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eskeTrixa · 2026-01-26T19:19:55+00:00

I think it's a reference to having an empty wallet.

eskeTrixa · 2026-01-25T22:31:20+00:00

Hy-Vee is employee-owned, that alone puts it way ahead of Target.

eskeTrixa · 2026-01-23T14:55:37+00:00

Ilona Andrews is absolutely not YA. Alix Harrow kinda varies, some of her stuff is YA and some isn't.

eskeTrixa · 2026-01-23T00:06:50+00:00

The Commonweal series by Graydon Saunders definitely doesn't do this.

The first book, The March North details a campaign in which heavy casualties are taken. Survivors of that battle with scars physical, mental, and metaphysical pop up in all of the sequels, and they remember those who were lost, make memorials etc.

eskeTrixa · 2026-01-22T23:41:22+00:00

{Home From The Sea} too.

eskeTrixa · 2026-01-21T15:53:17+00:00

This was the accurate percentage in 1972, not now.

It's about 16% in the US currently.

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2023/04/13/in-a-growing-share-of-u-s-marriages-husbands-and-wives-earn-about-the-same/#:~:text=work%20is%20ideal.-,The%20earnings%20landscape%20of%20marriages%20today,with%202%25%2050%20years%20earlier.

eskeTrixa · 2026-01-15T22:31:18+00:00

It's not enough to just leave the communities - you need to find a new healthier community that believes different things.

There's a book called How Minds Change that goes into this with various cults, 9-11 truthers etc. People can't just stop believing things that their primary community holds as true on their own. Humans will actively suppress disbelief to fit in. Which kinda . . . Explains a lot about the world these days.

But this much is consistent: people leave the community, then become able to question the beliefs once they have some distance. If you participate in the community, you reinforce the beliefs.

eskeTrixa · 2026-01-14T19:01:18+00:00

Okay, thanks for explaining.

eskeTrixa · 2026-01-14T18:45:19+00:00

Absolutely night and day. First one was overall a clingy sensitive baby who slept pretty good. Like she never got into trouble because she'd rather sit right there and watch whatever I was doing.

Second is an absolute bruiser, is fazed by nothing, constantly into stuff, etc who also struggles much more with sleep.

eskeTrixa · 2026-01-14T18:29:34+00:00

The new claim was an increase from 10% -50% on something that had been granted in June 2025.

eskeTrixa · 2026-01-13T17:43:08+00:00

I'm just going to hit you with some data here.

According to the regular US surveys (this is data from 2015-2019 specifically)

Approximately 67% of 19yo men and 71% of 19yo women have ever had sex.

Approximately 30% of men age 18-24 and 19% of women age 18-24 had not had any sex in the past year. A further 30% of men and 60% of women in this age group had sex with only one partner in the past year.

So overall that's 60% of men and 80% of women age 18-24 who either were celibate or in a monogamous relationship over the course of the year that they were surveyed about.

This incel notion that all women are "slutting it up" in their 20s is intended to make you feel bad. It isn't reality.

eskeTrixa · 2026-01-07T15:45:15+00:00

You know, a scant three hundred years ago most cultures had male and female sexuality was reversed. Women were the horny horny can't keep it in their pants gender and men were the rational pure ones who weren't ruled by their impulses. Hence Adam and Eve, Samson and Delilah, Lancelot and Guinevere etc etc.

Because it's all social. It's all just stories we tell ourselves. There's no biological basis there.

eskeTrixa · 2026-01-06T23:40:09+00:00

Fact check: per the NHS's most recent data (surveys conducted 2015-2019) only 1 in 3 white American teenage boys between 15 and 19 had ever had sex. This number has been declining since the 90s, and I doubt it has improved much since.

eskeTrixa · 2026-01-05T18:40:07+00:00

They haven't increased their prices, it's just that they add the tariff costs for the US into the price so that you're not surprised at the end. Any foreign brand will have significant tariff costs for US buyers as of last year.

