I think baptizing a kid who’s living with someone breaking the doctrine would be worse, actually. How horrible would the kid feel? How hard would it be for them to keep the teachings of the church? Waiting until they’re old enough to be an adult is the only logical and sane choice.

The church isn’t trying to punish people. It’s simply saying that if they aren’t willing to live by the standards, they shouldn’t be in the church. Also, it will only happen if someone is willfully violating the standards by having a sexual relationship - same as happens to people who have repeated affairs.

LDS Church criticism: Doctrines are counter to current political trends.

I have known people who suffered through 2 days of labor, and who were done in 45 minutes. So, 48 hours to 45 minutes. Yeah, it really varies.

Yes, this. I hate surgery, but C-sections are looking better and better!

That sounds very low effort and encouraging! I’ve wanted to do something for birds and possibly honey bees for some time, but I can’t spend a lot of effort unfortunately.

Dang it, now I’m crying. I held it together through the kangaroo and the orphaned rhino, but abused dogs on top of that is too much. Our dog was a rescue also, a mutt who the shelter suspected had been abandoned after flunking training for a dogfighting ring. It took years to get the idea across that we wanted to pet,…

I completely agree. I was just explaining some of the cultural baggage we’re dealing with in the US.

Supernatural fandom...yeah, a lot of problems there. Other fandoms are a lot better, and in general most fandoms have been getting their act more together lately. Archive Of Our Own is a great place to start - sorting fics by kudos and reviews generally floats good ones to the top.

Most women pretend to be guys online. Have you never noticed this before?

Part of it is the history of feminism here. Women fought so hard for the right to be in the workplace, and still need to fight so hard, that there’s a noticeable segment of women and men who look down on mothers and see maternity leave as being unfeminist (I kid you not).

Same problem here. Neutrogena lip color (forget the real name - they’re at CVS) is pretty good. Moisturizing and subtle colors that don’t scream lipgloss. I have to reapply pretty often but that’s easy to do, plus the tubes don’t cost a lot and last a decent amount of time.

The letters are a lot less distinct - harder to read even for the person writing it. That’s why I gave up on it.

Modern pens almost all take cartridges and are basically as easy as ballpoint pens. Only issue is drying out but even that happens less often. Pilot, Sheaffer, Parker and Sailor all do great cheap pens that use cartridges.

Google or phone book makes it pretty easy. They’re all over the place and most take walkins so long as you have insurance.

But...I’d like a president who isn’t a horrific failure at some point in my life. Most of my life, preferably.

Most people never learn how to cook meat right, and anyone who tries to cook meat twice or takes 20 minutes to cook a single piece (admittedly, depending on size) falls under that category. Although, why didn’t you ask preference beforehand? Do you genuinely not like the dude? Doesn’t invalidate my point - it’s…

Hm. My first instinct would be to head for an eye doctor with an injury like that - ERs are set up to treat immediate traumas, especially ones in large cities. Non-critical injuries should head straight to a specialist or GP, most of which will take emergency appointments. Does the Canadian health system not let…

Ranting at home is fine - everybody has that one customer/coworker they can’t stand. But ‘pranking’ the customer, cooking meat badly (ex, burning it) or encouraging wait staff to treat them badly is completely out of line, and a lot of chefs will be completely unprofessional about customer preferences.

Nope, sorry, the people claiming that rare steaks are awesome are the ones who are lying (about their ability to cook). Rare meat isn’t ‘tender’, it’s just rare - kind of slimy, not that flavorful.