spidercat

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by spidercat 28d ago
All valid responses/pushback to the anxiety! It's still a lot of unknowns and what-ifs; I was more trying to make the point that for some people, it's overwhelming, and some may conclude it's not worth the risk in findin
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by spidercat 28d ago
>I am afraid men have it easier as we get the parenthood without the pregnancy! Ain't that the truth! I've long joked that I'd make a great Dad. :)
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by spidercat 29d ago
Not to mention the evidence coming out about advanced paternal age and adverse outcomes on offspring. The pressures are definitely lopsided. If anything, the pressures should be on society and institutions to provide more support for pare
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by spidercat 29d ago
>Does the birth rate discourse put pressure on you as an individual? Implicitly, I think, yes. It builds on all of the other social pressures, big and small. I'm sure an entire humanities thesis could be written about how it all add
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by spidercat 29d ago
I wonder how much of it has to do with the fact that birth control offers us a choice in the matter. Pregnancy used to be something You Just Did, because, well, most people enjoy having sex, and pregnancy is the intended consequence of unpr
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by spidercat 29d ago
Pregnancy is also a really scary prospect for a lot of people (myself included), and there doesn't seem to be much work done in trying to make it, well, less shitty of an experience. "It's just how it is," but... is it r
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by spidercat 29d ago
Yeah, speaking as a female-bodied person here - undoubtedly a minority on this site - I absolutely feel the pressure to have children in society, pretty much every day. Look at the "birth rate" discourse that's been going o
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by spidercat 29d ago
Absolutely. A lot of the 4chan types thought he was "based", less due to any of his actual talents, and more due to his outbursts and language choices (e.g. his "glow-in-the-dark" comments). It was a spectacle more than
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by spidercat 29d ago
A tragic and fascinating man. The internet treated him as something of a spectacle, if not an outright meme. I'm not sure if it helped him in any way. I hope that at least some of the attention he got online brought him genuine happine
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by spidercat 1mo ago
"anonymous" is the key word. old.reddit still works (though it seems to get progressively jankier), but it's now requiring a login.
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by spidercat 3mo ago
Children of Time is one of the best books I've ever read, it's honestly amazing. It might be my all-time favorite. Seconding this recommendation!
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by spidercat 3mo ago
Right. A bit concerning to say the least.
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by spidercat 3mo ago
This pertains to Japanese ISPs. From the article: KDDI Corporation, STNet, Inc., JCOM Co., Ltd., Chubu Telecommunications C., Inc., NIFTY Corporation, and BIGLOBE Inc. KDDI seems to have been the root of the breach, as the other listed ISPs
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by spidercat 3mo ago
This feels expensive, but I remember SNES games costing $60 in the 90s. If anything, the cost of videogames has been pretty resistant to inflation, I'd say?
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by spidercat 3mo ago
Huh. I mean, if you're gonna go that far to Make A Point with gender-neutral pronouns, might as well go the Stallman route with per/pers: https://stallman.org/articles/genderless-pronouns.html (I'm not n
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by spidercat 3mo ago
Sounds like a great opportunity to get the original commenter in on the scam. "Psst. Say you indeed made a typo, and I'll split the spoils with ya!" It wouldn't truly be The Internet without a little bit of Tough Guy Pos
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by spidercat 3mo ago
Could you kindly explain to me how being on my period would in any way shape or form affect my ability to ride a bike? I'm all ears.
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by spidercat 3mo ago
Maybe not particularly relevant, but I'm noticing you using "xe" pronouns for Sanger. Why is that? Just wondering if I am missing more context.
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by spidercat 3mo ago
>I personally have my doubts whether it has to do with blood pressure If you're referring to scintillating scotoma/visual migraine aura, it's thought to be the result of what's called a cortical spreading depression:
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by spidercat 4mo ago
What does this do that Cygwin doesn't?
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by spidercat 4mo ago
Oh, I probably should have mentioned that I almost always keep my powders capped - I just cap them myself at the doses I need. Keeping the powder loose probably does raise more flags. I'm just so used to capping them, I didn't eve
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by spidercat 4mo ago
I can only speak towards TSA in the US, but they explicitly state that they do not search for drugs; their priority is to screen for explosives, weapons, things of that nature. Anytime I travel with my beloved Mystery Powder supplements, I
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by spidercat 4mo ago
But the source of the spiciness is the same, at least: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allyl_isothiocyanate
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by spidercat 4mo ago
I am well aware! That's why my comment says "spiciness from both capsaicin and radishes". :) I didn't feel like looking up how to spell allyl isothiocyanate when writing my initial comment. Maybe I should have! I&#x2
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by spidercat 4mo ago
Anecdotally, when my best friend first caught covid, his sense of smell was heightened , but his ability to perceive spiciness from both capsaicin (peppers) and allyl isothiocyanate (e.g. mustard, wasabi, radishes) completely disappeared.
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by spidercat 4mo ago
So far, the flight attendant has tested negative. This of course doesn't mean she hasn't contracted it - hantavirus has a long incubation period after all - but as of right now, whatever symptoms she is experiencing are not due to