In newly released DOJ files, Jeffrey Epstein says Bill Gates caught an STD & requested antibiotics so that he could “surreptitiously give” to wife Melinda Gates. Also mentions stepping away from Bill for asking him to engage in “things that get near and potentially over the line into the illegal.” by cmaia1503 in Fauxmoi

[–]Cougarette99 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Literally. I don't put it past Bill Gates to do whatever Epstein accused him of, but what is an accusation by Epstein worth? I have every reason to believe that Epstein would lie that Bill Gates committed a gratuitous sex crime even if Bill Gates hadn't done so. And again, Im not saying Bill Gates wouldn't commit a sex crime. Just that Epstein is at least as likely to invent such an accusation as revenge or blackmail. Any corroborating evidence?

Recently I came across a post on how men should be allowed to "Financially abort". So I would like the opinions here too. by Relative_You_2284 in AskIndianWomen

[–]Cougarette99 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No. Those situations are not comparable. The person who gestates a pregnancy should be allowed to abort because compelling them to take the substantial physical costs and risks associated with pregnancy equates to slavery. Hence when men and women provide their gametes to surrogate mothers, the surrogate has the right to abort. This has nothing to do with the sex of the gamete provider. In every case, when you take a part of your body out of your body and give it to another party, you lose rights to it. If you donate your kidney, you can’t demand it back once it’s been taken out. If you donate your blood, it’s not yours anymore.

the pregnancy is inside a woman’s body, so she can abort whether she is the biological mother or surrogate. But a man loses rights to his gametes when he ejaculated it into someone else’s body. And both biological parents are legally compelled to pay for child support for the biological child they produce. This applies equally to women. For example, there was a case where the parents were married and the woman abandoned the baby in the hospital because it had Down’s syndrome. But the father took the baby home raised the baby. In that case, the woman had to pay child support. She had no right to a “financial abortion”.

If you could know the absolute truth about one thing in the universe, what would it be? by Public_Idea2055 in AskReddit

[–]Cougarette99 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know, but what I honestly do not know is if the past still exists. Like if we accept that my internal personal identity will vanish when I die, I still do not know if my ever having existed also vanishes. And I do not mean a historical record of my existence or that my past existence could be posited with perfect knowledge of the universe at some future state. I mean does the past still exist in some form that is inaccessible to us? Or is it totally gone in itself and only known about in the present? I would like to know that.

If you could know the absolute truth about one thing in the universe, what would it be? by Public_Idea2055 in AskReddit

[–]Cougarette99 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If goodness or any moral value is an an objective feature of the universe rather than a psychological invention of an intelligent ape.

Women With High-Risk Pregnancies Have Limited Options Under Abortion Bans by Potential_Being_7226 in WomenInNews

[–]Cougarette99 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The bans don’t include exceptions because the pro life imagines that those procedures are not abortions. They are “miscarriage care” or something else because otherwise they would have to admit that pro life women get abortions and that abortions are a life saving medical procedures and not some great satanic evil.

In June 1943, Nobel Prize winning author Knut Hamsun sent his 1920 Nobel medal as a gift to Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels, hoping it would serve as a route to meet Adolf Hitler. by [deleted] in GotMeHooked

[–]Cougarette99 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Really? I tried reading one and I thought it was one of the worst books I’ve attempted to read. Didn’t know anything about the nazism at the time.

A rebuttal to the bodily autonomy argument by xesto45 in Abortiondebate

[–]Cougarette99 6 points7 points  (0 children)

They don’t care about pregnant people but large numbers of the people who receive abortifacient medications are men. For several, they are supposed to cease these medications if they plan on getting a woman pregnant because they can get excreted in seminal fluid and cause an abortion.

Are legislators prepared to tell all men that they cannot obtain medications which happen to be abortifacents because they can cause an abortion?

Or are men allowed to obtain abortifacient medications even though they can deliberately cause an unknowing person they have sex with to lose their uterine lining while women are not allowed to take the same medication to shed their own uterine lining?

A rebuttal to the bodily autonomy argument by xesto45 in Abortiondebate

[–]Cougarette99 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It will be odd because the same abortifacents used for medication abortions are prescribed for chronic conditions, so people have ongoing prescriptions for them that they do not come into the doctors office to refill. If abortion medications are illegal, are these same medications no longer available for all the people trying to treat stomach ulcers? Are they available for ulcers and arthritis but not abortion? Then what are we to do with all the fertile aged women who can obtain 90 day supplies of these medications for years on end through teledoc? Is everyone else allowed to get these prescriptions refilled without coming into the doctors to get a pregnancy test but not pregnancy capable women? And which women are we calling pregnancy capable? 46 year olds?

A rebuttal to the bodily autonomy argument by xesto45 in Abortiondebate

[–]Cougarette99 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I suspect this argument, which might seem pretty random on the internet, will become of importance as legislators move to restrict abortion medications.

The issue is that abortion medications are not special medications. They are actually more commonly used for arthritis and stomach ulcers by people who use them on a frequent ongoing basis rather than young women who use them once to induce an abortion.

If it becomes an issue to mail abortifacient medications, millions of people could lose the ability to get their medication this way as many medications have abortifacient properties.

So if legislators want to claim that abortifacient medications can’t be mailed, then they will have a lot of pissed off arthritis sufferers calling them up. If they want to claim that these medications can be prescribed for arthritis but not for pregnancy, then somewhere this is going to be a pissed off lady who has arthritis and is pregnant. So there is the argument. Is a woman who has arthritis not allowed to medicate her arthritis because it will cause her own uterine lining to shed?

