[-] JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee 14 points 3 hours ago

That guy sucks for keeping wild animals without the proper certification and training resulting in no medical care for the animals.

At the same time I'm also skeptical of how the state handled it because I feel it's important to remember that policies and how situations are handled can always use improvement.

For example, how did the investigator get bitten? Were they wearing proper protective gear and following procedure? Was he or she properly trained to detain animals like a squirrel? If the state is going to send people to confiscate wild animals a bite incident is a big fucking deal and there should be an internal investigation as to how that happened. For both the future safety of the employees and animals.

This whole situation sucks.

[-] JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee 1 points 15 hours ago

Do people really buy new phones every year? I keep mine for a minimum of 4-5 years and always have. I had one for so long that it was no longer supported and I was forced to upgrade.

I guess I just never paid attention to how often other people get new phones, but every year seems excessive.

[-] JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee 4 points 22 hours ago

Oh wow.... that's way worse than I thought.

Yet another ridiculous antiscience crusade preying on people's insecurities and desire for easy answers and solutions.

And there's gotta be grifters pushing this bullshit and profiting off it via books, online classes or YouTube channels. There always are and they're always really fucking weird.

Anyway...Thanks for taking the time to explain! I really appreciate it!

[-] JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago

Hope you dont mind my random internet culture question...but whats the deal with the anti fapping guys? I dismissed the whole thing as meme and didn't pay much attention and missed something.

I thought prostate health and it's relation to regular ejaculations was common medical knowledge so I'm confused as hell.

[-] JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee 17 points 1 day ago

The part in Drop Dead Fred where Elizabeth's best friend's house boat sinks and she gets rich off the insurance payout. That's not how that works unfortunately.

[-] JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago

I wanted to find that article before I responded to you, but like I said it read about 10 years ago and not having much luck finding it.

But yes wetnurses were available to all women because not all women can produce breast milk.

If one poor woman's baby is starving it was not uncommon for a friend or sister to fulfill that role to help them. Women were pregnant more frequently due to no birthcontrol. So a woman lactating was more common. However they weren't hiring a wet nurse in the same way the wealthy were, and if a poor woman could feed her baby she would. A rich woman(almost) always hired a wet nurse regardless of her ability to produce milk.

[-] JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee 17 points 2 days ago

I read once that it had more to do with not seeing wealthy women's nipples. For example wealthy women would hire a wet nurse to breast feed their babies. It was a way to show off wealth and social standing. So the hired help in the form of a wet nurse could show her breasts, but her wealthy employer would not because its beneath her.

So not showing breasts, even for the purpose of breast feeding became affiliated with wealth and power, whereas the inverse was true, showing breasts meant you could not afford to keep them covered.

And that's not even including the influence of brothels and prostitution.

Let that cook for however many hundreds of years, mix in religion and you get whatever the fuck we have now.

It was an interesting theory and seemed to make sense to me. I'll have to try to find the article later. I read it maybe 10 years ago so it might take some looking.

[-] JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee 5 points 5 days ago

You should look up 'proud flesh' on horses(warning, its a graphic skin condition). It's what I think of everytime I see proud boys, except somehow they're more disgusting.

[-] JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee 23 points 6 days ago

What about all the innocent women who are dying in our country because of who trump appointed to the supreme court and the result was the overturning roe vs wade?

Do those lives matter at all to you? Women bleeding to death in their cars because hospitals refuse to treat a miscarriage.

What about the kids who get massacred in school shootings because Trump and people like him won't support increased gun control legislation?

What about all the innocent people of color who have been killed by police? Do they matter to you?

If trump gets into the office not only will the Palestinian people be far worse off, so will every group I mentioned above and more.

You said you are against killing innocent people, then why dont you care about the women, children, and people of color who are getting killed in our country needlessly?

There's far more destruction for far more people if trump gets into office. If you want to double down, go for it, because I think it's worth reminding people just how much death in our country can attributed to Trump. Every woman who dies from preventable pregnancy complications. Trump directly contributed to that.

[-] JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago

Was this some iteration of "straight men don't care about aesthetics, they care about function" type of thing??

Because that's such a boring existence. I'm sorry your dad hates aesthetics. I hope you've found your own tastes despite him.

[-] JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee 9 points 1 week ago

Is this the mcdonalds hot coffee case all over again? Defaming the victims and making everyone think they're ridiculous, greedy, and/or stupid to distract from how what the company did is actually deeply fucked up?

[-] JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The thing is, a lot of white people in the US are probably descendants of illegal immigration and they either dont know, or dont care. I know my family is. During the Irish potato famine we can trace when my ancestors immigrated to Canada and illegally hopped the boarder into the US(they should've stayed in Canada, I could've been Canadian and have access to healthcare damnnit)

I know my ancestors aren't the only ones who did that. People were desperate then, just like they are now.

I hate that this country has way too many bigoted hypocrites and too many talking heads that encourage them to believe bullshit lies.

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