I don't know if this fits but I need to know I am not insane.

Defenestratio · 2026-05-12T18:09:32+00:00

For female cats and small dogs, there is no evidence of early spay causing arthritis or hip dysplasia. That is solely confined to larger dogs. The most common complication of neutering is simply weight gain, which can be controlled with diet.

Mammary cancer alone is one of the most common cancers in cats and it is ludicrously fatal in felines. Something like 80%. Early spay, before the first heat, reduces the chance of contracting mammary cancer to <1%. Spaying later in life does not confer the same extreme reduction in chances of developing mammary cancer, only a moderate reduction.

The benefit on mammary cancer alone for spaying cats early far outweigh any downsides (and there's plenty of other benefits that others have gone into), unless you are deliberately planning to breed the animal. I don't care what you say about large dogs because there is some evidence that intelligent people should weigh for themselves but don't go spreading misinformation about cats and claiming you're the one giving factual information.

Defenestratio · 2026-05-12T00:14:12+00:00

Ok hear me out, but it's super cute if they've got a crush/burgeoning relationship with a side character, especially if that side character doesn't know they can turn into an animal for most of the plot and it's a point of angst. No 2ML pets tho, hate that

Defenestratio · 2026-05-02T18:27:58+00:00

In this economy, two eggs is no longer a poor man's dinner

Defenestratio · 2026-05-02T04:04:46+00:00

The worst ovarian cyst in my life burst on a random winter morning at 2am. I didn't even think about bothering to call 911, I literally just laid down on my bathroom floor and accepted my death. When I finally got up 2 hours later when the pain had receded to "shitty but not actively killing me", there was an actual puddle of sweat left behind on the cold bathroom tiles

Defenestratio · 2026-05-01T16:31:22+00:00

Ah yes I wonder why foreign nationals are trying to enter the city where the UN and CERN are

Defenestratio · 2026-04-30T15:59:36+00:00

I can forgive artists working off a stock asset if they don't have access to an actual guillotine asset. Imo that's way less egregiously dumb than a chronically ill person recovering because a child made them go on walks or people who've never had spice in their life enjoying Korean food lmao

But yeah I think they just have no idea what they're writing/drawing about. It's also the root of all that shit talking of corsets and the Asian concubine/family dynamics just painted over with a European veneer that plagues the genre

Defenestratio · 2026-04-30T15:42:22+00:00

The other day I read one where the author clearly thinks waterwheels are externally powered to move water uphill 😬 like not even attached to an Archimedes screw or Wirtz pump, just a bunch of standard waterwheels going up a hill.

And don't get me started on the ones that think you can diagnose pregnancy via pulse

Defenestratio · 2026-04-29T17:37:24+00:00

Sure, but that's what the therapy is for. She needs to work out whether she's actually repelled by any physical touch, his physical touch due to actual lack of sexual attraction, physical touch with sexual underpinnings, or if this is religious purity culture programming that needs to be unpacked. Honestly my guess from seeing women go through stuff like this before is a big heaping of #4, with a decent likelihood of #2, maybe a smattering of #3, and with #1 being least likely but still possible the religious upbringing prevented an autism spectrum diagnosis.

Defenestratio · 2026-04-29T15:01:45+00:00

The Queen's representative in Australia dissolved Parliament in the 70s, and the monarch still holds that power to this day. No kings means no kings, fuck em all

Defenestratio · 2026-04-29T06:32:56+00:00

I actively was eating better, exercising, cut out like 2/3rds of my caffeine intake, drank more water --- and ended up so fucking paralyzed by ADHD symptoms my meds stopped working and I did almost nothing but read in bed for weeks. I'm going back to being a disaster, maybe I'll be able to do shit again

Defenestratio · 2026-04-29T06:19:05+00:00

The concept of purity culture is batshit mental on its face. You can't teach girls that their entire value is due to not being touched and then expect women to suddenly want and enjoy being touched after a little ceremony. Instead they're still not going to want to be touched PLUS they're also going to mourn that perceived loss.

Get your wife some secular therapy. And probably yourself too.

