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That was a fascinating read and thank you for sharing. If it is any good, I’ll be thinking about this for a long time.

Also, everything seems to have to be a gift now. Can’t just buy a thing and give it to them. It has to wait to be a present. Or maybe that’s just my wife.

We specifically don’t wait for holidays to give things we want to gift to our daughter (soon to be 3). On her birthday in two weeks she will get a book, a plush animal, and a second hand peppa pig puzzle (I hate peppa pig but she loves it and she doesn’t even know there is a show). That’s it, but she gets many things throughout the year. My husband hates holidays and celebrations, I think that’s where this feeling of “let’s please not make a huge stock of presents to give her twice a year” came from. And it is so much less pressure to find “the perfect gift”.

And you can get rid of things much more easily. I don’t know about you, but if I got a bad birthday present, I tend to keep it, because it was a birthday present. Same for children’s stuff. She got that for her first birthday feels different than she got that when she was around 14 months. Somehow it’s less sentimental, and I am an awfully sentimental and nostalgic person, so this saves my ass.

Another point is that can change interests so quickly. I would not dare to buy her something peppa pig themed right now for Christmas or plan ahead for her 4th birthday. Or let’s say she needs a new bike - why would I wait until the end of summer to give it to her just because it’s her birthday.

But talk to me again on September 9th, I usually get very sad that we don’t celebrate with a crap ton of presents and decorations and a big party right before her birthday.

I have a friend who is obsessed with cheese and is highly lactose intolerant. He eats lactase pills like tic tacs and has about three packs on him at all times.

Dude for real. I never understood what the deal was with constipation, like ok, you can’t poop, so don’t poop, what’s the problem, just wait for it. And then I hit the last month of my pregnancy and JFC alright. Alright, I get it now. At least I remember getting it for a short period of my life, and I have to constantly remind me of how unpleasant that was. Because I am blessed with the easiest bowel movements of them all. It takes me about as long to poop as it takes me to pee. The consistency is top notch. Not gonna lie, my poops are so nice I wish I could take a picture and put them on my CV as qualification.

But I won’t take them for granted anymore. It can change. And I have learned to bear compassion for others.

Aren’t lactase pills everywhere and really cheap?

Ok as someone not from the states, wtf are boneless chicken wings?

Man, a guaranteed 5 mins of a quiet break and coffee that I don’t have to bring myself sounds kinda nice

Thank you! It feels good to hear someone calling FDP assholes destroying the sense of community. FDP is working hard on keeping the working class poor, powerless and desperate. Trying to “save money” on the most disadvantaged people is disgusting. This alone is enough reason to disapprove of them.

I’d be more grossed out if I had to sit on a toilet seat that was licked by an FDP member than by someone licking the toilet seat.

You know, I agree. But also, you can’t imagine how much I want to scratch the cars that just park illegally in my neighborhood. They park on the curves and crossings and in such small distances that I literally cannot pass through with my stroller without scratching them. So I end up going around the block(s) further and further away just to pass through some gap of illegally parked cars that’s just big enough if I am very careful. But then I end up thinking, wtf. Why do I have to be careful to not scratch their wrongfully parked cars, a private property that they left outside on a place designed and protected by law to be solely for pedestrians, with my private property that should be able to walk this road? And also, why do I not get the same protection if I want to park my bike or stroller outside? Because no one cares if my private property is damaged when it is left outside. If I scratch my stroller on an illegally parked car when I cross the road at the place I am supposed to be crossing somehow I am the one who has to pay damages.

Hit me up if you ever join a political party so I can vote for you

He is, in a very weird and awkward way. My favorite story is how he called home from a work trip (it was somewhen before the internet, late 90s/early 2000s) and just told me to put my mom on the phone because Gorbachev wants to say hi to her. I delivered the message, having no clue who that guy is but I guessed some former classmate, while my mom was losing it and totally froze on the phone. Turned out my dad randomly met Gorbachev at a restaurant, befriended him, got drunk with him (well, my dad doesn’t drink, but the other guy), and then he was so eager to call my mother that they picked up the phone of the restaurant/bar in Russia and called Germany via landline. Both yelled their souls out on the phone, I’m not sure they would have needed a landline to reach us.

Years later they passed each other at the airport, my dad thought of saying hi, but assumed he wouldn’t remember him. But Gorbachev turned around, yelled my dad’s name, and hugged him.

My dad is really not a social guy and has no friends but business trips bring out a weird ass impressive side of him.

