"The move could impact clubs, classes and other institutional programs but carves out an exception for campus activities required to retain accreditation." So DEI isn't required for accreditation. Maybe it should be? These states' schools should lose funding or status or something.

Charge who? And in what form? Interstates in Texas are not toll roads. A little from fuel taxes & vehicle registrations maybe, but certainly not enough to maintain all the interstate (i.e. Federal) highways.

And highways. Those idiots have no idea how much federal funding goes to their million miles of highways.

Yes, that's exactly what these asshats are. Texas, not USA, is the "country" they're nationalist about. That's why they call themselves Texas Nationalists not nationalist Texans. A bunch of them are actually nationalist Texans too but they're too dumb to see the contradiction. Just like they're too dumb to see the contradiction when flying a US flag & a confederate flag together. They're not the sharpest tools in the shed; they'd literally shoot off their own feet if they thought it might pwn the libs.

This is clearly overseas customer service rep with a script. It happens every time I "chat with customer service" for any business at all. Or it's an AI chat, which is equally possible.

A lot of times they don't do placebo once the trial gets to that stage. My dad with cancer was a treatment guinea pig & one of the study stipulations was that they wouldn't get placebo. Too cruel to get their hopes up. ETA: I know this one states it had placebo group. And I understand the reason for it, obviously. Just saying my dad's experience was they promised no placebo group bc it was so late stage in testing.

They make it sound as if this is new, but this method has been studied for decades... My dad was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer in Jan of 2013. He happened to get into clinical trials that basically had him "living with cancer" for 5 years. It wasn't until the last few months that the cancer outpaced the drugs and took over, invading his brain, then it was only a matter of a very short time before the brain cancer ruptured & killed him. But prior to that, he got 5 years. The drugs he was on??? Targeted immunotherapy including a lot of mRNA vaccine therapy. (Turns out he was a guinea pig for the technology that would be used in Covid vaccines. He always hoped his clinical trials would help future patients, he just had no idea how far reaching that would really be.)

The problem is, cancer is in essence a mutation machine, which means it quickly outpaces our ability to create the vaccines. I think we'll get there; just going to take a while before we learn how to keep up.

You keep saying this, but you don't speak for all women. I am a woman who does not care one flying fuck if the other ladies in the restroom were born with a penis, a vagina, or some variation thereof. I care much more about whether they flush & wipe the seat.

I'm certain you're not conflating trans with violent, right?? Or sticking up for people who do?

But then you have to shop from Sam's. People choose Costco over Sam's for many reasons..

This. I choose Costco for many reasons. I don't care what others like about Sam's bc I'm not going to give money to that company.

If you tell them you're thinking about becoming a member & want to check it out, they will let you walk around. They'll just tell you you can't check out without a card. So yes, free trial.

This is an interesting question. My husband is my ONE. Wherever he is, that's home. We are absolutely best friends & more. We share absolutely everything & neither of us ever have to worry about the other one waking up one day & deciding to move on without the other.

I realize I'm lucky. Not every relationship is anywhere close to that. I was married before & lived with others... And I thought the "one true love" stuff & long-term monogamy was complete BS until he & I got together.

But not everyone wants the kind of relationship we have & that's fine too. I have plenty of independent & awesome friends who have great friends, great lives, great hobbies; they adventure, travel, are fulfilled, etc etc all without an SO. Others who are in great relationships but are much more prone to doing things separately, and that's what works for them.

So maybe if you don't have that drive to find that relationship, maybe it's not for you or maybe you just haven't met the right kind of person yet. Your SO relationship can ultimately be whatever you want it to be, provided you find a partner agreeable with it. Best wishes either way!