Recently learned that an individual who is causing the most strife and division on my team is super hard-core MAGA Trumper. It really brings a clearer picture on why he is attacking I and the other women on the team and why those he hired are only white men. I'm already nervous about the upcoming election, but to see a supporter so emboldened in his views in the workplace gives me a more in-your-face view of how these people want their day-to-day.

It is not more of the same when one side clearly wants to instill a Christian Theocratic takeover. Trans rights, minority rights, reproductive rights, environmental protections, and so much more are also on the line. Both are bad candidates, but one is not calling for Christian Sharia law. You're throwing the baby out with the bath water when it comes to fallout of what will happen to those less fortunate.

I'm sorry, but this reply reeks of privilege. My reproductive freedom is on the ballot this year after already losing so much after SCOTUS was able to be stacked with conservative judges. If Trump wins, SCOTUS will forever be this way in my lifetime and my rights will erode even more as a woman. After the overturning of Roe, a 10 year old rape victim from Ohio and those who assisted her were harassed all due to providing her an abortion. States are disbanding maternal mortality boards or putting extremists over them. For the love of God, we are headed into a Handmaid's Tale if Trump is elected!

"Well the democrats should have encoded it." I literally don't care. That was then, this is now. Women are suffering now and the alternative will make it worse. When the Republican party wants to codify Christian sharia level law, that's an immediate danger to me and other women. We can't continue to protest the atrocities of Israel if we are forced into reproductive servitude. There are way to many Republicans advocating against anti child marriage laws in an age where they can be raped without a means to terminate.

I am equally frustrated about Biden's handling of Palestine, but setting my own rights on fire removes all energy and possibility to advocate for them! This attempt to accelerate us into punishing the democrats for giving us bad choices is only going to hurt those who lack the funds and privilege to easily escape a Fascist takeover.

It's all in effort of "line goes up" in the immediate short-term despite the fact that a year from now these companies are going to struggle to complete difficult projects. My company has layed off a number of 10, 15, 20+ year veterans because they were highly paid. Now there are gaps in knowledgeable folks to tap for help and Juniors are being forced to perform to a Senior level without proper support.

The pandemic growth periods caused every company to loose their damn mind to make growth projections based on those insane numbers for a time that should have been ruled out as an outlier. I know these MBA fucks had to take a business stats class, but literally dropped the fundamentals when they saw big $$$. Now they're cutting the talent that fostered their primary growth and will be looking back 6 months from now wondering why they still aren't growing. Well surely the Juniors aren't working hard enough!

While I know it isn't an exact match to the flavor you can get from Wok Hei, I've pulled off some great dishes using a wok intended for electric stoves. Being a renter, finding apartments with a gas range in my area of the US is impossible. So I've made due with a wok with a slightly flatter bottom to help assist.

I haven't tested it yet, but using a kitchen torch is another option to add that flavor depth. Serious Eats has a write up on it and I've seen Kenji use his as well to intensify the Wok Hei.

I'm so happy for you! You got this and you'll do well!

Fucking hell, I've literally had to do the same thing when I was experiencing chest pain and heart palpitations! My husband thought I was nuts for putting on makeup and donning "business wear" before he took me to our local urgent care, but I did so I wouldn't be dismissed due to having anxiety on my records. I knew myself what I was feeling wasn't anxiety, but if I looked in anyway or shape or form as an "anxious woman" I wouldn't be taken seriously. I even had to specify we needed to go to the one location that was further away due to their closer location dismissing me for a different issue that was properly looked into at this preferred location.

I was lucky to be listened to in that situation, got an EKG, and a referral out to a cardiologist; but that only happened because I had a younger doctor who wanted to rule out all possibilities. A few months previously I was dealing with numbness in one of my legs and the other urgent care I wanted to avoid literally sent me out the door after looking at me for 10 minutes and doing a leg stretch. The issue persisted and it wasn't until I went to this same second location that someone actually ran some blood work on me and referred me for an ultrasound on my leg. It just shouldn't be that hard to be properly treated when both of these experiences revealed issues that needed to be treated.

While it's a win to see this pushed forward, it really sets a tone of how little attention is given towards women's healthcare that it requires an Executive Order to make it a priority. It's 2024 and yet I have seen online forums sharing advice on how not to be dismissed by doctors for years because of how prevalent of an issue it is. That it's far easier for a doctor to label something as anxiety or normal because there isn't enough information for it and they can't be bothered to look beyond what isn't understood. Women have been dying for years because of this lack of care and investigation; it’s why cervical cancer is a silent killer. If you're a minority, this is even worse.

I really hope this research encourages a new generation of doctors to be more familiar with women's health issues and to be less dismissive of us when we reach out for medical help. I'm tired of the mental weight of hoping I'm listened to by a doctor and having to treat a doctors visit as a dissertation just to be taken seriously.

Additionally, it's really disturbing how many gynos are convinced the cervix can't feel pain and the very biopsies intended to save our lives are done without anesthetic too often than not. Seriously, what the hell? Is this some outdated medical knowledge steeped in punishing the original sin of Eve? Maybe if these docs took a bite of that apple too, we wouldn't be here.

The episode in question is available on YouTube and is pretty damning. But there's a portion featuring a clip where a one 737 assembly line worker asked his coworkers if they would fly on those planes. Several said no and one dude who said yes joked he had a death wish. But overall their view was the planes were unsafe due to seeing how bad the quality was themselves.

There's also the recent news that a different Boeing whistleblower got off his flight when he realized he was on a MAX despite purposefully booking a flight avoiding that plane model. Honestly really concerning that the very people who worked on those planes don't want to fly on them.

When I heard this story break, I immediately thought "this sounds like some Russia shit" because it tracks. But I really didn't want to jump to conspiracy theories because testifying in this manner could lead to mental anguish. Yet, if it's verified that Barnett did indeed said this to a friend, well now the coincidence is even more damning.

I don't trust Boeing and John Oliver's recent special about them really calls their QA into question. It feels weird to consider I flew on a MAX not too long ago following the Alaska incident. It's one thing to joke haha am I near a door plug? But more and more it feels like you're rolling the dice when you get on a Boeing. I get air travel overall is safe, but I shouldn't have to second guess that based on what plane I get on.

This feels like the AI equivalent of men telling female workers to smile more. I'm totally sure that bias wasn't cooked into these algorithms. Honestly, how is this not profiling for neurodiverse individuals?

Growing-up in the US, you get raised under this grand illusion of how perfect the country is when reality there is an ugly history to its founding. No, the pilgrims and natives didn't have that perfect crayon picture view of Thanksgiving. No, successionist states didn't start the Civil War due to states rights. No, Manifest Destiny wasn't some righteous calling for expansion from God.

Apparently acknowledging these flase-truths and taking efforts to actually learn them is such a threat to conservative ideals. For a group that complains so much about safe spaces or accuses leftist for seeking an utopia, there's so much projection of them literally doing the same in a racist and conservative ideal. The mayor recognizes this and wants those with the opportunity to choose a college athletic department that does as well. Why would you want to represent a state that doesn't even acknowledge your own history?