Bodily autonomy doesn’t allow parents to make choices for children. It does allow people to make choices for themselves. Nice try at shifting those goalposts, tho.

I can’t agree. Bodily autonomy isn’t a compromise position for me, and I think “faith” is a vice, not a virtue.

“Dead Like Me” deserved better.

What is “mortal risk”? You can die due to driving to the Yarn Barn. Do you have zero compassion for knitters and crochet-ists?

Your feeling resonates with me, but I’m not sure it’s a defensible moral stance.

Make sure and get your colonoscopy this year.

It’s an old meme, sir, but it checks out.

she then has a free ticket to get the guy for 18 years of child support

He is definitely on the hook for child support because the child deserves those benefits, and that’s the way it should be.

Shared custody / co-parenting often reduces the raw financial burden, but the child still needs parenting and support, and if she’s the only one putting in time, then under Capitalism, he has to put in money.

Also, in many states, if the child gets governmental benefits based on being in a low-income family, the state will often aggressively seek out the other parent, even if the primary parent doesn’t really want to deal with them.

I’m not defending male rape, but I am defending taking care of all humans since none of us asked to be born. If the child (and everyone else) got UBI, there would be less (or no) reason for child support payments.

Link to how to?

I forget the setup, but the puchline is “… takes ‘the’ out of child therapist”.

I kinda buy the “forced medication” argument, but rather than removing the municipal water requirement, I think the municipality should provide water filters for those that want to opt-out.

I think the evidence is fairly clear that, in this case, opt-in should be the default as it protects VASTLY more than it harms.

The underlying tech doesn’t care about swear words. But, from what I hear, the “AI” models and interfaces that are being marketed for general use have been intentionally trained not to emit such words, and may even be blinded to those words by their creators. I haven’t verified it, but supposedly adding “fucking” to your Google / Bing search query will completely disable their “AI” generated results, e.g.

^ This ^ is where I learned the word “aglet” and (looked up) what they were. First time I found them in Terraria, I thought surely it was a typo for “anklet” or something, since that was back in the beta days.

When you lose a system. It responds to ping; all services are up, but you can’t find the damn thing.

So, not a number so much as a limit to your organizational skill+effort.

The announcement from MS and the linked article both also mention this, though they recommend the real analogue hole: a separate camera pointed at the screen.

I can’t Bernie’s not in office for his 3rd term. /s

For thousands of years, even among the people that knew “dirty jobs” need to be done, more than half won’t do them.

I was told in the past that the U.S. didn’t actually recognize dual-citizenship. What I was told is untrue. Source: https://www.usa.gov/dual-citizenship

So, yes, a dual-citizen Mexican/American would also be a possibility.

I’m still betting on climate collapse to be the end of global civilization, tho I don’t expect that before 2050.

I don’t buy an American civil war, but I can see the federal government effectively collapsing soon, but most states hanging together.

I think Mexican is also considered a heritage and not just a nationality. So, you can be “A (person of) Mexican (heritage) living in America (as a citizen)”.

Well, some tasks require particular tools. I suppose you could also get a javelin or a bow and arrows. Possibly at Wal-Mart, but more likely specific sports supply or hunting supply stores.

It’s America. You should be able to buy a rifle / long gun at your nearest Wal-Mart same day. If you want a pistol, you might have to wait for you background check, but that usually only takes a few days. I also hear single-use short-range firearms can be 3d printed.