Wish you a speedy post-drome. I had migraines for a year in the past, and the thought of going through that again fills me with dread.

Anyone who is picking up their pitch forks at the offender needs to read this thread first. Before you unload your rage, consider taking what the victim did as a learning opportunity.

It was 3:30am in the morning when the shot happened. The neighbor who discharged the firearms rushed downstairs to check on the woman who’s PC was shot, thankfully finding that she was not hurt. She was distraught, frantic, and told the PC owner that she will never own a firearm again and pay for all damages. They talked, and the PC owner learned that her daughter just passed away. A police report was still filed, but the PC owner isn’t pressing charges. They’re getting margaritas later together.

Let me be clear that this absolutely does not excuse what this woman did. However, what the PC owner did likely saved her neighbor’s life. You see, at 3:30am in morning, there is only typically one thing people would do with a fire arm, to themselves.

Anyone would be in their right to be angry at this woman after what she did. But the PC owner extended her compassion and became this woman’s friend at a time when she had every reason not to.

What the headline could have been was ‘woman commits suicide after negligent discharge’, but it was not. Imagine if the PC owner was the last person who spoke to her in anger, and imagine if she had to live with that for the rest of their life knowing that she could have done something about it.

Most actors and singers aren’t successful just because they have talent, it’s because they have the right connections in Hollywood.

Laughs in chronic illness.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Two things can be true at the same time. Fluoride has provided significant benefits to dental health, while it’s effects on the human body are not fully studied.

Modern medicine has numerous gaps when it comes to the chronic illness community, and medical gaslighting is the default experience when people attempt to report symptoms.

I don’t think I want Trump removed.

If JD Vance becomes president, it will give conservatives more credibility towards the party because Vance would be even more competent in enacting fascist politicies.

It is toxic if you cooked in a copper pot because of its acidity, which a lot of people had.

Can we revoke citizenship and deport the other 25%?

What if instead of treating people at an arbitrary age as ‘adults’ as if their age and maturity grants them freedom that absolves everyone else’s concern for their wellbeing, we treat everyone like people who are deserving of basic necessities and help, no matter their age and circumstances?

According to the CDC, 1 in 5 women are mistreated during maternity care in the US. 1 in 3 if you’re Black or Hispanic. 45% of pregnant women are held back from asking questions or sharing concerns.

Birthing mothers are frequently deprived of self-agency. When a woman gives birth, everyone starts assuming they know what’s best for her without ever asking for her opinion or consent.

If you know about the husband stitch, or how women are made give birth while reclined for the doctor’s convenience, or how frequently women’s complaints of abnormal pain are dismissed, or how often women are yelled at while in labour, or they are threatened and withheld treatment, or how little their privacy is respected, you would know why women are turning to home births.

This isn’t an issue of women being silly and brainwashed on social media. Women are being actively failed by a medical system that refuses to treat them like people and not just walking uteruses.

Everyone like to talk about how stupid women are dying in childbirth to preventable causes, and yet no one wants to talk about how suicide due to post-partum depression is a leading cause of death in the perinatal period.

So before you belittle women for choosing a home birth, ask them what kind of shit they have been through at a hospital that they would rather risk death than go back there again.