Sometimes around like 95 he said he didn’t need more money. He’s given away literally millions to his town (he had a little league field(?) build so his kid’s team could play) and to other notable charities for decades. He said, and has written in his books, that there’s only so much money a person needs and the rest is just vanity. He was taught that as a child and lived it as a multi-millionare (which he never truly was – bc he gave it away).
He and his family lived in the same modest suburban house in the same modest Maine town since the 70s.
And then there’s Jeff Bezos.
sometimes is heart-warming to see that indeed good people still exist
I just got a car and started driving again so I was thinking about some safety things for D/deaf/HoH drivers. One huge concern is the possibility of being pulled over and encountering the police.
I have a magnet similar to this on my car in case of that situation
I also keep a notepad and pen in my glove box with my insurance card and registration. I keep everything is in one place so I won’t have to reach around and look like i’m searching for “something”
earlier today i was nonverbal for a bit but no one was around except the cats, so i signed at molly that she’s a good cat and she. immediately started purring. this cat knows too much. i live in fear that someday s
“I’m laying there, scared enough, not wanting this done, telling her I didn’t want it done. All of a sudden I smell something burning. If I could’ve moved my legs I probably would’ve kicked her.”- Brenda Pelletier on being sterilized against her will
Brenda Pelletier checked in to Royal University Hospital in Saskatoon five years ago to give birth to her baby girl. She left, with her tubes tied. The tubal ligation procedure happened, she says, after she was pressured into it by hospital staff, while she was in a vulnerable state.
And as a Métis woman, Brenda Pelletier’s experience appears not to be an isolated case.
At least three other aboriginal women have come forward to say that they too were pressured to be sterilized at the Saskatoon hospital in recent years.
Ok but this is true!!! I was 19 years old when i went into the hospital to give birth to my first child and while i was laying in bed reading and signing consent forms i came across one that woukd give them.permission to tie my tubes. The nurse kept telling me i didnt have to read them all that they were all about my stay in the hospital and intake forms and when i began to read that particular form the nurse came to me laughed nervously and said well we put that in there just in case you wanted to get your rubes tied. I then asked if they always gave them to woman giving birth she said no, the doctor had asked for thematic be put in there “just in case” I didnt want any future children. The nurse then went on to ask me about my future and if i was really sure i wanted to have more children or not. Until my mom came intimate room to check up on me and the nurse then took all the papers from me and left. For the rest of my delivery the nurses refused to give me medication for the pain or an epidural saying it was too early for that and it might stop my labour. I honestly think they withheld pain medication and the epidural to show me how hard child birth can be. Afterwards when they were releasing me the nurse asked me again if i was sure i didnt want to get ny tubes tied. Which i said no to. She then went on and explained thaf if i did i woukd just have to make an appointment with my doctor and i would be in and out in no time at all. That is my experience with the Canadian healthcare system and being a native woman. It is wrong that anyone would try and force something like that on a 19 year old. Please share. Let it be known what is happening to native woman. We have rights just like any other woman and shouldn’t be pushed into suxh decision at such a young age.
Hey white folks with uteruses who do not want or should not have kids,
you know how you’re outraged about how hard it is to get a Doctor to agree to sterilize you even to save your life?
Watching another panel with Patrick Rothuss, PAX West 2018 from about a month ago. Stay tuned for fun posts and block Patrick Rothfuss if you don’t want updates or quotes
Pat, a control freak? Wow, never would have guessed with your super in depth world building or years of revision on your books.
When you haven’t read much of Roald Dahl outside of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and you’re reading his books now, expecting them to be like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: M o t h e r f u c k e r
He says not to compliment people on things that they don’t actually do
I get where he’s coming from, but like, I love it when people tell me I look like a mermaid so…
He has a good point tho
Okay, SO apparently the name “Reshi” is significant and will be revealed in book three, cause he won’t answer it in the q and a. Which means it’s either a hint about how they met or their current relationship.
“Do you have any marriage advice?” “Ooooohohhhhhh, I DO!!!!!”
(he’s so shocked and thrilled)
“This is not anarchy, I will have hands raised.”
I love watching these but I try to document them so other people don’t but man, you are missing out.
If having the love quote memorized is shameful, then I should be completely shamed but I’m not
… uh, so apparently that quote is about unhealthy love
which like, fair, his most stable relationship is with his lute but like, everything has flaws
also, again, this quote is about an inanimate object, so … yeah
“Sometimes, the best thing you can do in a relationship is leave. The women know this, unfortunately, because they’ve been forced to learn this.”
we’re getting real serious up here
Oh my God, his kids are so cute and they just want to swear, like awwwwww
the one thing I will never forgive infinity war for doing is killing all of thor’s character development from Ragnarok in less than two scenes lmao
first, there’s no sign of Thor’s powers that he learned to harness with Hela in the initial battle with Thanos. Like even if it wouldn’t do that much against Thanos they should have at least illustrated that, but instead they left him defenseless and made it so he had to get a even bigger weapon than his hammer. I mean, the whole point of Ragnarok was that he was he didn’t need his hammer to be Thor. That he was so much more than just a warrior with a fancy weapon. Secondly they gave him his eye back, which defeats its original intention as it was supposed to signify Thor taking over Odin’s place as allfather and accepting his responsibilities to his people. In this essay I will
valar apologist 