Engineer, educator, entrepreneur. Cares more about how people treat people than what they claim is their ideology.

Twitter: the place where people you agree with 99% of the time lose their shit and block you over a single moderately different opinion.
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I have observed this. Laundry is the thing that doesn't scale with a larger family. You can make a pot of soup or a roast for 2 people or 6 and it takes about the same amount of time. But more laundry is more laundry. (I think kids can start helping with laundry earlier than most do, though).
If you want your clothes to last longer than 6 months and don’t want to walk around looking disheveled, laundry is actually a Herculean task and truly the most annoying part of running a house. It is constantly pilling up, you are forever drowning in it, just when you get through a load there’s now two more waiting for you somehow. If men were responsible for properly doing the laundry for an entire household they’d abandon their families en masse.
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pam berkeley retweeted
My views are on their upswing so I am going to take the opportunity to remind everyone about my latest book Bad Dates: A Cautionary Tale. My bad dates will make you laugh and maybe cry just a little. If you're married you'll appreciate your spouse in ways you never thought possible. I can't tell you how many messages I've gotten saying this book saved their marriage. And yet, I am still single. I'm flagging this as paid partnership because if you buy the book I get paid (conversely if you don't, I don't get paid), but I'm not really sure it's the same thing. Although it is an affiliate link. Still, I don't want to piss off the X gods so.... amzn.to/46Ky8Ic
Paid partnership (ad)
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United has always been the worst. I got a ticket on Continental right before they merged with United, and then after the merger, they refused to honor the original change fee. They fought me tooth and nail over $25 and lost me as a customer. They also have the earliest gate closings of any airline, lose many times more pets in their care than all other airlines combined, they apparently don't get people to swap seats with a young woman who was sexually harassed and they apparently also pull this overbooking shit. People defend them as "just like all the other airlines", but I stand by them being the worst.
So @united oversold the flight and they are now barking and threatening that we will not board if one person doesn’t volunteer to get off the flight. Their error. Their fault. Their greed, yet somehow we, the paying customers, are the problem. All the airlines are shit, truly. Ever since COVID they’ve gone downhill even as ticket prices climb and amenities diminish. What a crock.
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Forget the Sunny Hostin part of this. Can we talk about the fact that this guy got NGROI and he's still in state confinement because he's dangerous? The people claiming Lindsay Clancy would get off if found NGROI are just wrong.
Why is Sunny Hostin lying about being the hold out juror? According to this article, Asunción "Sunny" Cummings Hostin is actually upset with the holdout juror, saying she believed the cannibal defendant was aware of his actions. She was upset w/the juror pushing for a NGBROI verdict. Is she really this desperate? It’s easily checked!
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I'm uncomfortable blaming this on what seems to be Millenials (based on demographics). We were screwed over by the economy over and over, and most of us who are childless weren't really choosing that as a path. Now that we can't afford houses but can afford toys, yet don't have children, that isn't really our doing. (I really think everything comes back to housing costs).
A majority of Walt Disney World traffic is childless adults Catering to adults increased revenues and profits as childless adults have more disposable income to spend on themselves. Thus, infantile adults have priced out many actual children, who make up a dwindling minority of the park's guests and who are by virtue of astronomical prices, restricted by class. The same dynamic has already transformed the toy industry: adult-only households account for 55 percent of spending on toys.
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They train you and then they blame you... when I was in grad school I had advisors make me add couching language to my scientific abstracts only to have blind reviewers (who didn't know my sex) tell me to remove it. And people think they treat girls/women equally! It's wild.
Girls become cautious about saying “no” & are actively discouraged from doing it as early as age 6 or 7. This can have lifelong consequences. We may accede to ill treatment from others or don't speak up in circumstances that go against our ethics or morals.katiecouric.com/lifestyle/re…
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In an effort to insult my intelligence, this man is claiming I opened a Twitter account at the age of 1. Interesting approach.
It would be according to your principle, I’m afraid you lack the level of intellect to continue this conversation. Do you think I should have said principals? Lmao. Are you underage? I really think X should do more to keep children off of here.
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WOW.
