I’m a unicorn.

This guy needs to hook up with Marguerite Perrin (AKA God Mom from Trading Spouses). They can talk about tampering with dark sided stuff, gargoyles and psychics until they’re blue in the face.

I’m a pinko commie feminist, and yet I admittedly find Dreher really fascinating (in addition to being utterly baffling and maddening). He semi-regularly goes off the deep end and says bizarre/horrifying stuff as in the above, yet periodically in the midst of questionable sourcing and freakout argumentation he’s open…

Good to know conservatives are jumping straight to “the witches got him” in their reasoning now. 

Growing up, I thought by now we would have flying cars and being living in Jetsons-style apartment buildings. But nope! Accusations of witchcraft! And warnings that Baphomet is comin to git ya!

Being still Catholic officially and FTM it pleases me to know those aspects are so incomprehensible to these the types the mere fact that I exist might be enough to make them spontaneously combust.

calling transgenderism a “cult” and implying, without evidence, that kids are peer pressured into becoming trans.

“Rod Dreher is a conservative Christian columnist”

My basement, is some ways, can be seen as a very large and immovable full-body hat.

It says that the weave of the material makes it UPF, so it is unaffected by washing.  Not sure I believe that, but I’ve worn it for a couple of weeks now out in the sun and haven’t gotten burned, so it’s working for now.  I’ll look into finding an SPF wash - haven’t heard of that before - thanks!

Marine biologist here. That’s incorrect; the issue with these agents is that they act as hormone disruptors in invertebrates. As far as I’ve been able to tell, there aren’t any current publications completely assessing their effects on other marine (or terrestrial or freshwater for that matter) invertebrates, but I…

That pissed me off too. Why not write that mineral sunscreens are safe for coral reefs rather than bitch and snark about not having options.

Please don’t freak out - there are plenty of coral-safe sunscreens: https://www.hawaii.com/blog/reef-safe-sunscreen/

First of all - well done Hawaii! Coral reefs need all the help they can get! Secondly non micronised zinc oxide and titanium dioxide are reasonable safe alternatives. For those that don’t like the white streaks or ashy cast that come with zinc and titanium sunscreens there’s a great new sunscreen by a brand called Aeth…

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Yay, Hawaii!! Great job. It is so hearteningly to see positive examples of what government can accomplish right now. I am basically Powder, looove the beach, and switched to reef-safe sunscreens last year with no problem.

Fun fact: those chemicals will also react with iron in your water (for those of us on wells) and cause yellow stains on your clothes. I ruined a lot of clothes before I figured that one out. Only zinc/titanium oxide sunscreens for me. Usually the baby sunscreens will work, but they are harder to find.

I just came from Hawaii, they’re actually already telling you on the plane when you arrive there and even giving free samples of the ones that are acceptable. 

Wat exactly would be so bad about reporting on mineral sunscreens here?

I mean, they make coral-safe sunscreen. They made me buy it in Puerto Rico before I went kayaking in the bioluminescent bays. A quick google search says there are at least 12 brands available right now. This is just our corporate overlords screeching about profit margins, which they are welcome to do from the comfort…