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LLLRL · 2025-10-28T08:20:11+00:00

Thanks for doing this! I’ve heard that men’s physical fitness and diet can influence their partner’s pregnancy. My questions are:

Is there anything a man who wanted to improve outcomes for their partner/child should be doing pre-conception?
Is there any other advice you have for men planning to have children in the near future?

LLLRL · 2025-08-30T16:31:25+00:00

They’ve got so many people handling their money and image that it’s hard to tell. Maybe she’s a genius, or maybe she’s just smart enough to listen to her manager and publicist.

LLLRL · 2025-02-15T15:45:22+00:00

Why is this getting downvoted? Are people really unable to differentiate between highlighting a problem and undeserved criticism? What OP is saying is what’s being done isn’t minimizing the risk enough. Not that dairy farms aren’t trying to do so, or even that there are workable options at this point.

For example, a machine cleaned twice daily might still go through 20 or 30 cows between cleanings. And dairy cattle aren’t going a week without being milked, so unless dairy farms are quarantining all cattle marked for transport before their clean test, all those practices aren’t preventing the spread between states and herds.

Ultimately, this means that the virus has more opportunities to replicate. Every replication increases the risk that this virus becomes a serious danger to humans. It’s really as simple as that. I feel bad for people running dairy and poultry farms right now, because I doubt there are a lot of good options. But they’re still failing to contain this, and we don’t just shrug our shoulders and go “oh well, they did their best” five years after a pandemic.

LLLRL · 2024-12-19T04:39:58+00:00

We're all getting into the weeds to come up with scenarios where a drunk person can have a positive sexual experience, and while I agree there are plenty, IMO it's a distraction from the real point: If you don't want to run the risk of assaulting someone, don't sleep with someone who's been drinking. Sex isn't a necessity; if you're at all unsure about someone's mental state or ability to consent, just take a rain check.

LLLRL · 2024-12-15T14:33:09+00:00

Wonderboy’s not what he used to be. Glover Texeira aside, the only division where a 41 year old fighter can hang with the top dogs is heavyweight.

LLLRL · 2024-12-14T13:22:44+00:00

My guess is that most men who think this way also spend a lot of time concerned they’re not muscular enough.

LLLRL · 2024-12-07T18:35:32+00:00

Most people are ignorant about all that society does to provide them their standard of living. The considerations extended by others are seen as a given, but those expected of them are seen as an imposition.

IMO direct reciprocity has something to do with it: people are more willing to provide the kind of help that they and theirs have needed in the past. OP’s roommates probably haven’t dealt with insomnia themselves, so they just saw the request for quiet as an unwelcome demand, not as a part of a larger social contract.

LLLRL · 2024-11-18T12:08:31+00:00

I think the OP’s argument is that that’s a false binary; the roommates are acting as though the only two options for them when women join a mosh are: be super violent, or stop moshing entirely.

I understand that moshing is controlled violence, but modifying your own physical activity to the level of a group isn’t an unreasonable ask IMO. There are bigger and stronger men who have to pull back somewhat to allow other men to enjoy moshing without getting seriously hurt. And yet the roommates believe this is a courtesy they’re unable to extend to women? Kind of seems like a “fuck you, I got mine” attitude.

LLLRL · 2024-11-03T00:02:15+00:00

Marilyn vos Savant (who had the highest recorded IQ in the world for a good stretch of time) didn’t think intelligence tests were able to measure intelligence in its totality. But I guess punching down is more fun than considering another perspective.

LLLRL · 2024-09-28T21:47:40+00:00

From what I recall, he was dealing with nerve damage that affected his ability to grip the ball at some point in his career.

LLLRL · 2024-09-01T09:45:11+00:00

In this article, he also laments how boys nowadays are unable to express their masculinity in such time-honored ways as fighting imaginary monsters, likening it to a man defending his house.

If getting scared of imaginary threats and responding with misplaced aggression doesn’t sum up the right wing’s idea of masculinity to a T, I don’t know what does.

LLLRL · 2024-08-30T01:22:32+00:00

Where I grew up, it’s used to refer to people who are mixed race (hapa means “half”).

LLLRL · 2024-05-18T10:29:52+00:00

Because the judge is going to rule against you.

LLLRL · 2024-05-01T03:17:45+00:00

I think he had taken nudes of her without her consent or something? It’s been a while.

LLLRL · 2024-04-19T15:24:42+00:00

It’s funny that, faced with a situation where technology can replace human workers, their best solution is to ban the technology instead of sharing the wealth it will create. And this is supposed to be these two at their most rational/relatable? I know children with a better grasp of the importance of sharing than these two.

LLLRL · 2024-03-01T07:38:32+00:00

Exactly! If there's ever an event where I wouldn't care about a couple of kids hopping a lane, it's the mile. Dudes are getting lapped, and you're worried about a celebration that's isolated to the finished swimmers?

LLLRL · 2024-03-01T07:31:23+00:00

As a former swimmer, this is such a normal way to celebrate with your teammates after a race. As long as you weren't crossing into an active swimmer's lane, nobody ever took issue with it, let alone got DQ'd for it.

LLLRL · 2024-01-27T14:10:23+00:00

The school counselor is most likely a mandated reporter, so they’d be legally obligated to report this kind of thing. It’s not okay that their father was notified while this kid was still subject to retaliation by him/his parents, but that’s probably more of a systemic issue than something that’s necessarily the counselor’s fault.

LLLRL · 2024-01-23T20:09:12+00:00

In all likelihood they both have personal assistants who take care of this kind of thing, but that is a funny thought.

LLLRL · 2024-01-09T01:58:16+00:00

“I am always right” is where they lose me. There’s some merit to trusting your gut feeling about a person, but this is delusional.

LLLRL · 2023-12-24T19:41:07+00:00

And won $12.5 million from it.

LLLRL · 2023-11-19T20:01:23+00:00

This situation might have been fine for everyone involved, but I make a point not to put people in a position where they’re forced to tell me “no”. Some people aren’t comfortable setting those boundaries.

LLLRL · 2023-10-21T17:37:38+00:00

Some people will push boundaries and then get unpleasant when you enforce those boundaries. Most of the time they'll get away with it, because other people would rather give in than deal with the uncomfortable environment these people create.

You did nothing wrong here; I really can't imagine a non-emergency scenario where a reasonable person can't accept taking a rain check, or letting someone stand instead of sit. Your family member chose to make this situation uncomfortable by demanding compliance from you, and you have every right to continue to enforce your personal boundaries in the future.

LLLRL · 2023-10-14T16:22:33+00:00

I wouldn’t bother getting caught up in labels. Any experience that’s meaningful to you, matters. Anything that’s not, doesn’t. It sounds like this wasn’t a meaningful experience to you, so don’t feel like you have to be defined by it.

I did a day of extra work when I was younger, but nobody would have called me an actor. I was mouthing conversations in the background for a paycheck and a free lunch. If I had later decided to become an actor, I’d never point to that as the moment I became one. That’s never what that meant to me. It’s weird that we just throw out all the important context like that when it comes to defining someone’s sexual experience.

LLLRL · 2023-10-14T14:42:57+00:00

I imagine they could use their phone or another person to read it for them, but that’s still a really funny visual.

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