To be clear: certified nurse-midwives who assist with home births and aren't quacks will bring meds with them to help stop post-partum hemorrhage. Lay midwives, doulas, and free-birth assistants usually are not legally allowed to administer meds. If you're considering home birth - ASK ABOUT THIS.

Yup. And when some of us can make choices that reduce harms, at no loss to ourselves, that helps those who are less able to make those choices because it reduces their cost, direct and otherwise.

It is not, as some people seem to believe, an act of judgement on those who don't make that choice.

I mean I'm not sure any genre works when you don't let an actor convey more than literally one single thing in any given three minutes of screentime, but especially not that one. What a waste of a budget

sss-style makes it completely impossible to tell an even remotely complex story, which simply... does not work with the subgenre it wanted to be! Just straight doesn't work. The medium to small scale story needs literally any complexity or it's a failure of the genre, simple as

The first season was Fine, even good or fun. The second season was written for the second-screen scrollers in the worst way and was intolerable to watch (even while crocheting!) for that reason

People expect miracles from medicine, but refuse the miracle that would let them avoid needing emergency care in the first place

perhaps this is a good time to reup my take that speeding tickets should be made proportional not just to your wealth/income but to the kinetic energy possessed by your vehicle at the time a violation is detected.

There’s an established penalty for ordering the killing of shipwrecked sailors (even during a war, which we are manifestly not in) and we should apply that penalty. I would say it’s vitally important to apply that penalty, in fact.

It's always guys who say "people don't want Republican-lite" who pitch Republican-lite but for racism & sexism.

The Mandarin collar has a really handsome silhouette and I wish that it had been adopted as a business casual standard, since it's at it's best on a business shirt with no tie - the essence of business casual