Sounds like something out of a Swift satire.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the people in Waverley have as much if not more African-American ancestry as the people in East Jackson.
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How other people treat you.
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So true. How I was treated as a child versus now is not lost on me.
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Do go on.
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I don’t really want to get into identifying specifics, but suffice it to say that I looked more obviously mixed race as a child, and lived in a city that has always been particularly race-conscious, at a time when perception of color included more populations than it does now (witness East Asians getting lumped in as ‘white’ now). I lived in the cusp world in the middle section of the spectrum…‘whites’ (100% Northern European) would only include me in things if they felt outnumbered by African Americans in a situation. The only blonde child I knew growing up was a girl my age whose parents didn’t want her walking the 2 blocks to school alone (we’re talking the 1960s, in an exceedingly safe part of town) so they arranged for me to pick the girl up from her home after I got off the city bus a few blocks from her home (I was the scholarship kid). I was allowed to wait inside, in the front vestibule. I have no idea what the rest of the house looked like. That sort of thing. On the cusp. Not black, but not white.
Now, I am no longer poor, and I am perceived by most as being white. My life is entirely different in every way. But I don’t forget, which means I don’t allow myself to pretend that racism doesn’t exist just because I’m not on the receiving end anymore.
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Chase is “more than 100% confident” the sea lion swam away just fine after it ended up in the whale’s mouth.
Humpback whales don’t have teeth, only baleen plates with bristles inside their mouths. They are filter feeders and the bristles filter food from water - and things like sea lions that don’t belong in there.
A whale will usually take less than five seconds lunge-feeding, Chase says, but in this instance sunk slowly over 15 seconds with its mouth open, giving the sea lion ample time to swim away.
“The whale never actually closed its jaws around the sea lion, so it shouldn’t have been harmed. Very scared, I’m sure, but not harmed.”
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Poor kid, it sucks that he had to go through that, but at least he’s on the other side of it now. I hope he’s feeling better.
I felt bad enough for my little sister, who had two extras removed before she got the braces she had to wear for like 6 years. Her husband grew two extra teeth also, but he didn’t have adequate dental/orthodontic care as a kid, so he still has his extras. So far both of their kids have the typical number of teeth. Even if that changes, sis has extremely good insurance which includes dental, so they will be fine one way or the other.
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Linked to in an article about a light plane that landed on a highway today. This book plug is from a year ago.
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im not sure how this could even be legal
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I think the closest this comes to a protected class would be a disability. However, I don’t think addiction is generally considered a disability. Otherwise, companies wouldn’t be able to use any sort of drug tests to fire individuals.
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Except that they can fire for disabilities, or refuse to hire, under a wide variety of circumstances.
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isn’t the argument that those are illicit substances? cause that at least makes some (almost) sense
i mean, i’m all for medicare for all, but if the government says: no healthcare if you don’t curb your carbs - is that right?
the argument is these employees disproportionately cost more. but, that’s the argument used against women of child bearing age. or people above the age of fifty. or heck - trans people in the military. ( yes, smoking is a choice, being trans is not. but having a kid? where’s that line? )
who gets to decide what’s allowable behavior when that behavior is legal, and… well… normal?
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Exploit, too, when it comes to pay rates.
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As a former smoker now vaper, this kind of bothers me, largely because of the statement “the biggest part of their health care costs are from nicotine-related illnesses”. Yet they don’t mention any nicotine-related illnesses at all. I care about this because I smoked for about a quarter century and my lungs are now full of garbage because of that. But I’ve never heard of any nicotine-related illness. Pretty much everything bad is due to the tar and all that other garbage, not nicotine. So if they’re testing for nicotine, they’re doing it all wrong. 
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That’s the high blood pressure and heart disease, since nicotine is a stimulant. I know it can feel relaxing, but that’s from getting a hit after withdrawal has kicked in.
Having said that, it does seem to me that research is still untangling which ill effects go with which exposure. Consider the traditional trinity of coffee, cig, and doughnut: is it the caffeine, the nicotine, or the fat and sugar doing you in, or some interaction of all three? Thanks to declining smoking numbers, one of the more recent research discoveries is that some health outcomes once attributed to being fat are now known to be more smoking-related.
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