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Throwaway05
57m ago
I wouldn't call it "don't allow." VBAC's can be very dangerous, they can also be safe, the relevant care team will likely try to assess the risks and summarize for the patient. OB is pretty notorious for being a bit more heavy handed with consent than some specialties, but that's ultimately not that unreasonable when many women are interested in fucking off and having a "natural" birth at home even when it's high risk to the baby and mom (and notoriously, will see the doctor even when it's a consequence of their own shitty decision).
This over focus on outcomes and liability potential is also why you shouldn't trust those stories from mothers. Yes it probably happens at times, and certainly used to be more common back in the days when OB was >85% male instead of >85% female, but OBs are way too worried about getting sued and making sure the baby is okay to do that for the most part.*
And hospitals are very likely to have a dedicated laborist these days anyway.
*"Force" mom to have a C-Section and something goes wrong because you wanted to go play golf? That's a multi-million dollar liability judgement. Everyone knows that isn't worth it.
Skulldrinker
56m ago
I hate the civilization/society/social context that I live in, then. Or the events I encounter in my life.
When someone says "my child/SO is my world" they dont mean they exist in their gravity well and breathe their air.
And just about every person who's bullied me or tried to hurt me socially, emotionally, or physically since 2019 has spouted leftist/sjw lingo. My hostility is therefore absolute.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
51m ago
Foreigner = Act goofy . In one audition I was told repeatedly to "overreact" to everything. I ended up getting that job (for a laundry detergent) but had to play myself as a gameshow host, a voluptuous woman (my one-time cross-dressing experience) and an old bald man. I have turned down work because it's too stupid. I don't know why this is so, though I can hazard guesses. White/black males at least must always look slightly idiotic in their behavior. (Unless it's George Clooney or similar of course. And even then...
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
51m ago
I would need to look him up. Not so far no.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
50m ago
Ha, exactly. I get to ride for once on film and they pollute the ad with some douchebag.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
47m ago
I took
This is why I stay away from veggies
to mean you avoid vegetables. Maybe just those in a can? Although you should know canned and frozen vegetables often retain many of their nutrients just fine, this is particularly true of frozen vegetables. I dislike making such statements without a good source though. Probably you already know this and are avoiding the added sugars/sodium etc.
Ioper
44m ago
Something I've noted about self checkout is that it has been discontinued in all smaller stores, presumably because they can't have anyone monitoring the process.
Larger stores are all in on it but they have one or multiple people going around making sure people are mostly behaving.
This implies to me that the cost of theft isn't neglible and that there needs to be *some" enforcement (or appearance of enforcement) for it to not get out of hand.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
40m ago
This Patti Hearst-type phenomenon surely can't pattern onto all females? I agree a certain type of woman likes the brute (I went to high school with some of these girls) but I wouldn't by any means say this applies to all women. You seem like a very smart guy, so what makes you confident to make such a big generalization?
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
38m ago
And our children all above average.
OverexertIvyClosure
38m ago
Are any of them not horribly scammy?
sliders1234
28m ago
I think it’s fairly popular to think about evolutionary biology in these parts. Here’s a few things about food that come to my mind.
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The most fulfilling meals (to me but I think it’s common) are some combination of carb and meat. Hamburger, tacos, pasta, rice with various dishes. Why do humans have such a preference for mixed foods? Basically why do we cook instead of being equally satisfied with having a piece of meat and then some carbs later. All of human taste seems to be far more complex than what is necessary for encouraging me to eat the foods I need to be healthy.
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Why does my body have such a desire to store fat but when we look at potential mates we want the thin one. It seems like those preferences should be the same. Fatter mates would have more survivability in a famine. What’s good for my health should be good for the health of the person I want to have sex with. (Obviously being fat isn’t health maximizing in modern days but it was health maximizing in other environments).
The_Nybbler
Does not have a yacht
22m ago
This Patti Hearst-type phenomenon surely can't pattern onto all females?
Aside from the fact that it would be bad, why not?
The trope has never been a trope. It’s just the way things are. I did some math one time and came to an approximation that if you had a Jewish high school (let’s say randomly selected and not like NYC focused) you would have one kids grandpa who is a billionaire at every Jewish High School assuming a typical High School size of 800-1600 students. And that is just billionaire you would have a lot of relatively impoverished kids too. Doing some rough math 10% of the school would go on to the Ivy League and equivalents. A randomly selected Jewish High School would produce results very close to some of the most highly filtered private High Schools. The only thing they wouldn’t produce are Presidents and athletes.
I feel like this is more like the post I made where we know the answer but have learned to not know it.
Politics will be interesting over the next decade. Either Jews really can manipulate the media and they crush the lefts oppressor-oppressed framework of the community is going to need to learn to vote Republican and be besties with Maga. Cliff Asnes who basically funded every never Trump organization recently said he’s considering voting for Trump.
100ProofTollBooth
10m ago
Imagine how insufferable it would be for a normal gay man to date a gay Aziz Ansari.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
7m ago
It reminds me of women who say all men are rapists waiting to be rapey. Now sure maybe in the right circumstances, Mr Gittes, men are capable of anything, that doesn't mean the same thing. Taking an observed behavioral phenomenon and applying it wholesale as typical is shoddier than even the usual shoddy social science.
HalloweenSnarry
4m ago
Allegedly, a lot of statue-posters are actually women (I don't remember where I read/saw this, though). If true, this only reinforces JTarrou's point, only with the political valence flipped.
100ProofTollBooth
2m ago
Thanks for pointing that out.
Massive typographic error on my part. I don't stay away from veggies. Fixed in the original comment.
Why are you looking at MAOIs? Those are the most restrictive anti-depressants out there.
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