What a cool exercise! Turned out looking amazing.

Like, ofc I'm defensive of neurodivergent ppl, esp autistic kids, being used as a boogieman -- but that's not new.

Using the fear of having an autistic kid (or "making your kid autistic" -- that implicit blame in 'don't do X, it'll cause Y'!) as an *excuse* to deny people care is just WORSE.

Yeah, my viewpoint is admittedly biased by my personal experience being agreed with by a house full of people who have chronic pain and can't take most NSAIDs. Everyone will differ.

But yeah, that (lack of a link) was my REAL point, and THAT (taking away relief) is the shittiest upshot.

That’s fair, I didn’t mean to imply that it’s not important that people be able to take it, which it IS.

… actually I’m gonna repost you bc I don’t want that to be a takeaway of me being snarky.

Which, like. As someone with ADHD and (…a shitty neuropsych evaluator I can anti-recommend? it’s a story),
…there are a lot of crossovers there anyway

But also, there are a lot of problems with many of the studies, the main one being that almost none evaluate the mothers for much at all.

Yeaaah. As with most “oh no, it’s going to give my child autism” causes 🙄

(also, the MAIN neurological result that even the ‘these papers are pretty confident for no one being able to reproduce their results/having obvious confounding variables’ studies report are ADHD-like symptoms…)

It is really weird that it's like. Mattresses, cars, and furniture. Aside from back to school stuff. Clothes I guess, but mostly from sites that have sales all the time. I guess the other ones are industries that have fairly pricey and space-consuming inventory and need to offload stuff by Q4.

By 1894, 23 states had made it a state holiday (not all of them in Sept - many, but there was a divide when May Day became a thing), but the US hadn't.

But then Grover Cleveland crushed the Pullman strike with federal troops and had to toss labor a bone. So...

Mattress sales! I mean.

(Though, the first Monday/Tuesday of September WAS already a weekend that labor unions celebrated here and in Canada, and the date, though it was an annual commemoration of a labor convention in 1882, seems picked at random -- probably good weather in New York (and Toronto, who had a sister rally).

....tfw i didn't see you already made this joke >_<

I mean, we introduced Rudy Giuliani into the population, I think it might be too late for them already

(oof, sorry. I come back to bsky 10 days later and immediately give you a novel/rant.)

(TBH thinking about it we really DO need more double-lengths. It's probably an expense issue, but. They run them mainly on the express routes here, which -- I mean, still get crowded at rush hour, but ARE much faster and more spaced out. Why not on the longer routes?)

But clustering is an issue. Used to get a bus to work right at an L exit, 20 ppl anytime a train arrived - buses 10-15 min apart couldn't fit us all. Probably spacing (also: more double-length buses!) WOULD help, but that train/bus combo is a main rte btwn res. and commerc. so...which stops to cut?