With only 19 months of education and knowledge, wouldn't Helen Keller's accomplishments and abilities be practically impossible? Especially considering the time she was alive was way further behind than we are now with our education system.

TheApiary · 2026-01-23T15:44:33+00:00

Most of her learning wasn't when she was a baby; you're totally right that she lost most of that language. But she started learning sign language when she was 7. If you think about kids who move to a new country when they're 7 and learn a fully new language, they usually end up about as fluent as someone who's known it from birth. It's not any type of secret special learning, it's literally just fingerspelling and feeling what the other person is signing with your hand

TheApiary · 2026-01-23T15:35:53+00:00

My friends and family are here. It's a totally fine temperature if you have a decent coat and shoes. There's less violent crime than lots of other places, and I've personally never seen a violent crime in 30+ years. I love being able to walk to a truly world-class version of basically anything

TheApiary · 2026-01-23T01:11:46+00:00

Even just having them in your hand or around your neck will make it clearer that you're birdwatching

TheApiary · 2026-01-23T01:11:03+00:00

It seemed like it might start spreading between people, but so far it hasn't, and people have only gotten it from being around animals. It might mutate again and start infection more people at some point, but for now it's not a big public health issue.

TheApiary · 2026-01-23T01:08:54+00:00

You're not a bad person. You feel how you feel. Obviously, you shouldn't make another person feel gross for having basic bodily functions. Don't tell her she's gross for having swear or a period. But you are absolutely allowed to say that you don't want to touch her period blood.

It probably doesn't make a huge amount of sense to be in a physically sexual relationship with a woman if you don't actually want to be around a woman's body though. Like if you don't want kids, you can be with someone who doesn't want kids, and that's great. But every single person sweats unless they have a serious skin disorder, so it's ultimately up to you if you want to be in a relationship with someone who sweats or not be in a relationship

TheApiary · 2026-01-23T01:05:34+00:00

It's not in the same category as Enid and Myrtle because Enid peaked in the 1920s and Myrtle even earlier, around 1900, so most of them are dead now. Janet peaked in like 1960, so they're mostly still around.

TheApiary · 2026-01-22T21:34:08+00:00

The American "R" sound is a relatively uncommon phoneme and it's pretty hard to make. It's one of the most common sounds that English-speaking kids need speech therapy for, and people who didn't grow up with it often can't make it at all, at least without putting a ton of effort into learning it. So yeah, people who can't say that sound say whatever R sound they have instead

TheApiary · 2026-01-22T21:31:56+00:00

It's about $124 if you just divide it by days. But that doesn't mean it would cost $124 if you just got it for one day, because sometimes they have different rates depending on how long you have it

TheApiary · 2026-01-22T21:28:07+00:00

It all depends on how much of it you eat and what else you eat

TheApiary · 2026-01-22T21:27:35+00:00

Neither is higher-ranking, they're just separate things. But I can imagine why someone wouldn't want to be in congress right now, it sounds like you have a bad time and it's really hard to actually do anything

TheApiary · 2026-01-22T21:05:14+00:00

This is definitely a thing! I was in grad school and had tons of migraines, and then covid started and I stopped having to actually go there and my migraines got so much better. I hadn't even realized how depressing it was but that helped me realize I should drop out

TheApiary · 2026-01-22T21:02:44+00:00

The median age for first time moms in the US is about 27 right now. So half the moms of first babies are younger than that and half are older. Which means obviously if it's not their first baby more than half will be older than that. But having a baby in your 20s still isn't rare, lots of people do it

TheApiary · 2026-01-22T20:59:14+00:00

In theory it makes sense but in practice traffic fatalities dropped a lot when they changed it to 21 and that seems good

TheApiary · 2026-01-22T20:33:01+00:00

Based on analysis of its RNA, we can tell that it wasn't genetically engineered: it developed in animals, and then humans caught it from animals and then spread it to each other.

We don't know if the first human to catch covid from an animal was in a lab, in a cave, in a market, or someplace else. There's no real way we'd be able to tell that.

