I’m glad to see that we’re not all addicts here

IUDs and some birth control pills work by preventing implantation. Those would be banned, too.

I read some bickering about this amongst conservatives, and the reasoning seems to be:

1. Conception should occur from sex because of the love between husband, wife, and God or something

2. Typically, they’ll harvest(?) multiple embryos, check if they are viable or have genetic abnormalities, then discard those that aren’t viable or will result in major disabilities. To them, this is killing those unviable/unhealthy “babies”. Sometimes the couple will freeze multiple embryos as backups, but not need them after a successful pregnancy (or more). Those microscopic globs of cells that they call babies are then “murdered”. Their point is that this results in more deaths than lives.

I’m curious what their opinion would be if a woman wanted IVF after 5 miscarriages, was unable to get the treatment, and went on to have 7 more miscarriages, still without having a successful birth. To be real, fundie couples who refuse contraceptives and are hell bent on having a child could go through many more miscarriages than that.

It’s all relative. Ubuntu desktop is minimal compared to Windows, and I’ve found KDE to run much better than default Ubuntu. It’s lightweight for how much it offers.

To check for sperm. The body can heal in amazing ways, which can include reversing a vasectomy.

I still don’t fully believe in syncing, but it would take time, and, theoretically, you’d have to spend more time with your partner than you do with anyone else.

My partner and I always use condoms, but it is nice knowing where I’m at in my cycle. It helps to know how paranoid I should be since I live in a red state.

I don’t trust one method of birth control. We’ve talked about him getting a vasectomy, and I’ll probably be getting a microscope.

I use KDE plasma because I’m new to Linux but also want something minimal system-wise. I love the programs and the interface. Maybe my opinion would be different if I spent more time with other DE’s or used it as my daily driver, but I’m sold on it now.

GNOME is definitely more user-friendly for someone who is moving over from Windows/Mac. I wouldn’t recommend KDE to someone who is just going to stick to using one-click apps.

That’s the official term presented by the WH. The rest is correct.

We’re almost out of the 4th quarter. Want to go through some corporate tax records to back up your talk?

Have you checked out Signal? It’s the most secure messaging app out there. Not even the US’ alphabet agencies can retrieve encrypted texts sent through Signal. It’s pretty much what whatsapp claims to be.

Research. Are you wanting something similar to reddit/lemmy/kbin/mastodon, something like whatsapp, or something like discord?

Right-wingers do. Buying Twitter exposed him as a terrible business man who could only be considered a genius by Trump standards. Luckily for him, many Twitter users do think Trump is a business-savvy genius!! He has an even bigger following now because he isn’t pandering to tech nerds who are genuinely interested in what he’s doing with his tech companies. Now he’s targeting the alt-right with conspiracy theories, Hunter Biden’s dick pics laptop, and “free speech” (for only $11/month!).

I doubt it, honestly. The people who are still pissy over at reddit don’t actually want to leave unless they’re presented with a reddit clone that has both a fully developed app and a huge userbase. Maybe in a year things will be different, but we’ll see.

Acetaminophen is a fever reducer

(I’m sorry, I haven’t been on in awhile but saw that you didn’t get an answer)

Check out other Assassin’s Creed games! I agree that Red Dead Redemption is anther good suggestion. I suggest the first one as well. Maybe Fable? The second one was my favorite, but people rave about the first one as well. I didn’t play the first one until I didn’t have as much time to game.

This might be a miss, but the Sims can be insane with mods. You can cheat their needs and not worry about those. Sims 3 is open world and the best of the series, but I’m not as familiar with the mods available for it. There are Sims 4 mods that introduce murder (guns and knives provided of course), drugs and gangs, zombies, prostitution, murderous toddlers, and much more that I can’t think of right now.

Modders are fucking lunatics when it comes to the Sims. Someone made a mod for Sims 3 where you could grill and eat a baby. EA stepped in to shut that down…

Medicine does not prolong the healing process. The only “beneficial” side effect is the fever, but there isn’t hard evidence that it’s better or worse to bring down a fever (unless you hit 102°F or higher). If you choose to let your body do its thing and burn down the house, just avoid acetaminophen (Tylenol).

Colds often take up to a week or more to pass, so there’s a chance that you won’t be better in 3 days.

Vitamin C and vitamin D3 are also good for your immune system.

Wefwef just officially renamed their app as Voyager

That’s going to be frustrating as fuck. The last thing I want to deal with in the ER is argue with a chat bot.

Threads is doing a decent job moderating them. They put warnings if you subscribe to someone known to spread misinformation and they remove posts that break TOS.

Obviously the attention seekers are going to run to every platform. I don’t think it’s fair journalism to say that certain groups are moving to Threads when it’s many groups.

“Men are creating thousands of accounts on Threads. Why are the majority of accounts female? Our data analysis explains here!” Is kind of the same clickbait.

I won’t argue that racists don’t make up a loud percentage of text-based social media, though.