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  1. Try Betterhelp or Talkspace. We’ve found Betterhelp easier and cheaper than seeing someone in person.
  2. My understanding is that a parent can refuse to let the cops question a child. I found this. https://www.criminaldefenselawyer.com/resources/criminal-defense/felony-offense/can-cops-question-my-child-about-a-crime
  3. Seeing his post, plus the Israeli news, has me considering masking again once we get home from our trip to see family.
  4. There are things like that in my family. Some things are well known, but just not pleasant to discuss so the younger ones end up Not being aware. It’s not really a secret, but by the time the youngest ones are old enough to be a part of those conversations everyone with knowledge has moved on to other topics.
  5. Not Home Depot, but Lowe’s put carpet in our last house, with a similar sale. It was a good experience and we were happy with it. There was a separate sample for each thread count option so I felt like we got exactly what we picked out.
  6. When I tried it several years ago it had errors in the first few levels so I gave up. It’s possible it’s been updated since then though.
  7. I’ll check that out. I love a new podcast.
  8. I have a couple of podcasts that I play to fall asleep to. I have found that my brain goes to crazy places if left to wander in the quiet, so I listen to a quiet podcast, something with a soothing host and not dramatic stories . 99% invisible, History Hit and The People’s Pharmacy are my go tos. I feel like it distracts my thoughts enough to let me sleep, otherwise I start ruminating and stress myself out.
  9. Maybe? I can totally see that perspective, honestly. But I also have a lived experience where most men who would derive power from invading a women’s locker room are also the same men who would rather die than be mistaken as gay or trans, so I have a hard time envisioning the scenario where that kind of guy throws on a dres and says he’s trans.
  10. I seriously find this a weird part of our culture. I never change in an open locker room. I go into a stall or wait for the family bathroom if I have my kids.. Every time. I find anyone being naked in the locker room to be strange, even if they are other women. Why do we have this weird cultural carve out? I hope it goes away completely. My high school didn’t allow the open showers that my mom remembered from high school. Non-athletes weren’t even allowed to shower, while my mother remembers it being required in her high school. I hope open locker rooms are a thing my kids find as weird as corded telephone and Netflix in the mail. Then this issue solves itself, snd a host of others. There’s also no way to tell if someone in the locker room area is a lesbian who enjoys naked females, or even if they are a trans person if they change in the stall like I do. No way to tell. Unless we check the pants of every modest or not conventionally attractive female trying to enter a locker room.
  11. Part of me would really like to hear his explanation for this completely inexplicable act, a larger part of me doesn’t care to listen to his post hoc rationalizations, excuses and lies. I’m not family of course, if it would help them feel some peace then of course that takes precedence. I just can’t see him saying anything truthful or worthwhile.
  12. I’d do professional cleaning and store in closets or under the bed if you want to keep them for future grandchildren. That will increase the chance that they make it through 20 years and has the added benefit of making you only keep favorites. I would give away or sell the ones that aren’t favored enough to professionally clean and store.
  13. In the south we have burn bans when things are too dry. During a ban there is no burning of yard stuff or fireworks allowed. Do you guys have that kind of system? Of course people ignore it from time to time but it’s a pretty decent ticket if you’re caught.
  14. I was listening to a podcast with a Republican someone and he was asked about this (the virus measure stuff) and his explanation was that Republicans had lost on the "small government/businesses should do what they feel is best" argument so they were moving on to to different arguments. I'm still not sure what I think about that.
  15. The solution is universal adoption of ya'll. 🙂 Same. Guys pretty much just means people for me. I've noticed that family/friend group also use Dude as a gender neutral word.
  16. Because of the wording of the laws being passed. They are *saying* they are banning CRT, but the language they are using in the laws being passed actually ban any discussion of anything that could make a child uncomfortable.
  17. Maybe, but at least Chauvin got through the trial and sentencing. I think certain people wanted to prevent the public airing of a trial with Epstein, and I assume with McAfee. The McAfee thing is really weird.
  18. It seems like some people here are arguing that it does NOT exist and therefore of course shouldn’t be taught in classrooms.
  19. Or they can get Ph.D.s from a Christian College and write to please that crowd. They don’t have to please tenured liberal professors at those places.
  20. I don’t think we can discount the sorting that happens in academia either. There is a whole system of Christian or church aligned colleges that draw the conservative people who are interested in teaching at that level. There is not a whole separate system for liberals or left wing people, leaving a situation where public college professors are more likely to lean left because the right leaning professors opted for the other system.
  21. I live in the south. Yes, yes they do. ETA: Especially the ones who swear they aren’t racist because they are friends with one black person. But they don’t want too many black kids in their schools, their neighborhoods, their churches. They start talking about moving when the grocery store starts having too many. It’s not a”change your social circle” issue either because it’s prevalent in all of the social circles. I don’t hear it as much now that I’ve”come out” as a *gasp* liberal. They save it for when they think everyone around agrees with them. What someone said up thread about the subtly is dead on. It’s usually subtle, able to deny that they meant “that”. They didn’t mean that they want to move because 2 black families have moved in on the street, only that the character of the neighborhood had changed and they’re worried about property values. Im honestly surprised white people are saying they don’t hear this.
  22. That is probably true, for the unvaccinated, who are 99% or so of the deaths right now. The vaccine may not be 100% protective from an asymptomatic case, or very light symptoms, but its nearly 100% for preventing deaths and hospitalizations.
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