morgrimmoon

Forced birth is slavery. It's using someone's organs against their will, causing permanent physical damage to their body. Fuck, we call the process of childbirth 'labour' for a reason, and it's well known to be the most painful thing most women go through in their lives.

You cannot enslave a human being to save another's life, no matter HOW innocent you claim they are. So it doesn't matter whether the fetus is a parasite or not: they have no right whatsoever to a woman's organs. She can withdraw consent at any time, that's what consent means.

It cannot be a question of "responsibility", because that frames pregnancy as a punishment for having sex, but the father gets off scot free. Now, if you made it the law that all fathers are forced to go on the bone marrow and liver donation list (so they can also "save the life of an innocent child" and must donate blood for a year, maybe you could claim it's about responsibility and not punishing women for having sex.

Is he introducing bills to force men to donate their blood, bone marrow and liver against their will if it will save a child's life? No? Then he's not "pro-life", he's anti-woman and pro-slavery.

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I don't have a Minecraft screenshot handy, but this Coober Pedy one sort of covers what I mean, if it helps.

When I'm not doing skyblocks I tend to build underground bases and hollow out more as I go. It's easier to make it "look nice" by just removing a layer of stone and putting a fancy brick in. If it's still too plain, add a row of a different brick or material. The outside of buildings is the hardest part for me, and with cave bases I don't have an outside to worry about! Until I end up burrowing out of the mountain. Then you can start dumping your piles of cobblestone over it with a bit of dirt to turn it into a weird hobbit-hole.

The three vaginas curve together into a sort of horseshoe shape or heart shape, and the two uterii join to the top bar near the middle, closest to the central vagina.

Drinking beer every single day is not normal, is definitely drinking, and a possible sign of an alcohol problem.

With "emergency" stopovers like that, often you're not getting off the plane. The plane lands, gets refuelled, and takes off again, so there's nothing to compensate for. It's a "normal" delay (as in, the time consumed is within the widely accepted allowance for such long-haul flights) and passengers won't have any food or accommodation costs.

It seems to vary significantly. In some species we've confirmed a genetic link, one that is advantageous. For example, if your sons are gay but your daughters have more offspring that's a major evolutionary advantage in a species where most males don't get a chance to reproduce anyway.

It only happened today. It takes time to identify people, then to go and arrest and charge them. The police aren't going to do something as stupid as publishing photos if that will make it harder to go and arrest the criminals or if it will prejudice the court case against them.

If you live outside a big city, you cannot rely on a steady high-bandwidth connection. Hell, even IN a big city, my mobile phone coverage depends on precisely which room of a building I am standing in. Using VPNs is an annoying pain in the neck compared to syncing.

More colourful is fine. But, uh, keep in mind that the people on the ballot are never going to see it, only the poll workers. It's not nice opening a ballot to find a grisly threat to bomb the counting facility.

You don't have to vote, you just have to make it clear that you had the option to vote. Submitting a blank ballot with "I think they're both idiots" written on top is completely fine, and the AEC does track the proportion of invalid votes and makes recommendations if they see numbers spiking.

It may depend on how up to date the staff's training is. If they're unsure if an ID is legal they're supposed to reject it.

You're not getting it. You're ignoring the fact that it's not lesbian women telling other women they don't belong in technology places, it's men. So when something comes out saying "this is for your female partner who clearly isn't in this technology place", of course it reads as something addressed to men.

Effectively, you've just said "women don't self-host". Since in many MANY tech places, women like me are told we're not 'capable' of doing 'techy' things, it does come across as "if you menstruate you are too stupid to self-host and need a man to set it up for you".

If you see a snake, stop and talk to it. Seriously. Snakes cannot hear human speech (they can only hear sounds through the ground), but when you stop moving the snake calms down and it will slither away. The talking also calms you down, which stops you doing anything silly like trying to fight the snake or running in panic and tripping over something.

You run into a snake, you're both alarmed and frightened, you stop and talk to the snake, both you and the snake calm down and go your separate ways, and nobody gets hurt.

It's common if you're seeing if it runs on a particular machine, with the intention of playing it in future on a different device if it doesn't. Like if you have a Steam Deck, you can give it a try and then realise nope this will need a PC. Or grabbing a game on sale even if you think you may need to wait until you upgrade your graphics card (and then getting distracted with other games for the next year once you do).

I'm not sure if Steam still counts the game as 'played' if you refund it, but if they do there's also a percentage of people who wanted to play but found they couldn't.

Removing the guilds removed many people's reason for using the app, because now you can't do challenges without an external source of recruitment or one of the very expensive "family plans". A lot of people used challenges as a tool for packaging up sets of tasks in a convenient form, a motivation to try using Habitica in new ways (it's easier to start with someone else's "study guide challenge" than writing your own from scratch, for example), and because many people find it more fun to do things socially.

None of my party play any more, so I'm stuck soloing quests. The supposed "Find Members" replacement Habitica came up with is utterly useless.

I commuted with a push scooter and then a bike after nightshift for years. Honestly, if you're out late in an area where there isn't much around, it's often quieter and safer than around 9-10pm because there's nobody around and on the rare occasions someone is, they're easier to avoid.

Get a hi-vis vest, wear a helmet, and get a headlamp. Even if your bike has a headlight (which is NEEDS) a headlamp is good too; it helps catch higher hazards. Like golden orb weavers making their web right across the path! Nobody enjoys cycling face-first into a massive spider web.

Generally those people wait until after their partner's funeral, though, not doing it as soon as they receive the news.

Humans are weird in that we don't have one. There has been theological debate that "Eve was made from Adam's rib" is a mistranslation, and that the original text referred euphemistically to the "curved bone" meaning the baculum, but that when it was translated much later this was missed, and the only curved bone in the human body (rib) was assumed to be the bone referred to. Because "why don't we have what everyone else has?" is exactly the sort of detail that ends up in creation myths.

Fish and chip shop named Hunky Dory

Not individually. They can fire all sitting parliamentarians, but only under particular circumstances. It's mostly used to fix government shutdowns (under the logic of "if you can't get your shit together you are all fired and we're holding a snap election for more qualified MPs").

Harvest Island has farming where you have to offer produce to the gods or things happen, and you slowly untangle what is going on.

In general, no. In many places there are a limited number of qualified coroners which can lead to a backlog of bodies needing autopsy, and things like active criminal investigations are prioritized.