Is there currently someone "in charge of women's health" in our government? This sounds ominous af.

Edit: Turns out there is a Office of Women's Health in the FDA that is focused on addressing unique biology I guess. That seems to make it even worse.

This makes me think we are on the same path as many countries who routinely have significant civil conflict every election cycle.

Not a great look for a country. Not a great group to join. Yet here we are.

There are two types of cooling systems: Closed Loop and Once Through.

This response consumed 16 oz of water but I am not sure in which manner.

Man this dude is turning into the Penguin.

I did not know this and posted a serious question on a thread dismissing starvation under Stalin as fake news. Ban was swift and responses were brutal. I thought it was just isolated trolling at the time.

50F who never wanted kids.

I am lonely at times, but so are many others who have children. Most with grown children are more lonely than I am because they lose a deep connection that became central to their very being as their children grow and part. That is true even for people with good relationships with their grown children and increases with age pretty consistently in America.

There are opportunity costs regardless of how you spend your effort in this life. Parents spend most of their effort in the care and raising of another human. Even if they do a poor job of it, parenting at its bare minimum takes a lot of effort. I spent my efforts on education, work, hobbies and friends. I have money, independence and a deep love for learning. They have companionship, support systems and share a deep love with their children.

I have a lot of nieces and nephews, and they now have their own children. I love them and show up when I am needed. They do the same for me. But it is at a distance. I have never been that interested in hanging out with them and doing family things. I do attend some family events. I bring a fun energy when I do attend stuff. But I miss more than I attend and I am good with that.

Overall, I think I made the right choice and I feel pretty good about it.

This is absolutely what they want. Force the women into bad positions so they can be more exploitable. Force the children in these situations into bad positions so they can also be more exploitable.

Although, I am sure they prefer the good ol' days when they could just rape their slaves.

Are you describing the game or a party at Diddy's?

Probably because they feel aligned with her values and see her success as an indicator that she is smart. Therefore, she is someone worth emulating.

I can't help but think of Gulag Archipelago when Stalin had all the engineers arrested for "wrecking" because they could not make nonsensical orders lead to the desired output. In any industry.

Better question... how do we find our own self-esteem without denigrating others for making choices that are absolutely none of our concern?

This is really interesting. It brings two questions to mind.

1. Don't all messaging apps use phone number as a primary metadata value?

2. Are you suggesting that Signal could either not use this metadata or not collect it and yet they choose to collect it and can therefore lose it to exfiltration or warrant?