This is a really important perspective, thank you for sharing. I definitely understand what you’re saying and how important it is to encourage and support breastfeeding where stuff like this is happening. (Pretty rough that so many women are feeding straight milk or coconut milk, etc... In addition to better…

Who vets op-eds for major newspapers? I often feel like the point of them is the print version of clickbait - intentionally inflammatory shit to get people talking.

Ah, this is clearer. I haven’t heard of formula companies saying their product is better than breast milk in the US in my lifetime, though apparently it was common around the turn of the century. I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re still getting away with that in other countries.

The first sentence of this piece is incredibly confusing... “whose administration declined to support an international resolution to dispel myths about breastfeeding to instead side with infant formula manufacturers”. But it seems like the international resolution was to support breastfeeding, not to dispel myths…

It is an amazingly stupid rule to say you can’t get a permit without owning a gun. I can’t even understand why anyone would have ever proposed that.

I believe you’re missing actual data. You can’t just make an assumption of 40% of DNA being passed down from one line and jump from there. Random means random, so picking numbers and trying out the math doesn’t really lead you to any meaningful conclusions. (While statistically unlikely, it is possible for someone to…

Requirements vary extremely widely between states, so I wouldn’t assume that Colorado classes are as bad as NY classes sound like from you. In Mass, the class was pretty extensive - a four hour course that included live firing with an instructor watching and correcting. We certainly discussed things like how to…

Thing is, it was never shown that Warren ever really did claim NA ancestry, at least in any way to benefit from it. She did repeat the family line that was fed to her about her ancestry - something many of us do, trusting what our parents tell us without needing to search for evidence. But her opponents claimed she…

This source is a good explanation. And it notes specifically, “50% of 4Cs will not share DNA.”

Myzrael’s follow-up was a good explanation of random inheritance, but I just want to chime in and say as a biologist that no, 4th cousins may not always share DNA.

I think Trump empowered people to be more blatant about their racism, and I think that’s happened everywhere, Portland included. He’s drawing them out of the woodwork, giving people permission to say all the things that they were always thinking but previously kept somewhat under the surface.

Thank you for validating how crazy this conversation is. And I’m sort of aware that this is a thing with her but never experienced it personally. I try to engage with people in good faith as much as I can. I decided I was done trying here after the fourth increasingly crazy response.  

But I'm saying it never went away. I'm telling you the experience of my friend, who is in his early thirties. I'm not talking about compared to a century ago either. He says the white supremacist subculture has always been there, and his direct experience of that is only the last three decades. 

I honestly don’t know what you want me to say. You want me to lay out a specific plan for what should happen to assholes who lost their jobs because of harassment? That’s not my job. That’s their job.

I forget whose account I was reading, but one politician mentioned after visiting one of the camps that they had questioned one of the guards about how they sleep at night, and the guard looked down and didn’t respond. Some of them are rightly ashamed of themselves, but still following orders.

Literally tons of people are stepping up to apologize for them. Hell, people keep bringing up things like “when will Louis CK be able to come back?” “when has [insert shitty guy] served enough time outside the public eye?”

Literally no one is proposing sticking every man over 30 in prison, and it was invocation of that strawman by both her and you that is inducing my sideeye. People are bending over backwards to make the #metoo conversation about how we shouldn’t judge men too harshly, and it’s bullshit.

Yes, we’re protesting, but I can’t help but feel like we’re not doing enough. And the vast majority of people in my life are doing absolutely nothing at all. Many people change the topic if I bring it up because it’s “too depressing”. 

Ha, I just posted that same article in another thread. People seem to have a misconception that Portland is a liberal utopia. (It may be very left-leaning, but it has a hell of a racist past AND present.)

According to my friend who was born and raised in Portland, this is not new. As someone else noted, Oregon famously banned black people from living or working there back when they first became a state in the 1800s. Portland was a big KKK stronghold. The hippie thing is the more recent thing, but there’s always been a…