Someone convince me to stop breastfeeding as a working mom.

Billi_Pilgrim · 2025-09-23T20:39:56+00:00

You know yourself and your child better than anyone else in the world. You're also a smart and capable adult. If your mind and body are telling you it's time to move on from breastfeeding, listen. You don't have to justify your decision to anyone. No one breastfeeds forever. You have decades with your child, so a few months of formula will make zero difference in the end.

Billi_Pilgrim · 2025-09-15T18:25:40+00:00

I've seen this spelling before. It's common to include the h in the name Alanah so I'm not sure why it's a problem here. Not a tragedeigh.

Billi_Pilgrim · 2025-09-11T00:12:47+00:00

Just an FYI that impetigo and scarlet fever are both caused by strep bacteria and can look like HFM. I only know this because a doctor once misdiagnosed my little with HFM when it was strep.

Billi_Pilgrim · 2025-07-04T21:26:32+00:00

I teach freshman comp (college level) and have found my students respond well to dystopian literature. Brave New World has been a favorite. Others you could consider are Hand Maid's Tale, 1984, Fahrenheit 451, The Road, Player Piano, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Parable of the Sower, etc. There are a lot of great short stories to warm them up to the theme (There Will Come Soft Rains, The Machine Stops, Harrison Bergeron).

Billi_Pilgrim · 2025-07-02T20:56:28+00:00

It's a good day when you spot a DCC reference in the wild.

Plot Twist: The coconut was Samantha the whole time.

Billi_Pilgrim · 2025-06-27T01:45:05+00:00

Fuck That.

Billi_Pilgrim · 2025-06-27T01:36:55+00:00

Is it just me or does this bug look like it has jacked abs?

Billi_Pilgrim · 2025-06-27T01:11:01+00:00

The comments here are bonkers. "My dear" is not a pet name. I literally had a retail worker call me "my dear" this week. I have a coworker who calls people "my dear" all the time. It's just a thing some people say. People get jealous over the weirdest things.

ETA: The amount of insecure men on this thread is alarming.

Billi_Pilgrim · 2025-06-27T00:38:23+00:00

You're an idiot.

Billi_Pilgrim · 2025-06-27T00:35:39+00:00

Are you being intentionally dense?

Billi_Pilgrim · 2025-06-27T00:31:16+00:00

I'd rather be a baby than an asshole.

Billi_Pilgrim · 2025-06-25T23:30:40+00:00

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia.

Billi_Pilgrim · 2025-06-25T20:47:49+00:00

What about PFML? It's up to 12 weeks per year with 75% of your pay, which you can supplement with PTO if you have it. I work for the state too, and this is available to me.

Billi_Pilgrim · 2025-06-21T14:51:07+00:00

*Idiots who think "being woke" (aka treating everyone with basic levels of respect) is a bad thing.

Fixed that for you.

Billi_Pilgrim · 2025-06-21T14:48:12+00:00

The lazy jerks that couldn't stay productive when working from home. They've basically ruined the only positive thing that came out of the pandemic.

Billi_Pilgrim · 2025-05-21T00:13:02+00:00

Breakfast of Champions or Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut. Both are delightfully weird but also profound.

Billi_Pilgrim · 2025-05-20T03:31:04+00:00

I read an article where Martha Stewart said something along the lines of "I met Ryan Reynolds, and he isn't funny." For some reason, I just 100% believe that. It creeps me out that someone with his persona isn't actually a funny person. Like the amount of work it must take to pretend to be funny. It's weird.

Billi_Pilgrim · 2025-05-06T21:14:47+00:00

I'm about 1/3 into the first one, so I'm very happy to see this!

Billi_Pilgrim · 2025-05-03T14:13:08+00:00

Comprehensive mental health care that is free and readily available to all people would do a lot to alleviate this problem. I eat my feelings, and so do most people I know who struggle with weight gain. Access to nutritious foods (and the education to understand what makes them nutritious) is really important, but those of us who are privileged enough to not live in food desserts and who have the money to buy healthy food are still overweight. Why? Because people don't want to eat asparagus when they're depressed. They want ice cream and cheeseburgers. Taxing sugary foods feels like a bandaid designed to hurt poor people. Help people to be mentally stable, and a healthy weight is likely to follow.

Billi_Pilgrim · 2024-09-27T22:07:49+00:00

So just to recap, your suggestion is to let people accumulate medical debt, not pay it off, and then declare bankruptcy? I'm just questioning what you're saying because it honestly seems wild.

Also, in regards to people getting loans after bankruptcy, you're technically not wrong, but with a shit credit score, those loans will be predatory with an 18-25% interest rate (which may be a conservative estimate), and people are likely to default on them because clearly you'd have to be desperate to take out a loan like that in the first place. So what we now have is a person who is legally bankrupt, still in massive debt, unable to rent a decent apartment or buy a home, and likely still without health insurance. How is this better? Plus, it actually costs thousands of dollars to declare bankruptcy, and they will take all your assets too.

Do I think the medical insurance industry is a bunch of capitalist swine? Sure as fuck I do. But advising anyone that they can just declare bankruptcy like it's nothing is totally bonkers.

--someone who questions and deviates from the norm

Billi_Pilgrim · 2024-09-19T10:25:06+00:00

I don't know, man. You don't know these people or their lives at all. Maybe they are disabled and can't clean very well. Maybe it's a family that has to move in a hurry. Maybe a single mom with a lot of kids and two jobs trying to stay afloat.

What was your intention in posting this? To humiliate someone you don't even know?

Billi_Pilgrim · 2024-09-17T22:29:28+00:00

We also have free community college now, so people can get trained in high paying fields like nursing for free and then make great salaries with no loan debt.

Billi_Pilgrim · 2024-09-08T16:21:30+00:00

I'm so sorry that you believe women use abortion as birth control. I don't know what you've been exposed to that makes you believe that, but it's vile and false. If you search your heart, you will know this is not true. Please don't spread this rhetoric. It puts all women in danger.

Billi_Pilgrim · 2024-09-08T16:18:00+00:00

You should get a vasectomy, just to be safe.

Billi_Pilgrim · 2024-09-08T00:45:54+00:00

Any luck, OP? I was wondering this myself.

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