Absolutely wild how, like, “thinking briefly about whether saying X might be hurtful to someone who isn’t me” got repackaged as some kind of terrible burden that We As A Society should not tolerate and cannot bear
"I don't need the vaccine," they said while enjoying life without polio, tetanus, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, rubella, measles, whooping cough, the mumps, smallpox, diphtheria, rabies, rotavirus, pneumococcal disease, HPV, meningococcal disease, shingles and a bunch of 1800s stuff
Things that seem heartwarming but are actually signs of systemic failure:
*Community comes together on GoFundMe to pay for cancer patient's procedure
*Employees donate sick time to new mom for leave
*Teacher with covid works from hospital bed so students can learn
*All charities
People who lost health insurance during the pandemic:
Canada: 0
United Kingdom: 0
Germany: 0
France: 0
Australia: 0
Japan: 0
South Korea: 0
Taiwan: 0
Denmark: 0
Finland: 0
Norway: 0
United States: 14,600,000
Health care must be a right, not an employee benefit.
#MedicareForAll
Finished this last night and would definitely recommend as a gift if you know someone into Radiohead or rock history in general. It really underscores the way that the year 2000 seems like a hundred years ago but also six weeks ago.
Hey, I put out a new book a few months back, and conveniently for holiday shoppers you can actually buy it as a gift for the person in your life who is interested in reading about rock bands. More info here. https://t.co/vSpdVyY1yj
@katemillercny Good friends will be the frosting on the cake but you will rise up because of who you are, what you're made of and because of the beautiful support system you and MM have built together. Recognize how brave you are for speaking up!
@katemillercny Kate Miller is an indomitable force of nature that cannot be stopped, everybody knows that. I hope you're being kind enough to yourself to acknowledge that in this exceedingly chaotic year it would be impossible for anyone to breeze through unaffected. There's no shame in honesty
Wild seeing your own (not even baby boomer!) family out on Facebook saying not to vote for Biden because he can't "clean up the racial jungle" and then subsequently being perplexed over how anyone could ever think a Trump supporter might be racist.
Companies started hiring entry-level workers with no background checks, which allowed former felons and drug addicts to get jobs. Afterward:
*Turnover rate dropped 60%
*Productivity grew 13%
Most people are good - they just need someone to believe in them
https://t.co/p6glG1gRpI
I don’t know who needs to hear this but just imagine the reaction if it would have been discovered that anyone connected to Black Lives Matter was plotting to kidnap a United States Governor.