love how my health insurance company can just decide they don't feel like covering the therapist my autistic kid has had forever and tell me to "find a new one!" Just excellent.

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I believe that I did listen to economists and draw attention to said economists in the comment? Or I'm stroking out. Who can know.

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there is a piece to be written about this "no contact" as a very specific kind of moral panic about status, intergenerational mobility, and maybe dementia. because it is wild how much this no contact thing riles up older people.

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what was that recent clip of a townhall where a women tearfully begged the candidate to do something about her daughter going no contact? the tone of that voice captures something about all of this.

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Another one. The premise: Young people are cutting off their parents for minor mistakes and misunderstandings. The lead anecdote: A woman severs ties with her family for refusing to get vaccinated before her wedding — to a man who *lost his mother and brother to COVID*

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