I believe Musk was asked (I don’t know by who). Until about three days ago there were estimates that they wouldn’t be able to get the boys out for maybe two months as diving out was considered too dangerous, especially as the boys are not in good physical condtion due to 9 days without food or light, etc. Rains are…

Thailand isn’t really surrounded by water. It’s mostly surrounded by other countries with a small portion of the country in the south having access to the sea. Chang Rai is 15-20 hours from the sea. There are certainly rivers and lakes up there, but neither are necessarily ideal for learning to swim, and people do…

“happier” than what? A hypothetical future they aren’t living? It’s true that not many people who have children feel that it was a terrible mistake, that doesn’t mean that people who don’t have children end up feeling that they missed out on something integral. The harder the US makes it for most people to raise…

In fact, you likely do have an important biological functin. There have always been people who don’t/can’t have children and they are very often a key part of communities as they can enhance the survival and success rates of their blood kin (as well as the community as a whole).

yep, optomism is the best and worst aspects of the US

My sis is SO pissed that she had a mini-me instead of a mini her. She says it’s living our childhood all over again only she has to be the adult this time. Bwhahahaha. BTW, my niece is great.

Let’s hope...

Not everyone wants (or can have) kids, it’s not THAT unusual. Kids are not really ‘companions’ for many, many years, if at all. Kids are extraordinarily expensive and many, many people decide that they don’t want to take on that level of poverty. 21% of children in the US live below the poverty line- that’s $20,000 a…

I know a few women who actually worked at a deficit after they looked at the stats and realized they’d likely never be able to make the same money they were making when they left or return to anything near the same position if they took the time off.

The ability to have a single income that supports three or four (or more) people is extinct for all but the very well-off. If a family can afford it, the partner who stays home is going to have to accept that their career will be seriously, and almost certainly permanently, hindered for the rest of their lives.

I’m on board for this!

I came here to make the same comment. I needed this too. 

I feel badly for anyone who’s nose dived into substance abuse. I feel terrible for her family (esp kids) having to deal with someone who has gone completely off the rails and become violent and is likely killing herself while they helplessly watch. 

Wow, North Korea no less, that’s....likely.

Oh yeah, I’m not advocating for North Americans to get the preventive shots as it’s not really necessary and it doesn’t keep you from getting rabies. You get bit, you still have to get a course of shots.

You really don’t know what you are talking about. While skunks have a high relative rate of rabies, “Low-risk animals for transmitting rabies include rabbits, opossums and armadillos, plus mice, rats, squirrels, nutria, shrews, prairie dogs, beavers, gophers, and other rodents” “A total of 4,857 skunks were submitted…

The average weight of a male bobcat is 21 lbs. They ‘can’ get as big as 55lbs, but that’s unusual. It doesn’t matter if it was rabid and attacking people how much it weighed, height, etc. I’ve been painfully clawed by a 1lb kitten- cats have sharp nails and teeth. I wouldn’t want to go up against even a normal…

I know the difference between carrier and rabid. A carrier transmits the disease without yet (or ever) showing symptoms or developing the disease themselves. Typhoid Mary was ‘just’ a carrier, but she killed a bunch of people. Many people are asymptomatic carriers of the herpes virus, but they can sure as hell give it…

I don’t know how ‘people get this stupid.’ I’ve now (since you’re rude as fuck comment) read four stories on this. Every one of them says the bobcat was rabid and that she is undergoing rabies treatment. Every one of them says that the cat attacked her without warning or provocation leaving her with multiple wounds to…

The rabies vaccine is kind of weird because getting the vaccine still requires more shots if you actually get bitten, just fewer shots than if you haven’t had the preventative shots previoiusly. Few people in the States get the preventative shots for rabies, generally you just get the shots if you’re bitten.…