Yeah I'm so sick of the "women and children" thing. It's so blatantly misogynistic and helps construct the idea that every man in a warzone can be considered a combatant

There's little evidence of pure nicotine being carcinogenic afaik. Nicotine in tobacco is carcinogenic due to certain reactions with other chemicals in the tobacco plant

Damn France and Macron are really leaning into the authoritarianism lately

I love this analogy!

Holy crap, how did I miss this

I really love this!

Yeah, scratch a centrist and a fascist bleeds

I've sort of been worried about this at my new software dev position but I work at a small enough company that I think as long as I get results they don't give a single shit, but it's still in the back of my mind

I think the issue is that they fear giving workers too much freedom. With that newfound freedom, they may start realizing that they can demand more