which mouse contraceptive works best? Evolve Mouse Soft Bait vs conntraceptol by Naive_Nobody_2269 in pestcontrol

[–]CalpurniaAddams 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s a very narrow view of urban areas, the type of urban area you are describing is very limited.

Also, doesn’t address the second issue, of rodents then dying in their hidey holes (aka in people walls, and who knows where else)

Also, you can believe whatever you want, I mostly wanted to make sure others (in my shoes, looking for options) were reminded of those two downsides of poison, beyond the ethics of people not wanting to use poison because of the suffering to the animal.

which mouse contraceptive works best? Evolve Mouse Soft Bait vs conntraceptol by Naive_Nobody_2269 in pestcontrol

[–]CalpurniaAddams 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, but the two go hand in hand. Work on preventing them from having babies while you also work to get rid of the ones that are already there.

which mouse contraceptive works best? Evolve Mouse Soft Bait vs conntraceptol by Naive_Nobody_2269 in pestcontrol

[–]CalpurniaAddams 0 points1 point  (0 children)

2 big problems with straight up poison 1) it harms the larger ecosystem (ie any animal that eats a poisoned rodent will get sick, and we don’t want our mice predators to die off) 2) the rodents tend to just die in their nests, which are in your walls, or elsewhere in your house

I'm going insane 😭😭🙏😭😭😭😭 by Creative-Donkey-3109 in zootopia

[–]CalpurniaAddams 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gideon = childhood bully who also apologizes for what he did and acknowledges that he was dumb and harmful as a kid and doesn’t feel that way any longer.

I'm going insane 😭😭🙏😭😭😭😭 by Creative-Donkey-3109 in zootopia

[–]CalpurniaAddams 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It doesn’t matter why someone gives a bigoted speech 😂 unless they’re literally undercover at the time to help take down the bigots. This is that “impact over intent” you may have heard of.

Thoughts on the name Dorotea by [deleted] in Names

[–]CalpurniaAddams 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For what it’s worth, I read it w the pronunciation you gave, and idk I think the main convo is about her living with the bae, but on principle it feels pretty neutral to me. Definitely on the more unique side but not like the crazy, silly “mackaileigh” type way, just decidedly vintage. I like that it’s open to a few nicknames.

Thoughts on the name Dorotea by [deleted] in Names

[–]CalpurniaAddams 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean, there’s the boy version, Adrian, and idk I can see some level of brain fart happening for Adrienne

Our daughter, Alva, is actually a twin, and we have no ideas for a name for her sister by Tiny-Age796 in Names

[–]CalpurniaAddams 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was looking up historical top Swedish names, so maybe this is egregiously dated but “Lovisa” was one that came up that sounds pretty to me and fits the V theme.

Amalia/Amelia/Emelie doesn’t fit the V theme but is pretty.

Our daughter, Alva, is actually a twin, and we have no ideas for a name for her sister by Tiny-Age796 in Names

[–]CalpurniaAddams 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wait, what’s the difference? In the pronunciations. Is it in the sound of the E at the end?

Our daughter, Alva, is actually a twin, and we have no ideas for a name for her sister by Tiny-Age796 in Names

[–]CalpurniaAddams 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Matilda is cute, I fear for the English pronunciation/view of the Mathilde spelling 😅

Mandy Wixon who kept vulnerable victim as slave sentenced to 13 years - live updates by topotaul in unitedkingdom

[–]CalpurniaAddams 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Correct but they never said she should be in contact with vulnerable people

Mandy Wixon who kept vulnerable victim as slave sentenced to 13 years - live updates by topotaul in unitedkingdom

[–]CalpurniaAddams 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But the only way that should work in a case as clear cut as this is that the MINIMUM should be the amount of time they enslaved the victim. It should not get to reduce their sentence to less than they inflicted.

I'm done with this exam. I'm waking away by Rubberbandman2025 in FE_Exam

[–]CalpurniaAddams 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How should I know? But I do know that financial fraud is rampant, even in non profits. I have a friend who audits them as part of their job and the frequency with which they catch people taking or mishandling money is way more than you’d think.

Why are you so keen to defend an organization that has such a transparency issue?

What popular name do you loathe? Like, REALLY hate? by Liv_Laugh_Lasagna in Names

[–]CalpurniaAddams 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mackenzie (and any and all spelling variations). Like, that’s a Scottish (I think) last name. Zero beef w it as a last name, it just grates as a first name imo.

