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Try that on in a small town.

magemaximus posted...

damn why was the doctor fighting it?

Part of it's paranoia over getting sued if the woman changes her mind later, but it's mostly just the attitude that all women should want kids and that anyone who says they won't will likely end up changing their mind later, so the doctor believes they're doing the woman a favour by refusing to do it. It's a very sexist, paternalistic way to practice medicine, but it's still very common.

Zareth posted...

"because all those charges are false, Crooked Joe Biden is abusing his power to win to the election!"

Mr. Mike has previously acknowledged that Trump was guilty of the charges in question, but insisted that the fraud he committed didn't actually deserve to be punished because he paid back the loans he obtained fraudulently. This seems to be a common thread among Trump's fanbase (including the entire GOP, in the case of his impeachments): Not denying that he's broken the law, but not wanting him to face consequences for doing so because reasons.

Do yourself a favour and look up the term "stochastic terrorism."

It's not really a meme, but I'm putting it here anyway:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW8ASVEoW2I

Personally, I still say "What the crap" all the time.

I'm getting the sense that SMT's prison sentence might not have been long enough. It doesn't seem to have taught him anything. Granted, that's probably less a matter of sentence length and more one of the fact that prison doesn't really try to fix... whatever's wrong with him.

It's a lot of murders by non-murderer standards, but by murderer standards it's not particularly exceptional, and the fact that the adjective is being applied to "murderer" means we should be using murderer standards in applying it.

The only time I've actually worked with a full beef tenderloin, I turned the middle ~2-3 lb into beef wellington (which was a lot of work and could have turned out better because it was my first time trying it, but was really good), got ~8 nice steaks out of it, and used the trimmings to make some phenomenal beef stir fry. A whole tenderloin is a lot of meat, though, so it's not something I have any desire to make a habit of getting.

Upper-level phones are like $1500+.

I very rarely drink coffee, and today was no exception. My usual morning drink is just water, sometimes apple juice.

I think my girlfriend had some anaesthetic for her IUD. It was still really uncomfortable and the IUD has caused long-term problems with cramps that she didn't have before, plus of course getting a needle stuck in your cervix to administer the anaesthetic isn't exactly a picnic to begin with, but she wasn't entirely without some efforts to make it more comfortable than "hold still while we play darts in your hoohah."

rjsilverthorn posted...

Apparently a company just picked up the patent in 2023 and is looking to bring it to market as 'Plan A For Men' https://www.axios.com/2024/01/17/male-birth-control-plan-a

The last I was looking, I think a couple different companies had picked up and dropped the idea. I'm wondering if it's just not cost-effective to bring it to market, given the relatively low treatment frequency and the fact that I'm guessing most insurances won't cover it right away (leading couples to choose options that are covered/cheaper). Hopefully this one pans out; I'd rather my girlfriend didn't have to keep getting IUDs.

Jen0125 posted...

All the medical male birth control options keep getting shut down because they have side effects... That are completely similar to the side effects of female birth control. But it's okay for women to suffer constantly. That's fine.

Yep. "Male hormonal birth control pills shut down due to causing weight gain, mood swings, and acne" as though those exact side effects aren't extremely common for every female birth control pill currently on the market. They're obviously not pleasant, and it would be ideal for men to avoid them, but not when that means putting all the onus on women to endure them.

Jen0125 posted...

I'm not sure why there's no temporary medical device for men like an IUD for their balls yet

That's kind of what vasalgel was supposed to be: A gel that gets injected into the vas deferens and kills sperm that try to pass through it, stays in place for many years, and can be dissolved when desired to restore normal fertility within a couple days. From what I could tell, it was comparable to an IUD in effectiveness and had very few side effects, so it seemed like a no-brainer, but it seems to have fizzled out. I should see what happened.

