Where do you get your numbers? Here is one source for a 10,000 person survey:

For the 99% of abortions not involving rape - that dependence was initiated by the parents, including the mother. For 100% of cases, the child was never involved in the choice to become dependent. If I have a biological or adopted child, and then decide I do not want them to be dependent I am obligated to bring them…

Sadpears - I think you bring up two very important points:

Starting with your last point - scratching off skin cells is a red herring. These cells will not become separate human adults, while a fetus, even seconds after fertilization, will. There is a category difference here.

Do you know what else is junk science? The idea that somehow birth is some magical experience that transforms a lump of cells that do not constitute a human being to a human being with rights. If abortion is not murder, then as many have pointed out neither is infanticide, nor euthanasia of elderly or disabled…

I’ve always found the “in app purchases” a less useful designation. I’m not sure the best way to split things, but there seem to be a few more useful designations:

I’m rather outgoing, and tend to talk too much, so my folks taught me a simple rule: count how many people there are in the discussion, and only talk that fraction of the time. If there are 5 people you should only be doing about 1/5 of the talking. Obviously there are contexts this doesn’t make sense - I’m a…

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I generally restrict myself to texts, but a short email will pull up fine. Realistically, about a sentence will fit on the screen, especially if you opt for the smaller one. If you are receiving short emails with just text it will do the trick, but longer emails or emails with charts and formatting will not do well on…

Oh, one more for #11 - leave it down at the table. The rule I try to operate with is that my phone can only be used if it is contributing to the conversation, and it needs to be put down as soon as it ceases to fill that function. If my wife needs to know what time I’ll be home from work tomorrow or my kids want to…

Carefully curating your notifications is one of the most immediate fixes. It took awhile, and mine are still only good (not perfect) but I refined my notifications enough to be confidant that I will be notified when something important happens, and I can consequently operate in confidence with the knowledge that if I…

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Similar to dogpile, my daughter loves tanograms. These have a long history so its fairly easy to find new printouts of things she can make, or just let her build on her own. Plus they fit in a very sleek little box.

I think too often this is considered a zero sum game - either every form of pro LGBT legislation is evil or the best thing ever. We needed to repeal the laws of the 1800's and early 1900's that criminalized homosexual behavior, but we don’t need to criminalize the belief that same sex marriage is a sin (something…

You claim there is absolutely no evidence the universe was created by an intelligent designer. You can claim you draw different conclusions from the evidence, but your statement is fundamentally incorrect. Let me give you a one, because even one piece of weak evidence would invalidate your claim:

To begin, I disagree with your first premise: if it were merely as simple as using whatever private restroom you want fine, but US restrooms have large panel gaps in stalls letting a man wander through a woman’s restroom and look. More importantly it also applies to locker rooms, changing rooms, and accompanying…

There is one absolutely essential distinction that must be made: Believing homosexuality is sinful is NOT the same as being a bigot, being homophobic, etc. In fact, one who believes homosexuality is sinful but respects that others can do as they wish is being completely unbigoted, while one who believes that same…

Your fact-faith distinction is a false dichotomy. EVERYTHING we do involves drawing inferences from incomplete evidence. Whether it is having faith that a chair that looks solid will hold us, that the sun rising every day for billions of years means it will rise tomorrow, or that a finite and finely tuned universe is…

Or share with family - my wife, brother, and sister-in-law all have 1tb free just because I pay for mine.