It’s not blasting out infrared all over or anything, just sending out a small amount in one direction. It usually takes a really bright or reflective surface (like reflective safety vests!) to bounce enough infrared light back and cause the sensors to go off randomly. And you can calibrate the sensors to be more or…

Back in the 19th century, they used to lower caged canaries into coal mines at the beginning of the workday, to check the air quality. If the canary died, a human wouldn’t survive. If the canary survived, it was OK to go to work. That’s where the expression comes from. 

gas stove is where its at, boy how I miss mine.

This is the only clinical trial I can find

I don’t make soap dispensers or anything, but there are different types of “movement sensors”, including ones that detect human levels of infrared (I think these are generally not racist? unless people of different races have significantly different body heat emission? not ruling it out) and ones that sort of “ping”…

I have a strange condition where I wave my hands uselessly around those sink/soap/flush machines while everyone around me succeeds at their task.

This part got me.  Some women have such bad cramps that they miss work.  Then we get looked down upon because we miss work because of cramps.  Because they’re just cramps, no big deal.  How is that not a health priority?

Ah, but here to say as old ER nurse: women’s symptoms not as clearly “cardiac” as a male’s, but women will/ tend to seek help.

I’m considering getting my boyfriend to fake erectile disfunction so I can get my hands on some viagra now.

To the point of testing bias, you can see it all over our culture. I think that we were all taught as children (not necessarily explicitly, but by what popular culture would show us) is that the default idea of “human” should be a heterosexual white male. If it works for them, it will work for everyone!

Has there been any testing on viagra for period pain since then? Like now? There’s nothing stopping them.

remarking that cramps were not a public health priority.

“smart speakers that are designed to hear men’s voices, forcing women to lower their pitch in order to be understood, women apparently can’t even catch a break with robots.”

Sadly, many people didn’t allow themselves to consider slaves fully human, but more like clever livestock, so they could feel better about owning them, selling them, beating them to kingdom come, selling off their children, etc.... it was a very ugly time in our history.

Without having seen it...I can imagine that given everything that’s happened in the real world since the first movie came out that a woman like Lucy would take issue with her boyfriend looking around at what their world has become and thinking everything’s going just fine.

Not in terms of death toll, but my understanding was that the two communities were incredibly close and that many queer women were caretakers and witnesses to the epidemic. 

I was on the National Steering Committee for the 1987 March on Washington, which launched the Marriage Equality Movement in the U.S. My take has always been that emulating non-LGBTQ society was not a goal, but the rights, privileges and responsibilities related to marriage needed to be there and available for those…

Sour Grapes. Many of my gay brothers and sisters claimed the same “I don’t need or want straight trappings” in the 80's. A few, myself included, would eventually admit that for us, the attitude was a defense against the futility we felt. The things we could never expect to have... just can’t be worth having, or life…

An alternative, more likely thesis: homosexuality is so accepted today not *in spite of* the HIV/AIDS epidemic, but *because* of it.

What people do not understand is the point of just how much money it requires to appear “useful” or “productive” in our society.