I was briefly interested in raw milk in the early 2000s. There was a lot of info floating around about how pasteurization destroyed beneficial bacteria that healthy people could benefit from, to avoid risk to those with compromised immune systems, infants and elderly, etc. The gut microbiome was just starting to be talked about, and we didn’t know much, but people were curious about improving it.

Fortunately I did a little digging and realized it was a fairly radical and unproven concept, but it’s not just the belief they’re adding something harmful. It’s the belief they’re removing beneficial bacteria that would somehow improve our health.

Considering how the last 20 years have been full of mostly unproven probiotic and prebiotic marketing insanity, it’s not surprising, it’s the same base concept. But science has been demonized since then, people actively think science and medicine is trying to keep us unhealthy now, and the top levels of government are promoting that bullshit.

Yeah everything is. Lasts 50+ years which, IDK if you’ve ever had a furnace replacement, but they’re not cheap and easy especially if it’s tucked somewhere weird.

Then how did he have an affair?

Is power itself not enough to coerce someone, you’re saying it has to be physical coercion? That would undo a lot of what we know about sexual assault.

I’m certainly not saying he did it, but “he’s paralyzed” is not a good enough defense.

France is starting to get it. I hope more countries do.

My parents had kids when I was 12 and 16 years old. So basically what you described, but my mom was physically disabled by then, and my dad was mostly absent, and I was in high school with a part time job. Cooked/cleaned/woke them up/put them to bed and all the in-between.

Sometimes I wonder why, and am ashamed, that I was suicidal and badly addicted by the time I moved out at 17, then sometimes like in this thread I am kind of proud of myself for surviving it.

I did eventually have a kid but in an arrangement with a couple lesbians, I get to be a part-time dad in my 40s and it’s pretty awesome.

Always thought that was weird, salt was very valuable so was it a concession prize? Sorry you don’t have a wife anymore but here’s something pretty cool instead. Like if someone changed my husband into money I might be like, well, it was his time…

They’re not the same. Android lockdown is a temporary lock screen state. iOS lockdown is a full OS hardening, affects the way the phone operates full-time.

…That’s a bit of ableism, Hawking managed to have an affair that ended his marriage although it seems that original marriage involved his abuse, so he comes out the good guy. It’s entirely possible for a wealthy, privileged person with disabilities to abuse someone else, either through power imbalance or with assistance under their direction. But no evidence that it occurred in his case.

My elementary school classmate Seth did this, he wound up with a broken leg. Although he did hedge his bets with an umbrella, maybe that ruined it.

He was shot to death privately, and then his body was lain in a square where people beat him until his face was unrecognizable, THEN they hung him by the ankles.

Also, you know, making the rich people pay even the same taxes WE pay, let alone the 50-90% marginal rates from decades ago, when the country was strong.

Space X/X AI/Twitter (soon to include Tesla in a giant Xterfuck) will soar to all new market caps.

They remind me of the old style fluorescent circle lights from the 50s, where they were almost green.

More than even color temperature I’m shocked at the number of people who illuminate their rooms with four clear-glass bulbs in the ceiling fan, so bright you can’t even look at them from the sidewalk. Have these people never heard of a lamp? You can practically see the shadows of dust motes in the air against the sterile white walls.

laughs in adaptive lighting

The fight for gay rights STARTED with a riot. Same sex marriage came through the courts, decades later. In a new age. I was there, I was fighting for it. There was no violence when SSM and trans rights were brought about.

Edit: To further my point, what DID move the needle was public support for SSM and trans rights, which happened through EDUCATION, which is INFORMATION. When public support got there, SCOTUS granted the right, and eventually legislatures followed. A lot of organizations did a lot of work educating the public, which is the very work I did in the third state that got SSM. To act like the Stonewall riot directly lead to SSM is absurd.

Destined to fall in love with the common pigeon, still died alone. Man was full of contradictions.

It says funding is already in place, so expect the tech companies to be footing the bill again, maybe some oil companies too this time, trading favors for investments in Venezuela infrastructure rebuilding.

Same sex marriage. Transgender rights. We are in a different age, wars are fought by information now. We are fighting the current war for America by information now. Not by bullets. I am all about Luigis rising up but that’s a lot different than “everyone grab semi and hope for the best.” This isn’t 1776.

What the fuck?

He’s also got a wife and kids who are high profile, his selfishness will extend to them, he wants them to be able to have legacies too or else he’s going to die hated by the few people who still love him. Sarah is absolutely telling him not to go even near an open window right now, stay in the dark for the rest of time. He seems to actually listen to her a bit, too.