There recently was the news of plastic recycling not being plausible and people were surprised.
I myself met so many men having sex with men who don't know what PreP is, who kept fearing HIV when they could've gotten supply for months for 10 euros.
What is an important thing you think people don't know or are misinformed about you wish more knew about?
This is a bit of a simplification but the USA's Constitutional Convention was basically a coup by the Federalists in response to growing unrest (by farmers and the poor) following the revolutionary war and in order to insure that the investments of the wealthy in said war would be repaid. Federalists like Alexander Hamilton and James Madison were very open about building a government that protected the "Opulent Minority" from the masses.
Isn't that explicitly their reasoning on Senate vs House and that the Senate is to prevent the uppity poor farmers and their land from overruling the rich?
Hahaha that's hilarious, where did you hear that from?
-From the Madison Papers
Do you know of any books that cover this? I know there’s the Charles Beard book but I’m looking for others as well.
I read Beard's book, but when searching for more info I found Michael Klarman's The Framers' Coup which was published in 2016. I have not read it yet, know anything about the author, or know anything beyond that he expands on the idea of it being a Coup.
The moon and tides effect underwater currents in Lake Michigan which contibute to fish feeding cycles, undertows, and drowning deaths. They coincide very closely to the peak rate of change of the tides at Manitoba Bay.
While on the surface there seems to be negligible to no "tides" but it absolutely effects under the surface. So probably not a good idea to not swim during peak rate of change (the middle of the up and down slopes).
I studied the lake and it's organic load for about 10 years and have charts and graphs along with newspaper records to match. I just don't know how to do fancy official reports.
Could you team up with an academic? This stuff could save lives and improve environmental protection efforts. Just be careful someone doesn't steal all the credit.
How to use standing/box fans to cool a room. I see so many people just using them to push the air around/blow directly at people rather than draw cool air in from outside
Yup, this method doesn't work if the indoor and outdoor temperature is basically the same.
However I've still seen people here not use fans correctly when the cool change rolls through, or overnight when the temperature is lower (though admittedly, if they don't have flywire then they may be wary of mozzies). Indoors too, you can direct the box fan over a tray of water to get some transpiration cooling (iirc the term) which is a good trick.
Fwiw just a while back I was at an event in a community hall and it was about 30 and humid indoors and a pleasant 24 outdoors, the organiser set up a huge industrial fan just blowing at the back row of the audience :/
If you've got decent insulation, you can run fans when the sun is down to get the inside of your house nice and cool, then set an alarm and button everything up (including thick curtains) right before sunrise. Keeps me from needing A/C even on 90+ days.
Moreover, fans will actually warm you up if the ambient temperature is high enough. Above the mid-90s F, you're basically convection ovening yourself if you're not pulling air from a cooler place.
The only way for me to be cool with a box fan is if i literally sit directly in front of it on the floor
I do that with a wet towel over my forehead if it's too hot outside to use the temp differential to cool the room down. The transpiration of the water cools you, so long as there's somewhere for the moisture to go (i.e. not too humid), if I understand the science correctly.
I take ssris so evem feburary weather gets too hot for me, i will attempt thos when it hits summer, thank you
What's worse is a lot of old buildings were designed with air circulation in mind but those features have been ruined over the years.
If you have ever seen little pullies in a window frame, that's a sash window. They have an amazing mechanism inside which is almost never functional. I found mine had all the hardware in the frame so i fixed it and its great. They have doors on the frames, you can easily open and look for hardware. If there are 2 sets of pullies its a double hung sash and it was designed to be opened at the top so the hot air could leave. A fancy splurge at the time. Usually found nailed or glued shut, very sad. They can be worth restoring if you are ever in charge of some windows. The old wood is very high quality and they can also seal very tight in winter when properly adjusted.
Also if you have a window above the door, it is for s similar reason. See if it is operable. Any other weird window thing is probably for your comfort.
idk if this is the level of 'thing' you're looking or. But. I wish people knew it cos it's summer here and it's hot.
Something here doesn't make sense:
Place a box fan in the window or a pedestal fan within 5 feet of the window. When the air is cooler outside than it is inside, point the air so it blows into the house. When the two temperature points reverse and it's warmer indoors than outdoors, turn the fan around so the air is blowing toward the outside.
Yeah that's really poorly written. It's the same in both circumstances (cold outside warm inside). Presumably they meant when it's warmer outdoors and cooler indoors and you want to use the fan to warm the building up? But that doesn't seem like something I'd want to do in any case.
Non-Binary Edition™:
- Non-binary gender identity isn't exclusively a modern thing; it has been around for ages.
- Non-binary gender identity isn't synonymous with gender nonconformity.
