Or you're super well off and also don't give a shift about everyone else

Oh god I almost don't want to say this in this environment...

Techy people aren't the most intelligent in other/all areas just because they have some technical expertise.

I have worked with, and interacted with people, all my life who are technically very intelligent in some specific way, and even been one of these people... Who thinks that one area of proficiency grants them unearned respect in other areas.

Eg." I'm great at maths therefore I'm logically infallible". Or "I'm an engineer, so I know exactly how society should function best"." I'm a doctor so my every opinion on everything is more important than yours".

"Almost more" seems nonsensical. Is it almost equivalent?

Are rates and ratios just too difficult? 529 in five months is much higher comparatively than 5** in four years.

Like, you could just say Trump has done airstrikes at more than 9 times Biden's average so far.

It could also be related to how your cervix changes over your cycle, but that baffles me because surely gynecologists would know that and try to time things correctly if it made things easier for women.

Do they time it based on your cycle at all?

Close to ovulation, your cervix goes really soft and opens up, close to your period it changes position, goes really firm and closes.

I haven't gotten an IUD so I have no personal experience with the process, but I imagine that trying to put an object through the cervix into the uterus would be best done at ovulation when your cervix is open. And probably extremely difficult and painful to try to do when your cervix is shut tight.

I don't think that's true. There's big power in what people demonstrably believe.

Knowing that everyone else is fighting back too is emboldening.

US-manufactured products should be allowed to compete on an equal basis with Australian-produced goods, consistent with the WTO [World Trade Organization] and US-Australia Free Trade Agreement,” he said.

Research and development tax concessions in Australia, France and Spain were described as conferring advantages to local firms “that the United States is hard-pressed to match”.

Um, isn't this what the US is ostensibly trying to do to everyone else with their tariffs? Advantage home grown products over international ones?

It's almost as if it's not supposed to be free or fair, it's just about the US extracting as much money from everyone in the world that they can get away with.

RFK must be very upset with Trump letting coal-fired power plants pump arsenic and mercury into the atmosphere unrestricted then

In this video about Lavender AI which is Israel's Palantir, they talk about the accuracy score that the AI gives targets for how sure it is that they are Hamas. It is used to determine how expensive the weapons to take that person out, and how many innocent bystanders they are willing to take out along with that target.

https://youtu.be/4RmNJH4UN3s

Did you know actual snake oil was used in traditional Chinese medicine for arthritis. Aparently it's quite high in Omega-3. But it got popular and then grifters started selling random concoctions and calling it snake oil and that's how it became synonymous with quackery.

Not really related to the point of your comment, I just read about it recently and thought it was interesting.

I think you're not comprehending the commenters point.

It's not saying that men and women have exactly the same desires and necessities. It's saying that framing sex as something that men do to women is problematic.

I guess at least you know they can't evangelise?

Whatever is there before baby will be made a thousand fold. Children are amplifiers.

If you and your partner already have a culture of flexibility and support and caring for each other you will be fine. It will still be work and there will still be tough times, but you'll be able to get through. You'll probably come out closer than you thought possible.

If either of you have bubbling resentments or distrust, or very rigid ideas about who should be doing what and when, the difficulties may be insurmountable.

A lot of comments saying why they think reading has declined (boo evil school... They made me critically analyse stuff...) but not even touching on why that's evidently having more effect on boys than girls?

That's odd.

Compare to the other post asking why Tate bro manosphere brainrot is on the rise. The kind of garbage that specifically discourages boys from higher order thinking because that's not "alpha". Some of the comments there basically boiled down to " not my problem, shut up".

Interetsing juxtaposition.

Misogyny holds men back, but as long as that won't be acknowledged, nothing will improve.

Ah yes, the old "if I can't impress girls with my skill I'll impress them with belittlement and open hostility instead"

I really emapthise with Stan Grant in this piece. I have been feeling similar things myself, and I strongly believe that if I was indigenous and had a traditional family land l would be going back there too.

As it stands I am a city raised person who has experienced living in various country places. I'm living in a city right now, earning good money, but dreaming of moving back to the country to a quiet life.

I was also raised in the Catholic tradition, have been athiest for a long long time but really missing the sense of community that came from the church/school community when I was young.

I feel so pointless as a human. The money I earn doesn't seem as important as what I could be doing for my family. The work that I do doesn't seem relevant amidst the insanity of the world. I thought a great career would give me self worth but it just feels made up...

...like every other aspect of adult life. It's just all made up. Nothing means anything.

I'm lucky I have kids and pets to anchor me in the day to day. But that just reinforces my desire to move to a quiet country town, maybe have another child, maybe get some goats and grow some vegetables.

Would you be able to tell me how to do this? I'm on mobile, I have admittedly only spent a few seconds searching but I can't see modlogs.

I agree, I would have thought Australia would have very high levels of swimming proficiency compared to other countries. The article doesn't seem to mention other countries, just the drop in participation/interest within Australia.

1 in 4 schools dropping swimming carnivals is really suprising to me. I've got 2 kids, and my oldest has been to quite a few schools due to us moving around a bit, and every single one of them had swimming lessons and carnivals.

Though I'm not suprised that parents are less interested or supportive. My husband and I both work full time, often both do overtime, and schools and daycare can be a little overwhelming at times with all of the events and things that require some level of extra thinking or planning or shopping or crafting on our part.

Used to. Was terrible but that was 7 years ago, not sure if it's improved since then

Oh I'm so glad someone said Coco! Oh gosh, the final scenes and the final song always gets me

https://youtu.be/KWDRdvZsCyE