Uh, it’s the process of aging?

I bit and read the whole thing. Although she looks like a teenager in that photo, her age is clearly stated as 23. Pursuing a girl who looks like a minor versus is a minor are two very different things. The way it was written was so decontextualized, that it was very hard to understand what was happening. Honestly,…

It’s also from a Pete Davidson sketch on SNL. Not at all creative on Kanye’s part - and kind of reveals he’s been Googling the hell out of Pete. That sketch was from 2020.

At this point, pretty much all news coverage of China or Russia is just chest-beating garbage.

100% agree.

No carpets or pets! Allergy management makes for a clean house (less cozy, but anything to cut down on sneezes). And I truly love my vacuum (it’s a schmancy convertible/cordless one) so I spot vacuum daily.

....and many European and most Asian countries. Hawaii is also strictly no shoes indoors. Shoes-on-inside is one of those weird American things, but also plenty of us don’t do it and never have!

Yeah, also, floors aren’t filthy in shoeless homes because people aren’t wearing shoes on them. I’ve always lived in a shoeless home - most of my friends did too (and I’m American and white, so I roll my eyes at people suggesting it’s only something done in other cultures). I currently only have to mop like once every…

This is either some Ben Affleck/Ana De Armas publicity stuff that will fade in a few months - or this is Fox trying to justify and normalize something weird. Like, if she says she likes it enough times, maybe then she’ll feel okay about it.

Also, from what I can find the the available published literature, reversibility seems to be an area of concern. So, fertility after terminating the male contraceptive in humans remains to be seen.

Yes - and part of the problem with the politicization of women’s reproductive health is that if we make a lot of noise about B.C. and even IUDs really fucking up our lives, 1) conservatives could use that as more reason to restrict things, 2) liberals freak out about the possibility of 1) and tell women that the chance…

Passing was amazing.

That’s really funny. My feeling about Don’t Look Up was that it was so painfully predictable. In the first 15 minutes I was like, oh okay, it’s this kind of movie - then cleaned my house - by the time I got back everything I thought was going to happen had happened.

Yeah, but as a woman who decided to forgo contraceptives for the above reasons, I don’t actually wish that on a man. I wish that we lived in a country where pregnancy wasn’t so politicized and parents were supported.

I feel like the key here is the upcoming human studies. Reversibility in humans is going to be key.

Basically male contraception doesn’t prevent/heal anything in a person’s body. It addresses something going on in someone else’s body, so giving the green-light on the negative side effects (which exist) is ethically is unusual - everything else with negative side effects is aimed at healing/fixing something in your…

It’s 100% misogynoir.

An important layer to highlight here are the ethics around side effects. A friend of mine has been on male birth control research teams for the past 7 years, and while he enjoys the work, he’s pretty certain it will never be embraced by the FDA or pharmaceuticals for the above reason.

Kirsten Dunst receiving a nomination is actually the opposite of a “usual suspect,” given that she has been in nominated films since she was eleven and has never been nominated. I read an interview a couple of years ago, where she was like: They’re just not into me, that’s fine. I’m happy for her.

So, the very idea that Spotify isn’t already impacting free speech by their “popularity” algorithms is silly. The Joe Rogan Experience gets pushed on all of their users, meanwhile other podcasts get zero circulation. Any user who thinks they’re employing freedom of choice and choosing from a variety of perspectives…