He probably insisted on them being surrogate so his employee would take the absolute minimum of maternity time.

While I totally agree that it’s appropriate to criticise the way the word is used in this context, I think the person saying it might have been awkwardly saying that anxiety can and does have physical effects on our health.

In rural areas in Britain I’ve seen (and known) people put up little stalls by their driveways, selling veg and eggs and the like that they produce themselves. It’s an honour system to pay (and there’s no VAT or anything). Does this not happen in the US? It seems ludicrous to be over an hour away from reliable food…

I have neither a den or a garage, so that makes your house sound ludicrously large :-) But yeah I guess if you have a lot of kids AND have that kind of room, then why not have multiple refrigerators.

Fair enough I guess. Though that makes me think of gross high-preservative things like hot dogs. I am the weird person who stores eggs and bread in the fridge, and those can last a surprising long time in there, so yeah, I see your point.

I don’t personally drink alcohol so I don’t know how much the average beer drinker consumes. But I’d assume you’d only need to refrigerate what you intend to consume in the next 12 hours or so. If you are continually refrigerating more than that, you are wasting energy.

I also tend not to buy beverages (other than…

Not to support him, but Musk is correct that there is a potential coming demographic inversion. Humans need a birth rate of 2.1 children per woman (or rather, person with uterus, because fuck terfs and also regulation has stymied the development of the artificial womb since the 70s—if we ever wanted to take that option…

This was my first post pandemic movie. It was the only one so far that was worth risking the germy air of a cinema (not that I’m worried about dying, but I can avoid the inconvenience of being sick).

Barbie is my first (and so far only) movie I went to see at the cinema since the pandemic began. The last was Emma in March 2020. I was going to do Barbenheimer, but Barbie was deeper than expected and I wanted some time to think about it. And now the moment has passed, or maybe I already know too much about the birth…

It’s Marie isn’t it?

There was a time before VHS was common (or even existed), believe it or not. Man this comment makes me feel old.

One of the best places for a space telescope is the far side of the Moon, and it conveniently has dish shaped craters, as well as permanent shadows for computer cooling for all the data processing that would happen with some seriously ginormous telescopes. Also no pesky atmosphere to wobble the images, and no human EM…

It’s not in the remit of Space Force, iirc. They are only interested in defending against other state actors, not asteroids/comets. NASA is the one spearheading the survey to find all the near Earth asteroids that could pose a problem, and they’ve found most of them already. Space Force isn’t really equipped with the…

It’s not the remit of Space Force unless it’s another state actor threatening something from space, iirc. NASA did a recent asteroid redirection test that worked really well. Basically they impacted a probe into an asteroid orbiting another asteroid (so the change of orbit from the impact was really easy to measure…

This just reads that the American public is largely ignorant about space and NASA (I mean, not surprising really). NASA already spearheads asteroid detection; that’s covered and it doesn’t cost a lot or take a lot of resources. They could probably talk about it more I guess? I’m more surprised they don’t support…

I was going to watch Oppenheimer after but decided not to because Barbie is surprisingly weighty. I’ll wait a few days. Godspeed to all those who attempt both on the same day lol.

It’s a lot easier to follow than a Transformers film, I’ll tell you that lol. I found it very enjoyable, not exhausting at all. And gosh golly can Ryan Gosling sing. If he doesn’t win an Oscar for his song it will be a crime.

My cinema had a wide range of people, mostly adults, from the elderly to teenagers (I myself am GenX). There were maybe 4 little kids in the packed matinee, and most of them left part way through. It’s rated 12+ here (PG-13 in the US? Dunno), and I think that rating is appropriate. There was one bleeped out F-bomb if…

iO9 originated in the spirit of OMNI magazine, but it is not that now, and I think that’s been clear for awhile now. There would be significant overlap with other Gizmodo outlets to cover a straight up science biopic. I also lament the loss of the OMNI vibe but I don’t think it’s worth it bugging the writers over. I…

To me that’s a low figure. My mom faced abuse for many decades and never reported it (and as a teenager I got so angry at her for not going to the police but her reasoning was that my dad as breadwinner couldn’t go to prison because we’d all be out on the street. And I think that a lot of women make that choice,…