GreyEyedGhost

Blood donations aren’t always free. Frankly, if everyone else up the chain is going to profit, the guy doing the donating shouldn’t be left out, either. I kind of feel the same way about organ donations, but I acknowledge there are fundamental differences between the two.

Some info on blood donations.

80% of plasma donations worldwide are given in countries where donors are paid.

Looking way back, not really. There may have been a few times. I know some siblings had their room searched due to reasonable suspicion of drugs, but that was never a concern with me.

When raising my kids, I don’t think I ever searched their room, except to find something of mine that they may have used. The relationships were open enough that my kids just told me if they did something like drink while still minors. I did watch for signs of drug use, but all use was very casual and minimal risk to their health.

English has at least 5 (French, Germanic, Greek, Latin, Arabic, doubtless more) and it’s up to the user to know which is used in any given context. Or not. It’s really kind of stupid.

Not even jeans, or discussing not pooping. Then again, that last one seems to be off base for this sub, too…

Moreover, if you break those down to actual numbers, about 1080 men are killed by intimate partners per year while 1690 women are. So a guy has about 2/3 the likelihood of a woman of being killed in a relationship, as well. I guess we should all be scared! But, back to those numbers. Some website i searched said about 26% of American adults are in a relationship. Based on other numbers on there, that’s about 52 million people. For the sake of simplicity, we will say they are split evenly between genders, which rounds to about 26 million women. That works out to about 1 in 15,000 women in relationships being killed, which means that death by car crash is still twice as likely.

These deaths aren’t insignificant, but also point out that thinking every interaction is going to lead to death isn’t going to dramatically improve your safety.

It’s been a couple years since I used it, but after you create a wall, you can edit it in a dialog. The User Guide shows the dialog in question under editing walls, as well as the steps to access it.

So, once again, equity is the goal and pointing out how there are differences on some arbitrary line detracts from that goal. On the other hand, giving everyone equal opportunities and equal access to support regardless of those differences so they can all reach some reasonable standard for quality of life helps to achieve that equity, whereas focusing on the lack of equity for some specific demographic may not.

This reminds me of a saying I heard. In America a hundred years is old. In Europe a hundred miles is far.

I feel like this is a good argument for meninism, but it’s not really a good reason to be against feminism. I don’t think you can house women and men together in the same shelter because of trauma from their abuser. If the man can just enter the same shelter that the woman went to to try to get away from him it defeats the purpose of the women’s shelter in the first place.

Then what is the point of this entire paragraph?

Edit: Like I don’t think true equity should be the goal for cases like domestic abuse, just because it’s a numbers game. Domestic abuse happens a lot more often to women than to men. The goal should be to help anyone who needs it, even it isn’t equal between genders.

And this one?

Equality doesn’t mean you can only help the same number of people, or in the same locations, but that people have equal access to the services needed. And apparently you agree. Yet you typed those two paragraphs anyway…

Under that logic, no one is equal. I knew a tall, reedy guy who was a great artist. I’m more average height, a little stocky, and am great at math. Are we equal because we both happen to save similar (quite likely not identical!) genitalia? I went to the same school as a women who was about my height, weighed a little less than me, seemed to have a good handle on math, and had a programming style so similar to mine that I couldn’t tell which of us wrote it unless I actually remembered writing it. Is she more or less equal to me than the guy I knew simply because of the greater difference (again, presumably) between our genitalia?

Imagine if we had a group that funded shelters for men and women. Nothing says they have to be in the same facilities - women aren’t all lumped into one facility, either, so this shouldn’t be inconceivable. Also, would it not be equality if all abuse victims, both women and men, got the help they need?

Goddamn, username checks out.

What you’re effectively saying is, “We’re specifically not focused on equality, only on where women have it worse than men.” And that’s fine, but then don’t also say, “If you support equality you support feminism,” because both of those things can’t be true at the same time. “We want to achieve equality between the sexes and for the most part women are disadvantaged, so we will focus on the inequality that is impacting women until they are at least on the same level where inequality is impacting men,” would be more appropriate in my opinion, but certainly isn’t going to be a winning slogan.

I get what you’re saying, and if that’s your perspective then, absolutely, dating someone with kids isn’t something you shouldn’t be doing. But you did ask for it when you dated someone with kids. Not saying your perspective is wrong, but the wording might be.

I’ve been in plenty of situations I don’t want to be in again where I didn’t know I’d feel that way before I was. Some learning experiences aren’t as pleasant as others.

Having previously used tools like Inventor (which isn’t great for floor plans, but is great for parametric modeling) yes, Sweet Home 3D has a terrible UX. That’s doubtless why you didn’t find out how to adjust walls, etc. parametrically. I wouldn’t classify it as terrible, but it isn’t great, for sure.

This was sold by Foveon, which had some interesting differences. The sensors were layered which, among other things, meant that the optical effect of moire patterns didn’t occur on them.

Did your dream self say, “At least it isn’t InstaCart”?

Part of how scissors are design is for there to be a natural tendency to pull the blades together when you press with your thumb.

On a reladed note, if you’re left-handed, get a pair of left-handed scissors. There are two reasons for this. First, you will be amazed at how much easier it is to cut with the correct scissors. Second, you can have your friends who don’t think having the correct scissors is a big deal try them and see how wrong they are.

Well, I’m in Canada, so the standards are already higher as far as quality goes, and our regulatory agency is still in place for oversight. I’d say it’s worth it for them to keep the quality up so product lasts longer, but I’m sure some bean counter will figure out a reason for how allowing the milk to spoil sooner makes the company a buck, so we’ll see.

This is pretty close to my experience. It wasn’t a hospital, kind of a crisis-level group home situation. The biggest downside was not being allowed to take a walk in the park across the street to stave off boredom, next was being monitored to take meds I wanted to take. Other than that, it was the most peaceful time of my adult life. I had 3 days to not worry about a single thing, interrupted one night when a screaming patient had to be removed from the premises. Then I had a few more days to start figuring out what I needed to change in my life to never have to go back.