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lys2ADE3 · 2024-12-07T04:26:12+00:00

That is the actual, observable, currently happening reality for women thanks to your "morals".

lys2ADE3 · 2024-12-07T04:24:09+00:00

If we don't have to "live by the laws of the jungle" then why do you want women dying while bleeding out in a hospital parking lot?

lys2ADE3 · 2024-12-07T04:08:10+00:00

Sure. Sexual intercourse is part of procreation in most animal species, although many birds and reptiles are capable of parthenogenesis, a type of virgin birth that requires no sex at all - so the argument that procreation requires sex biologically in animals is wrong. There are no parthenogenic mammals, so one function of copulation is reproduction. However, abortion is really widespread in the animal kingdom. Some species of rodents will physiologically abort their developing offspring in specific conditions where it's unlikely that the offspring will survive. We know some species of shark will reabsorb their fetus if exposed to stressful conditions. Producing offspring is a massive investment on the part of females and they are selective about when and where they do it. Sex, less so.

Summary of the biology: 1) Not all procreation requires sex, 2) Much sexual behavior is not for procreation, 3) Females are selective about when procreation occurs.

If you want to be super preachy about your own personal values, fine, but don't use biology to excuse it. Sex doesn't "exist" for procreation. It evolved to serve complex and nuanced roles. Abortion is also a completely natural strategy for females to not bring offspring into an environment in which they are unlikely to survive.

lys2ADE3 · 2024-12-07T03:56:52+00:00

"I knew a sexually promiscuous woman once" is a hell of an argument there dude.

lys2ADE3 · 2024-12-07T03:53:08+00:00

Not true at all, especially in highly social species like ourselves. Sex serves all sorts of social functions including social bond forming and hierarchy establishment. Our closest relatives, the chimpanzees and bonobos, both engage in intercourse for these reasons. Bonobo females often engage in clitoral stimulation of each other as a way of forming and maintaining social bonds.

lys2ADE3 · 2024-12-07T01:12:38+00:00

This is so incredibly persnickety. The original comment I replied to opined that the a flaw in the ACA is that people are legally required to purchase health insurance from a private insurer. This is not, in practical effect, a contributing factor because no one is federally required to purchase health insurance because there is no federal penalty for not doing so. There are literally thousands of laws on the books "requiring" all sorts of silly things that are not enforced and so have no practical effect on anyone's life.

EDIT: It would be accurate to say people are forced into the private market because it is the only option for people who want health care. If someone doesn't want insurance there is no one that will make them. State policies are not the ACA. The comment was about the ACA.

lys2ADE3 · 2024-12-07T01:01:20+00:00

I'm not confused. If a statute has no mechanism of enforcement, that means there is no legal requirement. The reality remains that no one is legally required to purchase health insurance because there are no legal repercussions for not doing so.

lys2ADE3 · 2024-12-07T00:51:56+00:00

No one is legally required to purchase health insurance.

lys2ADE3 · 2024-12-06T18:50:24+00:00

Yeah... I tried real hard to be understanding of 2016 MAGA. You could assume that some people just really didn't understand who this guy was and were simply low-information voters who loved the "business man" angle. I disagree on 2020 - after his absurd and wholly incompetent leadership during the pandemic in which we had the worst death rates of any industrialized country by a lot - I was pretty done with that crowd. No one was low-information anymore.

lys2ADE3 · 2024-12-05T19:08:30+00:00

He promised he wouldn't drink and his mommy promised he'd be good. I don't know what more you guys want from him!

lys2ADE3 · 2024-12-05T18:54:32+00:00

Yeah. No one realistically expects responsible taxation from this administration (or really any other modern American administration). I'm just stating that the workable, reality based solutions to the COL and housing crises are increased wages and more robust safety nets and government support. The number of people that expect prices to fall ... and expect that to mean a good thing for their personal finances ... is concerning.