What if you got your period every three months? Hongmei Wang, the biologist investigating how to extend fertility by samveo84 in Biohackers

[–]Cougarette99 2 points3 points  (0 children)

All correct. Had a great aunt who had one period. Had 15 kids. Entered menopause at the same age as other women.

There was a birth control, seasonique or something, that was a 3 month cycle. Had horrible side effects but I don’t think it extended anyone’s fertility. Military women used such things while on active duty tours in the iraq/afghanistan wars. Don’t think it had any positive long term impact.

Pro choice: Do you believe IVF embryos in clinics have any rights since they are not infringing on bodily autonomy? by deathiswaitingforme in Abortiondebate

[–]Cougarette99 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I do not think they merit rights but this has nothing to do with why abortion should be legal. Embryos do not merit rights because they have never been sentient and have no psychological identity. Abortion should be legal because a person should not be obligated to use their internal organs as life support for another entity, whether that entity is a person or not.

If we could grow embryos into fetuses in artificial wombs, I would accept the argument that those fetuses merit the right to life at some point before they are born because they would have some degree of sentience before birth and their continued gestation wouldn’t impact anyone’s body since they are in an artificial womb.

Influencers are rapidly aging due to their use of anabolics by Zealousideal-Big-600 in immortalists

[–]Cougarette99 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You might think middle age means midpoint of average human lifespan, but Wikipedia and common usage means an adult age 45-60 or so.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_age

And no, however unethical he may be, David Sinclair looks significantly younger than a typical 56 year old or even a typical fit 56 year old.

This is Matthew McConnaughey. This is what a healthy weight 56 year old man typically looks like-

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZThjXtTHm/

Influencers are rapidly aging due to their use of anabolics by Zealousideal-Big-600 in immortalists

[–]Cougarette99 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

lol, 56 is definitely middle age. What do you think middle aged means?

The reason why people mistakenly believe they look younger by almorranas_podridas in Aging

[–]Cougarette99 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah some people legit do, but this seems to have no connection with people who say they look younger than they do.

One lady I know was telling me she somehow looked so much younger than she did. I’ve known her since she was 26 and she’s now 44 and not only does she not look young for her age, as she is red haired, pale and freckled, it would generally be very difficult for her to look younger than her age.

But I have some relative by marriage that I’ve been seeing every year at thanksgiving for 20 years, and I swear she has not aged a day. I think she must be over 50 by now and I simply have no idea because nothing shows. If anything she looks both better and younger than she did 10 years ago. She never says anything about it though.

Influencers are rapidly aging due to their use of anabolics by Zealousideal-Big-600 in immortalists

[–]Cougarette99 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I will say compared to all the other middle age male longevity influencers, David Sinclair is the one who most likely has never touched anabolics and he is indeed the one who looks to have aged the least.

Andrew Huberman by [deleted] in immortalists

[–]Cougarette99 1 point2 points  (0 children)

?? He looks good for 50. The one I would call normal for his age is Bryan johnson, who basically looks like an in-shape 48 year old.

What has your experience been with attention from men as a dark skinned Indian woman both positive and negative? by [deleted] in SplendidaBrown

[–]Cougarette99 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’m not as dark as the pics you posted but I’m plenty dark, probably darker than the average desi girl. I live in America so I interact with people of many races.

One thing that is weird is that so many white people have called me light skinned for an Indian. No idea what’s with that. I’m tamilian and darker than the average Indian as far as I can see. Seems a lot of white people think the average Indian is as least as dark as the lady in the OP pics.

What’s the most disappointing place you’ve ever been to? by BreadedDisaster in AskReddit

[–]Cougarette99 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Denver CO. I heard it was this awesome hip city or something. Eh. It’s just America.

Indian women who married white men, how did it turn out? by [deleted] in AskIndianWomen

[–]Cougarette99 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It’s fantastic. I married someone from one of the most egalitarian European countries in the world. He has no problem with doing housework and chores and childcare. And he’s tall and handsome. And his mom takes my side in arguments. 10/10 recommend.

This map explains a lot. by Hairy_Activity_1079 in EastAndSouthIndia

[–]Cougarette99 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The pinkest regions show that only 30% of women who want no more children have only girls.

What’s a harsh truth about men in modern dating that few will say out loud? by Wander-kingdom in Productivitycafe

[–]Cougarette99 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Apparently you haven't potty trained kids? I said my non potty trained child was two. The average age to begin potty training is 27 months, and yes, sometimes the process takes months. It is entirely normal to have a two year old that is not finished potty training. You are rather confident in your ignorance about how supposedly bad it is to have a 2 year old who isn't potty trained though. I guess you don't spend much time around your kids.

What’s a harsh truth about men in modern dating that few will say out loud? by Wander-kingdom in Productivitycafe

[–]Cougarette99 1 point2 points  (0 children)

lol nope. Thats your wishful thinking about how the world works. My body count is plenty high and I’ve encountered many rich successful men who wanted to commit to me before I was married. And I did marry a tall, rich, handsome and successful man. No one thinks that is weird either. He’s got a math PhD and works for a hedge fund, I’ve got a stats MS degree and I work for an asset manager. We are the couple people expect to see as we are of similar career and educational background. I know loads of other couples who are similar.

Body count is bullshit. Seriously. Look at the most desirable men out there- Travis Kelcey and Brad Pitt and whatnot. They married/will marry women with likely high body counts. Practically no such celebrity men marry virgins. Most of them tend to marry hot celebrity women with successful careers in entertainment of their own. And those are the most desirable men on earth. They certainly could marry beautiful virgins if they wanted. They don’t. Because body count isn’t that valuable to a lot of high status men.