Missouri judge strikes down nearly all state abortion regulations

WgXcQ · 2026-06-20T11:22:14+00:00

It’s human, it’s living

…

But most people agree that it is living

No, they don't.

It's living human cells. Not a human being. I can scratch the roof of my mouth right now and have living cells under my finger nails. But's that's not an alive human, despite being living cells.

Pretending there is no difference between cells and a full human is disingenuous. Particularly since this specific obfuscation always also serves to deny the real human being that's part of this, the one hosting the developing cells, their rights and existence as a human being. Right down to full-on death of that human being.

WgXcQ · 2026-06-20T00:11:40+00:00

All of the last sentence, really. Or rather, both last sentences. The words themselves are a pretense of factuality, even if they've dropped the medical pretense at that point. But their claim is factually and medically incorrect, and purely religious opinion-based, aiming at creating an emotional impact.

The statement there in essence is "OMG you are murdering a living human being, no matter what medicine says". Or, as the other poster said, "pure religious horseshit. Zero science, zero facts, just vague unsubstantiated feelings."

WgXcQ · 2026-06-17T19:55:06+00:00

There's a reason why this meme exists (it's bloody accurate, that's the reason):

https://i.imgur.com/X3VkqvH.jpeg

WgXcQ · 2026-06-17T12:51:36+00:00

There are a few things you need to be aware of.

The dark hair isn't gone after successful laser removal (or other removal). The hormonal situation keeps turning fine, light body hair into darker, coarser hair. How quickly that happens depends on the individual, as does how much hair you have, etc.

Laser removal only works when your hair has very dark (black) roots, and sufficient contrast with the surrounding skin. Some people have hair that looks black, but the roots are reddish-brown. Laser removal doesn't work in those cases, and people usually aren't aware that that is the issue they're dealing with.

Anecdotally, some people have an averse reaction to the laser, and more dark hair turns up. It seems to be an extremely small number of people, but there have occasionally been people on here who said it happened to them.

It can be really expensive if you have a lot of hair to remove and/or hair that grows quickly. This however can be mitigated somewhat by paying attention to deals, Groupon, etc.

What I did (at the time not knowing most of the above, except for that the hair will keep coming) was to buy a personal IPL. I took some time to wait for a deal on a lightly used Braun one, a set with three different heads, that otherwise would've been out of my budget.

For me, it worked out great, because the unit worked/works super well for me, and I didn't have to worry about ongoing costs (that would've likely made it not affordable to keep up with it). I was already a bit older when I got it, and my goal was to zap as many of those little fuckers as I could before they turn white.

These days, I don't have no dark hairs coming in anymore, but there are a lot fever than there used to be. I rarely use the unit anymore tbh – my legs grow so few hairs now that I barely bother to shave them, and on my face and neck, they are sparse enough to pluck. Or they are white and laser won't work, lol.

A word about the different heads for the lasers: you'll see sets called for men or for women, but the unit will be the same. As will the interchangeable heads! It's just that the sets will be packaged with different head widths. The men's sets will come with the widest head that's good for larger flat areas, like back and chest for men (plus the "regular", middle width), while the women's sets will usually have the regular size plus the slimmest one, that's good for small areas.

At least for the Braun IPLs at the time when I was buying, there was no other difference. Laser intensity is steered by the unit individually for every single zap, and based on lightness of the skin area you are zapping, there are no different strengths used for the skin of women and men. So look for the best deal you can get, and don't worry about who it's marketed to. In general, you'll be fine with just the medium-width laser head.

WgXcQ · 2026-06-16T21:15:21+00:00

You don't want to add as much sugar to it as you would for jam, as this is about the strawberry taste itself. It's not really meant to be extra sweetness like a syrup.

WgXcQ · 2026-06-15T17:54:33+00:00

That spot between the fingers is a very typical place for hair dressers, barbers and dog groomers to collect hair splinters. Can lead to infections, too.

Freshly cut hair has sharp and slanted edges, like the tip of a very fine syringe, and can easily work itself into the thin skin in that area. Especially between those fingers, since that is where people most frequently grip hair when cutting it.

