in my life.
Stop lying. Trans rights are human rights. Gender affirming care is medical care. The medical community is clear on that point.
Favorable terms with no means of legal leverage are just wisps of air. They can and will be rescinded at the earliest convenience of the corporation, which is literally why we're in the current situation we are today. The strongest middle class in the US existed when unions were at their peak. That is not a coincidence.
A formal, legal union gives employees power and leverage to enforce the favorable terms that they negotiate with an employer. You can argue that unions as organizations can be subject to similar corruption as any other organization, but contrary to popular propaganda, there is nothing inherent in the existence of a union that requires or lends itself to corruption any more than any other power structure.
Employees are legally permitted to organize a formal, legal union of their own outside the existing union organizations, but then they're starting from scratch. Existing unions have been through negotiations, have experienced lawyers, know the process and all of its pitfalls. The vast majority of workers are better off joining an existing union because of this.
Can't believe no one has mentioned It's A Mad World yet:
https://youtu.be/4N3N1MlvVc4?si=-7kTHbNDPsNBHFuh
Also
Belly - Stay
Regina Spektor - Field Below
Tori Amos - Marianne, Twinkle, I'm Not In Love, Strange
Seether - Fine Again
PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love
I was gonna say, whoever made this has never dealt with an invasive ladybug swarm in their house before lol
Singing lessons. I'm honestly not even kidding.
I'm an American who grew up in a part of the country called Appalachia. My native accent is often associated with being uneducated and stupid, so I learned how to change it when I was a young adult.
The thing that helped me most was voice lessons that taught me how to control the muscles in the nasopharynx, throat, tongue. The reason that's difficult is because you can't see the way those muscles move when someone else speaks or sings, so you can't just mimic what they're doing. It takes a little bit more effort to learn.
Learning how to sing classical western music (opera type stuff) allowed me to learn how to speak in that kind of just generic Midwestern American accent that has less negative social associations.
Now, that being said, I also have Indian friends who grew up in the United States who still speak with a similar Indian accent as their immigrant parents, and it's really no big deal. So you could just roll with your native accent.
(And also, I still code switch back into my native accent when I'm talking to my family or I visit my home region. Your native accent never goes away even when you learn a different way of speaking.)
As a person who has had many cats in my life, I am of the opinion that two cats is the best number of cats. If you can afford to care for and have space for a second cat, I'd say go for it.
If you're not really experienced with cats, be aware that cats almost never get along immediately. It can take weeks of them seeming to hate each other before they become friendly. It's helpful to put the new cat in a cage where the current cat can see and smell them, but can't reach them with claws. That gives them a little space to get to know each other before the current cat feels like its territory is being invaded.
Yep, that's a strip mine
Nine Inch Nails. Why yes, I was in high school in the 90s, why do you ask?
Ok I have no idea where you drove through, but the vast majority of the state is woodland and wetland. I spent my childhood summers just literally wandering around the woods all day with neighborhood kids while our parents were at work.
You were in a strip mining area.
The Framingham Heart Study has entered the chat. It's really the only way to assess a longitudinal effect of this kind.
No, they do not have different drug trials based on sex or gender. No, medication absolutely does not have different effects based on sex or gender. Hearts, lungs , kidneys, all work the same no matter what kind of reproductive organs you happen to possess.
We do not distinguish based on sex or gender when administering medications. We only account for body size and individual response/tolerance to a medication.