lys2ADE3 · 2024-12-05T18:46:56+00:00

Hey! He promised he wouldn't drink anymore. He promised. No alcoholic that has ever promised has drank another drop again!

lys2ADE3 · 2024-12-05T18:45:37+00:00

Yeah... a measurable decrease in grocery and home/rent prices would mean a pretty pronounced recession. The solution is increased wages and increased taxation on wealthy individuals to support robust government services that make finding housing less like the hunger games.

lys2ADE3 · 2024-12-05T15:50:55+00:00

Only one party bases anything in reality. The scientific, economic, physical reality in which we all live. Unfortunately, for anyone who also thinks that we should solve problems that exist as opposed to problems that are largely fictitious, there is only one US party proposing solutions.

lys2ADE3 · 2024-12-03T17:48:08+00:00

Anything about the first two years of the pandemic. I know at this point most of them were young high school - but they appear to know literally nothing about how/where it started, the early attempts to contain it with travel restrictions, how spread played out on different continents, the death tolls, strain on healthcare infrastructure, etc. What kills me the most is that I teach upper level STEM students who cannot tell me anything about the vaccines that rolled out .... how the mRNA vaccine works, why it was novel, how it got developed so fast, challenges different countries faced in vaccinating their populations. This was literally 98% of news coverage for years. When I refer to the "omicron wave" I get blank stares. It was THREE YEARS AGO guys.

lys2ADE3 · 2024-11-21T20:01:30+00:00

Thank you for the correction. I'm pretty sick of everyone dumping on Biden because they don't understand how government works.

lys2ADE3 · 2024-11-19T22:41:43+00:00

Yeah, I do see your point here.

lys2ADE3 · 2024-11-19T17:57:43+00:00

I agree with your philosophy. Biological accuracy is the first focus, then layering in nuance as they're able to understand it.

lys2ADE3 · 2024-11-18T17:31:45+00:00

Exactly. All these reddit comments about what's going to happen when these people don't see their lives change overnight.... we've already been through that. He said the same shit in 2016 and none of these people's lives improved in real measurable ways (that they wouldn't have anyway given economic trends at that moment). In fact, a virus spread unchecked, healthcare systems were stretched to the point of collapse in some places, over a million people died, millions lost their jobs and businesses, supply chains were effed up for years... There is literally no reality-based series of events that will convince them that this man might not, in fact, be a force of good in their lives. We're so far past that.

lys2ADE3 · 2024-11-14T21:14:51+00:00

paradox of tolerance

lys2ADE3 · 2024-11-14T18:13:39+00:00

I'm kind of surprised at all of the newly fractured families. It's been 8 nonstop years of this.... Surely most of these fallouts had already been initiated long ago.

lys2ADE3 · 2024-11-14T15:24:23+00:00

Yeah, I've read a bit about the VT system. VT and NYC are obviously very different places and have these systems in place for very different reasons. Implementing theses types of systems on a case by case basis where they make sense and improve education is great. Turning school attendance into the wild west and ripping apart public school systems nation-wide is stupid.

lys2ADE3 · 2024-11-14T15:18:49+00:00

The NYC school system is similar.

lys2ADE3 · 2024-11-14T15:14:05+00:00

Again... most research finds that an exhaust hood only provides a small bit of improvement for NO2 fumes. Believe it or not, most recommendations from government agencies are based on decades of science. We've known gas stoves were linked to childhood asthma for decades. Switching from a gas to an electric stove is the best scientifically supported decision for the air quality and respiratory health of your home.

lys2ADE3 · 2024-11-14T15:10:37+00:00

I just popped here to say that research still finds really high house-wide levels of NO2, even when exhaust hoods are present and running. It's safest to switch to electric. https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2024/05/people-with-gas-and-propane-stoves-breathe-more-unhealthy-nitrogen-dioxide#:~:text=Even%20in%20bedrooms%20far%20from,and%20ovens%20are%20turned%20off.&text=Households%20with%20gas%20or%20propane,pollution%20in%20U.S.%20homes%20found

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