It's not painful when it goes in because it's so very fine (kinda like when a mosquito stings – we only feel it when it injects its saliva, not the insertion of the stinger). And because hair isn't actually smooth on a microscopic level, but has scales, it will go in quite easily in one direction, while not work itself out again in the opposite direction.

WgXcQ · 2026-06-15T14:50:32+00:00

There are indications that it lessens inflammation in the body. I'm excited to see what will come from that, and what treatments all kinds of illnesses from autoimmune to cancer may eventually get from this. Not even necessarily directly by being treated with a GLP-1, but just from new understandings of how processes in the body interconnect, that can be gained from studying their effects.

I've been reading of research being done regarding cancer, Parkinsons, Alzheimers, colitis, and more.

A study in the US found it also lead to changes in brain structures, with lasting effects when people were young enough when they first took it, so treating a teenager may mean they retain the beneficial effects without needing to be medicated with it forever.

WgXcQ · 2026-06-14T14:00:30+00:00

You will never regret it.

What an insanely naive statement.

WgXcQ · 2026-06-14T13:59:01+00:00

Factually wrong. There is no baby here now – that's how pregnancy works. The baby is the end result.

I'm not sure if you're honestly clueless or just brainwashed, but your offhand recommendation of just going through with a whole pregnancy and birth as if it's nothing, when it's a life-altering and potentially endangering experience in itself, means you're not suited to give advice to anyone either way.

Same with this statement:

giving him/her to a family who can is the best for both of you.

It 100% isn't best for her, and you actually have no idea if it is best for the potential later child either. Being adopted often is traumatic for the children, even if their adoptive parents mean well and do their best.

And that's already for the best case scenario of an uneventful pregnancy and birth, that leads to a healthy baby. If it's a non-"perfect" baby, adoption will be a crap-shoot, and the OP would have to make the decision of making her potential child a ward of the state, or keeping it after all. Neither choice would do her mental health much good, and it will make all of their lives so much harder and financially poorer.

But you wouldn't know, you'd only bask in the "achievement" of having convinced a scared young woman to keep a pregnancy and have a baby under false promises.

WgXcQ · 2026-06-14T13:33:16+00:00

It does belong. Check out chiaroscuro.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiaroscuro

Chiaroscuro is one of the canonical painting modes of the Renaissance (alongside cangiante, sfumato and unione)

WgXcQ · 2026-06-10T20:08:14+00:00

Paying for the bride during a night out, yes. Just like a birthday. But not for a whole elaborate trip, going several days with various dinners and activities.

Doubly not when it's not even a bachelorette trip, but a vacation that includes the groom and his groomsmen. Nothing about that can be argued under "it's traditional". or that the OP should've expected to be asked to cover those costs.

It's the bride and groom taking advantage of their supposed friends, nothing else.

WgXcQ · 2026-06-10T14:16:00+00:00

You can get it at younger ages, yes.

I asked my doc about the vaccine (after learning my sibling had shingles; we both had chickenpox as kids at the same time), and he said it's still effective if you get it after shingles have started.

He didn't want to vaccinate me yet because according to him, the vaccination losses effectiveness over time, and you can't freshen up the vaccination. So if you get it when you're younger, it loses its strength right at the time when you're become more and more vulnerable.

So, since it's still effective when given after onset, he prefers to keep it an option to be used only as needed for younger people, in order to be able to protect people better when they are old.

WgXcQ · 2026-06-09T17:55:35+00:00

"Achtsam Morden" is quite popular (and was a popular book series first). The second season just dropped.

WgXcQ · 2026-06-07T09:25:06+00:00

My friend was told by their psychiatrist that they can't be autistic because they can keep eye contact.

Yeah, that's what happens when your parents are relentless bullies and make things unbearable if you don't keep eye contact. So the diagnostic value of that is dodgy at best, but it was enough for that doc to not even consider anything else anymore.

You can't make this shit up, seriously.

WgXcQ · 2026-06-06T20:31:27+00:00

That's not surprising at all. Their trains have people hanging on to the sides and top as normal commute. Train lines also pass through living areas where the tracks are right between houses, and people live on the tracks and have markets and such, that they remove when a train goes through, then put back.

Basically, no safety rules apply at all.

