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From the man who brought you TITS U, I present SpaceX: an environmentally irresponsible company so rife with sexism, the only remedy is for women to leave. I found my way through an abusive upbringing, leaving home at a young age, subsequent homelessness, and sexual assault in college, and eventually
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When working for a state assembly, employees were expected to push out as much work as possible with little regard to how the amount of work was going to impact the people working for them. I started out as an unpaid intern and eventually moved on as a full time
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