- Non-binary gender identity isn't the result of some kind of "trendy" social contagion.
- Non-binary gender identity isn't just a move for attention; non-binary people seldom actually get positive attention for being non-binary.
- Non-binary people can experience gender dysphoria and undergo medical transition just as many binary trans people do.
- Non-binary people do not have to be androgynous or gender-neutral in presentation or even any sense, including pronouns.
- Non-binary people don't owe you an explanation or answer to you "testing" their validation.
- Non-binary people are an incredibly diverse group of people, and there is no one singular non-binary experience or narrative.
- Non-binary people just want to be left alone and lead a happy existence without harassment.
- Not all non-binary people have blue hair and pronouns. 😉
Honestly, most people, on average, are so misinformed about non-binary people that I could expand this list far beyond, but I think you all get the point by now.
Would you mind expanding on the point of gender dysphoria and being non-binary? For transparency I am a cishet man who doesn't know any enbies (a fair few other lgbt+ folks though so I'm fairly familiar with other queer experiences)
I am asking in good faith, trying my best to learn so I can use my privilege for good (hopefully). Thank you for the post, comrade!
I appreciate you asking in good faith because too many people have tried to reinforce the "non-binary people can't be dysphoric" myth in bad faith. As a matter of fact, that may be a reason for your confusion. Honestly speaking, there is nothing, in any sense, contradictory with saying "a person who identifies with a gender that isn't exclusively male or female can experience distress over sex characteristics", but a lot of vile and unhelpful discourse has reinforced the notion that such a statement is contradictory, and it's time to undo that.
I'll start off with my own individualized point of view: I myself am a non-binary person who experiences gender dysphoria. I am transfeminine, a term I use to state that I was assigned male at birth but am transitioning in a feminine direction (note: some people use different definitions for that word). For me personally (big emphasis, we're all different), I feel dysphoria over having an excess of male sex characteristics. However, a caveat for me is that having many female sex characteristics would induce gender dysphoria in me as well. I don't fit into a typical binary trans woman's notions of "passing as cis" at all because I'm not really one who could be content with characteristics that could make me come off of cis. I fit into a realm where I'm not within society's typical perception of a man, but I am not in society's typical perception of a woman either.
Socially speaking, I wear longer hairstyles but ones that are usually perceived as unisex (for me as a black person, I rock dreadlocks for instance), I wear some makeup, but nothing that comes off as too prominent, and I wear clothes that aren't explicitly feminine but could be perceived as more womanly (I wouldn't often be caught wearing a dress or a skirt, but I do wear button shirts and sweaters that are "meant" [all clothing is technically unisex lol] for women rather than men quite often). A lot of people would say that this puts me in a field of androgyny, but I seldom use that term myself even though it's practical in conveying this. The reason why I don't use the term myself is honestly just vibes. I don't like to say I'm striving for "androgyny" as much as I like to say that I'm striving for a feminine form of my "male" self without womanhood while also still not identifying with manhood either.
As far as pronouns, terms, titles, and gendering go for me, I go by any and all pronouns, terms, and titles. This isn't because of a form of "yielding", in that I do it to submit to people being adamant about not wanting me to gender some other way I'd "truly" prefer to be gendered (i.e. me being like "I'd rather you call me they/them pronouns, but I guess you can call me he/him because I'm scared to be so 'demanding'."). I note this because even the doctor who prescribed my HRT, albeit in good faith, assumed that's what I meant when I told him "I go by any and all pronouns". My pronoun preferences stem from me being entirely indifferent on the matter, as being called a "he", a "she", and a "they" all feel exactly the same way to me in terms of gender affirmation. My sense of gender isn't really concerned with it.
To an extent, one could say that I don't have social dysphoria, but there's a caveat with that as well. I don't mind people calling me gendered terms like "man", "woman", "brother", and "sister" in place of more gender-neutral terminology like "person" or "sibling", as long as my experiences aren't being denied in the process. I don't mind people referring to me with male terminology as long as they aren't doing so with the intent to invalidate the ways being non-binary has impacted my life, socially and otherwise, treating me as if my essence in society is tantamount to that of your average cis man's. An example of this could be someone telling me that I don't know what it's like for patriarchy to negatively impact me harshly due to them placing me in role of a cis man when saying something like this which, unfortunately, I have been told my some more insufferable types of feminists.
Medically speaking, I'm on estrogen and anti-androgens, at the typical dose many binary trans women would take, which brings me to a brief point about microdosing. Some non-binary people who take hormones like to opt for a reduced dose in comparison to what most binary trans people take, but some people sadly and wrongly believe that microdosing gives you fewer effects from HRT. To correct this myth, it actually just gives you the same effects of a standard dose, but at a slower rate.