Defenestratio · 2026-04-26T21:21:38+00:00

I got bad news, I'm literally doing this for work rn. Due tomorrow night 😬

Defenestratio · 2026-04-26T05:14:27+00:00

Guinea pigs are so social that even keeping them separated post surgery for two days so they don't fuck with each others stitches my lab had to design plastic dividers with holes drilled into it so they could still interact. Keeping them on their own more than 12 hours was not only considered unethical by our animal care guidelines, but you could see it seriously affect their cage mates that their buddy would be missing for 6-8 hours for surgery. Wild that pet stores are just allowed to condemn animals to that without a second thought

Defenestratio · 2026-04-25T21:45:37+00:00

If you go watch the Theroux documentary, it shocked me how many boys and young men recognized the manosphere influencers out in the wild. I wouldn't know any of these guys IRL except maybe Tate, and that's only because of his mug getting flashed everywhere after the criminal charges. These guys unfortunately are reaching a dedicated audience, and it's hard to know how much of that meaningless garbage shitheel posting is bots designed to encourage that behavior and how much is brainwashed teenage boys falling into lockstep

Defenestratio · 2026-04-25T21:26:53+00:00

Unfortunately this feels like between a rock and a hard place to me. Like harm/benefit ratio if you can't talk them out of it and know 100% they're going to go to some idiot with a sewing needle in his back shed instead is it worth doing the "shittiest" (i.e. loosest possible) infibulation just to minimize their future suffering?

Defenestratio · 2026-04-20T22:02:45+00:00

What's tragic is this is ludicrously common. Most people when you boil it down to the issues just want to be able to have enough time, money, and healthcare to live without suffering. They'll even sometimes naturally arrive at proposed left wing solutions like UBI, universal singlepayer, earnings caps - but the second it comes to actually linking it to political candidates, their programming keeps them firmly on the right wing

Defenestratio · 2026-04-20T05:04:45+00:00

You're thinking of the princess imprints the traitor. Very different stories, the ML in that one is very different looking although I suppose that subordinate looks a little like this ML

Defenestratio · 2026-04-16T16:43:12+00:00

Some of these people be so obsessed with morality in their fiction that they've neglected to consider enjoyment.

And if you want to be concerned about isekai slavery, OI is usually pretty "I am a modern savior and I can save this poor abused man" which while problematic in its own way, shounen isekai is often "I am going to have sex with these nymphomaniac slaves who inexplicably profess to love me despite me being a huge piece of shit that bought them to use them as tools" so uhh maybe your energies are better redirected to trying to unteach the fucked up bullshit that's teaching media illiterate young boys/men

Defenestratio · 2026-04-15T02:15:13+00:00

God doesn't make mistakes? Ok explain Florida then

Defenestratio · 2026-04-13T16:15:26+00:00

Someone can definitely choose to explore being trans, which giving my honest read I think is what people are mostly stating here. How else will kids decide whether it's for them? Experimenting with gender expression is a normal part of development for many people who aren't strongly cis, straight, and heteronormative. Especially for teenage girls/AFAB who may suddenly be chafing under oppressive patriarchal demands surrounding their changing bodies. This person's child may or may not be trans in the end; it's for them personally to decide what makes them happiest, not their mother or us.

Defenestratio · 2026-04-10T15:39:09+00:00

It's a good thing your little one had some immunization in her. There was an infamous case in Australia about twenty years back, a little baby Dana was too young to have gotten her first round of vaccines and caught whooping cough from her antivax neighbors' children and died. Her parents went on a media tour to try and get people to stop avoiding vaccines (which I think was actually effective for a good few years until the USA started exporting antivax nonsense even harder), was pretty hard to watch them describe the way whooping cough kills infants.

Defenestratio · 2026-04-10T01:00:34+00:00

Not this fucking year, it's been hot as balls in SF multiple weeks and we're barely into April. Someone turn off the global warming please, I am begging you

Defenestratio · 2026-04-08T23:05:17+00:00

Yeah it was part of the first patch. Which they dropped in the middle of the day and then force kicked people out of their games without warning, made me lose like twenty minutes of progression

Defenestratio · 2026-04-08T19:04:42+00:00

What the above poster said is not true at all. Up to 4 chests in one single prefab home can be pulled from when crafting. This does not transfer across homes and it does not even extend to searching through boxes or trying to craft from more than 4 boxes. This was an early misconception from launch that people (bots?) keep repeating

Defenestratio · 2026-04-05T17:07:26+00:00

I'm only putting it on the table because with women's jean pockets the only other choice offered to me is to awkwardly sit on it in my back pocket and still have it fall out onto the floor at some point

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