I’m guessing it was before the “left a bear carcass in Central Park” episode.

I’ll stop deadnaming Twitter when Musk stops deadnaming his daughter Vivian.

It was only lupus the one time.

John of Patmos would like a word with you:

And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.

• Revelation 21:21, KJV

Here’s the full chapter for context. There may be some room for arguing whether the “new Jerusalem” is Heaven. But since it’s pretty clear that God lives there, I think it fulfills the same general purpose.

That’s just a vending machine with extra steps.

He got an entire art supply empire with franchises that sold painting courses (and maybe still do?).

I think he also got screwed out of most of the proceeds and possibly even the use of his own name because he had a shady business partner.

A properly darned sock doesn’t feel any different from a new sock. And if you match the color of the yarn, it can be nearly invisible.

I think visible mending is more fun – my husband’s socks have colorful little patches that make us both smile.

I mean, it’s Don Jr. and not Eric, so probably daddy sent him.

No, I haven’t had to deal with the VA.

But I did move from the US to Colombia. And I’ve received more thorough care from the national healthcare system here than I ever did in the US. Instead of simply treating my symptoms (which is the general practice in the US), the doctors here actually found the underlying conditions that I’ve apparently been living with for years, possibly even decades.

The healthcare system here is concerned with keeping the population healthy instead of increasing shareholder value. It takes a bit longer than in the US, but I have the peace of mind of knowing that (1) my doctor isn’t getting kickbacks for prescribing me a specific medication, and (2) regardless of what is needed for my treatment, I won’t go bankrupt paying for it.

So, while I don’t necessarily believe that a government can manage much of anything without any corruption or profit motive, I do have some evidence that a government can manage healthcare in a way that provides greater benefit to its citizens than the privatized healthcare industry in the US.

No, it’s government-subsidized privatized healthcare.

Socialized healthcare wouldn’t have a profit-driven middleman involved.

My non-educated family all insisted that I go to college. As of now, I am the only one of my grandparents’ descendents who has a university degree. And that includes the generation after mine (my cousins’ children).

My experience as a teacher has given me a glimpse into other people’s lives that shows me how very fortunate I was to have a supportive family.

You don’t have to believe my anecdotal evidence, but my time working with low-income students has shown me that a surprising number of parents are absolutely dead-set against higher education for their kids. It doesn’t make sense, but a lot of things in the US don’t make sense right now.

It seems like you’re saying that the only way to give back to society is by having children. So people who don’t want kids or who can’t have kids are parasites?

Sounds like a white supremacist talking point to me.

Sure, but chances are low that uneducated people are going to great lengths to make sure their children are well educated.

One of the most horrifying things I’ve encountered in my career as a teacher was a father who insisted that his incredibly bright high school senior not accept a college scholarship because, and I quote: “I didn’t go to college, and you’re not better than me.”

A good rancher is usually the indirect cause of their cows giving birth because they determine when mating occurs.

It wasn’t sheer coincidence that so many cows had calves in the same 48-hour period. Dude planned it that way by mating (or artificially inseminating) all of his heifers at the same time.