And he needs money! He just can’t handle it so he needs more.

– Abbreviated George Carlin

Ah yes, yet another way to control and hurt women. The whole idea of medical care during birth is based on situations where you happen to need it. If things go well, they go well. Being at the hospital or having a midwife is about when things go off the rails. The vast majority of people want you and your child to survive childbirth, which is a dangerous and difficult process for many out there. Anyone who says “just don’t have help you might need, it’ll be fine” is either a liar or actively trying to harm you.

This is just another branch of “under the hood” religious nutjobiness like Tradwives which all boils down to active alt-right control over women.

Or at least get right wing death threats and have any security stripped away, followed by being doxxed by the head of the judicial branch and DOJ.

Way too spot on. The video “How to Radicalize a Normie” should be mandatory study in middle school… Then high school, then every year thereafter.

I don’t know much about Poundland, but I know they’re no liars about their advertising. Everything, including the business itself, went for a pound.

I salute them for their consistency!

This is the THIRD time the Republicans have cancelled funding to my research projects over the course of 15 years. This country isn’t conducive to stable research work.

The projects cancelled were on senior care tech with smart homes, augmented reality to help prevent falls, and air quality feedback to help people during wildfire seasons. No exactly hotbeds of controversial topics, but having my career and livelihood jerked around against and again by these assholes is enough for me to go. The lastest bend to fascism was just the nail in the coffin.

It is, and I’m well aware of just how hard it is to be in my kind of position. I’m leaving very soon for a job overseas.

It took 12 years of college. It took massive debts that I spent a decade earning to pay off. It took a further 15 years of competing in academia to become a desirable candidate for the job. I’m taking a serious pay cut and spending the saving from a decade of work to make the move.

Its a privilege, but having come from a family that valued education, but had little money to help me, I kinda feel like I’ve earned it. Decades of effort on my part went into this.

You can be pissed all you want, but I’ve paid my dues and I’m spending them on a better and safer future for my children away from the US Banana Republic of Dumbfuckistan.