I’m more of a sardines from the tin kinda fella.

I was always suspicious of male OB/GYN, it seems like an unusual specialty to choose for purely altruistic reasons.

I think you’re getting downvotes because you’re projecting a narrative onto @Reyali and using quotes around non-quotes. They didn’t say they were “probably not right.”

I agree, everyone should be skeptical of information someone else is sharing, because we can’t assume intention. But what would motivate someone to say “I’m probably not right” anyway?

What’s interesting to me is that for you, your guard went up for someone admitting a potential of having missed something, which may make you more susceptible to people who are confidently wrong.

Most others’ reaction is the opposite, taking their statement as an attempt to be genuine and open to feedback. If someone invites feedback, is willing to admit they might be wrong, that’s a much better starting point for conversation.

I’m a silly goose with young kids and I’ve been head-in-the-sand trying to deal with my own survival. Once I had an iota of stability, I started to let the outside world in again and often wish I hadn’t.

I estimate I live in a place least likely to be dramatically affected by climate change, early on. It’s not like I’m in Florida and can’t afford to insure my home any longer because of hurricane risk. It’s not like I’m likely to be one of the 1.2 billion climate refugees by 2050.

So I try to take little steps to get prepared for something I never thought I’d need to be prepared for. We’re growing more and more of our own food, we’re expanding our water/food stores and storage. We plan to get a solar system soon (so we’re the 1/10 that makes it through an extended grid outage), while global supply chains still function.

I’ve started a little (20TB) apocalypse library, full of illustrated guides, youtube videos, books, and resources.

My biggest stumbling block is starting community. I generally don’t like people and as you’ve seen in this thread, most people don’t take climate change seriously.

And, as someone else said… weed and time in nature.

“Snitches get <wounds that will require> stitches” Doesn’t quite roll off the tongue.

You can be petty as fuck without having dementia.

The number of people who believe in homeopathy after it’s explained to them is TOO DAMN HIGH.

Are you saying I just made 5 new best friends??

“Consent” was not a popular topic on early Reddit. Or the internet writ large, I guess.

But I’m 20 and healthy, why should I have to pay for healthcare for mrs. sickey over there? Did she even try being born without a chronic illness? Doubt it.

I prefer my sushi infinite-sided, thank you very much.

The area of the water at Jack B Tomlinson Park in Arvada, CO is 2.8 acres, about 11,300 M2. There’s no universal definition of “pond”, some saying smaller than 10 acres (that’s the Minnesota Land of 10,000 Lakes definition) , while Wikipedia says less than 12.

Fast track to double secret probation!

As long as you can profit from new data, data scarcity will never end.

Has embarrassment stopped anyone in the GOP?

Capitalists only espouse the free market when discussing labor. Otherwise, they love regulatory capture.

This is why I always try “Jenny’s Number” for loyalty programs when I can enter an phone number (Local area code +8675309). A Safeway near me used to offer fuel points with grocery purchases up to $1 discount per gallon. I saved a lot of money in gas for a while, then it seemed Safeway got wise and deactivated those numbers.

I mean, if we’re being pedantic, traditional cheese did/does use male goats to make baby goats and get milk. We just generally artificially force pregnancy instead.

I feel weird explaining this, but male goats are not used for cheese.

It was enough for me to change my last name to “Aaaamazing”