Walk against the traffic, bike with the traffic.

I am a parent of adults and really just want them to meet their own standards for themselves. My mom was the same. Sure I’d like grandkids, but not to the point I would ask! Their lives are for them to live.

If you are asking about little kids, it’s because they are exhausting. We went out to get tacos and there was the cutest little boy running around yelling “va! va!”. How delightful for us but I’m sure his mom was tired of it, it was 8pm. I am sure she would be happy if he would just sit down and eat now.

Probable Possible my black hen

She lays eggs in the relative when

She doesn’t lay eggs in the positive now

Because she’s unable to postulate how!

(Space Child’s Mother Goose)

If there’s one thing I’ve learned living in Florida, this crime pays. I was in the break room at my old job and one of our IT people was on the phone with her sister, looked at me, covered the speaker and said "she works for Wellcare, the feds just rushed in and yelled “hands up, move away from the computers! Get out!” But kept her sister and another guy there to pull all the information out.

But a few years later, who is our governor? Fucking Rick Scott, who, as head of another healthcare company defrauded the government just as dramatically. They all do. And the foxes are guarding the henhouse.

Rick Scott was head of this company when they did this:

https://www.justice.gov/archive/opa/pr/2003/June/03_civ_386.htm

Mermaid hair! It’s awesome!

I do agree with the consensus here - it’s weirdly moralistic to say fat people should just do willpower harder, if there a drug that works for so many. It’s a lot like telling an anorexic to just eat more. Eating disorders are complicated. A drug that fixes the appetite and improves blood sugar handling is an enormous improvement compared to what we had before.

I’ve never been fat, but have been eating disordered in the other direction and there is no way I could have been convinced to eat more just because it would have been healthier. If there had been some drug to fix my relationship to food back then, I feel like nobody would have said “just use willpower and eat better.”

This is all true, but if overweight is your most urgent health issue, and if the excess fat is causing other health issues, simply reducing weight by whatever means can improve health, and there are virtuous cycles too, if you are lighter you can move more, maybe you feel better about your body and treat it better, an upward spiral. The epidemic of overweight (or more specifically over-fat) is causing so many cascade effects here that it’s well worth treating aggressively.

What I’d like to know is are these beneficial side effects just due to the weight loss, or are they available to normal weight people who take the drug? Is it actually the drug, or would they get the same benefits by losing weight some other way?

So voluntary watching of porn bad, mandatory watching of torture videos good? Or is this satire?

I would still take my life over my mom’s. Things were not good for women back then.

Not at all weird where I live. Very good use of the park.

If it’s weird where you are, even better. Go for it.

We had a little-used parking lot a couple blocks away from my old house and there was a guy who practiced the tall unicycle there. For 20 years, we would drive past that corner taking kids to/from school & us to/from work and it never failed to delight us when he was there.

My ex once stood in the kitchen for over an hour, with the cat on the counter, opening up every spice in the cabinet for the cat to smell.

“What are you doing?”

“Letting Max smell the spices”

All of them.

Well, in my family of now just 4 we do have 2 cars because my husband and I each had one when we married. Nowadays this is the commute.

Mornings:

I take the bike

College kid takes my car, drops off high school kid then drives to her school

Husband takes his car to work

There is actually a direct city bus from our neighborhood to both the University and the high school, but because both are farther than my work and they run so infrequent it makes them need to leave so early, so I let the kids use the car.

(When there was one car it was a bigger loop sometimes, or sometimes there is a school bus available, so the kids can take that. Or the school was sometimes only a mile or two (3k or so) then the kids walk.)

Evenings:

I take the bike

Husband drives

College kid drives

High school kids gets a ride from a friend or takes the city bus BUT that bus comes only once an hour so if he misses it, he will walk, about 4 miles.

In my city, there are buses, but because there’s sprawl to the edges of the huge county, and all the people in the suburbs drive and don’t want buses, and the county (not the city) is in charge of transportation, it’s starved to the point of near impossible inconvenience.

There are plenty of people living inside the city now, we’ve got a nice downtown, with people living there, but at this point it’s all set up to favor automobiles. Like I intentionally live in a short walk distance to bus stops that could get me anywhere the buses go, but I use the electric bike and can get anywhere faster than the bus. Transfers are so bad because the buses are so infrequent.

https://starkcenter.org/2020/11/remembering-sean-connery-as-a-bodybuilder-and-athlete/

Holy crap, even when he was 18 and in phenomenal shape he looks like a well maintained 50 year old!

Chat > face to face > video call > call

But the last two are a near tie, and way worse than the first two… Phone calls are the worst.

Brodie-Sangster doesn’t look that young in all his pictures but Connery does look about 55, like he never was a young adult, just a kid then immediately a middle aged man.

I do also balance the carton. Not always absolute symmetry but don’t want someone to drop them.

1375? Die from malaria, I guess? Be eaten by an alligator? Or oh no, hasten the demise of the Tocobaga with my exotic biology? Either they would kill me or get me sick, or vice versa. Also, fall on my ass when my house disappeared.

I would follow the river to the bay, I guess, and see if I could find anyone, or anything I might be able to eat.

“Federal law prohibits state and local actors from resisting, obstructing, and otherwise failing to comply with lawful immigration-related commands,” wrote Emil Bove, then acting deputy attorney general.

Well, did they approach the bench and show a legal warrant? Did they prove the legality of their detention of the person? Or were they doing a smash and grab?

I think that rule is fair enough, but this whole campaign of terror is riddled with illegality. If the kidnapping is illegal, or they didn’t prove to the judge that it was legal, this rule doesn’t apply.

Even if not. The kids who need the privacy are the same kids with the parents fighting to remove it, no doubt. All those “parental notification” rules are evil for the same reason. If your kid felt safe telling you, they would tell you! My kids could talk to me, and did, but I always let them know that confidential testing and treatment was available for $30 from the county clinic (that charge was for all the tests plus any uncomplicated treatment, or education and referral for more complicated treatment). I used it plenty as an adult, way cheaper than the doctor for all the tests to make sure all ok before a new relationship.

What awful news. It’s always been 13 here since I had kids, the age you can go to the STD clinic at the county, and have limited medical privacy. I used to give my kids flyers for their friends so they would know. It does make for some odd effects (there are 5 years when we can’t use the online health portal at all because the kid is old enough that I can’t login and see their info but not old enough to have their own login.) but overall seems like the right age.

Presumably when you have kids you know you are growing them into adults, right? You can’t keep them children right up to 18 then suddenly expect them to be adult, nothing good can come from that.