We don’t even need to wait for a Pence presidency. Plenty of states are already eager to embrace Pence’s vision, and Trump has installed the Supreme Court Justices who could make it happen.

But you can get the hotel pool without renting the hotel room. Much harder to get the room service breakfast & hotel bathrobe without renting the hotel room.

For the ones that are visible: soap suds or a spray-bottle of soapy water works well. It takes them a few minutes to die, but it is reliable.

Apparently they can gain cross-immunity to poisons they haven’t yet been exposed to by contact with other poisons.

I just call it the Fourth of July, but if I called it Independence Day, I would consider that aspirational rather than already realized - just like so many of the ideals our nation was founded on. It can be a day to look forward as well as a day to eat hot dogs and watch fireworks.

I believe we need to look at as many different systems as possible and not assume the perfect system is already out there.

As Dinosaurs and Nachos points out, “protecting yourself” works out differently than you might expect for many women in domestic abuse situations or even intimate partner abuse situations (where the harasser/abuser/assaulter does not live with the victim). In order to truly protect themselves, women would have to go…

Or for people who are able to end their pregnancies early enough. Lack of education, lack of internet access, lack of a secure mailing address, and lack of freedom to access this service without others knowing about it all might prevent someone from being able to end their pregnancy this early even if they have…

Done!

I don’t think Sweden’s goal is to make sex work better - it sounds like its goal is to “save” sex workers from sex work. Sweden’s laws are based on the assumption that all sex workers are victims. However, in either case, the goal is not being accomplished and sex workers’ lives are being made worse by Sweden’s laws.

I’ve often wondered what it would take for a nation to be pacifist. What would it take for a nation to be secure without the threat of violence against other countries? Even nations that don’t have their own military are backed by the force of an alliance with stronger countries that will (probably, hopefully) come to…

It just seems hilariously quaint to me - not a disaster.

No grosser than a scone with clotted cream and jam on it.

While crime solving tools have improved since the Victorian age, it is still frighteningly easy to get away with murder (and all sorts of other crimes, as well): https://www.vox.com/2018/9/24/17896034/murder-crime-clearance-fbi-report

Especially wild when we consider the advent of artificial wombs, which could (eventually) allow greater control of epigenetic modifications.

I am up for any combination of Warren/Harris/Castro.

Genetically influenced? I thought they were talking about hormone influences in the womb. Either way, yes, it does seem to indicate that sexual orientation has a biological component, which means some people will want change that biological component in order to “fix” gay people, which gets into the thorny ethical…

How about 81%?

As they say: garbage in, garbage out!

On an individual level, if a doctor is misgendering a patient after being informed of the patient’s gender identity, they are causing harm. Psychological health is part of a patient’s health and needs to be considered as well, regardless of what hormones the patient is on or what surgeries they have had.