Fortunately, I'm content with a standard dose because, the way I see it, HRT doesn't have the potency to make me a "cis passing woman" alone. It doesn't have the potency to do that with most trans women actually, so I'm able to go about other steps like social transition, voice training, and surgeries that let me tailor those to more goals in androgyny. With that, I've noticed that feminizing my form to the most potent and quick degree will make me achieving my transition goals easier rather than harder.
Speaking of surgeries, I desire an orchiectomy and facial feminization surgery, but that's about it for me surgically speaking. I also am aiming to remove every bit of body and facial hair I can through electrolysis.
I'll keep this section brief because that one was long, but let's talk about dysphoria for OTHER enbies: I explained my own experience with dysphoria, but to briefly touch on how other non-binary people may go through it, non-binary people often have a more varied experience with dysphoria than binary trans people do, which is funnily enough exactly what bullet point 8 was speaking on. Some non-binary people prefer to undergo a gender transition very similar to the way many binary trans people do it. Some may even desire to be passing as the opposite of their assigned sex at birth. Some may not want to transition medically at all, but they still may have non-medical means of dealing with dysphoria if they are to have dysphoria.
Some non-binary people are willing to go with more "experimental" procedures to reach different goals in gender-neutral presentation. For instance, I've heard of non-binary people who have undergone nullification, a surgical procedure which aims to leave a smooth groin area devoid of genitals. In fact, my gender therapist himself worked with an agender patient who has done this. Some may go for something like a phallus-preserving vaginoplasty (AMAB) or a vagina-preserving phalloplasty (AFAB) to have both a penis and a vagina in their groin area.
It's all dependent on how people personally relate to dysphoria, but those are some of the more common ways it manifests in various non-binary people I've interacted with or learned about.
Wow, thank you! That was a very interesting read. Best of luck to you in you journey, and happy Thursday!
I think similar to the recycling post, another post that got a lot of traction recently was the article about oats and products with oats containing pesticide residues that are going to give you reproductive issues. However the “story” was pretty much just a press release by the environmental working group, which is not really a great source. Not really the people you want to be relying on for your claims.
Similarly, I was recently talking with a friend, and they brought up the Stanley cups lead controversy. I was completely in the dark, didn’t even know what he was talking about, so he sends me an article, and first thing I notice is Tamara Rubin’s name everywhere. There’s another source that makes me raise my eyebrows a bit. Similar to ewg, she is extremely extremely hyperbolic, and tends to push a lot of junk science. I would start reading extremely critically if you see either of these sources. Who else is making the claims (if anyone) etc.
I'm always impressed when people can spot bullshit by identifying the author. I see the same thing with political articles and the replies will be like, 'they worked with so and so on the kill all the poors project, you can't trust them'.
I can do the same with ideas, but I'm woefully bad at keeping up with the who's who because I tend not to read or watch reactionary media for lack of time and patience. But sometimes there reactionaries pop up where I don't expect them. Like in your two examples. I'm caught a bit unawares.
Would be handy to have a list of all the vox pops, etc, to be cautious of. Not that people can't change. And there's the thing about broken clocks. But it helps to know the red flags. Like a communist credit agency but for reactionary takes.
And it wasn't even a pesticide in the oats case, it was a plant growth regulator, that's also commonly used on wheat.
TW//Description of physical violence
Fighting outside of a gym looks really, really silly. If you have training, then you have more interesting training partners at a gym and if you have no training you're partaking in a comedy of errors. It's like when people who've never studied immunology debate vaccines or if untrained swimmers compete in a race. So seldom does fighting accomplish anything including safety for yourself and others. Your win condition in self defense has nothing to do with how hurt the other person is - you win when you're back home (or otherwise move on). In fact, damage to them is detrimental because the authorities might want to mess with you if you hurt them too bad.
And even beyond that, martial arts are a silly, quaternary method of pursuing your personal safety. Your primary method is to not look like an easy target like not displaying opulence, being in a group, or in well lit places. Second to that would be not being awful in public and be willing to apologize. Third is some kind of weapon like pepper spray or a Taser flashlight which is easy to carry with you. If none of that works and you can't just leave then you're well served for having taken those jiu jitsu classes but the odds of getting to that point seem low, like 1% of situations that are violent.
To that end I fight because it's fun and my desire to use it stops when I take of the spandex, gi, big gloves or tiny gloves. Unless, of course, my aim is to annoy my friends and family. Lest I feel like learning how set up the Peruvian neck tie were crucial to walking around at night which I haven't done in months. If I'm at the gym it has an immediate application because if I can't get my arms in deep after a scramble to front headlock I can force their neck into my hands with the back of my leg. Being good at fighting sounds like arcane blabbering because it's a skill like any other - not necessarily about being tougher, meaner, more territorial, or (socially) aggressive.