State-administered death is now more common in Canada than gun homicide is in the U.S. That didn’t happen by accident.
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pam berkeley retweeted
This fight is for all WOMEN ! Last October, I reported men repeatedly showing up in the women's locker room at my gym. I reported it four times. Nothing was done. Then, instead of protecting me, they walked me out with police and terminated my membership. I've spent the last ten months carrying that trauma, and I've realized something: if no one is held accountable, nothing changes. So now I'm fighting back, legally, for me and for every girl who comes after me. I don't want another woman to ever go through what I went through. I can't do this alone. I need your help. Link in bio. #WomensSafety #GymSafety #Accountability #WomensRights #MyStory #SpeakUp #WomensHealth #GymLife #Feminism #WomensEmpowerment
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I have thought this for a very long time now, too.
I've decided that I'm just going to put the question mark outside of the quotation marks when it's not part of the quote. The rule is wrong, and I'm just not going to do it.
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pam berkeley retweeted
Republican nominee for Congress Joe Arminio was removed from a debate in Delaware after “misgendering” Rep Tim McBride by referring to him as a man Joe is correct. Tim is a man. They want to force us to affirm their mental illness
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pam berkeley retweeted
96% of Jews in Poland were murdered by the Nazis. That is genocide. 3% of Gaza’s population, mostly male combatants, died in the war they started. That is not genocide.
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For all the people ridiculing this post, consider that 70-80% of fertilized eggs never make it to live birth. And only 60-75% of implanted embryos make it to live birth. If we consider pregnancy to start at fertilization, then we can't detect that and it has horrifying moral implications. But even if we consider pregnancy to begin at implantation, we still lose so many of those pregnancies (and also often can't detect them for a few days) that it would have considerable implications for everything from healthcare to benefits to regulatory requirements to anti abortion discussions and laws. People would rather sweep pregnancy under an unrealistic rug as "binary", like an on/off switch, than grapple with the reality of it being an incredibly iffy and fuzzy and difficult to determine phenomenon for at least the first several weeks.
Pregnancy tests draw a misleading, somewhat arbitrary, binary between a state of being pregnant and not being pregnant. You can be kind of pregnant, a little bit pregnant, or almost pregnant, or maybe pregnant, and still test positive for pregnancy. Pregnancy tests, particularly at-home urine tests, capture a moment in time at which an embryo has implanted and is interfacing with the uterus in some way. “We define how we understand the beginning of pregnancy based on this snapshot, but such a freeze-frame contains limited information,” Apoorva Tadepalli writes. Read more about the difficult task of determining when pregnancy actually begins: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/Q9…
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the state did NOT prove their theory and hence this means he had reasonable doubt. Jurors are expressly forbidden from creating their own “different” theories and using those theories to convict the accused. This is your “hero”, Maga.
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I noticed this, too. Combined with him most likely lying by omission on his jury form, I'm perfectly clear on why he's retained a lawyer.
Michael Desronvil, the lone hold out in the Clancy trial has now stupidly & openly admitted he broke his oath as a juror & violated the law. He admits he was injecting “different theories” from what was presented and the other jurors were trying to point out to him this means
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While I personally believe she did do it (and he did not), the way they handled this case is indeed terrifying. This is not how the justice system is supposed to function in order to secure a verdict against a person.
