Cuter than You

HOOPS

“WHAT THE FUCK STAY AWAY FROM THE ROCKS.”

This can be especially true if you are around a lot of people who are bothered when you won’t “just have a little bit” or who say “you can cheat just this once” when they’re offering you the food that they made that is dangerous to you.

Building your own food-based rituals and communities is a form of self-care for people with food allergies. If you can find a group of people who will cook with you and accommodate you never let them go.

I have a particular kind of cupcakes that I always bake for myself to take along in my purse to weddings so I can share in the fun of having the dessert. I bake gluten-free holiday treats to share with friends and family. Once a week I go to my parents’ house and we cook a meal together that I can eat and we all can share.

It’s important, it’s worthwhile to make the time for. And people who refuse to let you form your own rituals to be closer to them aren’t acting with your best interests at heart.

gtkm; [16/?] musicians → lizzo

“In medical lore, the term “Yentl syndrome” has come to describe what happens when women present to their doctors with symptoms that differ from men’s — they often get misdiagnosed, mistreated, or told the pain is all in their heads. This phenomenon can have lethal consequences.

Many, many women have had this experience when they go to the doctor. I had it myself, years ago. As a spate of articles about the phenomenon has come out in the past couple of years, more people have begun talking about a “gender pain gap.”

In a new book, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, the British journalist and feminist activist Caroline Criado Perez argues that this is part of a larger problem: the “gender data gap.” Basically, the data our society collects is typically about men’s experience, not women’s. That data gets used to allocate research funding and make decisions about design. Because most things and spaces — from pain medicationsto cars, and from air-conditioned offices to city streets — have been designed by men with men as the default user, they often don’t work well for women.

Even when researchers do gather data from women as well as men in their studies, they often fail to sex-disaggregate it — to separate out the male and female data they’ve collected and analyze it for differences. That’s crucial, because a new pain medication that’s ineffective for men may work great for women, but you’d never know it if you mixed all their data together.”

To address the problem, Warren is suggesting what she calls a “truly transformational” approach: wiping out $50,000 in student loan debt for anyone with a household income below $100,000. People with student loans and a household income between $100,000 and $250,000 would receive substantial relief as well. At that point, “the $50,000 cancellation amount phases out by $1 for every $3 in income above $100,000,” Warren wrote.

That means someone with a household income of $130,000 would get $40,000 of their loans wiped out. Someone with a household income of $160,000 would get $30,000 in relief.

People with household incomes above $250,000 would not be eligible for debt cancellation.

Under Warren’s proposed plan, up to 76 percent of households with student loan debt would receive “total loan forgiveness,” according to an economic analysis of the proposal by academics at Arizona State University, Brandeis University and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Ninety-five percent, or 42 million Americans, would be eligible to have at least some of their debt canceled.

The plan would particularly benefit black, Latino and lower-income households, as well as households headed by people who never finished college, the researchers said. Wiping out the debt would cost the government an estimated $640 billion, they noted.

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The plan to broadly cancel student debt and institute a universal free college program is estimated to cost a total of $1.25 trillion over 10 years. Warren claims the cost would be covered by passing a separate plan to annually tax the wealth of households worth more than $50 million.  

The academics who analyzed the report argued that the overall cost would likely be offset by additional tax revenue that would come from the proposal itself, which they said would serve as a middle-class economic stimulus.

“Debt cancellation cascades to relieving thousands of dollars in interest payments while leaving several hundred dollars each month for consumption and investment,” the researchers wrote in a letter to Warren. “It would likely entail consumer-driven economic stimulus, improved credit scores, greater home-buying rates and housing stability, higher college completion rates, and greater business formation.”

the fire is even spreading islamophobia and antisemitism in “conspiracy theories” like this:

we need to look ahead at the very possible “retaliation” attacks against jews and muslims in france in the coming months. france has had an epidemic of them that few non-muslim goyim are aware of/care about. here are just a few examples of antisemitic attacks in france lately:

These difficult conversations are more important than ever. Here’s how to overcome the roadblocks.

5 Roadblocks people use to shut down difficult conversations about race.

Derailment

“What about Black-on-Black crime?”

“Are Black lives not worth protecting?”

Minimization

“I don’t think they meant it that way when they said it.”

Remind them of intention vs. impact.

Reduction

“It’s not like Black people are the only people dying.”

“No, they aren’t, but Black people are disproportionately dying in this country and all over the world. Can we at least talk about that?”

Tokenism

“My boyfriend is Black.”

Remind them: Having a Black boyfriend doesn’t mean that you’re not racist and in fact the idea that you wouldn’t be racist because you have a Black boyfriend is in fact racist.

Hurt

“I feel really unsafe having this conversation right now.”

Macready is overwhelmed by his own charisma