They dropped these in my mother in law’s suburban neighborhood. In her back yard. With no warning. My dog found and ate one, so it had me googling what the hell my dog had just eaten and wondering if she was going to die. Luckily we didn’t have any toddlers playing in the back yard.

No actually. They let the bill proposing to make unborn children dependents on your taxes die. So we get all the punishments, and none of the benefits.

Unfortunately they made embryos children for the purposes of punishments, but let the bill die that would have made them dependents on taxes.

Even before this I would get really pissed when people casually said “It will happen when the time is right. God has a plan, though it isn’t one we understand.” In Alabama I was recently at the dentist, getting my teeth cleaned to the tune of religious music, hearing the hygienist say this bullshit to me.

That is not legal. They have made embryos children when looking for people to put in jail, and not children when looking to give out benefits. Very convenient for the state budget!

No the religious zealots here do not. School coaches require prayer before practices and games, same sex couples get banned from prom, kids at school get tricked into going to fun after school events that turn out to actually be evangelism stunts. A lot of applications to educational programs, gymnastics programs, and jobs ask about “leadership” which is code for experience as a church deacon or active evangelist.

We almost got this with Alabama 2023 bill HB182 which would grant unborn children as dependents on taxes. The bill didn’t pass. These people want children to count only when dolling out punishments.

https://legiscan.com/AL/text/HB182/2023

We here in bama have been preferring the term Talibama.

Sure, cool. Make health insurance cover my IVF then.

I called all the local PCPs today. One entire hospital system doesn’t accept my insurance (Cigna) due to price negotiations. All the others don’t have new patient appointments until December. So I guess in about 11 months, I can find out if I’m healthy!

Hehe are you referencing the Boondocks episode? I happened to watch that just a few days ago, and it was brilliant.

My company gave a temporary 2% raise to everyone last year due to inflation. This year they said inflation was not up, so they took away the raise. The audacity!

I was astounded at how many refrigerators were described as junk when reading about the different new options available. Repairmen on YouTube were like “Avoid Samsung, Whirlpool, Frigidaire, LG, Midea, …” Listing almost every brand.

We didn’t get very many fertilized eggs, so odds are we won’t get a baby this round. This process is so disappointing at every stage.

I am in the IVF process right now. I keep proposing to tell every religious person I know that they aren’t allowed to hug, kiss, or visit my abomination baby.

I think you are blowing these findings out of proportion. Having a baby in any way comes with a degree of these health risks, and IVF babies are a bit higher. Doesn’t mean no one should have IVF babies, just as it doesn’t mean no one should have naturally conceived babies. Everything in life comes with risks.

What is a pure function? Never heard that before.

I was just about to say this! I never saw any “xxx country is a shithole” post on Reddit without so much backlash. It was annoying.

So? Please go find something productive to do.

In order to avoid obnoxious replies, I intentionally chose not to name the particular country I had in mind. The point still stands – there are going to be people in the workplace from cultures with more misogyny than others. And the culture they grew up in will have had an effect on their attitudes.