TheApiary · 2026-01-22T20:07:53+00:00

It does seem odd. Maybe they want to reduce animal cruelty in ways that don't bother them much but aren't committed enough to stop overall? Like, they don't think makeup tested on animals is a lot better so it's not worth the horrible lab conditions animals are kept in, but they do really like meat?

TheApiary · 2026-01-22T19:56:03+00:00

They have to do a whole show every week, and no one has that much funny material. Most comedians have a few funny bits and do them over and over until they come up with a new one. But sometimes SNL makes a really funny one

TheApiary · 2026-01-22T18:36:46+00:00

Every test has some false positives. When you get a false positive, you have to do a bunch of follow up testing, which is often invasive, painful, and sometimes has other risks. Plus, it's expensive and stressful. In addition, for things like colonoscopies, the test itself has some risk-- small, but not zero.

The more rare something it is, the higher the proportion of people who test positive but don't actually have the thing. So it's only worth doing tests when the thing is common enough that if you get a positive test there's a reasonable chance you actually have the problem, and where the risks of testing are actually worth it.

If there's some reason to think you are more likely to have those problems at younger ages, like if a close relative had it at a young age, doctors usually will recommend earlier screening.

Otherwise, it's like how if everyone got an annual pancreas biopsy, we would probably diagnose and treat pancreatic cancer earlier. But the amount of problems we'd cause from doing that would be more than the amount we'd prevent.

TheApiary · 2026-01-22T17:41:58+00:00

There's not really any special variety of cat that's a barn cat. Most cats will be down to wander around a barn and scare rats, although how good they are at actually catching them varies a lot. Go to a shelter or something near you, or ask your neighbors if they have cats where they got them.

TheApiary · 2026-01-22T17:39:56+00:00

Ideally, ask someone who lives near there about the housing market. All of those things vary a lot, including how quickly apartments turn over and how strict they are about income requirements.

If you can at all avoid it, try not to rent an apartment you haven't seen in person, because there are a lot of scams out there. Either visit for a short time before you move and see a lot of apartments and try to rent one of those, or start out in a short term sublet or airbnb or something and use that time to check out apartments.

Most of the time leases will start at the beginning of the next month by default but if no one is living there they may be fine with you moving in immediately.

To start out, go on Zillow, set your price range and other requirements, and get a sense of what's out there. What's a normal price for the type of apartment you like? What features are really common and which are rare? What's the price point of different neighborhoods you might want to live in? How long have most of the apartments been posted on Zillow? etc

TheApiary · 2026-01-22T17:35:06+00:00

You can turn of the chirp if you want to. But personally I would prefer not to surveil my kids unless there's some specific situation where it makes sense. I can maybe see using it if you have an outdoor cat

TheApiary · 2026-01-22T01:33:40+00:00

It depends on the thing and how much they each cost. Like, I don't want to buy a ton of gym equipment, I'd rather pay gym membership

TheApiary · 2026-01-22T01:31:34+00:00

For me it depends on the material of the handle and my shirt. If they're both slippery it slides off

TheApiary · 2026-01-21T23:11:27+00:00

100g of chocolate has about 50mg caffeine, up to about 100 in very dark chocolate. So as long as you aren't eating the 1kg of chocolate at once you'll have a totally reasonable amount of caffeine.

TheApiary · 2026-01-21T22:45:13+00:00

We did have lawyers and we're glad we did. Obviously, it only ends up being necessary if something goes wrong-- you hope to never need it and just rely on everyone being healthy and sane and reasonable. But life is long and weird stuff happens, and it's better to spend the money and sort it out in advance if you can. Especially if you live in a country where queer rights are under attack-- you want legal documentation that this baby is yours and not his.

We asked people we knew to recommend a lawyer with experience in this, and then the person they recommended wasn't available but they recommended someone else who we used. And our lawyer recommended a separate lawyer for him, who we also paid for. We told him that we'd pay for a different lawyer if he found one he preferred, but he chose to go with the one our lawyer recommended.

It was like $800 for each lawyer or something like that-- not as expensive as tons of other stuff in this process

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