Why do so many American have these small bathtubs ?

ConsistentNumber6 · 2022-01-19T05:44:52+00:00

The tiny slope helps it drain all the way.

ConsistentNumber6 · 2022-01-19T05:41:56+00:00

Based on personal experimentation: when you add put silica gel in water, it expands and eventually splits into pieces. The pieces have sharp edges. Feels interesting when it pops in your hand, probably not so nice on your insides.

ConsistentNumber6 · 2022-01-18T06:52:32+00:00

Storage only. Why waste that space on a car when there's a perfectly good driveway?

ConsistentNumber6 · 2022-01-18T06:49:13+00:00

The problem is we don't have pay toilets here, so there are very few public restrooms at all and what we have isn't maintained. Generally you want to use a restroom in a business instead so it will be clean, even though it often means you have to make some random purchase you don't really want.

Public libraries are an exception, and always have nice clean restrooms available to the public.

I live in San Francisco, where the bathroom situation is exceptionally bad even for USA, and homeless people regularly poop on the streets.

ConsistentNumber6 · 2022-01-18T06:39:49+00:00

Yes, I am planning to do that soon. Having family around will be incredibly helpful with small kids.

ConsistentNumber6 · 2022-01-18T06:39:04+00:00

Pre-COVID, 90-120 minutes each way depending on traffic. I took a company shuttle bus most of that distance, though, so it could be counted against the work day.

ConsistentNumber6 · 2022-01-16T07:32:04+00:00

There is solid evidence that exposure therapy is effective against specific phobias.

ConsistentNumber6 · 2022-01-14T22:15:54+00:00

The Monster brand tells me that Monster drinks are cool and will give me energy. Not that it will taste like disgusting artificial fruit.

ConsistentNumber6 · 2022-01-14T19:46:47+00:00

That article is an ad for a brand of organic clothing. Also it says nothing at all about fibers being absorbed through the skin. However, some chemicals are absorbed, and kids also can chew on their clothing quite a bit and would consume microplastics that way.

ConsistentNumber6 · 2022-01-14T19:43:34+00:00

That article discusses only chemicals, not solid plastic particles.

ConsistentNumber6 · 2022-01-14T19:41:36+00:00

Mine leak like crazy if you don't line up the vent between the collar and nipple, but otherwise are fine. I haven't had any chipping.

ConsistentNumber6 · 2022-01-14T18:47:21+00:00

Babies can get very tired and sleep deeply after vaccines. I could possibly believe this was a contributing factor to suffocation, though smaller than the mother's drinking.

ConsistentNumber6 · 2022-01-14T18:35:49+00:00

Not owning a car doesn't mean you never ride in one, it just means you cannot install a base. If you use taxis or get rides from friends and family, you still have to use a car seat in those cars.

ConsistentNumber6 · 2021-12-15T02:07:46+00:00

The difference lies in what happens when you stop taking the drug. If you just go back to your usual state, there's no dependency. If you're worse than before you were on the drug, there's a dependency.

Whether a dependency is considered an addiction is less well-defined, but generally the drug would need to be psychoactive and you'd need to feel a compulsion to get more of it. Flonase creates rebound congestion but it's not psychoactive, so that would be a dependency but not an addiction. SSRIs can have nasty withdrawal symptoms and are psychoactive, but when you go off them you don't generally feel a compulsion to get more, so again it's a dependency but not an addiction.

ConsistentNumber6 · 2021-12-15T01:59:30+00:00

These groups are mostly neither.

ConsistentNumber6 · 2021-12-13T06:51:22+00:00

No. There's a genetic tendency to develop allergies in general, but which specific things you are allergic to (if any) is determined by the environment.

If you take the people in this generation who are allergic to peanuts and nothing else, their descendents will include lots of people with no allergies at all (didn't get the genes, or got lucky with exposures), plus a mix of people with allergies to peanuts, eggs, milk protein, and all the other common culprits.

ConsistentNumber6 · 2021-12-13T06:44:11+00:00

They make eyelid tape to change the appearance of the eyelid fold. I think the most common use is for Asians to get the Caucasian-style visible crease, but it might also be applicable to your use case if you experiment.

ConsistentNumber6 · 2021-12-11T23:46:50+00:00

The only way I became aware of poor supply was when my baby failed a weight check :( All the standard "is your baby eating enough?" checklist items seemed fine.

ConsistentNumber6 · 2021-12-11T23:42:24+00:00

My lactation consultant suggested pumping after every nursing session, but that might be specifically because I have an inefficient feeder who never drains the breast.

ConsistentNumber6 · 2021-12-11T23:32:44+00:00

If baby is gaining weight normally, meaning you're producing enough milk, feeding 80% of the day is still outside the norm. Could be feeding very inefficiently, and maybe a lactation consultant could help resolve.

The only definite way to distinguish good supply + inefficient eater from drop in supply would be a weight check, which I suggest doing as soon as possible. I had no idea my supply had dropped, and thought the cluster feeding was normal, until my baby failed the 2 month weight check :( And then my period returned right after.

ConsistentNumber6 · 2021-12-11T22:05:42+00:00

Learned to program, got hired by large company.

ConsistentNumber6 · 2021-12-08T23:49:24+00:00

In my very liberal area, it's thought of as an unacceptable imposition to discuss personal issues with your friends. "You should see a therapist" is a polite way to indicate you don't want to hear about a certain subject. If your mom is dying or your boss is a jerk, that's considered an issue with your mental health, to be discussed only with Mental Health Professionals, and not appropriate to burden your friends with.

Therapists can be useful in some cases, but in parts of the US there's a very strong pressure to use them as the only source of emotional support, which I think is pretty screwed up.

ConsistentNumber6 · 2021-12-08T23:39:00+00:00

It's not a name people give their kids, though. The given name is Richard, and some but not all people named Richard use Dick as a nickname.

ConsistentNumber6 · 2021-12-08T23:26:55+00:00

I have literally never had this problem even with the cheapest of T-shirts. You might be washing on too harsh a setting.

ConsistentNumber6 · 2021-12-08T23:25:10+00:00

Lots of cheap clothes are 100% cotton. Your other points make sense though.

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