My dad still does this. He yells into the phone (on speaker) as if he was screaming for his life. He’s a successful businessman whose sole job is to talk to people and somehow convince them to work together or win a project over. I don’t know how he does this by yelling into his phone as if he was shouting at strangers to call an ambulance. He also has hardly any knowledge of English and his German really sucks, yet he mostly works with these two languages. I don’t know how he makes it work. And he hates talking on the phone because it stresses him out. But somehow addressing the fact he is trying to make crocodile dundee hear him when he uses a phone doesn’t seem to be the answer to his stress.

He grew up in a remote soviet village with like one phone for everyone. My guess is the connection back in the days sucked and he never adjusted.

That’s actually a great story and I will keep it close to my heart

So… I guess you tried to make a different point but what came across for me is that much more Russians were killed than Jews

I tried to find a publication that would at least show a heatmap (but maybe that’s why these articles are pushed now, maybe the new paper will come.out soon?) of relative gene expression changes. I haven’t found any papers by Love mentioning anything other than radiation measurement (which is also an important field of study and is in no way less of an impressive work). “Altered immune systems” is very, very vague, and specific parts of the genome being modified reads like “oncogenes have mutated”, which wouldn’t be a surprise or shocker.

I want to be clear that I couldn’t find the paper that the article seems to talk about (I couldn’t find any that would mention genetics), that Covid and the war in Ukraine (mandatory Fuck Putin) have obviously slowed down research, and that any kind of doubt I have is absolutely not about the group of scientists doing important and valuable work - just the article’s presentation is very empty and saying little to nothing.

“They got a lot of radiation exposure” “genes that are connected with cancer mutated”, “Wolves don’t get cancer” is not too shocking of a finding and almost to be expected. The devil must be in the details. I’m just disappointed in the article.

Somehow this article is non-existent. It just tells you that a team of researchers put collars on the wolves to measure the radiation levels they are exposed to. They found they are pretty high. 6 times the allowed maximum level for humans. But so far they only want to look into how this affects their cancer rates, and how they protect themselves against cancer. There is nothing yet to assume they have developed a resistance, let alone a biological, cellular or genetic mechanism. So… I mean I guess, but so far it is just plans to look into something.

I mean, I wouldn’t recommend an over the counter retinol to a 10 year old, but you’re right.

I remember using so many drug store teenager products to get rid of pimples, nothing worked, I went to the dermatologist, he prescribed simply 2g of salicylic acid in 100g ethanol, it worked. Like, pimple free within 2 weeks. Then I ran out of the bottle. Was too lazy to get a new one. When I finally went again, boom. Everything gone again.

I mean, this was basically when the internet was just becoming a thing. But I highly regret that it took me so long to get into skincare. And I also regret the laziness about going to the dermatologist (especially since a visit is free in Germany). How I wished that I had gotten into skincare before my wedding, I had to choose a dress that covered up all of my back because I thought I would never get rid of the pimples there. It was a wonderful dress, but had I gotten into skincare just one year earlier, I could have felt more freedom.

And I think a lot of people regret not looking out for their skin earlier. As you mentioned, SPF. How often did we skip this as teens.

“As young as 10” probably implies that most children we are talking about in this article are teenagers. And it is so much preferable to get a good skincare routine if you have specific concerns than to just overdose on drugstore crap that has no effect. Can you overdo it? Sure. Are there products that aren’t too good for such a young age? Some. Should they check with a derm first? Recommendable. But all in all this seems like a healthier trend than using lip fillers, botox, or anything else. Mostly because, especially if we are talking anti aging here, most aging occurs from actual damage. And I would guess that if you get into that stuff, no matter whom you follow, sooner or later the kids end up realising that they should use a good SPF, avoid harsh treatments, be gentle, avoid sun. And I don’t see something wrong with that.

But that’s exactly the point. They were provocative, but not too extreme. Believable to cause a shock and a belief of honesty, of intruders, but not as provocative as they could have gotten.

Honestly there were so many provoking questions that seemed like it had to have slipped through the vetting process that I am starting to think that this was vetted.

If the whole country knows you’re a delusional liar and that media is staged propaganda, putting off a show with provocative questions that seem real might be a good move to reconnect with the citizens and appear able to take criticism and as if you don’t live in an ivory tower.

But that assumes that Putin is playing some kind of 5D chess. Could be that, or it could be what it looked like - just a president being asked uncomfortable questions.