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 It’s outdated now, but when I watched it as a teenager/ young woman it opened my eyes to a lot that I took for granted.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.

Damn thank you for sharing that. I can’t believe how little we all know about menopause considering almost half of humanity will eventually go through it!

Saying cis women can just stop their periods if they feel like it is a vast over simplification. Birth control fucks with your hormones often in very unpredictable ways. My friend had a light period for like 3 months straight due to her birth control and the doctors said that was fine and normal. In me, birth control triggered treatment resistant suicidal depression that I deal with to this day. In my sister, it gave wild mood swings and general emotional instability. My other sister was just plain allergic to it.

It’s dangerous for women to go on hormonal birth control even though it’s so common and normalized. Women’s Healthcare in the USA is so hit or miss, and doctors are often uninformed or dismissive. Maybe you live elsewhere where it’s better?

Please understand that periods are absolutely not optional. Even a complete hysterectomy (not that many of us could be granted one anyway) would trigger early menopause which is its own host of issues.

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.

Plus a hole for peeing i hope

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

An unknown volcanic eruption in the mid-14th century may have set the stage for the spread of the Black Death in Europe, according to a new study. By triggering a cool and overcast period in the Mediterranean, the eruption started a domino effect that led to a downturn in agricultural production, which required merchants to import grain — and the bacterium Yersinia pestis that causes bubonic plague — via the Black Sea.

The bubonic plague pandemic, more commonly known as the Black Death, reached Europe in 1347 and quickly affected Italian port cities. The plague then spread throughout Europe over the next few years, resulting in the deaths of between 30% and 60% of the population.

Genuinely cannot imagine 30 to 60 percent of the people around me dying. Cannot imagine what that would look like. Cannot imagine how that would affect me emotionally but then add to it that the economy would cease to function normally on top of the grief. Up to half of the people you love and know gone and then no food at the grocery store on top of it

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.

Sure, but you displaying it also communicates to your guests that you’re not disgusted enough by his actions to remove it, and also that you’re not embarrassed that you financially supported someone evil.

If you’ve got something illegal in your car, make sure you don’t have a broken tail light.

If your license is expired, don’t speed.

Don’t Jay walk while high.

Basically the cops catch you on the less bad thing, and that’s how they are able to catch you on the second thing. They need a reasonable suspicion to stop you.

That’s a good suggestion, but it’s important to him that it’s on Christmas Day.

His sister is a Christian, so I’m guessing they go to church Christmas eve, anyway.

I mean yeah, when I’m most depressed I practically live on fruit and veggies. Cheap at the produce stand and takes no effort to prepare, easy calories. You have to cook meat, but not watermelon. Sprinkle some parmesan on canned green beans and boom, that’s dinner. You can leave apples in your room and then you don’t even need to get out of bed to eat! Also bags of chips. Hey, even that’s potatoes though!

But seriously, if a diet “cured depression” it wouldn’t be because it’s full of fruit and veg, it’d be because it’s dynamic and well rounded.

I don’t know why it’s marked NSFW, I tried to undo that, but it won’t stick.

I mean, not really. You just said it wouldn’t have made a difference if I voted for Stein vs Hillary. I got several lifelong Republicans to change their voter registration to Democrat to vote for Bernie. I do not endorse voting 3rd party anymore. I used to think you should vote your conscience no matter what. I believed in a free and fair democracy. Now I think you should strategize even if the democrats suck too.

I do take responsibility for being a dumb young 20s person falling for what I now think was Russian propaganda, but Trump winning a second time had nothing to do with me. That’s on people who didn’t vote at all in 2024.