I don’t think this article was glorifying this - I think it was pointing out the enormous hypocrisy of the fact that society paints this kind of behavior as entirely harmless and basically a mild eccentricity when certain people do it. But when other people do exactly the same thing, it’s treated entirely differently.

I have a feeling my great-aunt could build a canoe or shelter, because she just... does stuff like that. I definitely know she can build a skateboard halfpipe out of wood, though that might be somewhat less needed in the post-apocalypse, lol.

Eh, I think a lot of that is intentional helplessness, though. Those guys could do a lot of those things before they were married, they just chose to stop being able to do them anymore after they had a woman who would do it for them.

A nail tech is a person who does manicures etc professionally. They work with chemicals that may be dangerous.

I’ve gotten two, one with a female doc & the other with a male. They both just told me to take Advil. Though the female doc was at least more gentle/sympathetic - the male doc acted like my pain was inconveniencing him.

It is *insane* that IUD insertion isn’t done under mild sedation. I was in a car accident a couple years ago, where I broke 3 bones and had a bone-deep laceration that required dozens of stitches. Getting my IUD replaced was MORE painful than that cut or the broken bones - and for those, the ER gave me morphine and a…

FWIW, even if you have full coverage, they may not pay out enough to replace your car, or pay in a timely manner. In my case, I got a check for <$2000 weeks after I had to buy a replacement car because my rental coverage ran out. That was less than helpful. Fortunately I was in a financial position to handle it. Not…

I wonder if the folks whining about her GoFundMe because “she should’ve had better insurance” are similarly critical of the 1456783 dudes on Twitter who beg for GFM/Ko-fi/Patreon donations because they’re broke Lyft drivers trying to break into writing or whatever.

Yeah, when my car was totalled, my full coverage policy sent me a check for less than $2000, 3-4 weeks after the accident, and they only covered a rental car for 1 week. So that was about as helpful as another broken rib. Fortunately I was in a financial position, with some help from my family, to cover a downpayment…

Just FYI, from my own experience, your full coverage may not come through for you in a timely manner, so make sure you also have enough saved up to make a downpayment on a new car. My insurance covered 1 week of rental, but didn't mail out the check for the value of the car for 3 or 4 weeks, so I had to pay for the…

And then you can't get to your job and you definitely won't be able to pay for insurance, or anything else.

Even if you have full coverage, you can still end up needing money. When my car was totaled, my full coverage policy didn’t send out the check for 3 or 4 weeks, but only covered a rental car for 1 week. So I had to pay for the downpayment myself. Fortunately, I was in a position to do so, but not everyone is.

Even if you have full coverage, the insurance may not cover all costs or in a timely manner. When my car was totaled in an accident, my insurance covered, IIRC, 1 week of rental coverage, but took 3 or 4 weeks to send me the check to reimburse me for the car. Fortunately, I was in a position where I could make a…

Women can definitely be stalkers as well, but in geek spaces, at least, male stalkers w female victims is much more common. Male stalkers are also much more likely to take it beyond harassment into kidnapping or murder. Any of it is disturbing, criminal behavior that should be stopped, but there is a difference in…

Well, my second scenario was based on the self-preservation motivation. Because, yeah, I don’t think it’s terribly likely that we’ll see enough of a wide-scale change of feelings about race to just naturally counteract racial suppression & white supremacist violence. But a fear of arrest may help curb at least the…

I like the idea, but I feel like the metal container would get really hot in the summer, and radiate a lot of the heat out of the house in the winter? You’d have to build a frame inside the container and do a lot of insulation, I guess. Which is true of any house, I suppose, but siding doesn’t conduct heat as well as…

TBH, and maybe this is a bit of a tangent, but I don’t think the 9% is really a terribly relevant figure, because there isn’t really global solidarity between people of the same race (or at least, not enough to overcome the bounds of one’s own nation). People in Africa and South America aren’t going to take action…

It was so obviously a joke, and these dumbass racists all fell for it! It boggles the mind, it really does.

Well, what’s happened in the US has, of course, been that the definition of “white” changed to make sure that white people maintained enough numbers and power to maintain the status quo. That worked well enough for a while, but I think the game’s been given up now. I don’t get the impression that Asian people want to…

To be fair, with modern medicine, the risks double from “astronomically unlikely” to “incredibly unlikely” and then on to “extremely unlikely”. It becomes more difficult to *conceive* as you get older, but the riskiness is overblown. Women have been having babies in their 40s since ancient times, if they lived that…