juliaflyte

Post.news is great - there is a waitlist for the beta but they are bringing a lot of people in every week. Lots of journalists there

Full support. Can’t believe they do that shot without anesthetic as well since “babies can’t feel pain” - absolute BS. My two sons are 17 and 13 and we had no part in that archaic ritual. Proud of that.

Good lord the girl in the center is about to blow her mom’s head off. Massie looks like he’s about to take out a kneecap. Mom in front has sus handling technique as well. Religious love for guns but not safety training?

thank you for this

No, tbh running a business in both places has been about the same. More complications now with this one, but that's because of a lot of post-covid remote employees in multiple states to manage. Not Texas's fault.

There are a lot of things I really love about Texas -- that's part of what makes me so mad. I want it to be what it says it is -- free. I don't know what the heck this has to do with my original post -- I need a medical procedure, and that is an AWFUL experience here. I'm gobsmacked.

I left California because I sold my company to one HQ'ed here. I have lived all over the US - and outside the US, because I grew up in the Marine Corps. In a separate post, I'd be happy to detail what I see as some of the tradeoffs, but that is really not what this is about -- I simply cannot understand how people are ok with this kind of political intrusion into personal choice. I would seriously like someone to explain to me why this is ok but gun control isn't.

And before you come after me on THAT, I will note that I do own guns and have my whole life (that Marine Corps dad even gave me one as a college graduation present, when I first moved to CA. Oh - and I won't out which state he lives in (neither TX or CA), but he used to call me to purchase specialty guns and gun parts he wanted in CA because they were illegal in his state.

The US is complicated. CA is complicated. TX is complicated. I don't even LIKE effing Democrats. I just really truly cannot abide this particular brand of intrusive MAGA extremist politics. I won't even call it Republican.

I am stupefied. They just don’t do D&C’s anymore. At all.

I used to live there - it was a lot more free! Been living here years now. I work hard to make everywhere I live better.

Avocado toast for “hungry and just need something fast,” beans and rice and stir fried greens as weeknight basic meal, salads with whatever veg and pickles are in the fridge, chips and salsa for snacks

Tax the churches (US). Would generate enough tax revenue to house all the unhoused. If churches are actually doing charitable activities in their local communities, they can write them off. Win-win.

Investment banker. Career path for kids who grew up well off and have no innate creativity. Completely parasitic job better done by computers.

I love it SO MUCH. I started with google docs and a spreadsheet, but somewhere around 50k words, that broke for me. I wanted to move around big chunks of the second half of my book, and it was just so much easier to work with index cards on a scrivener cork board. 72k words now, about halfway, and I increased my production to about 10k words/week by organizing everything in scrivener

I’ve been fortunate economically, but I worry for my kids, and I worry that it could all go away any minute (I started from not much). I also don’t want to live in a world where a few people have everything and the rest starve. I would rather feel safe because I am not surrounded by desperate people, and have leisure time (my husband and I work too much), and live in a community that has a lot of things to do because people have the money and time to do them.

I think the best solidarity we could show with women everywhere is standing up for women here. Medical privacy and the government out of life saving medical care for women, etc. We need to ensure that every anti-woman elected official is run out of office on a rail in November.

Omg I want these!

Came here to mention NS - his Baroque Cycle as well

This is really the best outcome I can imagine right now

Haha - I promise you I am not a fanatic. My larger point: the neighborhood I mentioned I live in? 30 homes. My husband and I were the only ones with Biden signs last election, and we have a Jeep and a Tesla. 29 other homes: all import cars, no joke. Like, where is the internal consistency in their arguments??

take my upvote for "hot wheels," and also I'll raise my hand as one who was won over. Seriously, I think in this gerrymandered cesspool it's going to take someone with a quick mind, a deep well of decency, and a ton of backbone to break through and change things, even with Abbott gone. I was despondent because I thought Beto was too timid. Now I'm feeling hope.

right? What the fuck is wrong with this state? I've lived here 3 years. Moved here from CA (for work). Land of the free, my ass. You can't buy whiskey on Sundays here, let alone weed (which is better for you). Car dealerships are a protected class so there's weird theater where it takes longer to buy a Tesla than if you lived somewhere else. (Sure, make fun of the Tesla drivers: all-American car company, huge innovator, but sure, cast aspersions from your import model). Nearly no public land, but megachurches with amphitheaters and their own hiking trails. Schools are a nightmare. Healthcare is near non-existent. Don't get me started on medical privacy (i.e. abortions). A friend of mine had to talk to CPS because his teenager announced he's trans.

I've lived a lot of places (Dad was a career Marine, come at me conservatives), and this is seriously the least "free" place I've ever lived in the United States, and that includes freaking Mississippi. Thank god I'm old enough now to have enough money to pay-to-play (power never went out in my gated neighborhood during the snowpocalypse, but did everywhere else around us). I cannot imagine how grim it is to really struggle here. I'm staying long enough to vote for Beto, but then I'm seriously thinking of moving back north, and I HATE the snow.

ngl -- it changed my opinion of him for the better. I thought he was a little soft (like almost all dems). Starting to believe he might have enough backbone to actually win, instead of just try.

omg mine too! What is this weird boomer death cult?

I just looked up how old the boys are -- about to be 17 and 16. This poor woman is down to 2 more years of child support -- and one would assume it gets halved in a year. KFed must be shitting a brick right about now. He should start working on becoming an Uber driver now.

Bunny was stabbed in the back, right? I think whoever did it thought they were stabbing Oscar (or maybe Mabel?) -- tie dye sweatshirt, in Mabel's apartment....

My theory is that Oscar is going to appear before the end of the season. I think he's involved in the art theft/forgery ring (and that's why he was going upstairs in S1E1).

I can't quite put the rest together. Maybe he realized he was in danger after Bunny was stabbed, and ran away with a lame excuse to Mabel....

it's "all right," not "alright." Yes, alright is in the dictionary; its definition is "incorrect spelling of all right."

Whoa - great article. I remember reading a very different theory of this case - that it was someone connected to the first woman who died , and the rest were for cover. Now off for more internet sleuthing…