Meriwether
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3 hours ago, sweet2ndchance said:
It's a toll road from Kansas City to Wichita. Easy driving but not many places to stop, just rolling hills everywhere.
I would go Arkansas. I-40 isn't too bad at all. Traffic in Little Rock or Fayetteville is nothing compared to Dallas.
But they wouldn't be driving from KC to Wichita. They would be going mostly south.
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3 hours ago, KSera said:
They have the urinals in the open and right next to the changing table in a mixed gender restroom? That’s super weird and honestly gross. I don’t want my baby getting splashed on 🤢🤮. The fact he chose that one rather than another option makes him seem like a creeper. Who would do that?
Most men wouldn't but some would, which is why our societal norms should protect women's (female sex) spaces.
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4 hours ago, Joker2 said:
I also find it wild that some insist that trans women are males and they care so much about females but don’t give a hoot about trans men and their safety. You would think they would be considered female by those same people but I guess they’re not the right kind. So, trans men shouldn’t use women’s spaces and you all don’t care what happens to them in men’s spaces. Got it!
I do care about them and their safety. The topic doesn't come up as much (hardly ever) because when a female goes into male spaces the person actively choosing the situation is the one most at risk in the situation. When a male goes into female spaces, the person actively choosing the situation is not the one most at risk. So we talk about one more than the other.
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My dad had to replace a dipstick for one of his tractors. $60.50.
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14 minutes ago, Sneezyone said:
If we’re defining women by their stature, the presence/absence of breasts, childbearing ability, facial/body hair etc., yeah, you’re gonna set A LOT of women up for abuse/harassment.
A woman is someone with xx chromosomes.
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1 minute ago, Sneezyone said:
DHs gene pool produces a lot of six foot women. Is height a failure to perform womanhood well too?
You are being disingenuous. My daughter is almost 6 feet tall and not slight. She will likely also have chin hair when she is older. Everyone knows that is not the same as the camp example. Everyone.
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11 minutes ago, Sneezyone said:
What? The exemplar was a woman in a pointy bra.
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2 hours ago, Sneezyone said:
I hear you and yet you may have completely misinterpreted both the motives and intentions of the individual. Did you *ask* how they’d like you to respond to complaints? Does ‘WTF, get over it?’ As a response harm you in any way? My default is to ask, ‘Why you mad, tho?’ Are you hurt, damaged, violated? How sway? How can I help you? Invariably, complainants back all the way off. They can’t answer even basic questions w/o demonstrating ignorance/bias. This is in the US tho. YMMV.
Am I understanding correctly that your "get over it" comment would be to the women and girls showering when an adult male (sex) walked into the bathroom?
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Better to call it Settlers than to mispronounce Catan....🫣
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The base game plays up to 4 people. The expansion of the base is to make it playable at 5-6 people. The other titles (plus their expansions) have a lot of the same rules as the base game but each has individual elements. It is not necessary to get more than the base game to play, and the base game is very frequently on sale when Amazon, among others, has board games on sale.
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6 hours ago, Mrs Tiggywinkle Again said:
Charlotte, Emma, Elaina.
I lobbied hard for Samuel twice but DH once upon a time a million years ago knew someone named Sam that he didn’t like.
I have a Reuben. It is a family name. I only agreed to it if we called him Ben, because I had known 3 Reubens and didn't care for them. He now introduces himself as Reuben most of the time, so a lot of people call him that. I don't mind it now because I associate the name with him instead of childhood acquaintances.
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My niece's brain tumor was discovered in 2020. She has been using immunotherapy for almost 8 months now and the tumor is almost gone. She was fortunate that her tumor shared a mutation with melanoma. Her tumor was too rare for someone to develop an immunotherapy specifically for it, but melanoma is common.
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I'm so very sorry for your loss.
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6 hours ago, regentrude said:
The school charges the students for tutoring??? That cannot be right.
Yes, they do.
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My oldest is at a school with a lot of engineering students. She is not in engineering, but she was in the tutoring program (as a tutor) and found out that girls in STEM do not have to pay for tutoring. Boys do.
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My college kid is on mine. The second kid will be added if he wants to be. I hope he does. The only way I keep up on my daughter's ever changing address is by checking her address on the account. I don't hide anything so some things aren't surprises. My daughter uses her card or mine depending on what she is buying. I imagine my son will do the same. He has a debit card for his own bank account but will likely take one of my cards to college. Due to odd circumstances we direct deposit some money in my daughter's bank account. Those circumstances won't be the same with my son, so he will have a type of allowance. He can use the cc or the Amazon account up to a modest amount each month as needed.
