My only question is how to best handle children having sex with each other. Do you ban it / try to prevent it from happening at all? Do you set limits on how different they can be in age? Is there an even younger age when it’s never ok but it’s ok if they’re both older AND of similar enough age? Is age not even the right way to do it and more importantly is there a better way? Should you have to pass a class where you can prove you know how to apply a condom and obtain consent from others??? I don’t have any good answers to any of these questions but I do think they’re important to ask and talk about. The more common discussion I wind up in is juvenile substance abuse (should you let kids do drugs as long as they’re in your house so you can keep them safe? Are kids who are raised where everybody 14ish and older can have a glass of wine at the dinner table more or less likely to develop alcoholism due to the increased daily presence but decreased taboo?) but this discussion reuses a lot of the same concepts.

Well you do gotta give Cesar back what he done minted.

See if lemmy had the user base of reddit there would be ten more of this comment but each with a different YouTuber.

It’s not forgetting, it’s measuring with your heart.

And Karen repeatedly murdered all of the foster children she adopted over that six year timeframe by skinning them and feeding them to the local geese. Her neighbor began noticing about 2 years in that the children would all go missing within weeks of arrival. Over the next 4 years this neighbor filed multiple complaints with the police, CPS, and the foster care agency, but all of them just said the children probably ran away. It turned out this was because Karen’s grand-step-aunt twice removed was head of the city hall floral arrangement sub-comittee…

I’m quite partial to my theracane but the main addition I would ask for is more diamonds.

Occupational therapy like physical therapy but for fine motor control (usually the hands) instead of gross motor control (like the legs). It can also refer to the neurocognitive / attentional ability to engage in complex tasks. In this context I mostly mean splints like this but it can also refer to stim jewelry for people with autism, adhd, and similar that benefit from having fidget items or other stimulating material such as a chew on hand to reduce anxiety / agitation and to help with focus. Basically if you would need it to do a desk job, it probably falls under occupational therapy, but it also includes the same skills but applied to leisure and other activities.

Loving the medical equipment swag. Just because its necessary for life doesn’t mean it needs to be ugly and if anything that’s a reason it shouldn’t be! I’m also a fan of bespoke mobility aids, OT jewelry, and well-designed adaptive clothing.

Water aerobics and yoga are usually the best options. I would try to find a yoga instructor skilled in physical therapy / disability modifications to the poses. Water aerobics is typically specifically designed for physical rehab so you’re more likely to find most of those classes are geared towards that. If affordability is a problem you may find that your health insurance, even or possibly even especially if it’s public health insurance. In the gym though you want anything that’s low impact and low intensity like maybe an elliptical on the very lowest resistance setting.

Well the downside to the “you break [the virginity] you buy it” mindset (aside from the literal objectification) is that having to formally marry the child also means the child is formally married to (and stuck with) the pedo. At least the informal version is probably less legally complicated to flee from.

I went into nursing instead of astrophysics. Decided I wanted a job that would outlast the apocalypse.

Oooo, wait! See if they’ll pay for your new girlfriend to come too. It’s ok if you don’t have any candidates yet, they won’t be hard to get if there’s a free trip in it for them.

Do you get a separate room? Tbh I’d go and spend the entire time getting laid and ordering expensive drinks through room service on this guy’s dime. Just figure out how to make sure you don’t get used for free babysitting. Work out a 50-50 coparenting schedule.

I mean, do what you’re comfortable with. But the bitter bitch in me says take the bastard for every cent you can and try to find a new tinder match every night. Maybe multiple if you can.

One of the things my parents did understand correctly as “new money” is that a significant portion of piddling etiquette rules about what color to wear at what times of the year and which fork goes on the left were largely ways for the bourgeoisie to attempt to maintain their advanced standing against the increases in (the potential for) equality that capitalism initially brought about. Unfortunately my parents are also a very “well we got ours so everyone else must be lazy” type of people who think that’s as good as equality can or should get.

And CS Lewis made him useless Santa next to his lion Jesus allegory which you could have a lot of theological debates about but in the end is mostly just kinda funny also.

As a professional I’d basically be required to say the above, but I’m also watching from the inside as my country’s health system decays starting with populations that were underserved to begin with like the mentally ill. In other news I have a hospice interview tomorrow. If nothing else I’ll just get to focus on making people comfortable. That sounds so relaxing. I’m getting tired of having to tell people no all the time.

The nurses and nursing assistants all have to wear trackers that track to see if they go near a hand sanitizer station or sink within 30 seconds after entering and 30 seconds before leaving a room. It’s to check for handwashing compliance but in addition to being a narrow and error-prone window it also doesn’t account for other common situations like poking your head into a room to check on someone while on the way to something else and not touching anything or anyone. It creates a situation where you’re better off just breezing through and ignoring a patient calling to you because if you go over there to acknowledge them but don’t have time to set down whatever you’re in the middle of, it’ll hurt your metrics. They might just need a cup of water you could grab and drop off on your way back in the other direction but fuck 'em, admin says you need to make a whole entry and exit ceremony of asking them what they need to keep your numbers up, so they’ll have to wait until you have time for that.

Yeah like tbh the original comment thread wasn’t worth banning them. Kinda silly but whatever. Literally everything after that was worth a ban though. They picked a molehill and just… fought to the last breath on it.

Yeah when I got that report and responded all I could think was “this thread is basically incomprehensible. Why are these people arguing poetry vs theoretical physics? It’s like arguing whether or not TMNT is enjoyable based on it not being an accurate depiction of turtle biology???” There is a time and a place to get this heated about the fundamental concepts that define the universe we inhabit but a lemmy post about a Tumblr post that’s written like an overly dramatic fanfiction just ain’t it. The last time I got into an argument that dumb (somewhat coincidentally also on tumblr) was literally over half my life ago!

Well said. This is the only person I’ve ever personally banned and it’s because they went out of their way to start multiple fights over silly shit.