Employers are not your friends. Employers are people who want you to do as much as possible for as little as possible. Regardless of one's political views, employers are not friends. It is an uneasy alliance at best and an outright war at the best of times. Wanna be friends? Help me unionize this workplace, bro.

If there's one thing doctor who has taught me it's that the waters of mars of are completely safe, and they do good things for the body.

Extended family. I only ever associated with parents and my brother. The rest of them consider us to insane people because we didn't vote for trump.

Thanks, I hate it!

I do appreciate my likeness being used for advertising.

M'star trek peeps, is the show worth watching? I've never seen it, and I've heard mixed reviews.

Nope. But we should make Worker's Day a federal holiday on May 1st

Noticed the same thing the last time I logged on. For me, my feed was primarily queer subs and subs relating to philosophy and religion. The explicitly religious subs (Christianity, Hinduism, etc) were still there, but the subs related to philosophy, occult, other niche topics, were much less heavily featured, and the queer subs were just gone.

Excuse me, I resent being attacked at 5am on a Friday, tyvm.

Do you have any suggestions on sir/ma'am? I'm from the south, and genuinely don't know how to stop saying sir/ma'am. I always try to go with whatever the person is presenting, and I have tried not to say it at all. But that southernism is deeply ingrained. Like at a drive through or something, where you only have a voice to go off of it's especially bad. I do try to avoid it, but I wish there were a gender neutral version, because language just feels rude without it to someone who grew up with that instilled in them. All adult people must be addressed as ma'am or sir, regardless of age in any kind of setting that isn't close friends. If I forego it, I feel rude as fuck, and most of the time whoever you're talking to also acts offended. But the last thing I want to do is misgender someone, especially with words like sir/ma'am, that are such... Strict terms. Halp?

Worth noting that those discounted rates are still significantly higher than what insured patients pay, and astronomically higher than what people in actually sane countries pay.

I was a prolific reader as a kid. Homeschooled, single mom who worked, so I would spend sometimes 6 or 7 hours a day at the library while she was at work. Once I went through the entire kids section, the librarian caught me in the adult section and I thought I'd be in trouble. Instead she showed me this collection of fairy tales that were dark and when my mom came to pick me up, she explained I'd been through everything and asked my mom to sign consent for an adult library card. Which she did, because my mom rocks. Lol. Only book she wouldn't let me read was the color purple when I was 10. Had to wait a bit for that. Lol.