Aviandelight

Same and I'm very happy to be here and not there.

I'm really happy to see positive comments about people wanting kids even though I've chosen the child free route. It makes me happy to know that there are folks out there who want kids for the love of it even if it is hard. People should be able to make the decision themselves and do what's right for them. I do believe it's a worthwhile and rewarding endeavor but not one that should be half-assed.

I just want to say thanks for sharing this link. That was amazing.

I would much rather take a video call with screen sharing any day than try to figure out what the hell someone is talking about over email. Most problems are user error and it's so much faster to see them doing it in real time.

That's insane to think about. I usually buy a 20 lb bag of Thai Jasmine rice for a little over $20 her in the US. I think I would seriously break down and cry if I had to pay almost $70.

Definitely a 9 today. It's my first week of return to office and I need to make a good impression so naturally I woke up this morning at 4am with the shits. I called out but I'm sure I'll be getting an earful tomorrow.

I just Bungie cord one filter to the back of a fan to filter the air in my parrot room. I change the filter every two months and it works well enough to keep the dander from building up.

As a former reptile enthusiast yes this was a valid concern. Making nice with the neighbors helped alot. Also red night lights made it look like we were running a brothel.

Well said

Yea the science is making the dosage ranges and the art is the caregivers administering the medicine and monitoring the patient. I like the science part but the art part is too stressful for me.

For the newly bred and nearly dead dosing is heavily dependent on rate of metabolism. This is why kidney and liver function are so important to dosage. If a person can't metabolize and clear out metabolites at a steady rate then it increases the bioavailability of a drug in the person's system and can lead to overdoses. I used to tell my lab students that there's no guaranteed way to tell how young kids are going to react to a medication just because their little systems are doing so much at wildly different rates.

Okay I'm choosing violence on this one so downvote away if you must. This is not an American thing, it's a patriarchy thing. We are conditioned and constantly reinforced with the idea that sex is about subjugation and not intimacy in our language and culture. All my life I've heard phrases like "suck my dick/balls" used as an insult across all genders and then when I am expected to perform such acts in the context of a loving relationship my brain outright refuses to associate that with an act of love and my partner acts all surprise Pikachu about it. The patriarchy and our common language insists that sex is bad at the detriment and isolation of everyone. Men in particular are isolated and conditioned to never give/receive love or even recognize their emotions with the only consolation being that they are given permission to subjugate women. And so the culture persists through our own unwitting actions as people are impeded from ever fully connecting with each other in perfect love and perfect trust. It's shit like this that keeps the patriarchy in control and us under control.