Do I need to click? (Nope), Congrats OP!

it’s gonna suck when foreign streamers pull content because of it. Or when, instead they raise their rates inside canada.

there’s been a lot of studies. Here’s one group in the US

The true extent is unknown because it’s not as commonly reported as you might imagine. There are a lot of people who accept abuse as normal relationships.

But one thing that needs to be looked at, and should be sobering is how quickly people are to latch onto the idea that men are awful. For example, in the US, women are actually more likely to be abuse children than men (and elsewhere, I found one study that said 70% of abuse cases were perpetrated solely by mothers or both parents. I don’t entirely trust that study, or I’d link it.)

Domestic violence and who perpetrates an who the victims are… is much more complicated than people realize. While it’s clear that men are more likely to initiate serious domestic violence- and that women are more likely to only resort to domestic violence in self defense or retaliation- it gets pretty messy pretty quickly. For example, in the abstract for this study:

• women’s violence usually occurs in the context of violence against them by their male partners;
• in general, women and men perpetrate equivalent levels of physical and psychological aggression, but evidence suggests that men perpetrate sexual abuse, coercive control, and stalking more frequently than women and that women also are much more frequently injured during domestic violence incidents;
• women and men are equally likely to initiate physical violence in relationships involving less serious “situational couple violence,” and in relationships in which serious and very violent “intimate terrorism” occurs, men are much more likely to be perpetrators and women victims;
• women’s physical violence is more likely than men’s violence to be motivated by self-defense and fear, whereas men’s physical violence is more likely than women’s to be driven by control motives;
• studies of couples in mutually violent relationships find more negative effects for women than for men; and
• because of the many differences in behaviors and motivations between women’s and men’s violence, interventions based on male models of partner violence are likely not effective for many women.

While I make no claim to the accuracy of that study… there’s also a lot of bad “studies” that seem to demonize one or the other- or defend one or the other. I would tend to trust the NCADV stats I linked first, mind, which paints a pretty clear picture when it comes to violence against partners and whose doing it.

One of the things that’s incredibly frustrating is when you realize that most men who are abused by their partner will almost certainly not report it to police. because of shame, because they may not even realize it’s violence. Because cops might arrest you if they say you attacked first (and that fat lip from where you hit back is rather compelling.) A lot of women also don’t report, Most. probably. Because we live in a fucked up world.

and this all just the physical abuse. Wait until you find out how horribly under reported psychological abuse is.

it’s amazing that the Hubble has made over 1.6 million observations of 30 years. Some quick math says that, with no breaks, that’s 140 or so observations a day.

My boss is wondering why I’m so unproductive…

She’s a bottle blonde.

But she gives humanity a bad name.

I mean, I fully expect JWST to be as pivotal as Hubble- but Hubble set the bar and its still going higher.

Probably the most exciting part of this is that with the JWST active, it frees up more time on the Hubble, so you might start to get some more “side projects” get time on the Hubble.

though. my favorite pictures?

Eta Carinae and the Butterfly Nebula

Can we talk about how epic the Hubble is as a telescope? the JWST is phenomal. But really, without the Hubble, Webb wouldn’t even know where to look.

here’s to you, ya giant tin can in space. i’m sorry for replacing my desktop with one from the JWST…

“Please lift the gag order so I can continue being an asshole online and intimidating/threatening jurors an’ witnesses an’ you, judge, 'cuz I’m a weak, insecure man and need to rile up my base to kill you.”

Trump’s arguments, paraphrased.

I think it’d be hilarious if Trump promised to cover people’s legal fees and get a big mob arrested

Cuz you know.

Trump doesn’t even pay his own legal bills…

It’s a bit ironic. If the Olympics weren’t corrupt, the Russians would have been kicked out wholesale instead of being allowed to compete as independent athletes or whatever.

Well if you want to use misguided analogies… you do realize Biden did promise to protect voting rights and access to abortion, right?

And in any case the point I’m trying to make is that Biden is still the kid that takes credit for doing the full report even though he pretty much did the intro cuz it was the safest thing.

Biden didn’t get those things passed. democrats did.

Edit to add: democrats have a problem with replacing the old guard. Probably should have started letting others get credit so the party has a viable future.

/golfclap.

Missed the point entirely. If Biden wants to take the sole credit for something he had extensive help on, both chambers of congress (nominally,) and much vaunted ability to “work across the aisle”….

Then he can also take some of the credit for things failing, too. Especially things that failed congress while democrats still had that nominal control.

Like abortion rights and voting rights. But you know what, we should just sweep those under the rug. You know. Why even bother.

It’s not like the democrats will allow anyone but a leashed geriatric get the nomination anyways.

Do you really not send your phone off for repair without the expectation that it’s returned when the repairs are complete?

Refusing to service modified hardware is one thing. Keeping the device is theft, and no ToS has the power to change that.

this seems illegal.

Assuming somebody other than google owns the phone (The individual, the carrier.) that now becomes theft.

Do you really want to know?

It’s simple. You tie up the rabbit so it can’t move, then you force feed it chocolate.

Then you force it to shit into a mold. while it’s still warm it becomes egg-shaped.

(actually I never understood that one either, I’m just making shit up here. though. not the cruelest thing we’ve ever done for food.)

actually it is vaguely surprising. They know how to launder money?

I think we all knew where the inflation went.

And by that same logic, Biden couldn’t do anything for the ARP or the infrastructure packers and such like.

Is it fair to say it’s entirely Biden’s fault? Absolutely not. It it’s also not fair to say he hasn’t played a role in this not working.

Especially, if you take a step back and realize he’s been part of congress for longer than I’ve been alive and his leadership as a senator has helped lead us to where we are. Which incidentally, is another thing Biden likes to take credit when it’s beneficial and dodge blame when it’s not.

We’ve probably always foraged eggs from birds from before we were even modern humans.

Eggs are an easy source of protein and calories that don’t take much of a fight.

Chances are the unfertilized egg (what we use today, generally,) probably got started being used when they domesticated chickens sometime around 5,000 BCE (iirc,) in south east Asia (where chickens were first domesticated.)

Egyptians, Greeks, Roman’s all had robust poultry. (even Mars loved him some fried chicken,)

For most of our history, we would have used everything we could from livestock, so it would have been a matter of time.

It’s amazing how when it’s bad, it’s congress’s fault, but when it’s good it’s all because of Biden.

American rescue plan, infrastructure, etc. none of those would have passed without some seriously heavy lifting from congressional peeps, too.