My only question is how to best handle children having sex with each other. Do you ban it / try to prevent it from happening at all? Do you set limits on how different they can be in age? Is there an even younger age when it’s never ok but it’s ok if they’re both older AND of similar enough age? Is age not even the right way to do it and more importantly is there a better way? Should you have to pass a class where you can prove you know how to apply a condom and obtain consent from others??? I don’t have any good answers to any of these questions but I do think they’re important to ask and talk about. The more common discussion I wind up in is juvenile substance abuse (should you let kids do drugs as long as they’re in your house so you can keep them safe? Are kids who are raised where everybody 14ish and older can have a glass of wine at the dinner table more or less likely to develop alcoholism due to the increased daily presence but decreased taboo?) but this discussion reuses a lot of the same concepts.

Well you do gotta give Cesar back what he done minted.

Oh god eastern religions have puritans too? jk, glad to hear you’re doing well.

I feel like that would be the depression version of sadness but idk what the equivalent would be for the depressed intensity of happiness. Honestly from going through a thesaurus (a hobby of mine) “complacence” has almost the exact connotation but an imperfect denotation.

See if lemmy had the user base of reddit there would be ten more of this comment but each with a different YouTuber.

Like the others said, it’s the exact right word for that exact level (a state of overall mood intensity that allows for anger, sadness, and happiness, but that doesn’t often go to the extremes of rage, despair, or euphoria) and I couldn’t think of a less clinical term for that exact state.

It’s not forgetting, it’s measuring with your heart.

And Karen repeatedly murdered all of the foster children she adopted over that six year timeframe by skinning them and feeding them to the local geese. Her neighbor began noticing about 2 years in that the children would all go missing within weeks of arrival. Over the next 4 years this neighbor filed multiple complaints with the police, CPS, and the foster care agency, but all of them just said the children probably ran away. It turned out this was because Karen’s grand-step-aunt twice removed was head of the city hall floral arrangement sub-comittee…

Yeah I was gonna say this reads like “no balls”

Water aerobics and yoga are usually the best options. I would try to find a yoga instructor skilled in physical therapy / disability modifications to the poses. Water aerobics is typically specifically designed for physical rehab so you’re more likely to find most of those classes are geared towards that. If affordability is a problem you may find that your health insurance, even or possibly even especially if it’s public health insurance. In the gym though you want anything that’s low impact and low intensity like maybe an elliptical on the very lowest resistance setting.

Well the downside to the “you break [the virginity] you buy it” mindset (aside from the literal objectification) is that having to formally marry the child also means the child is formally married to (and stuck with) the pedo. At least the informal version is probably less legally complicated to flee from.

Relying on emergency services only wastes soooooo much money. Waiting until problems are acute and they HAVE to be treated under EMTALA means doing way more expensive treatments and clogs up emergency services. Not to mention that not vaccinating or treating bacterial infections results in a bunch of cooties getting spread around the community. And when they’re getting those emergency services they can’t pay for them so the cost has to get absorbed into the bills of the patients who can pay either directly or through insurance.

“I don’t wanna pay for other people’s Healthcare!”

You already are, just in the least efficient and most expensive way possible.

I went into nursing instead of astrophysics. Decided I wanted a job that would outlast the apocalypse.

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Fun fact I learned waaay too late in my nursing career: if a patient has lost or damaged their amplifying hearing aid, you can put a stethoscope in their ears and talk into the bell.

None of you will ever use this but I share it with everyone now because it’s really neat and I wish I knew it 10 years ago.

People act like me not getting off the raised republican train until my early 20s is really slow but that’s when as a female child they allowed me to leave the house regularly for things other than school or church.

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One of the things my parents did understand correctly as “new money” is that a significant portion of piddling etiquette rules about what color to wear at what times of the year and which fork goes on the left were largely ways for the bourgeoisie to attempt to maintain their advanced standing against the increases in (the potential for) equality that capitalism initially brought about. Unfortunately my parents are also a very “well we got ours so everyone else must be lazy” type of people who think that’s as good as equality can or should get.