What if you’re wrong? When the headlines first broke about Lindsay Clancy, I didn't plan to watch. As much as I distrust legacy media, a headline of that magnitude makes you think - they must have definitive proof. The reality is, they didn’t and after 3 1/2 years they still don’t. They don't have proof of who did it and they don't have proof of when these horrific crimes were committed. The state chose a conclusion that night and in less than 24 hours, while Lindsay lay unconscious in a hospital bed, they charged her with a triple homicide because Patrick said it happened during the 37 minutes he was not home. They have since spent three and a half years trying to force the evidence to fit a narrative spun on night one. The media sold you a story, but the math and science completely shatter it. Patrick’s errands are meaningless until they can provide a scientifically based estimated time of death for the children. You cannot have an alibi when the state doesn't even know the times of death. Thus, his errands are just errands and do not clear him. Critics will immediately scream, “But she confessed!” No, she didn't. Legally, she entered a plea of Not Guilty. The reality is her track seems predetermined which should terrify everyone. For reasons we don’t understand, her defense attorney chose an insanity path after she was entirely isolated from her family for two weeks. Think about the math here: a woman with no prior psychiatric history goes to a doctor for postpartum anxiety, is placed on thirteen different drugs in four months, and is suddenly labeled insane. Any cognitive break would be an acute, chemically induced toxicity from that pharmaceutical conveyor belt. It would not be an inherent defect. By rushing onto an insanity track before the state's forensics were even completed, the defense conceded the physical acts from the beginning. It was a legal strategy that allowed the DA to bypass critical pieces of physical evidence. Lindsay never took the stand to state she committed those acts. Under any standard triple homicide protocol, this investigation should still be wide open. Both parents are still suspects. Shame on the DA and shame on the media for lying to the public for 3 1/2 years. The public accepted your headlines. They never imagined you would completely manipulate the facts and manufacture something this horrific. If you watch this upcoming 60 Minutes interview and accept an emotional performance as a substitute for real forensic answers, you are allowing yourself to continue to be manipulated. When we allow emotional headlines to manufacture a reality without actual physical data, we are permitting a broken system to shield the truth and potentially hold the wrong person responsible. We have to go back to day one, look at the actual handling of this investigation, and demand the truth. Anything less is a betrayal to the Clancy children and a betrayal to yourself.
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I'm also broadly concerned with how, despite a mistrial, the holdout juror is being treated as though he has the "correct" finding in the case. What happened to innocent until proven guilty? I almost want her to get acquitted purely so all of these people can get sued for defamation.
I have serious concerns about crowdfunding jurors, but I am especially opposed to crowdfunding a juror based on the position he took in deliberations. Turning jury service, and specifically a particular vote, into something financially rewarding is abhorrent to me and frankly goes against everything the judiciary is supposed to stand for. I know public confidence in that ideal is already badly strained, but this makes it worse. The largest of these fundraisers is framed around his role as the holdout, and the total climbed substantially after he went public with his defense of his vote. The moment that money becomes a reward for a particular vote, you create an incentive that has no place in a jury room, and every juror in the next high-profile trial will know it. Counsel's handling has not helped. In roughly a day he went from calling the existing fundraisers "100% FAKE," to clarifying that unauthorized "does not in any way mean unappreciated," to announcing that he will establish an "authorized, consolidated, and official fundraiser for our Heroic Holdout moving forward." This is less than two weeks out from a status hearing on whether the Commonwealth retries this case. As it stands, we essentially have no framework for what happens when strangers send a discharged juror six figures immediately after trial because of the position he is publicly credited with taking. This has never been addressed previously by our laws, because it never had to be. I would argue that this seems like a great time to do so.
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This is only for the ones who think Patrick did it. The people who think the prosecution proved the case need the same help though. They need to learn how the justice system actually works and what rights citizens have.
My brother was concerned to learn his wife was a Lindsay Clancy supporter. He asked her why, and when she would give her reasoning he said “let’s ask AI” and told it to validate the statements with source material. 3 statements in she realized her algorithm had fed her a bunch of garbage and she was wrong. He’s now used this method with a number of Clancy supporters, they’re embarrassed to discover they’ve been manipulated by their feed. Instead of telling people they’re wrong, we all would benefit by politely helping others discover truth on their own, so the next time they’re told something ridiculous they make an effort to verify the claims.
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It's so similar to the "sex work is work" thing. Yes, tell me when the female professor making high 5 figures quits her job to be an escort making that much in a month. I'll wait
Let me know when a Hollywood celebrity carries a baby for some poor woman in the middle of nowhere who can’t have her own children.
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This guy is from Poland, a country where abortion is outlawed. The tragic thing about abortion bans is that they increase infanticide rates. This is a major part of why I think abortion opponents aren't as pro life as they think, just delusional about the reality of human nature.
You are being completely sexist and delusional. In my country, in my region there was a "lady" who literally painted the walls with blood of a small child, because she had an affair with his father and when he dumped her, she took revenge. 1/3
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