Negative. I got mine at 23, but only because it took me five years to find a doctor who would perform it.

Good luck. Also, the recovery times are very serious.

And everyone is different (duh), but there has been a complete absence of regret. Added bonus: my partners have been very appreciative that the onus of birth control is not on them.

I see a lot of “For the PR” comments. This is only a fraction of why ads are purchased by utilities, large companies, and other entities with whom you never directly do business. The overarching reason they purchase ads is to have influence over narratives by those networks.

Source: used to develop software in the energy sector for a multinational; my employer and their corporate customers regularly bought ads to help bolster energy efficiency initiatives. These initiatives and interventions are frequently countered and opposed by exactly the corporate dickwads you think would oppose reduced consumer energy consumption.

Don’t yuck someone else’s yum. :D

My read on that was forbidden fruit/fetishization of the typically unavailable.

• The United States is a righteous, fair, and just country.
• Success and a comfortable life necessarily followed hard, diligent, smart work
• Adults, by virtue of having been around longer, necessarily knew more and knew better than I.
• Socialism bad.
• All kids get beaten on a daily basis for transgressions such as a B grade on their paper, a speck of food still stuck to the dishes after washing, or for listening to music on the radio that their parents didn’t like.

How do you think the gaskets are made?

I had a partner with genital HSV-1. YMMV, but in general:

• No BFD; the stigma of HSV is the result of a marketing campaign in the 70s (not 100% on the date) by a company selling HSV treatments
• Be honest and inform your prospective partners; yeah, some people who haven’t done the reading are going to react negatively
• Antiviral treatments are available; the one my partner was a daily pill
• In eight years of unprotected sex with her, she never had an outbreak and I test negative
• You may never have another outbreak, you may have regular flare-ups, or something in between
• Talk to your doctor and any take all of my previous comments like the Internet rumor it is

noticed that I would end up moving the camera enough for a visible “shake” effect in most pictures I took.

Whoa, yeah, that would absolutely rule out a TG. Was that occurring even with image stabilization turned on?

If you need waterproof, the Olympus TG series has long been my phone camera/de-Googling go-to. It ticks most of your requirements. I love its macro modes and it’s definitely pocketable. Also stands up to a lot of abuse and has a strong market for accessories,

You will still need plenty of carbs and fat as those are what gives you energy, but you can skew the ratio towards protein.

OP, I just wanted to point out that this line from another comment is confidently incorrect. You do not need carbs. You may want them, you may even prefer them. But “need” is straight up wrong; our bodies operate just fine in a complete absence of digestible carbohydrates. You do, however, absolutely require healthy fats (saturates and monounsaturates; processed PUFA are seriously bad) and complete protein. Sources: “Good Calories, Bad Calories,” Taubes; “Fat Chance” and “Hacking of the American Mind,” Lustig; “Body by Science,” Little and McGuff. There are loads of books you can read to get the answers to your questions rather than relying on Internet hearsay.

It sounds like, at least in part, sourcing is one of the issues with ingredients, and that you’ve been getting conflicting information because people leave out that context. Peanuts can be awful for you, but sourced with care, they’re great! Oh, right, how do we know our food supply integrity? Well, now we’re actually getting into the meat of the issue. No pun intended.

None of this answer your questions, and that was intentional. Also, sorry. But I did provide you with some excellent sources to start getting answers that are not a bunch of unsubstantiated Internet hearsay. You have one body, and it happens to carry your brain. Invest in it like your life depends on it.

Edit: wrong book title

Oregon. And at least half the pumps must still be staffed. Washington has had self-serve for at least 30 years (when I moved here).

AI+diots, not AL+diots. :D

I think Aldi’s gets pretty widespread admiration. In contrast to AI, which seems to be almost universally reviled.

AIdiots

I collaborate with other people who are also on DRS. Before I had teammates on DRS, I tried using Blender, Openshot, Shotcut, KDenLive. Those NLEs are just not there yet.

I actually started my solid modeling/parametric journey on FreeCAD, and I prefer the parametric workflow. I switched to Inventor when FreeCAD kept crashing when the object tree was ~60 primitives even on my monstrous workstation. I would love to go back to FreeCAD, because fuck AutoDesk in its ear, so hopefully they get the stability + complexity under control.

Rant on, bruddah! I am also in the “must use it for work” group, and I despise my work laptop with the fury of 1000 suns. In my personal work and prior to this new job, I was staying on Win 10 for Inventor, AutoCAD, FL Studio (and a bunch of VST synths I bought), and DaVinci Resolve Studio. My experience with my work laptop has spurred my nearly-complete jump to Linux.

FL Studio has been replaced by Bitwig, new learning curve and loss of the VSTs just being the cost I have to eat. I almost have DRS running in perfectly in Aurora Linux. And my two Win 10 machines will just go into an isolated network until I can figure out workarounds/replacements for the Autodesk garbage.

Edit: A society that has not long since been wiped out because it stood in the way of greed.

That’s seriously moving the goalposts of your original statement.

The Salish Tribes lived in the Pacific NW for ~13500 years, which is a pretty long run. They were quite egalitarian, flatly organized, and lived in balance with the ecosystem. There are other long-lived Native American groups to also consider, such as the Iroquois. See: “The Good Rain” by Timothy Egan, “Braiding Sweetgrass” by Robin Wall Kimmerer. That last book suggestion is a bit more tangential, but the point comes across.

Looking at this with a broader lens, 99.9999+% of all species ever have gone extinct. If you look at societies as a type of species, yeah… the less bellicose, less extractive species will get wiped out by the more avaricious until the ecosystem falls too far out of balance to sustain that behavior.

I don’t really get all the hate on the comments.

Agreed. “Oh no! Not an ETL!” I wish more applications were backed by MySQL, MariaDB, Mongo, etc. Give me the option of encryption at rest, and when it’s time to change apps, I have granular control over everything.

On the other hand, the advantage of all the hate is everyone presenting their faves and providing their reasons. So …net win for the audience?

I came in here for this. Thank you, kind stranger with distinguished cinematic taste.

orthodontic sneakers

How does your footwear straighten your teeth? :D

The first hazard to my pans is clunking around while at sea. This is mitigable by putting a cloth in the pan to protect it from other pans. My partner made a bag to hold our ceramic pan. But then the bag got nasty moldy, as porous things always do when sitting in a compartment on a boat. Then our silicone spatula wore out, like they invariably do; I’ve had the same stainless cooking utensils for going on 30 years. The ceramic pan was given away at our next port.

And ceramic pans still wear out with use, regardless of the level of care. They just last a bit longer than traditional non-silicon nonstick pans.

Carbon steel FTW. I have a hand-hammered carbon steel wok (as well as one carbon steel knife). I live on a sailboat which means salt air. These two pieces of carbon steel perform so well that I’m willing to accept their higher maintenance “costs” (cost, in the effort context).