Heck, if anything, given the number of misogynists that are paranoid about women trying to trap them with babies by skipping their pills or turkey bastering a condom or whatever, I'm surprised there isn't more pressure to give men more control over the process. There's so much "I don't trust women to use birth control properly," but none of that seems to translate into "I want power over the birth control in my relationships."

speedpunk posted...

This was years ago. No lasting effects.

Plenty of people use drugs and go on living just fine. We make a big deal when drug use goes wrong but we don't think about the countless people that do drugs and are fine, which likely outnumber these unfortunate incidents.

Which is really one of the reasons (controlled) legalization is a good thing: When the only drug users you hear about are addicts that overdose, that creates an inflated sense of risk that scares some people away, but also causes others to underestimate the real risk because they can dismiss it as selection bias and therefore just kind of make up what they want to believe about the risk. If usage is legal and doesn't have to be hidden (and especially if it happens in supervised consumption sites that help to regulate dosage and otherwise reduce harm), you can get a clear picture of what the risk actually is and make an informed decision about whether or not you want to take it. That's a lot better than having to guess one way or the other.

Of course, Covid demonstrated just how bad people are at risk analysis even with clear data available, so it's hard to say how much that would actually help. Still, I'd rather see people make poor choices because they suck at risk analysis than because they don't have the data available to analyze the risks.

Jen0125 posted...

Women always have more sexual consequences and pain then men

I really wish there were more male-centric forms of non-permanent birth control. Condoms are too unreliable for exclusive use, and vasectomies are too permanent (they are reversible, but that's expensive, has a considerable failure chance, and the failure chance increases the longer you wait), and that's literally it for male options. For every option that's suitable for couples that want to avoid kids for now but might want them later, it's the woman that has to bear the cost, maintenance, and side effects, and that's just not fair.

I liked the idea of that Vasalgel stuff that was in development like a decade ago, but I don't think that's borne out, which is bothersome.

ZayKayWill posted...

Us men don't get that since a vasectomy is so quick and easy, apparently...

I don't have any personal experience with it, but my understanding is that the worst part of the procedure is that you can smell the vas deferens being cauterized and that's a little unnerving. You'd be under local anaesthetic, so there's little to no pain and all you really feel is a bit of a tug. The incision might hurt for a couple days, but as far as surgical procedures go it's extremely minor. You've probably had less pleasant dental cleanings.

Raikuro posted...

This event in the comics predates 9/11 by 2 months

X-men 7-Eleven.

rjsilverthorn posted...

The correct answer is still cynical, it is cheaper for them than paying for pregnancy related care.

True. Pregnancies ain't cheap. It's why I always have to laugh at the people who are like "get abortions if you want, but don't make me pay for them!" as though an abortion isn't an order of magnitude or two cheaper than going through with a pregnancy (to say nothing of the costs of actually raising a kid).

ConfusedTorchic posted...

i thought you did play it

who am i thinking of then

No idea. It's one I plan to play some time, but it's just never been a high enough priority to actually get it.

I guess they're banking on hardly anyone being able to get it done. That, or they didn't realize you were white, but we'll go with the slightly less cynical interpretation.

I rarely try to tag people, but pretty much every time I've tried it hasn't worked properly. It's not a very good system.

One of these days I'll stop slacking and get/play StS.

Jen0125 posted...

I want to be optimistic so I don't go insane.

That's as good a reason as any to be optimistic. I'm sure you'll get it done eventually, now that you've definitively decided you want it. It's just a question of how many needless hoops you have to jump through to make it happen.

So if I'm already a god then I should be fine?

Jen0125 posted...

I don't think it'll be the same here now with what just happened.

I'm not necessarily so optimistic. What's happened will spike demand, certainly, but the attitude of "women should want kids and therefore any woman asking to be sterilized will probably change their mind" is a little too entrenched to go away so quickly. Hopefully it does go well for you, though.

Yellow posted...

One time my coworker told me masks don't work because the virus can get in through your pores anyway. I calmly explained how it has to get in your lungs through water droplets.

