A building down the street from where I live has like 3 families with kids renting and they are always outside in a big gaggle. Like is the weather close to halfway decent? They are out.

I think because their parents are never around supervising them. But that’s about the only place with obvious kids. There must be more, but I have no idea where.

Imagine having to go through and data entry all those dates manually from old record books or scrolls or whatever.

I’m in the same boat. Got my tubes tied years ago basically because I saw the writing on the wall and knew I didn’t want kids ever. I’m glad I did but man, the thought of an ectopic pregnancy in this climate is truly terrifying.

“Just”.

Most shit doesn’t even make it to clinical trials, much less show such striking efficacy so quickly.

This is exactly where this sort of thing needs to start. Super rare stuff we don’t have a real cure for that makes lives miserable and can be fatal. And so far, the results are incredible.

If this was a normal pharmacological therapy, I wouldn’t be super excited about stage 1 trials showing striking results, because it would actually be limited to that one therapy. But it isn’t. It’s “magic bullet” therapy that we should be able to modify for nearly any problem related to bad genes. If it works as effectively in further trials, it could very well change medical treatment as we know it for a whole range of stuff.

Despite microwaving potatoes frequently, (1-10/wk, don’t judge me) for many years (often questionably, typically without pricking) I have yet to have one explode. One would assume microwave explosions would be more common.

Perhaps luck, perhaps potato type/size (I like Yukon gold and reds, which are thin skin, small, and relatively soft) but it’s just me so I don’t usually buy large/baking potatoes, and maybe those are more prone to bursting?

I put them in a lidded microwave safe container, bit of water in the bottom, microwave for 10-15 minutes. Never a burst in.. almost 20 years?

What kind do you have?

I have an ancient one, probably my great grandmothers, and the garlic just gets smashed into the square-but-actually-round holes and it’s impossible to get most of it out.

Mostly it makes smashed garlic, which I can do with a knife much more easily..

Thank fuck because as an android user who swapped to iPhone recently I’ve thought it was just a me problem..?

It’s so bad, and the keyboards suck. I miss my number line and long-press secondary characters. So so much.

I’m not.

I live semi-rural in Wisconsin. These assholes broadcast how asshole they are with little (and often zero) prompting. It’s been this way since polar politic was the name of the game, so many many years now.

If anything I’m looking at society as a failed experiment at this point. Especially when you talk to any of them at length and they fully support socialist or communist ideals… but still vote red.

I just don’t go out much anymore. It’s easier than dealing with the emotional load.

The mute toggle on iPhone doesn’t mute media if you play something with it enabled, and you can still increase/decrease the volume of that, you just don’t get any notification sounds. So bit different than just turning the volume down for the whole device.

I keep mute enabled all the time because I get the notifications on my watch, and I forget it’s on because media still plays with sound. It’s actually really nice. One of the few things I actually like about iPhone.

Military service is dangerous for multiple reasons…

Not just life and limb, but social participation. The only place where a non-felony can land you with felony restrictions.

As a veteran myself (I was young and dumb. I’m still dumb, but not young), I encourage everyone avoid joining the US military at all costs. It’s really not worth the free college (which isn’t worth a whole lot these days anyway, since everyone has a worthless degree).

My workplace recently showed us the results from our yearly survey..

If it wasn’t anonymous (which frankly it might not be) they literally have that information for us, but from self report. They called out that company wide (under 200 total employees) there are 10 people actively disengaged (I’m one of them) and a third of the company is barely engaged.

The sad thing is everyone spent the rest of that day talking about how much it sucks that so many people are disengaged, and how those people must not understand how great it is, like it was scandalous to not love working here.

Fun fact - a sip or two of pickle juice is a great cure for heartburn. I don’t even like pickles, but I’ll do it because it works.

I can’t stand olives, even more than I dislike pickles, so idk if olive juice would do the same, but it is, at least, not grosser from an objective view 😅