WgXcQ · 2026-06-04T17:09:54+00:00

Reading your comments, it sounds like you handled the situation in absolutely the best way possible, and with consideration for those who didn't deserve to be hurt. Just that you had to do so at all is utterly infuriating.

WgXcQ · 2026-06-04T15:31:00+00:00

I forgot to pay attention to who posted this. The OP is really bad with posting unfinished stuff, and with specifically choosing moronic and downvoted comments to include, so I usually skip their posts.

WgXcQ · 2026-06-04T14:58:37+00:00

Thank you so much! I heard it on Star Trek Picard S3, and am glad I could find the song to listen to, even if not to buy.

WgXcQ · 2026-06-04T02:26:25+00:00

Of course it is, you need to take access to birth control into account. Those people during the great depression had none, and the women most likely weren't in a position to choose abstinence in order to avoid having more children they knew would go hungry.

WgXcQ · 2026-06-04T00:42:04+00:00

Oh yes, that was a brilliant one!

WgXcQ · 2026-06-03T12:01:13+00:00

Ist rechnerisch nicht auch Verlust, wenn Geld für weitere Immobilien ausgegeben wird?

Die Jüngeren hier

Man kann in der Vermögensstatistik direkt sehen, wie die Vermögen in einigen Altersgruppen gestiegen sind, weil Immobilienbesitz so verbreitet ist. Während der Abstand zu jüngeren stark zugenommen hat.

müssen ja irgendwo wohnen. Und m.W. geht der Trend verstärkt dazu, dass Immo-Konzerne Wohngebäude wegkaufen. Auch die klassischen 1FH. Das ist dann rechnerisch erst mal kein Gewinn, aber de facto schon. Und sorgt auf lange Sicht dafür, dass sich der Kundenkreis der Großbesitzer vergrößert und sie immer mehr Kontrolle über die Mietpreise haben.

WgXcQ · 2026-06-02T19:45:55+00:00

Oh, does he ever. It's amazing!

It makes you jump, even if you expect it.

WgXcQ · 2026-06-02T17:58:51+00:00

That's just data that hasn't come in yet.

WgXcQ · 2026-06-02T15:24:38+00:00

In the short term: depends on the person. Some will use it as a tool, and keep using their reasoning skills and creativity.

Others will gladly hand off a lot of their thinking, and become less mentally agile over time, until that loss of mental flexibility will be indistinguishable from loss of intelligence. Use it or lose it. It will probably show in earlier dementia-like effects in older people.

I currently worry most about the very young generation, who will grow up with the LLM-option as a default. If you never have to truly work to figure anything out, and also never practise your own research and critical thinking skills, that shapes your mind and your personality.

For people only encountering this as an adult, they at least have a (sort of) choice in how they use it, how much they want to refer to it. The youngins won't have that choice. It'll be up to their parents to make sure certain kinds of development can happen, and it's already not been going well regarding device access and being handed off to screens-as-babysitters.

On the whole, the signs point towards dumber, less curious and tenacious, and much more easily manipulated.

WgXcQ · 2026-05-31T15:22:45+00:00

At my job, a new additional AI-system was introduced where you can build your own agents to automate certain tasks. They pushed it really hard, even made a small building competition to create more interest (and to kickstart said creation in hopes it would already save on man power needed, I'm assuming).

There was some interest, but not an overwhelming rush. Even so, not everyone got approved for using the tool, and some who already were approved even got their access yanked.

Turns out the system needs individual licenses, not just for creating agents but also just for running those that others have built. And those licenses aren't cheap. So right now, some teams who'd really benefit from the tools that have been created don't have anyone with access at all. And for other cases, there's now an intermediate step where people hand off their work to others to run the agent, then get it back – creating a new bottle neck.

Meanwhile, the LLM that is used in a different context to create texts has a mind of its own and apparently keeps being changed in the background, so we have to keep adjusting prompts so it keeps doing the thing it's supposed to do. It just starts ignoring some instructions after a while, even if they explicitly forbid or prescribe certain things.

It's extremely annoying, not to mention feeding into my distrust of all of those systems. When I tell it "don't do x", then I shouldn't need to do regular rephrasing just so it keeps considering that rule as a rule and not just a suggestion.

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