You just really shouldn't fight unless you're supervised or having fun with someone you trust. You're not Naruto and Sasuke, you're Curly and Moe.
Yeah comrade, that's unfortunate. Because a skateboard shouldn't be a display of opulence. And having a weapon would increase the level of violence if it's a common occurrence. E.g. pepper spray would work once or twice until someone brings a bat. And being in a rough area has brought you you more than your fair share of violent situations. I would offer you something substantive if I could, but I'd have to know more (e.g. how does a typical altercation start, how many people are involved, is there a common time, etc.), otherwise all I'd have for you would be my condolences and the suggestion that if you're alone a friend might make you a less appealing target. Have you considered just pressing the communism button so that skateboards aren't subject to corporate greed, people who would be prone to fighting become more capable of interacting positively in their community, and the public utilities like parks and recreation get more love?
If you want a second pair of eyes on the situation DM me and if my experience could help you I would.
This you?
He still considers himself a yakuza at heart, and although he views violence as necessary, Kiryu is disgusted by violent yakuza who are corrupted by revenge and power, like Nishikiyama and young Daigo, and urges them to snap out of it.
https://yakuza.fandom.com/wiki/Kazuma_Kiryu
In DnD you can't crit a skill check; 20 is not an auto success
Using chemical fertilizers and pesticides just makes the aphids evolve faster
If nothing is trying to eat what you are growing, you are not growing food
Reverse image search products. Most of the time you can find the same thing from a different seller for way less. They don't call it the same thing, but odds are they'll use the same product image.
Something that more Canadians need to know is the precise division of powers in the patriated constitution. At least Americans have the excuse of not being sure what level of government is is responsible for what service because their constitution is an absolute mess of contradictions. Canadians don't have that excuse because the constitution is crystal clear and uses fairly plain language on which level of government has jurisdiction over which domains.
Mostly I'm just tired of hearing one specific co-worker complaining about how the federal government cut gym class budgets across the country, when education here is entirely under the domain of the Conservative Party premier whose bumper sticks he proudly has on his work truck.
Mostly I'm just tired of hearing one specific co-worker complaining about how the federal government cut gym class budgets across the country, when education here is entirely under the domain of the Conservative Party premier whose bumper sticks he proudly has on his work truck.
Which is the province, right?
When kneading bread you don't push straight down like it's CPR, you push down at an angle like pushing the dough across your work surface
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Adding on the topic of sex, you can get STDs/STIs from oral sex. Some nasty ones too. So many people disregard this. Please get the HPV vaccine if you can.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions Here is a good list
Wikipedia is ok for non political and non historical entries. They are undeniably making propaganda on those subjects
I can highly recommend reading the english language entry for the Ministry of State Security (chinese intelligence service). Filled to the brim with either embellishments, straight up unsourced claims or just very flavourful descriptions of how such a service would function in a country that is actively being sabotaged by the english speaking world.
A lot of these have sources that actively contradict the claim, or are technically correct on the most redditor-esque of ways?
Banana-flavored candy was not intended to mimic the taste of a formerly popular variety of banana. It tastes different from bananas because it is mainly flavored with only one of the many flavor compounds a banana has, isoamyl acetate
Remember how isoamyl acetate is the chemical compound primarily responsible for banana flavoring? Gros Michel contains more of that compound than the Cavendish. In fact, isoamyl acetate was one of the first chemical compounds used in artificial flavors that was confirmed to exist in the actual fruit as well. So, when you’re biting into a piece of banana Laffy Taffy, you’re getting a taste of the bananas of the past.
Or
It is not illegal in the US to shout "fire" in a crowded theater.
Knowingly false statements of fact are often constitutionally unprotected — consider, for instance, libel, fraud, perjury, and false light invasion of privacy. That would presumably apply to knowing falsehoods that cause a panic.
Astronauts in orbit are weightless because they are in free fall around the Earth,
uh doesn't that imply that they would not be in freefall and thus not weightless if they weren't in an orbit. This seems very poorly worded
The "AR" in AR-15 stands for "ArmaLite Rifle", reflecting the company (ArmaLite) that originally manufactured the weapon. They do not stand for "assault rifle" or "automatic rifle".[5][6]
Wrong. Just wrong.
Provide proof that it's wrong then? Otherwise you're just continuing the misconception.
It's a running joke here that AR-15 stands for Assault Rifle that shoots 15 bullets, as we coyly play the fool in order to be funny.
I AM KAZUMA KIRYU. I AM KAZUMA KIRYU 
