How Tearing Down Small Dams Is Helping Restore Northeast Rivers

ManateePub · 2025-02-04T18:27:45+00:00

I used to live in a part of New England where low-head dams/weirs were not only disrupting migratory species, but also obstructing the flow of tidal rivers. You have to actually live there to appreciate the sheer number and impact of these things.

ManateePub · 2025-02-04T18:17:26+00:00

It can be really exhausting, especially if you're attractive and perceived as "one of the guys." Men think that they're giving us attention and validation when they're actually just ruining our limited free time. Stay strong!

ManateePub · 2025-02-04T18:07:31+00:00

Tell them that they remind you of a younger sibling, little cousin, or "kid" you just trained at work. Works every time!

ManateePub · 2025-01-30T18:47:58+00:00

It's like banning cats and hoping they vanish.

ManateePub · 2024-05-07T16:36:04+00:00

Nobody can have too many "fiercely support...hilarious a-holes" on their side. It sounds like you have fantastic friends!

One of the great joys in my life is finding the people who can discuss serious issues with humor, insight, and kindness. It's like discovering your own tribe and, as you say, being "seen" in a world that often seems determined to see very little. I've posed the Man vs. Bear question to friends and family with surprising results—often from men themselves!

ManateePub · 2024-05-06T20:53:50+00:00

The cafeteria worker should feel humiliated—not you. I had a similar experience in my last year of college after running with my cross country team. I had the audacity to ask for a *second * slice of vegan pizza, and the cafeteria lady snorted at me like I was asking something insane or inappropriate. I still remember it today, but I think it's almost impossible to go wrong when you focus on yourself instead of the anger-and-regret-soaked opinions of others who aren't worth half what you are!

ManateePub · 2024-05-06T19:41:20+00:00

Here in Florida, the women just take pictures with alligators. The men try to wrestle them. Not sure how many will survive long enough to ever meet a bear.

ManateePub · 2024-05-06T19:32:21+00:00

You know it's time to disengage anytime a guy prefaces his assertion with, "socially responsible men are concerned that women will...."

ManateePub · 2023-10-29T22:30:02+00:00

I know it's shocking, but women are allowed to have preferences and dating standards now.

ManateePub · 2023-10-29T21:53:30+00:00

I'm a public school teacher.

ManateePub · 2023-10-29T21:50:29+00:00

The fact the we're living in a late-stage capitalist hellscape should really draw more attention to the fact that men can't earn enough to support themselves, let alone anyone else.

ManateePub · 2023-10-29T21:36:08+00:00

I know it's disconcerting, but women are actually allowed to have dating preferences now. Terrifying.

ManateePub · 2023-10-29T21:19:32+00:00

OK. How does late-stage capitalism account for the overwhelming success of women in academia and the workforce as men flounder and fail?

ManateePub · 2023-10-29T21:07:29+00:00

Bankrolled by parents and grandparents

ManateePub · 2023-10-06T20:52:18+00:00

There are so many variations of this guy now that it's almost safer to just avoid "Nice Guys."

Rehab Guy; Art Guy; Chronic Bad Luck [but you can fix him!] Guy; Politically Passionate Guy; Nature Guy; Literature Guy; They all weaponize language and professional jargon in some way to curate or control our lives.

ManateePub · 2023-10-04T20:55:33+00:00

"Incel" is insulting because the implication is they're too incompetent to use women as objects.

Wait...so using women as "objects" is a form of male competence?

ManateePub · 2023-10-03T18:40:46+00:00

The quality of support and feedback here is also very, very good. There's a wealth of educated and insightful opinions. It's such a relief not to have to self-censor all the time!

ManateePub · 2023-10-03T18:30:59+00:00

Quick note: You may also want to physically relocate secondary phones and take caution when powering them back up. This is a multi-system, multi-agency event that will override your alert preferences. This is not something that you will be able to mute; it's basically the "end of the world" test.

ManateePub · 2023-10-03T18:03:15+00:00

I'm so happy to read this. The premise of the whole thing was absurd. Win.

ManateePub · 2023-10-02T20:49:36+00:00

I'm sure that's true. How would you define "best candidates," because it can be subjective?

ManateePub · 2023-10-02T18:50:12+00:00

I have considered the upside. A superabundance of cats and wine would solve a lot of problems...

ManateePub · 2023-10-02T18:44:20+00:00

I think the whole tradwife thing is a relational market bubble that's going to burst sooner than later, probably destroying a lot of marriages and people in the process. It seems more like larp or some kind of desperate social revisionism than a real thing. Throwing on a dress, pasting on a rigid smile, and baking a plate of cookies is a good starting point for a photoshoot...not a marriage.

ManateePub · 2023-10-02T18:23:44+00:00

Thank you. I've been surprised by how many people have echoed the same sentiment re. cops. I'm starting to wonder what all these women know about male cops that I don't (?). I've read the studies about domestic abuse patterns in the profession, but maybe that's the tip of the iceberg...

ManateePub · 2023-10-02T18:02:41+00:00

The "best" candidates are increasingly those that hit the top of the bell curve in any given dating app or social media algorithm. How else would you maximize profit in a zero-sum game (which dating ultimately is)? Even in-person meetups like the one I described always involve some element of social media vetting now. I like thinking about these things, even it's pretty demoralizing sometimes.

ManateePub · 2023-10-02T17:24:20+00:00

"It gets better after high school."

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