So, not to be a scientist here or anything, but they are aware that most women don’t have an intact hymen by the time they reach sexual maturity, right? It gets damaged by activity, and dissolves over time to that menstruation can take place.

I really don’t get it. I actually think the opposite will be true. Women are already more likely to use a machine to get off, and seem to me to have more benefits to a more technically advanced model than men (who really just need a soft wet hole, right) would. Varying speeds, depths, lengths, girths, ability to…

No, the novel had an end, not just a “perceived” one. I eventually ran out of pages ;p

We never actually learn where Harmont is, only that it’s in a Commonwealth country (so it’s not the US). And that it’s English-speaking. That could be Australia, New Zealand, Canada, (as of when they wrote it) Hong Kong, etc. Mr. Cat did the math based on the trajectories we’re told these events were “scattered”…

Pretty sure they’ll base it off of the novel Roadside Picnic, which has vanishingly little in common with Stalker, aside from theme.

Not really sure how well this will work as an on-going TV series, as it has a very definitive end to get to that there’s no real going past, either.

I am like 95% sure there are no “private sector” ambulances in Canada, so.....

This would be the reason I’d have posited for menopause. In many mammals it only takes a few years, or even a few months, for one’s young to get to the point where they can survive on their own. For humans, it’s well over ten. Assuming humans in the wild without our modern medicine tend to live until ~60 or so, it…

I have a fairly high-paying profession, which at dating age meant I out-earned just about all of the men I dated (including the now Mr. Cat), so I would always offer to pay, and if they refused, insist on splitting the cheque.

I was about to say - paramedics make $23-39/hour in BC depending on their experience and qualifications, and I somehow couldn’t imagine the US was paying them about the same amount a Starbucks barista makes after tips. That would be _insane_.

...If this medic is supposedly “educated” and “motivated,” why is he making less than $15/hour?

This is exactly what you get. The laws changed here to exclude anonymity, and donations dwindled to almost nothing. There isn’t even enough to inseminate the people who don’t wany an anonymous donor (usually lesbian couples). But the import of sperm is still legal, so everyone just buys sperm from the US. In other…

You seem to be copying and pasting exactly this on just about every response in the thread that disagrees with you, so I’m not sure you’re expecting a response, but... those aren’t their “siblings and fathers.” The fathers and siblings they were raised with are their siblings and fathers. Those are genetic donors who…

The dropping of the ability to donate anonymously was perhaps one of the stupidest decisions ever made by our legal system. All it means is that we now import just about all of our sperm from countries where it is still legal, like the US. Now you’ll super double plus never be able to find your bio dad, kids! Even…

Well, that was aggressively mediocre.

The trophy popping after the missle strike made me wake up my husband I laughed so hard.

I’m confused. I thought the main love story in Dante’s Inferno was Dante/Virgil.

Wow. Thank you for linking me to those run scores. I had no idea they were that low, for women. In my age bracket, nearly 16 minutes is a “perfect” score for a 2-mile run? What in the world? That is utterly bizarre; I’m an avid jogger myself so this isn’t a particularly fair comparison, but I’ve seen newcomers work up…

Wouldn’t it be more like:

First off: thank you for your insights, and taking the time to write this out for me. I’ll admit my own bias, here: my husband is infantry, and he’s never had anything but positive things to say about the few women he’s served with, but he is - as you say - too young to remember when things were any different. To…