Had a good conversation with my uncle yesterday about selling my house/buying a new one. Fell much better afterwards. And the range of options seems to be opening up.
One thing I have to keep reminding myself: anxiety is simply your body prepping you to take major action.
Morning, campers. Regarding yesterday's tweet about video game companies not replying on Roe V. Wade:
This almost certainly goes back to Gamergate, when certain feminists were screaming to the hills that women were objectified in video games while men were not. They would fixate on the minutiae of dress and drawing styles as proof of women being so belittled. So clearly that means software gaming companies must take a position on Roe v. Wade.
vxbush
5/13/2022 6:34:12 AM
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Reply to Occasional Reader in 2:
I learned from that article that Putin has an ex-wife.
JCM
5/13/2022 7:19:49 AM
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Reply to vxbush in 4:
Living? That's unexpected.....
doppelganglander
5/13/2022 7:20:14 AM
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Reply to lucius septimius in 1:
Exciting! I've found a contractor to do some work on my house. He's remodeling my neighbor's kitchen and he's going to take a look at my house next week.
Occasional Reader
5/13/2022 7:21:13 AM
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In #5 JCM said: Living? That's unexpected.....
Beat me to it.
Occasional Reader
5/13/2022 7:21:38 AM
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In #7 Occasional Reader said: In #5 JCM said: Living? That's unexpected.....
Beat me to it.
I'll bet that whenever Vladimir invites her over for tea, she declines...
Occasional Reader
5/13/2022 7:22:19 AM
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In #1 lucius septimius said: anxiety is simply your body prepping you to take major action.
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A good way of putting it.
Of course, anxiety can also paralyze one into inaction. That's to be avoided.
Kosh's Shadow
5/13/2022 8:06:54 AM
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Happy Friday the Thirteenth, RB'ers/
buzzsawmonkey
5/13/2022 8:19:30 AM
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In #1 lucius septimius said: One thing I have to keep reminding myself: anxiety is simply your body prepping you to take major action.
I like that.
buzzsawmonkey
5/13/2022 8:20:41 AM
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There's pain, 'cause grain
Stays mainly in Ukraine.
buzzsawmonkey
5/13/2022 8:21:35 AM
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"Yow! Friday the Thirteenth come on a Friday this month!"
---Churchy La Femme, in "Pogo"
buzzsawmonkey
5/13/2022 8:23:19 AM
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Trump partisans, ever-suspicious that someone might be a "Never-Trumper," keep asking, "Are you Trump-loyal? Or is this just trompe l'oeil?"
Serious question: Commercially-produced "baby formula" is a relatively-recent invention. Prior to its invention, and even since its invention, mothers have breast-fed; they have made their own "formula" with milk from cows, sheep, goats. They have hired wet-nurses.
While the current lack of availability of professionally-produced baby formula is doubtless a problem, where are the discussions of possible alternatives?
vxbush
5/13/2022 8:44:15 AM
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In #17 buzzsawmonkey said: While the current lack of availability of professionally-produced baby formula is doubtless a problem, where are the discussions of possible alternatives?
This is exactly what I was thinking yesterday. I have no doubt in some mother's book of yesteryear there was a discussion of supplemental formulas a mother could make. But that information has gone by the wayside, no doubt because the commercial formulas are really great now and can provide formula that works with babies with different food intolerances.
vxbush
5/13/2022 8:46:35 AM
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Reply to vxbush in 18:
But that success in providing excellent formulas has meant that most consumers have no idea that there is even an option to create your own, and most have no idea what would be possibly safe for a baby. Instead, I'm seeing memes going around about how it is unconscionable to even consider trying to find a different solution because that solution won't be usable by those babes with intolerances. No sh!t, Sherlock, but it would at least be an alternative for the vast majority of babies who don't have those issues.
vxbush
5/13/2022 8:48:02 AM
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This whole idea that anything that is created or made must be usable by absolutely everyone has become a rather pernicious mode of thinking that has cropped up in the last ten years and drives me batty. The idea that some people can protect themselves and avoid the foods they can't have seems completely obvious to most rational people and is seen as completely unacceptable by the harridan left.
Kosh's Shadow
5/13/2022 8:50:43 AM
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In #12 buzzsawmonkey said: There's pain, 'cause grain
Stays mainly in Ukraine.
In #17 buzzsawmonkey said: While the current lack of availability of professionally-produced baby formula is doubtless a problem, where are the discussions of possible alternatives?
The government is warning against do-it-yourself solutions. Maybe they just want very late term abortions.
I'm sure DHS will mark even suggesting alternatives as disinformation.
buzzsawmonkey
5/13/2022 8:53:46 AM
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In #18 vxbush said: babies with different food intolerances
I have read, from time to time, that the apparent increases in various food intolerances, such as the nut and peanut allergies that were constant big news some years back, are actually the result of some of the rarified feeding that has been foisted on infants. That, in other words, reliance on the commercially-produced products actually make such things worse.
