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New comment by avesi in "Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay"

avesi — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 15:14:17 +0000

Historically, culture wasn't so quick to change. Typically, parents would be able to pass down their culture and traditions to children, instead of having society foist an entirely new culture onto their kids that's incompatible with what the parent grew up with.

New comment by avesi in "Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay"

avesi — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 14:57:41 +0000

No, because they are not culturally dominant right now.

New comment by avesi in "We Expect 300k Fewer Births Than Usual This Year in the US"

avesi — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 14:23:34 +0000

I delivered wearing a mask last year, it's honestly security theater. A little floppy surgical mask does nothing to contain the breathing of a laboring woman. I was more upset I couldn't kiss my baby when he was first put in my arms.

New comment by avesi in "Daft Punk Break Up"

avesi — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 15:20:36 +0000

Not quite sure why you couldn't have just said, great news, Justice and SebastiAn have recent releases. I'm obviously a little behind :)

New comment by avesi in "Letters from House members to cable providers [pdf]"

avesi — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 22:38:55 +0000

Michael Hastings mysteriously exploded during the Obama Administration, maybe that's what they're referring to.

New comment by avesi in "Letters from House members to cable providers [pdf]"

avesi — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 22:19:59 +0000

Who determines what is true and what's a lie? Why do you trust them to make the right call?

New comment by avesi in "Falling sperm counts, declining egg quality, and endocrine disruptors"

avesi — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 16:42:03 +0000

I'm shocked that any doctor's first recommendation isn't starting to do fertility awareness with ovulation test strips. I got pregnant on the first try with our second kid doing that. It was much more challenging for the first one and we even talked to a doctor who suggested fertility drugs. Thankfully, those weren't necessary in the end. Oddly, after we saw the doctor, we stopped trying as hard to conceive, and then it just happened on accident.

New comment by avesi in "Daft Punk Break Up"

avesi — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 18:27:47 +0000

A lot of the Ed Banger crew don't appear to be releasing music anymore as far as I'm aware.

New comment by avesi in "Highest rates of teen bullying are between friends and friends-of-friends: study"

avesi — Sat, 20 Feb 2021 15:10:31 +0000

Can an individual bully a nationwide organization?

New comment by avesi in "What you can learn about medieval Europe if you focus on peasants"

avesi — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 17:20:24 +0000

In my opinion, you're denying the people of Rwanda their agency when you frame it like this.

New comment by avesi in "Dyson air purifier outperformed by cheap DIY box fan filter in Marketplace test"

avesi — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 17:09:16 +0000

Yeah, I think there's a middle ground between teaching a child to laugh at injuries and immediately having a protective, sensitive reaction. Personally, I tell my son, "You okay, bud?" in a positive tone and wait to see whether he needs comfort or is ready to get back to playing.

Everyone parents differently. I would be interested to see which culture the "laughing" reaction parents come from.

New comment by avesi in "Terraria on Stadia cancelled after developer's Google account gets locked"

avesi — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 15:57:00 +0000

Google makes ~$90 billion in profit a year, they can shave off a little to open up a few call centers to deal with issues like this. It's seriously shameful at this point.

New comment by avesi in "Baby Foods Are Tainted with Dangerous Levels of Heavy Metals [pdf]"

avesi — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 18:16:38 +0000

As a parent who has been feeding her 9 month old son various baby food products for the past few months, I'm not sure how to respond to this news. Here are my thoughts:

1. If the baby food companies are correct and the contamination is coming from the soil, isn't it safer to buy baby food that's at least tested than feeding my son homemade food when I don't know which farms it comes from?

2. Is this heavy metal soil contamination new? Babies have been fed manufactured purees for several generations already, so you would think we'd be able to observe results of heavy metal consumption in the older population.

3. The report's only recommendation to parents is that they stop feeding foods with heavy metals to babies, but they don't provide a complete list of products to avoid, which any recall would. Why?

I definitely wanted to throw away all my baby food when I read this, but now I feel like it's pointless. Unless I fed my baby a vegan diet from fruits and vegetables I grew on soil I personally tested, I don't think it's possible to avoid these heavy metals entirely. Am I wrong?