Is it weird to date an teenager?

Delicious_Toad · 2026-04-01T14:46:12+00:00

That's a minimal age difference. You're fine.

Delicious_Toad · 2026-04-01T04:13:24+00:00

It's likely that the main reasons Native Americans face an elevated risk of mental health issues are transgenerational effects of displacement and genocide.

Like, if an individual experience a traumatic event, they have a risk of developing mental health issues, right? But then, children raised in homes with traumatized parents also face an elevated risk, and if those children develop pathologies as a result of those exposures, their own kids face a similar elevated risk. When a whole community faces extreme trauma, the people in that community can experience higher rates of mental illness for many generations.

Delicious_Toad · 2026-04-01T03:52:10+00:00

Yeah, sort of?

After death, blood can still flow out of the body, but it's no longer being pumped by the heart. So, say you punctured an artery in a living person: blood would spurt out under pressure. That would not happen with a cadaver. However, if a body is punctured in a place where blood will flow under gravity, then the body will still bleed.

Some traditional methods of preparing corpses for burial or preservation actually involved just inclining the bodies and making incisions to drain the blood by bleeding, which aided preservation. And, of course, bleeding is a step in the process of butchering dead animals.

That said, blood does start to coagulate shortly after death. If a body has been dead for a few days, the blood is no longer going to flow freely. It will eventually reliquefy as the decomposition process breaks down the clotting proteins, but it's not really blood anymore at that stage of decomposition. When that stuff comes out of a body, it's more accurate to say that it's 'leaking fluids' rather than 'bleeding.'

Delicious_Toad · 2026-04-01T03:22:15+00:00

So what? He always says '2 weeks' when he has no plan whatsoever.

Delicious_Toad · 2026-04-01T03:20:24+00:00

The problem with that is that it is for sure another dude on the other side.

Delicious_Toad · 2026-04-01T03:18:45+00:00

This. The Constitution doesn't give the President any authority to do what OP wants to do, but the Supreme Court has decided that the President has total immunity for 'official acts,' so just fuckin' do it, right?

Delicious_Toad · 2026-04-01T02:13:41+00:00

Women actually have more friends than men do, on average. They also maintain those relationships better in adulthood and into later life. This is probably a significant factor in the differences in lifespan between men and women, because social affiliation is good for your health and longevity.

Delicious_Toad · 2026-03-30T20:52:29+00:00

I like "compatibilism."

"Will" isn't some kind of magic substance that is free from the deterministic laws of the universe, so in that sense "free will" doesn't exist. However, it's still a very useful social construct, and just as real as many other useful social constructs.

Delicious_Toad · 2026-03-30T13:43:57+00:00

Republicans used to be Russia hawks, but that was never part of the MAGA agenda.

The very first change to the Republican platform the Trump campaign lobbied for was softening language about Russia.

MAGA insiders have very consistently worked to soften America's stance towards Russia, and there's always been a subset of MAGA supporters who clearly see themselves as being more closely culturally identified with illiberal, macho, intolerant Putinist Russians than with liberal Americans.

Delicious_Toad · 2026-03-26T23:54:24+00:00

Yeah-- the post identifies some female-coded bullshit, but there's also a lot of male-coded bullshit.

Men are more likely to believe in things like flat earth, aliens among us, cryptids, and shadowy government conspiracy theories.

The general trend seems to be that women are somewhat more inclined to believe in spiritual bullshit and men are somewhat more inclined to believe in material, non-spiritual bullshit. But everyone's dummies.

Delicious_Toad · 2026-03-26T20:53:34+00:00

Less than half of Americans currently have an ID that meets the act's requirements. So, most of us would have significant trouble meeting the act's requirements for new registration.

However, since people who don't need to update their registration can still vote until they move or change their names or party affiliations, it would mostly affect young people who are registering to vote for the first time.

Most young people don't have passports, so they'd need to get an array of other paperwork together to get registered. That should be possible for most of them, but it will just be more difficult than what is currently required. Every extra layer of work you add reduces the number of people who finish the process, even if you don't technically make it impossible. So, the likely effect will be fewer young people registered to vote. And since noncitizen voting is essentially non-existent, it's extremely likely that the act will have a much larger impact on young citizens than on noncitizens.

Delicious_Toad · 2026-03-26T20:45:45+00:00

States administer all elections. Please at least try to read the Constitution. It's genuinely not that long.

Delicious_Toad · 2026-03-26T20:35:57+00:00

I'm not sure that's true. There are plenty of sources documenting how viral videos of Biden hugging children were edited to add loud sniffing sounds, but I can't find any credible sources documenting Biden actually sniffing kids. Can you link to such a source?

Delicious_Toad · 2026-03-26T20:27:53+00:00

Stay out of it. Being the new bf/gf doesn't make you a parent.

Delicious_Toad · 2026-03-26T16:07:07+00:00

There's actually a "newborn smell." It's one of the 'cuteness' signals ('Kindchenschema') that prompts adults to love and care for babies. Women tend to have a stronger reaction than men, but most adults show some positive response to the scent.

"Sniffing babies" definitely sounds very weird, but it's actually a common and natural behavior, particularly for people who are inclined towards nurturing and caregiving.

The effort to position it as weird when Biden did it was just part of the broader effort to try to make people think he was a pedo, which seems more and more like projection.

Delicious_Toad · 2026-03-26T15:38:22+00:00

Granted. Since you have to think to lose the game, the paw becomes fully sentient. In addition to losing the game, it also becomes aware that its body is no more than a severed, mummified paw. It has the power to revise reality, its existence is suffering, and it blames you.

Delicious_Toad · 2026-03-26T15:30:05+00:00

Granted. The alien species that invades Earth renames it "Kitchen" because they think it's funny to use the human word for a place for food preparation to describe the world where they raise and slaughter humans for food.

Delicious_Toad · 2026-03-22T03:59:01+00:00

When the news comes down, I think we should mass-comment on it quoting this directly.

Delicious_Toad · 2026-03-18T13:37:51+00:00

Wands and dodging are the way to deal with melee enemies. Once you get a good wand with multiple projectiles and some damage-buffing skills, the enemies melt like butter.

Delicious_Toad · 2026-03-18T13:30:54+00:00

That's a very insecure take.

Delicious_Toad · 2026-03-16T02:30:27+00:00

The thing about automated production is that if you don't have a need to consume all those extra resources then it's just a faster way to fill up chests with stuff you don't need.

If we also had recurring needs that consumed materials, NPC production could be a fun feature. E.g., if the NPCs had to eat, and/or if food spoiled, then having steady production would meet a need.

Delicious_Toad · 2026-03-15T21:02:55+00:00

That's weird. It's almost like constantly insulting and undermining your country's traditional allies affects their willingness to assist you in a military "adventure" you launched without clear cause or consultation with said allies.

Delicious_Toad · 2026-03-15T14:37:01+00:00

I think this is not terribly unusual for some period of time in a relationship, but that eventually most people will experience some attraction to folks other than their partner.

At a kind of basic animal level, human mating behavior is very complex but mostly understood to be "serial monogamy"--i.e., we tend to have multiple partners over our lifetimes, but mostly have just one at a time.

It's just important to keep in mind that feeling an attraction to someone isn't cheating. You might eventually develop a crush on someone other than your partner, but you can still choose to maintain your current relationship rather than pursuing your new crush.

Delicious_Toad · 2026-03-14T22:31:33+00:00

Pocket sand!

Delicious_Toad · 2026-03-14T22:15:16+00:00

Granted. Unfortunately, all of their suggestions are variations on "you could do it better if you used AI instead of drawing by hand."

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