Contra contra

The Republican covert goal all along has been to make contraception illegal again. That anyone could observe them and conclude anything else is just absurd. Controlling women is their animus.

Spensive

Dang shit is expensive y’all.

I put gas in my car and it was $72. Yes, it does take premium (And don’t even argue with me here. It says so right in the fucking manual; I don’t drive a Civic. It’s a performance car.), but not that long ago I was filling it up for $50.

Everything that average-income people spend most of their money on is much more expensive, about 25% more or so from what I’ve seen. Only going to get worse from here, too.

So much for that “transitory” inflation! Anyone not deranged knew that was horseshit months ago anyway.

Chancel

It’s the renascence of religion feeling perpetuating itself in and through nominally secular forms. It’s not a specific creed, but a general religious expression that liberals have long denied themselves as “irrational.”

A lot of people really want to be Church Ladies (even if they are men), but in many places and US subcultures there’s not a well-established role for that any longer. A lot of what you see is people reinventing this avocation from scratch — and it’s no more pleasant when it’s the libs doing it, either.

Form Transition

I need to scream in to the internet about my wife.

This guy is FUCKED. If he gets a divorce, there is a really good chance that the slobgoblin who is his wife will get full custody of the two kids. So those kids don’t have a chance either way.

This is exactly why I have never been married and one of the main reasons I’ve never wanted to have kids. You never know what or who someone is going to turn into. I saw this with my own mother and it was equally disturbing.

SGig

Tech Companies Face a Fresh Crisis: Hiring. Recruiters in tech are desperate for workers. But candidates are the ones who hold all the power.

Seems to be getting worse. I don’t even know how they find me, but 2-3 recruiters contact me weekly with jobs that pay 50%+ more than I make now. Trouble is, I have a pretty sweet gig and don’t want to leave where I’m working currently so the pay bump is not really that tempting. It wouldn’t improve my life and it would mean I’d be working a lot more in 99% of cases.

But it’s always good to know I could walk out of somewhere and have a job a week later, even if I have no plans to do such a thing.