I can’t find the video now, but a couple years ago there was a science creator who broke down the overall environmental cost (co2 production, manufacturing chemicals, microplastics, etc.) of producing the materials needed to make the various bags, manufacturing, transportation, and time to break down/end of life impacts. The single use plastic bags were less impactful than any reusable bags by far. This can be increased by reusing the single use bags as you would a reusable bag before using it for garbage like you do. Only paper bags were marginally better than single use plastic, but even that is unsustainable as it is still a single use item, and produces all kinds of chemicals during the pulping process. Not to mention only ~50% get recycled, leading to more forestry to supply materials.

All that to say you’re right. The 3 R’s are the way to go.

My personal pet peeve are the “environmentalists” who rush out to buy new “environmentally friendly” options rather than using what they currently have until it needs to be replaced. Particularly since most of the organic replacements don’t last as long. Yes, the plastic version will end up in the landfill regardless, but they could have reduced their overall impact by 5 to 500 organic whatevers in the meantime. Eco-consumerist nonsense. /rant

From this popsci article: "Bird wings may not seem all that threatening. After all, like most other birds that fly, the bones in goose wings are hollow. But because geese can weigh up to 25 pounds, the muscles in those wings are incredibly strong. They have to be to lift such a heavy bird into the air and carry it hundreds of miles at a time during migration.

So you really don’t want to be pummeled by those wings—they can quickly knock down a full-grown adult and cause scrapes, stitches, even broken bones. All of these injuries have been reported after goose assaults."

https://youtu.be/KD7zTSaiigg

Genuinely not trying to be a pedantic asshole, just too tired to brain: did you actually mean “neglected” here, or did you mean “negated”?

It only has some of the things that are in urine: urea, creatinine, and uric acid, It has things that aren’t in urine: Skene’s gland secretions, and is missing things that are in urine: salts, amonium, toxins, etc.

So if I dump protein powder in your coffee, did I put cream in it?

Well, it’s sort of pee. It’s got the same chemicals in it that our body puts in urine, plus excretions from the skene’s glands, which are related to the prostate in guys. It also isn’t carrying waste from the kidneys, so it’s “clean” pee, if that makes sense. Same idea as how cum and pre-cum overlap, but aren’t the exact same thing.

It is pee with extras, technically. It’s also fluid that’s created specifically in response to sexual arousal, not just waste. So…sex pee? Curim? Peejaculate? https://www.gbchealth.org/blog/is-squirt-pee/

Sooo…that wasn’t rain?

PBS is also an American broadcaster.

I 100% agree with your plastic statements. However, wanted to make a note that it is standard practice to put type 1 diabetics on a low dose blood pressure medication because it reduces wear on their kidneys, thereby reducing the risk of renal failure and other complications. Cholesterol meds are also prescribed proactively to people with a variety of chronic illnesses, particularly those related to heart health, who are often eating better than anyone here, but have higher risks of complications. Medications are tools amongst a variety of ways to help people live better lives.

All that to say, what choices you make about medications and their place in your health are completely valid for you. That doesn’t mean your choices are applicable across the board. Please don’t give medical advice on the internet. (A conversation about the importance of communities designed to encourage exercise, and easy access to affordable unprocessed/low processed food is a different thing from “don’t take medications: everything can be cured by kale and a walk in the woods”)

Absolutely. Though I personally feel that if we’re choosing to perpetuate the stereotype by adopting it, we need to take the time to educate ourselves on what power that stereotype has, not to mention unpacking why we’re attracted to it: are we healing, or reopening a wound?

Opting in to a stereotype means we can opt out, and that also means we may not be fully burdened by the harm that stereotype can do. Depending on the stereotype, we can inadvertently distress or reproduce harmful scenarios for people who do not have the option to opt out.

I’m not responsible for where other people’s toes are on a dance floor. I am responsible for whether I’m wearing sneakers or boots, and adjusting my step if I see toes where I’m about to dance.

(Edited to fix punctuation)

The last sentence in my reply was “we don’t know what her real life is like” you’re parroting that back at me, but trying to speculate on what her life is like at the same time. We don’t know. We can’t know.

If you really want to know what it’s like to be a woman, maybe ask a few to go for coffee and actually listen to what they have to say. They’re not these mystical creatures you are making them out to be. If you are transfemme, or a CD, that’s great. And it’s still not OK to find your own gender by compounding the stereotypes.

The majority of porn is created for straight men. North American men, where the majority of the commercial porn industry operates, are socialised to think that finding another man attractive = gay, and gay = emasculating/bad (I don’t agree, that’s just the messaging). So the fact that porn only shows a man’s genitals serves 2 purposes: it helps maintain the “no homo” mentality, while also allowing the viewer to insert themselves into the scene. That’s now their big, veiny penis and huge cum shot. It has nothing to do with the attractiveness of men (though the statement “men are ugly” is a part of the larger problem in how our societies are socialised around gender)

Beauty is a series of social expectations. By Eurocentric standards, in the 1800s a beautiful woman was fat. In the 2000s she was athletic, today, she is gaunt with a distinct lack of fat in her face. Nothing we see in photographs is “natural” beauty. Even this one - that woman is working. Her job is dependant on selling a sexual narrative to her customers. What you see isn’t so much “herself” as a product she has assembled with makeup and clothing in order to do her job. You are fantasising about the opportunity to be the fantasy she is selling. Not to actually be her. We don’t know what her real life is like.

I appreciate your covert strategy to get people to play with your butt.

Incorrect title. This is clearly a Tweanky.

Why not both? Mits for everyone!

This isn’t to slam you, just a tidbit in case you and your wife ever do decide to try teaching her to cook:

Intuition comes from a lot of practice, and external feedback on how close/far you were and how to improve for next time. A professional chef can intuit the temp of a fish they cooked within a degree because they’ve cooked thousands of fish filets, measured each one with a thermometer to confirm it was cooked correctly, and had other chefs guide them on what to look for (or swore at them when they got it wrong, but maybe don’t do that to your wife). They’ve thrown out hundreds of botched plates. And now they can cook a fish and know with their gut when it’s done.

Your wife’s first 300 dishes are going to be not so great. And then she’ll figure out how to identify what’s missing in the flavour, and how to keep from over-cooking the meat, and you get to be there to help her with that, and cheer her on, and call out every time she improves.

Or maybe she finds 300 new textures she hates, but finds 2 meals that don’t squick her out to prepare. And that’s OK, too.

Oh, but there are speculums for all. If you have an orifice, western medicine has figured out how to pry it open.

From my experience, it depends on where. Malls and things like that where there are many people of all different demographics absolutely are equally disgusting. Semi-private washrooms tend to be less disgusting overall, but women’s are usually at least a little cleaner. Standing to pee causes splashes. Enough human traffic and and the whole place smells like a hamster cage that doesn’t go away unless the whole damn bathroom is flooded in sanitiser.

Telecoms tradespeople in Canada are paid like absolute garbage. They used to be (and some still are, but they’re dwindling) part of the steelworker’s union, but they were hit hard by union busting, so now the majority are contractors who get paid by the job. This means a full 5 hour run of fibre to get a home set up pays the same as plugging a single wire in at the CO. But it’s luck of tue draw, and with the telcos cutting corners on everything, the “plug in a wire” jobs are like unicorns.

Plus the rack people have all been laid off, so the guys have to do that job on top of their own, and the IT side has all been offshored to folks who are not trained or paid enough to be competent. So what should be a 45 minute job that they could do 11 of in a single day now takes 2 hours, meaning they’re only getting paid for 4.

It would not surprise me if other blue collar industries started following suit.