He's not entirely wrong, he just lacked the understanding to express the actual point or draw the correct conclusion. Airborne/droplet-borne viruses can enter the respiratory tract through the eyes (specifically via the tear ducts), so masks don't provide complete protection. There is, however, a world of difference between "don't provide complete protection" and "don't work," which is something anti-maskers seem to really struggle with.

Yellow posted...

Plot twist: did you say anything? If not, I blame you.

Very often, saying anything doesn't actually change anything for the people speaking. If they're confident enough in their opinions to broadcast them on social media, then they're unlikely to change their minds regardless of how many facts are presented to the contrary. In many cases, people actually believe their falsehoods more strongly the more is done to prove them wrong, because humans are terribly silly.

Public argument, however, often isn't about convincing the people you're arguing with. It's about convincing the gallery. People who aren't confident enough in their opinions to broadcast them publicly are a lot more likely to change their minds if given reason to, and in cases where the public's opinion is important (like the response of the general public to the worst public health crisis in a century), that means it's often worthwhile to engage even with stubborn idiots who only double down on their idiocy when challenged. It is, however, exhausting to do that all the time.

Accumulating $10,000 gets you about as close to having $100 billion as climbing Everest gets you to reaching the sun.

Metalsonic66 posted...

It really was just an eerie dimness. Something about that kind of light without the typical colors you'd get from a sunset or the shadows you'd get from cloud cover

Yeah, the light level lined up with what I'd expect from sunset or a cloudy day, but paired with a bright blue sky and no clouds, it just felt off.

I'm sure it's merely coincidental that the AG who will be doing everything in their power to limit the reach of this law is female.

Cruddy_horse posted...

In truth I'm really tired of needing multiple launchers/storefronts in general,

Really, this is the big thing for me. A couple months ago I made a point of cataloguing every game I own for the sake of getting a definite handle on my backlog, and it was a pretty substantial ordeal to document everything I had on PC because I had multiple storefronts to sift through. I've mostly managed to avoid purchasing duplicate games (the only one I know of off the top of my head was buying Volgarr the Viking for like $2.50 on Steam when I'd gotten it in a Humble Bundle a few months prior), but it's still hard to keep track of what I have when I have multiple libraries to consider, and that's resulted in dozens of games I do want to play going unplayed because I just forget I have them.

I'm still taking advantage of Epic's free games, and have amassed a sizable library (~290 games) just from those, but I'd really prefer to stick to just one platform to actually buy games on as much as possible (GOG gets some business by simple virtue of selling games nobody else does, and Humble purchases almost always activate on Steam anyway). Where so much of my library is already on Steam, Epic would have to offer a significantly better client than Steam to get me to switch over to them. Their client is pretty clearly worse, though (even with the improvements they've made), so that's not happening any time soon.

Revelation34 posted...

"for me anyway since I have to use almond flour."

Their past posts about food have generally indicated that they avoid carbs for nutritional reasons, not due to celiac or another allergy. It's pretty reasonable to assume that that's the case here as well.

RVallant posted...

Free s*** is still s***.

They give away the occasional gem.

https://imgur.com/yXNOdMx

Revelation34 posted...

Gluten allergy.

That's not being concerned about their nutritional content (what's usually meant by "how healthy X is"), that's being concerned about toxicity.

I'm pretty sure I had to look up the pot thing. Definitely not an intuitive puzzle.

I grab the free games as they come, but I have no intention of actually spending money there. Steam could stand some competition, but that competition needs to be in the form of actually trying to provide a better service, not just throwing around exclusivity deals and free stuff to artificially make people feel more invested in the platform than in Steam. GOG had the right idea with Galaxy offering a unified client to handle games from multiple storefronts, but unfortunately I've found that it's fallen short in that it doesn't run very well and the detection doesn't work reliably enough for it to be a comprehensive list.