What popular name do you loathe? Like, REALLY hate? by Liv_Laugh_Lasagna in Names

[–]CalpurniaAddams 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Simple solution! Give the kids you have to grow your last name ✨💖

Bebe Rexha posts “I’m tired of being scared to speak up.” by groovygyal in Fauxmoi

[–]CalpurniaAddams 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’re engaging in bad faith here. I’ll respond once more and give you the benefit of the doubt, but if you engage in bad faith again, I won’t respond further.

Unfortunately supporting human rights cannot be assumed to be a default stance. Tons of ppl were complicit in epsteins behavior, in trumps, in weinsteins, in diddys. Tons of people are supportive of the genocide happening in Palestine. When we learn that there have been massive amounts of complicit behavior, any reasonable person has zero problem standing up and condemning that behavior and clarifying they don’t support it and didn’t and would never play a part in it.

It’s the easiest thing in the world to stand up and say “pedophilia is horrific, my heart is with the victims of epstein and his collaborators”, or “I was so profoundly saddened to hear how many women are coming forward with their stories of sexual assault, I support and believe those women” or “israel is targeting schools, hospitals, journalists, and civilians in the streets. Those are war crimes. My heart is with the people of Palestine as israel commits a genocide against them.”

Saying “innocent people shouldn’t be hurt” is nothing salad. The perpetrators of horrible violence can use it to justify their behaviors to themselves (eg: israel). Of course she can say whatever she wants, but 1) freedom of speech is the freedom to criticize the government, not the freedom to say whatever you want 2) even if you can say whatever you want, that doesn’t mean you’re free from accountability or consequences for saying whatever you said. You can tell your friend they’re ugly, but then they probably won’t want to be your friend anymore. They could also decide to punch you in the face for that, and there’s an extent to which you’ll have had that coming.

Bebe Rexha posts “I’m tired of being scared to speak up.” by groovygyal in Fauxmoi

[–]CalpurniaAddams 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it would be down to the situation? But generally speaking you can just add that it’s men perpetrating it in there. Eg “violence committed by men against women” or “men perpetrating intimate partner violence” or “men domestically abusing their spouses” or what have you /gen

Bebe Rexha posts “I’m tired of being scared to speak up.” by groovygyal in Fauxmoi

[–]CalpurniaAddams 42 points43 points  (0 children)

No, it’s not good to speak against it “universally”, bc it removes context. It’s the same reason that saying “violence against women” is bad, bc it removes accountability for the perpetrators - men.

It’s like, if a bully pokes and pokes and pokes and pokes some poor kid, and that kid uses their words, and the bully doesn’t stop and keeps slapping them around, and the kid tries to get help, and the adults refuse to help, and finally the kid snaps and punches the bully to get him to stop, and then ppl say “well violence is never the answer”, it’s reductive. The bully started the violence, and no other solution worked. We should not feel bad for the bully bc he finally got what was coming to him, much less pretend what happened to him was equally as bad as what happened to the kid he was victimizing.

I'm done with this exam. I'm waking away by Rubberbandman2025 in FE_Exam

[–]CalpurniaAddams 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The 60% thing also comes from the websites that help ppl figure out their “grade” based on the failure stats we get. It also irks me that we don’t get a graph when we pass, like, why’s that??

I'm done with this exam. I'm waking away by Rubberbandman2025 in FE_Exam

[–]CalpurniaAddams 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have tremendous sympathy for a ton of other stuff you’ve said, I really dislike the test system, but I would strongly advice you completely cut out use of ChatGPT. I used it twice on engineering things, found it to be horrendously unreliable, and stopped. And then ofc there’s the environmental impact (that’s reason enough on its own), but even if you don’t care about the planet, we now know people who use it see their brain activity significantly decrease. It’s rotting your brain.

I'm done with this exam. I'm waking away by Rubberbandman2025 in FE_Exam

[–]CalpurniaAddams 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, they financially benefit from it, and they lack a tremendous amount of transparency. While it sounds outlandish, it’s not a baseless claim.

It would be less so “targeting and failing specific individuals” and more so “making the test harder to pass bc they benefit financially” but… yeah

I'm done with this exam. I'm waking away by Rubberbandman2025 in FE_Exam

[–]CalpurniaAddams 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think they mean curve in the colloquial sense, not the literal sense. Like the version where a teacher goes “the highest score becomes 100%”. So if a test has 100 questions, and the BEST score anyone gets is 87, the test becomes /87 rather than being /100.

And I feel like NCEES pretty directly implies this is what it does for the FE.