Good. Shareholding and profiteering off healthcare should not be a thing. It should be a government service not a business, although I’d bet a million dollars I don’t have, that it won’t happen under Trump. And if it ever does happen, they had better fucking plan it to be rock-solid against ruthless cutthroat cheating grifters like him.

At least in Canada people can choose euthanasia because they are in pain rather than because they’re bankrupting their family

The fridge is full of beers, these didn’t fit

You can do ironed cheese sandwiches,* so they get plenty hot, but most modern irons will turn themselves off if they’re not moving for more than a minute.

*Assemble the sandwich on top of a generous piece of aluminum foil, heavy duty if you have it: butter on the outside, cheese on the inside, sourdough with cheddar is excellent but white bread with American is what the kids expect. (Don’t get too creative with additions until you have a good sense of how long to melt the middle without burning the outside.) Bring up two foil edges and fold that seam at least twice, making it flat as possible against the sandwich and able to channel any escaping butter towards the ends rather than just seeping down onto the ironing board. Then fold the ends as well. Maybe you better put a second piece of foil on your ironing board just in case. Put the iron on top heat but turn off the steam. Iron the sandwich on both sides, starting with the seam side and then doing the bottom, until it smells toasty and delicious. Only move the iron enough to hit all the corners and also keep it from turning off, and don’t press hard.

Clearly someone needs to step up and start deepthroatfaking the fat old white dudes. For parity.

It’s just throwing a hissy fit because Donald Trump promised it could be ambassador to Greece and then picked the Loud Lady instead.

Do puberty blockers result in sterilization? Top surgery certainly doesn’t. Gender affirming bottom surgery is often postponed until 18 in any case. And there are also nonsurgical options for preventing menstruation in the meantime, even if the person can’t take puberty blockers.

None of which makes this provision anything other than cruel bigotry. In fact, don’t tell them, or they’ll take out that phrase to make the ban more sweeping. But I feel like, while they were adding the last-minute provision, someone sneaked in the sterilization bit like a little fairy godmother making the curse a little less dire.

This is why every fighting force needs a diversity of gender expressions! (Not sure of correct wording) You never know what situations may arise.

Glaciers these days don’t have the inevitability they used to, what with all the melting. Although that’s here on Roundworld.

I’m white as Wonder Bread and I remember hearing my daddy give that second talk to my big brother, word for word. Being as he’s white, it did work to keep him safe when he was arrested. For young men of color, the record shows it doesn’t always work for them.

Agreed.

Shareholders should never be part of the healthcare business.

It shouldn’t be a business at all.

Hahaha!

Fortunately teens also overdo things so there’s probably plenty.

And people are forgetting you have a teenage son who needs to eat as well.

It’s the same feeling parents of children with cancer feel when you deny their child treatment. The combination of fear and rage. You’ve had years of getting comfortable with handing out the fear, now you’re starting to learn what it means to have the rage come looking for you.

They just want to eat and reproduce.

They wouldn’t deny your cancer treatment

I feel like we need another picture from the driver’s perspective

It’s sunny where I live but I need to stay home for other reasons. I finally got an under-desk treadmill and put it facing a window, with the option of watching my laptop screen. The desktop serves the purpose of being grabbable if I lose balance. Not only don’t I have to face the elements, I don’t give a shit what I look like. Sweaty af, no bra, old holey clothing, flabby old sagging skin, no worries. No uneven pavement either. I’ve never found exercise to do a damn thing for my mental health, but it’s necessary for physical health. And at least I’m not worried about twisting an ankle a mile from home.

Supposedly the dude took a bus from Atlanta.

DC is just as travel-friendly, probably cheaper

Also less chance of hitting an innocent rat

Ask for the real Sudafed. The little red ones say 4-6 hours, but one lasts me all day and minimizes side effects. They work quickly enough that you don’t need to get ahead of your symptoms, you can wait until you feel you need more.

Generic Guaifenesin syrup, ask the pharmacist. It’s OTC but sometimes it’s behind the counter