Americans tend to have a sort of anti accountability fantasy. They want to be so ‘above’ everyone else that they are accountable to no one. But this is an adolescent fantasy, once you live a bit you realize how out of line with reality it is. An employee is accountable to their manager. The manager is accountable to the CEO. The CEO is accountable to the VC’s. The VC’s are accountable to their investors. Around and around it goes. You will never find a job, a title, that makes you accountable to no one. And even if you could, what a horrifically lonely life that would be.

FYI, having an IUD inserted is at least a 5x more difficult experience than getting the side of your head tattooed.

Marry someone with a good sense of humor. The vast majority of the time you spend with your spouse won’t be on luxurious Italian vacations, or sipping wine at a fancy restaurant. Most of your time together will be spent changing diapers, and debating who’s turn it is to switch the laundry, and adding milk to the shopping list, and filling out health insurance forms. And you definitely want to be doing all that with someone who can have a laugh about it.

You weren’t wrong, you just missed the 5! So one time, after a therapy appointment, I was pondering all the things that I have been "wrong" about in life, and I learned something very interesting. I don't think I've ever been wrong, but I have often been short sighted. I will see 2 & 2 and say that the answer to this dilemma is 4. Which is absolutely correct, 2 + 2 = 4!!! I am right. But after years of others insisting that the answer is 9, I finally one day stumbled onto a 5 in the equation. So of course 2 + 2 = 4, but I hadn't realized that there was also a 5 hiding in the corner. And when you add that in, then, yup, the answer is 9.  Do you see what I mean?

You just really gotta respect anyone who manages to live life on their own terms. And while Dolly Parton looked trashy, if you ever watched one of her interviews or heard about her prolific philanthropy, you’ll know that she was actually one of the classiest humans on the planet. And she looked great in some leather pants till the day she past. #goals

I saw an RIP Dolly Parton headline that included "her brilliant business brain meant she could have been a billionaire if she hadn't given so much to charity" ...I think that might be better than having just "billionaire" in your obituary.

A lot of people absorbed the idea that “I was wrong” = “I’m a horrible person”. Unfortunately a lot of religion leans into this. In religion “I was wrong” = “I sinned” = “I’m going to be punished by god” ...which is of course terrifying!

You can not have a solid, close relationship with someone who does not know how to hear a critique and who is not capable of saying things like “I understand”, “I can see how that would be upsetting”, “I was wrong”, “I’m sorry”, “I’m willing to change that”, etc. Which of course does not mean that someone will always say those things. But you can’t be close to a person who can’t accept that they are a fallible human who is sometimes in error and acknowledge that and adjust. Having real, solid relationships with others requires a specific skill set, and it’s a skill set that we don’t often teach and so it’s no surprise that it’s a rare skill set. But it is something that any capable, motivated person can learn.

This is mostly true. The details here are that the new death penalty law does not explicitly apply only to Palestinians, but effectively does. The new law applies to military courts where only Palestinians are tried. Israeli citizens and residents including Jewish settlers are not subject to military courts. Also there is some due process, appeals are allowed, though they must be heard by a special court, and it seems that the standard procedural safeguards have been weakened. But the law does prohibit mitigation, commutation, or pardon, and it sets a 90-day deadline for execution after a final judgment. And of course the Holocaust comparison is a matter of opinion.

Fashion things that make no sense and I'm done with... High heels - Like why would you intentionally cripple yourself??? Purses that you have to actually hold with one hand - We invented the cross body strap thousands of years ago!

One time I accidentally read my daughters diary… but in her diary she was confessing to having read my diary!!! So that left me in a bind. I had found some pages that looked like they were ripped out of a notebook in a trash can. I was curious about what it was so I picked it up to read it. It was an existential analysis of an anime… and then a confession to having read my diary! But she didn’t read much of my diary cuz it was very boring, apparently all I wrote were complaints about Twitter! 🤣 Accurate.

The three main Abrahamic religions are Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. All of their ‘holy books’ contain patriarchal and homophobic passages. All of these religions can be and are practiced in both a very moderate, non-hateful, ways and in very extremist ways. Let’s look at those holy books! Now we need a disclaimer, these books are not of the same length, there are different versions, and different scholars interpret passages differently. Book length: Bible: 31,102 verses total Quran: 6,236 verses Torah: 23,198 in the full Hebrew Bible Patriarchal passages: Bible: 20–25+ texts Quran: 6–8 key legal texts Torah: 15–20+ texts Homophobic passages: Bible: 6–7 verses Quran: No explicit prohibition Torah: 2 verses

Okay, some of y’all need to repeat after me… The difference between flirtation and harassment is respect. The difference between flirtation and harassment is respect. The difference between flirtation and harassment is respect. The difference between flirtation and harassment is respect. The difference between flirtation and harassment is respect. The difference between flirtation and harassment is respect. The difference between flirtation and harassment is respect. The difference between flirtation and harassment is respect. The difference between flirtation and harassment is respect. The difference between flirtation and harassment is respect. The difference between flirtation and harassment is respect. The difference between flirtation and harassment is respect.

This morning I’m remembering that one time I was reading about ancient civilizations and noticed that one of my favorites, the Indus Valley Civilization, didn’t appear on the list that the LLM gave me. When I dug into why I discovered that a lot of times, if a clear hierarchy can’t be found(as in the Indus Valley) then it is decided that group of people were not a civilization… that’s right, researchers are out here equating hierarchy with civilization. Funny, cuz I’d argue for the opposite.