I can kind of understand not maintaining servers for online play, since as much as Nintendo could afford to keep them up, that's still a cost with no chance of a return, but the deaths of the eshops really bug me. The 3DS and WiiU eshops already used an account service that was integrated with the Switch's, such that there's absolutely no reason they couldn't just use one universal shop server for all of their platforms and keep them supported indefinitely. The only cost to keep those digital titles up would be storage space (any direct costs incurred by downloading games would be covered by the games' costs), and not only is storage space pretty cheap, they're already paying to store copies of all of these games. The only reason to shut the stores down is to make it easier to sell the same games again on later systems, with fewer options for interested consumers to buy an old system and get the games for less.

Revelation34 posted...

Did they heal you?

I was already at full health.

If you're concerned about how healthy cookies are, you're probably doing something wrong.

ConfusedTorchic posted...

the dude doesn't even come here anymore though

Maybe yesterday's topic is him trying to come back after blocking everyone that might possibly put a damper on that return. That, and it's not like we can even see when he does post here now, so who knows how often he's making topics?

Those are indeed shortbreads. Well done.

Nade_Duck posted...

it didn't get fully dark here, but it was very dim for a bit. it was pretty and eerie in a weird way. honestly wouldn't mind if things just looked like that normally. i kind of weirdly miss it now.

That was about how it went here. The lighting just felt... quiet, if that makes sense. It wasn't dark, but everything was just dimmed in a really subdued way. Shadows got really wonky, too, looking like they were being cast by multiple light sources instead of a single point. The rainbows coming in from the crystals hanging in my windows were also visibly curved for a bit.

Mostly people who make more money if their employees can't just say "it's too dark to keep working now."

We're getting about 95% eclipsed here, but without eclipse glasses I won't actually be able to look at it, so it'll just be a matter of getting pretty dark at ~4:30 (currently 3:45).

Maybe he's just blocking everyone that's ever disagreed with him in an attempt to be able to make his posts without ever having to face any sort of adversity. I'm not sure how successful that will be when there are so few posts and posters in the first place, but it's his life.

Sarcasthma posted...

I can understand someone blocking me or helly, but adjl?

A couple people have blocked me, but it's generally cases where I won't let them be wrong about important things (the only one coming immediately to mind is zebatov not liking me proving his anti-vax ramblings wrong). I often butted heads with NMB because he butts heads with everyone, but I can't think of any specific instance where that happened and he seemed to have a problem with it.

Accrovideogames posted...

This is why I'm only going to look at it for one or two seconds with my naked eyes.

Or you could just get eclipse glasses and not risk it.

Accrovideogames posted...

I'm also going to record it with my digital camera in 2160p

You're unlikely to get good pictures/videos unless you've specifically set your camera up for eclipse photography, and the sun can actually damage the camera if you aren't protecting it properly.

ConfusedTorchic posted...

i don't think about him at all

oh apparently he blocked me too, i don't think i'd even posted in his topics for like a year but i still saw them so this is recent

wonder what i did

Same. Seeing this topic, I realized I hadn't seen him post for a while, but I guess that's because I can't see his posts anymore. Weird.

They presumably know better than him why they design their plates the way they do. That's possible even if they don't know better than him how to design a plate (though they probably also know that, they just don't design them to be structurally optimal because it's not cost-effective).

ConfusedTorchic posted...

then don't look at it

if they can avoid looking at the sun itself in general, they can avoid looking at the sun hiding behind something

Usually, when people avoid looking at the sun, it's because it's uncomfortably bright and they feel compelled to look away/shield their eyes somehow. When the sun's partially eclipsed, though, it's not bright enough to trigger that reflex (but still bright enough to cause damage), so looking away/shielding eyes has to be a conscious decision.

Of course, it's not particularly hard to make that conscious decision, even if you're in the middle of something else.

https://imgur.com/5FEg65w

"This doctor worked tirelessly for 36 hours straight to save the lives of me and everyone I care about, including removing and transplanting his own kidney to save my firstborn child, but the magazines in the waiting room were like a year old and I had to ask for the wifi password. 3 stars."