Please don’t judge us all by Florida’s actions. In turn, we won’t judge you by the dumbest 0.1% of your country’s population.

There was a post some time ago where someone mentioned going to the doctor for an employer-mandated sick note and the doctor was so irritated by it, that they wrote the note demanding 3 days of bed rest, rather than the 1 that had originally been requested. Thought that was pretty classy.

This is employer dependent in the US, too. I can Slack my boss and say “I’m feeling under the weather, going to unplug and rest today,” and she’ll say “Okay, no problem, feel better!”, and that’s the end of the conversation. Definitely the exception to the rule, though; I think OP’s situation is much more common.

I once again reiterate my earlier statements that a lot of Trump policy does not seem to be to be very good at all for American agriculture, which is surprising to me, given that the present-day Republican Party is the party of rural America.

It shouldn’t be surprising. Trump doesn’t represent the Republican party; Trump represents Trump. He does what’s best for Trump, nobody else. If what he wants happens to coincide with what’s good for anyone else, it’s a happy coincidence, nothing more.

I really appreciate that they’re targeting republican states specifically. It’s at least nice that it’s being acknowledged that the US isn’t a monolith and most of us don’t agree with this shit. Not that it doesn’t hurt us all, obviously, but it’s at least a nice little nod to the fact.

You wash your towels after a single use? Just so we’re clear, you’re supposed to wash yourself before you use the towel… they shouldn’t be that dirty… right?