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On 5/18/2023 at 9:35 AM, prairiewindmomma said:
I have condoms, lube, and other things in baskets in my hallway so anyone or their friends can take what they need, if they know someone who needs it.
I have looked through the sex Ed stuff our school district does, and it’s actually quite well done. It makes me super angry that there is such a push to get rid of it from zealots.
I'm pretty sure based on the first statement that we wouldn't approve of the same sex ed materials. I am decidedly conservative, but you aren't exactly the moderate middle.
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I have about 20-30 items that I wear, including shirts, pants, skirts, coats, and shoes. I have about that many things in other sizes that I may or may not ever wear again.
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I bought a vehicle 3 years ago that doesn't fit our whole family, but we kept the large vehicle for trips and church (about the only time we all rode together even though all 5 kids were still at home. We need a big vehicle to fit all 7 of us or for when we have gear bags (and sometimes guests) riding to competitions. We also visit my parents fairly often. It is also handy for moving college kids back and forth. Even discounting church trips, that is too much travel to make renting a viable option. But we don't need a large vehicle for all the daily trips to work/training/choir/shopping etc. I don't want to ever have to buy a vehicle that large again, so I really want it to last until we just have two or even just one kid left at home. It makes sense to conserve miles on the bigger vehicle. Tags and insurance on the smaller vehicle are offset by the lower gas prices, but the real savings is not having to spend so much money to replace the smaller vehicle as we would a larger one down the road. I should also mention that to make this situation work, my husband drives a 1998 Buick for commuting, so we have three cars for two of us (if we don't count the 16 year old driving mine to work). The big vehicle that we use almost exclusively only when absolutely needed, a small vehicle that I mainly use, and an old vehicle that we paid almost nothing for and is extremely cheap for tags and insurance. Assuming vehicle prices are more reasonable when the house is paid off (4 years, 4 months, but who's counting lol) we will probably get a small, nice, fuel efficient car for my husband and I'll drive a mid-sized crossover. We'll only have a really big vehicle if there is a pressing need.
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I put 300-400. We currently have more than that now that Dd19 is at college. When Ds18 goes in the fall, we'll have closer to 600/person and that will be a lot of space per person. I don't want to downsize, though. It is unlikely that all of the kids (any?) will live close and I want room for them to come and stay.
I agree with pps about factors that affect how space feels - layout, size of kids, space usage (home all day/homeschool/work from home/etc.), climate/neighborhood factors. A farmhouse on a working farm needs a mudroom in a way that a city apartment doesn't. Big kids need more physical space. We used to fit 6 on a couch. We need two couches now to sit comfortably. Does the layout efficiently provide both communal and private spaces? Provide enough storage?-
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9 hours ago, Terabith said:
I do think that the first step for most is no strings attached housing.
I grew up in a very small, rural town. We had exactly one homeless person in our town. Several of the local churches got together and bought him a house. It wasn't a fancy house (there were very few fancy houses in my hometown), but it was not a dump either. There were no hoops to jump through. He wouldn't stay in it. As a teen, I assumed he was mental ill because who would rather live under a railroad overpass than in a home? I have no idea what the reason actually was, but my first picture of homelessness showed me that the issue is complex.
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I have no idea, but we received my husband's yearly compensation summary last week and benefits (including health insurance) were close to 1/4 of the total compensation. When he was starting out and made less, it was probably closer to half. So I'd figure what health insurance would be and figure that, too, whatever portion the job would cover if it isn't a full time position. My uncle owned a construction business and he mentioned (probably 20 years ago) that to employ someone in the $20/hour range (I don't remember the exact number) it cost him $50/hour.
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My best advice is to meet your child where he is academically and not worry about his age at this point. He'll learn best that way and it will be less frustrating to both of you. In other words, adapt the pedagogy to the child and not the child to the pedagogy.
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I just gave a stranger $5 worth of gas
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We gave $20 to someone when we stopped for gas, crossing the mountains. I think he had forgotten his billfold or something. It was a young adult and there weren't really options for him in the mountains. Cell phone coverage was bad. The only business was the gas station. He filled up $20 worth and left immediately. I only hoped we had given him enough to get out of the mountains. Gas was cheaper then; it was about 7 years ago. I also gave $20 for gas locally, but learned later that it was a scam. I've seen the scam again since. Different people using the same set of locations and signs. Both $20's were given with good will, but they felt very different. While I still hand out cash sometimes, I feel like it is better to give to the local place that feeds and provides shelter for the homeless.