This! My brother was well into medical school by the time I convinced him that he benefitted from taxes. I'm like, "Do you drive on the roads? Would you like a fire department?" It was maddening. (He's MUCH better now.)

Amen.

My understanding is that written Korean is also a phonetic language, with a comparable number of letters to English, so it's not too hard to learn the alphabet. (You know, in your free time.)

Thank you for a post that is about A Horror, but not The Horrors.

Teacher friend's principal told them "now is not the time to be a hero" re: ICE coming for children. Um, yes, it fucking well is.

There it is. Thank you for helping this make sense to me.

I feel like English is a mean prank we're pulling on everyone else.

Almost all of our baby stuff (crib, bassinet, clothes, bouncers, books, etc.) is from Buy Nothing. It's been so helpful.

You can hardly blame them, but it makes for a really harrowing doomscroll.

Wow, way to apply diet culture to reading.