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If i avoided every place I ever encountered misogyny, my life would shrink considerably. Forget work. Never a church. Goodbye school, the grocery store, movie theaters, almost all spaces online, my local park.

Oh sheesh. It runs in families. They’re saying growing up with a schizophrenic parent exposes you to stress that makes you more likely to indulge in pot. Their point stands.

Idk i kind of get it. I don’t want the government regulating how I raise my kids. I don’t want them to enforce that i follow rfk jrs recommendations. I don’t want them saying I legally have to educate my kids according to turning point’s curriculum.

It’s a slippery slope and I don’t trust the government as far as I can throw it to set what is considered scientific consensus.

Hard agree these parents should be found criminally negligent, but how will that be possible when their own government is telling them not to trust vaccines?

We went one year where it rained. We got pretty wet, but the lines all disappeared. It was amazing.

I don’t know why no one has said it, but get rid of social media as we know it. That’s the actual only solution. The harms of social media applies to all ages. It’s the capitalist side of social media that is the danger. Put limits on advertising and suddenly the algorithms to keep you engaged/ angry/ addicted are pointless, and suddenly social media isn’t as harmful.

I have these! Plus I’ve got a bony lump on the roof of my mouth. Like half a small golf ball or half a large marble at the back of my hard palate, right before my soft palate. I always thought everyone had it, but a few years ago I learned it’s rare. More common in certain genotypes, most people in my family have it.

I do miss the low light camera so much

I was a pixel user since pixel 1, always buying A year or two behind whenever mine would crap out. My last 2 gave up awfully quickly both with bloated fat batteries. Google was supposed to replace the battery for free but I couldn’t figure out how to bring it anywhere local. On the second one, it stopped turning on when the battery got fat, and no way in hell was i sending in my phone without wiping it. I’m never doing pixel again. They’re unreliable.

Boy I have been feeling this exact sentiment so much this week. We have a child, and there’s just nothing like church out there for families. Church is free (though they do expect a tithe) but the family activities are so plentiful. It’s like all the classes and small groups and stuff come with free childcare, including the Sunday service. Most all of the suggestions here are not kid friendly and i just don’t have the resources to pay for childcare once a week so I can do a fun activity, class, or club focused on adults. I already use my parents once a week so I can attend therapy and I feel bad enough about that to ask for anything more.

I did look up my local UU and they have a game night that includes childcare, but I’m going to have to attend services for a while before I trust anyone new with my child.

Why doesn’t the customer just take the couple of minutes at the beginning of the month to dispense the blister packs into a daily pill box organizer?

Or just take a pair of scissors and round off the edges?

Just saying the problem is as easily or more easily solved by the customer as it is by the tech.

Certainly no medication should just be thrown out because the packaging is inconvenient. Making the techs take more time just means making the meds more expensive than they already are.

Obviously the real answer is to overhaul the whole system, but we live under an oligarchy here. Individual people have no power past barely the local level.

And the version of “You’re the One that I Want” plays in my head all the time! So good!

I Am Not an Easy Man (French). It’s outdated now, but when I watched it as a teenager/ young woman it opened my eyes to a lot that I took for granted. I still think of it all the time when I’m brushing my teeth.

You said in your post funerals were going too far. That is what I take issue with.

Maybe you could walk away from a living being dying inside you and then you having to pass that dead corpse with zero trauma, but let grieving families grieve. A memorial service is a perfectly reasonable response to losing a child, even if they never lived outside you.

Too young? My sister got shingles in highschool! Anyone can get it.

How is academia totally separate? I get how the opiate crisis is purely big Pharma exploiting people for profit, but the tuskeegee experiments were research. Isn’t that medicine and academia?

Women who have been through childbirth have certainly earned the right to be skeptical of doctors/ medicine. Women are still being mistreated and discounted in hospitals today, especially women of color. You have to get lucky to get nurses and doctors who treat your body as worthy of care, and you as worthy of belief and autonomy.

Hey you said the negative history of the artist made the art more interesting, so i was just saying it’s more nuanced than that. We all (me definitely) own stuff from evil people/ corporations, but art is different because it’s not meant to be functional, it’s meant to make you feel something. It’s more susceptible to changing meaning based on creator than a T- shirt, a phone, or a pair of shoes

For me it comes down to who is paying rent. If you’re working/ taking out loans, you’re on your own. If mom and dad are footing the bill for room and board, you’re kind of living at home with extra steps

In western cultures people certainly judge for this, especially in the US. absolutely not saying they should! Just saying this does fit the framework for judgements here. I think it’s only older generations and upper middle class people who judge anymore though. The rich have always relied on family (though they usually have plenty of space and multiple homes) and the poor often cohabitate, with younger generations helping out with rent and housework, the middle Gen making the bulk of the income and the older Gen being taken care of and maybe helping with childcare.