I do not pretend to know the truth of this, but one has to wonder. We have become so unthinkingly reliant on whatever we are commercially spoon-fed that the slightest interruption in its orderly delivery throws us into unthinking tizzies. It is similar to our response to the "pandemic"---we are so used to medical miracles being available at the drop of an insurance card that the very suggestion there might simply be something we have to soldier through instead of getting a cure with the regularity and certainty of buying a candy bar from a vending machine makes everybody lose their minds.
buzzsawmonkey
5/13/2022 8:55:02 AM
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In #21 Kosh's Shadow said: Stolen Ukrainian grain was smuggled via Russian ships from Crimea to Syria
This is obviously a Syria's Crimea that is being committed.
lucius septimius
5/13/2022 8:56:48 AM
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In #11 buzzsawmonkey said: I like that.
There was a fascinating article in last weekend's WSJ about anxiety. It is something built into our nature and has evolutionary purposes, but the various attempts to "treat" it really only make things worse.
doppelganglander
5/13/2022 8:56:53 AM
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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 17:
Reply to vxbush in 19:
There's a recipe going around social media that was widely used until the 1960s. It consists of evaporated milk, water, Karo syrup, and liquid vitamins. It's not nutritionally complete, but babies were fed solids earlier back then - many pediatricians told moms to add a small amount of rice cereal to their baby's bottle to encourage them to sleep longer. If a baby doesn't have a dairy intolerance, it's probably safe for short-term use.
I've been alternately amused and angered by the ignorance surrounding baby feeding. No, if you did not breastfeed from birth you cannot turn the milk supply on like a faucet. Some women can't or don't want to breastfeed, and those who do often don't go a full year, when most babies can drink cow's milk. Women get enough judgment and blowback about how they feed their babies as it is - they do not need everyone in the world weighing in during a supply crisis.
buzzsawmonkey
5/13/2022 8:57:17 AM
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In #22 Kosh's Shadow said: The government is warning against do-it-yourself solutions.
Get your baby formula online, from Mexico! Now, with added fentanyl!
buzzsawmonkey
5/13/2022 8:59:22 AM
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In #26 doppelganglander said: No, if you did not breastfeed from birth you cannot turn the milk supply on like a faucet.
I recall there used to be things called "breast pumps" which were used to stimulate the availability of supply.
doppelganglander
5/13/2022 9:26:37 AM
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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 28:
Yes, my daughter-in-law had one. They're primarily used to provide extra milk for when mom's not available. Breastfeeding is the perfect example of supply and demand - the more the baby nurses, the more milk is made. It's possible to stimulate milk production if you haven't breastfed but gave birth recently. It's hit or miss and doesn't work for everyone, and a baby who's accustomed to a bottle may be unable to nurse (it's quite different). Plus it can take weeks to build up an adequate supply, so it's not a great option in an emergency like this. Not to mention all the adoptive and foster mothers, other caretakers, and of course dads who care for their children.
buzzsawmonkey
5/13/2022 9:35:27 AM
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Reply to doppelganglander in 29:
Thanks for the information---it's not an area where I can claim anything approaching expertise. I'm merely observing, from the sidelines, that there seems to be a remarkable dearth of discussion of any and all of the possible options and alternatives, in favor of everyone running around in circles and screaming, "OMIGOD! Whatever shall we do?"
JCM
5/13/2022 10:35:11 AM
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Go to Mexico, cross the border and illegally re-enter.
Well, you know, the Romans fed the babies of the Visigoths. So we're in good company.
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Alice in Dairyland
5/13/2022 2:02:05 PM
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In #29 doppelganglander said: and of course dads who care for their children.
Now it sounds like you're trying to tell us that men can't produce milk! Silly girl, men can do everything women can, only better! Haven't you been paying attention?/////
Alice in Dairyland
5/13/2022 2:04:56 PM
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In #17 buzzsawmonkey said: They have hired wet-nurses.
The first paragraph says it all. Why is FDA telling parentshow to make formula in an emergency instead of scaring them off?
Occasional Reader
5/13/2022 2:25:28 PM
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In #36 Alice in Dairyland said: Why is FDA telling parents how to make formula in an emergency instead of scaring them off?
I assume "is" in that sentence is supposed to be "isn't"? (I can't open the link to check)
JCM
5/13/2022 2:45:27 PM
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Kosh's Shadow
5/13/2022 4:27:13 PM
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Set up an order with Petco to pick up dog and bird food. Got there, and they had only one of the two bird food packages, but all the emails said it was supposed to be two. No, they said they only had one, and refused to give me anything that showed I only got one. Called Petco, got the refund, and left AFTER I got the email confirming it.
Will not do that again; I'll just get enough for free delivery. Won't go back to that store, either.
Alice in Dairyland
5/13/2022 5:30:12 PM
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Reply to Occasional Reader in 37:
Correct, should have been "isn't". Below is the first paragraph I was talking about.
"This is just another 'abstinence only' model that won't work. If babies are hungry, parents are going to feed them, guidelines be damned. The appropriate response then is for pediatric nutrition experts to publish safe recipes for emergency nutrition supplementation with explicit warnings to not deviate from the recipe with clear descriptions of the consequences that can result from doing so. If this is an emergency, treat it like one, with emergency stop-gap measures."
JCM
5/7/2022 5:01:10 PM
Kosh's Shadow
5/13/2022 8:06:54 AM