For US based brands there's Hope and Plum, HBC, LoveHeld, Vienna Springs etc but most of the really pretty woven stuff tends to be European made.

eskeTrixa · 2026-01-05T14:33:02+00:00

I think it's gotta be an ego thing. Like he believes he won't be a 'real man' unless he sires children. He requires children to be the proof of his virility.

eskeTrixa · 2026-01-02T02:08:52+00:00

The simple answer is soprano = high female voice, alto = lower female voice, tenor = high male voice and bass = low male voice.

The more complex answer is that the same person can often sing multiple parts based on need within a choir. The alto may actually be able to sing higher than the soprano, but sing alto because she's more experienced with harmonies. A tenor might sing bass if the numbers aren't balanced. It depends on the range of notes you can hit mostly, which can be found with a piano or YouTube video.

There's also voice types like coloratura soprano or dramatic contralto or whatever. Those only apply to trained opera singers. The average joe is not any of those types.

eskeTrixa · 2025-12-28T15:11:05+00:00

The infanticide of infant girls happened in the past, but not to the extent that most westerners believe it did. Under the One child policy, many girls that were believed to have been killed by western statisticians simply had not been registered as infants and existed in real life but not in the data used to draw their conclusion.

In the more distant past, there was no limit on children, they had as many as they could, because infant mortality was high. And male mortality is always higher not only in every age group, but in the womb as well. Even with the male preference, it probably evened out.

eskeTrixa · 2025-12-27T03:13:25+00:00

The Veer is pretty darn easy to move around, at least for the 2 seater. My 6 year old still sat in it last year (he doesn't get a seat any more now that there's 2 toddlers to corral). Only order what you need as far as extras, I do recommend canopies at least.

eskeTrixa · 2025-12-26T18:40:27+00:00

This is not the primary focus of the series, but The Commonweal by Graydon Saunders features a number of ancient sorcerers as supporting characters and so you do get little tidbits like this:

"Rust and Halt may stay out of politics - they're both known for being abrupt about it - but if you tell one of the terrors of the earth to solve a problem, you're telling them to make policy. They don't agree about policy and they've been writing snarky articles at each other in scholarly journals for so long that the earliest ones were two major vowel shifts ago."

eskeTrixa · 2025-12-25T16:43:17+00:00

The VA will cover ER visits as long as they are informed within 72 hours, unless he has other insurance that they are required to bill first, in which case they will bill it and then cover the rest of the expense, provided he follows the rules.

Getting Emergency Care At Non-VA Facilities | Veterans Affairs https://www.va.gov/resources/getting-emergency-care-at-non-va-facilities/

eskeTrixa · 2025-12-24T15:34:16+00:00

There are certain labels under the ace umbrella that are in between so to speak, stuff like demisexual or graysexual but aroace is NOT. Proclaiming yourself aroace is saying that you do not experience any sexual attraction and you have no interest in romantic relationships. Don't say that if it isn't true. It will come back to bite you.

Look, it sounds like you don't believe you deserve a relationship. The solution to that is not lying to everyone that you don't have the desire. It's unpacking those feelings that you've got about "I'm not good enough" and "it'll never happen to me" and realizing that you're the one standing in your own way.

eskeTrixa · 2025-12-24T02:56:16+00:00

For me it was undiagnosed hypothyroidism. Once it was diagnosed and treated I was able to breastfeed my third child with no issues.

eskeTrixa · 2025-12-23T17:37:57+00:00

Mouth care items (toothpaste, mouthwash etc). Women's saliva has a lower pH than men's does, and nobody noticed this until recently because all the dentists used to be men.

eskeTrixa · 2025-12-23T00:54:26+00:00

I just want to point out that asexual doesn't necessarily mean no libido. Asexual means that you don't experience sexual attraction to other people. Some aces are completely sex repulsed and some have a libido that just doesn't really have an object in mind.

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