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Why yes, in fact, my mother was a fine example. Of course, she was born in 1915, on a farm.

Women born after 1945 really don't have any excuse.

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I'm sure that my research institute would have been just fine with me setting up my lab in my kitchen during my maternity leave(s). No big having radioactive nucleotides, ∝-amanitin, liquid acrylamide, phenol, chloroform and other goodies right next to my food prep area, while I conducted hot experiments and ran gels with my son in a sling and my daughter on the floor playing happily with used eppendorf tubes.*headdesk*And this idiot is the governor of my state.

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Yes, I know the problem. I simply don't have room to set up two electron microscopes and a prep lab in my kitchen. Of course the carcinogens can all go in the fridge next to the milk so it's not all bad.

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Plus bonus points for the biohazard boxes put out at the curb every week.

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Hmmm. What a cost saver!

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They're more common as they were. When I started playing vidya games online waaaaaay back in the day just saying hi was enough to grift all the loots. Alas younger and cuter come along to grift. Plus if you're remotely good you get harassed. I ended up playing male characters for my healers.

As it were my daughter runs her own little game world on roblox, she loves having the power of kicking out noobs who stray from her vision of her little world (like her brother.). She makes her own fat loot so progress!

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This is why Republicans admire Trump for his candor. He came right out and said he wants to lower wages for workers. Why sugar coat it? Of course, there's still the curious fact that most of his supporters are wage earners themselves, which means they are going to get fucked. I guess candor counts for a lot with them.

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Maybe hatched a Newegg?

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I think voters just need to show up consistently and give the GOP fewer positions of authority, regardless of the sex of the person holding them.

Seems to work fine here in California.

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I can think of dozens of examples where you wouldn't have the luxury of working from home.

Per a recent economic development mailing sent out to residents...apparently 1/4 of the jobs in my high-tech Bay Area city are advanced manufacturing jobs. Pretty sure those can't be done at home.

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I saw your pic of your 2-year-old and I will not have you say anything against him!

(the little hellion :) )

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That's okay. You are going to be polite and share, yes?

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I hate it when politicians suggest a solution to a real social problem without actually trying out the solution personally to see if it works. I'd like to see Mr. Kasich work from home with a baby or a toddler or a sick 9-yr-old in the house and an 8 to 5 work schedule. Three years ago we got 22 inches of snow where I live and we had to work from home for 3 days, and you should have heard all my male coworkers bitch when the snow was cleared and we got back to the office about how they couldn't get any work done because the schools were closed too, and all their little kids were at home, making noise and interrupting them. I don't have kids, but I have 2 cats, and they were annoying me by sitting on the keyboard every 15 minutes or so because they figured "Mom's home, it must be a weekend!"

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A GOP " moderate " today would of replied ," maybe ",when David Coppefield asked ," May I have some more sir ?"

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Better be an asplosion proof refrigerator, that one. Then again, the kids just might think of a way to make it less so by the time they get explorey enough... more fun for the whole family, no?And what's this malarkey with the two electron microscopes? Can't you just use one, like a normal person?

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I can just imagine the daughter asking "Ooh! Ooh! What does this button DO?" and the shivers that sends down your spine because for all you know she may have already pressed it.OT: Are you looking into antibody-drug conjugates with the ∝-amanitin or is it something else?

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