Had a grand time shoveling and taking the kiddo and dogs for a walk. Snow is my favorite, though

Real alfredo doesn't include any cream!

Buying in NH is pretty rough and has been for a couple years. The intense furvor has died down but the pricing hasn't exactly relaxed.

I always recommend buying if you can unless you think you'll need to leave in less than 5 years.

Ugghhhhhhhhh that is so damned infuriating.

I don't freaking get it. If the baby has a serious medical issue that needs surgical intervention - fine! We KNOW how dangerous/harmful it is for intersex to be forced into the wrong identity.

Information that "shockingly" aligns with data on trans populations.

https://www.gendergp.com/detransition-facts/

8 in 100 detransition in any form. 62 in 100 of those did it because of societal pressures and not because they personally wanted to.

So if you have a population of 1000 people who have transitioned in any way, 80 might have fully detransitioned or partially (meaning they might be "switching/etc). Only 30 chose to detransition and didn't claim it was due outside pressure.

Contrast to suicidality

https://www.gendergp.com/what-is-the-transgender-suicide-rate/

50% consider suicide. 20% attempt

So 50 in 100 are in such destress that they want to die.

20 in 100 try to die. Note: not 20% of 50% like the above stat... In a population of 1000 people who have identified as trans, 500 comtemplate suicide. 200 attempt.

Note: data on completed suicide is lacking because of how deaths are reported.

it's a super bikeable area, too.

Yuuurp. I specifically found a daycare for my son that is play-based and I intend to keep that style until he's ready for kindergarten. We do lots of learning activities in our home, what we can't provide is practice interacting with peers.

And we can't fight back!

I said exactly the same thing in another sub. Why does everyone revel in crapping on the people who are doing one of the worst jobs imaginable? It's almost like the government wants the organization to fail and makes it impossible for them to be effective.

The other important thing a lot of people don't understand/don't want to accept is that the research right now points to keeping children with their families. Taking kids away from their families is not only more expensive, but the outcomes tend to be worse for them in foster care/group homes. DCYF is charged, therefore, with trying to keep children with their parents and provide help/guidance to the family.

Now maybe the pendulum will swing in the opposite direction and more kids will be pulled from parents in the future, but there it is...

My husband and I once got to help translate between a Scottish hostel host and a German cyclist. Both of them understood us perfectly because of American TV. Both were 90-95% comprehensible to us, but when they talked to each other it was blank, confused looks all around. My favorite part is when she was so flustered she couldn't remember another word for "loo" and the poor German guy was standing there awkwardly until my husband burst out "TOILET IS DOWN THE HALL."

Overall, I think most NH accents are considered perfectly understandable outside of home. We certainly have our little quirks but nothing too outlandish.

My former Wisconsin boss thought "wicked" was an exaggerated joke until she visited. But they say "horse a piece" instead of "six of one" and when you mix it with a Bostonian understanding of expressions it sounds like "horse of peace" which is incomprehensible.

Macaw. She's a grumpy girl, too, so no fun would have been had.

Only lost power for 3 hours, thankfully, or I would have had to move my exotic pet out of her normally toasty warm room and into an awful cage in a tiny room and use myself as body heat.

No dude. I've been having a conversation with you and you just keep ignoring what I am saying and pushing a stupid debate so you can prove I don't want to talk.

Luckily, the state is not full of libertarians. I didn't see any at the beautiful, publicly-funded library, or when I walked down the nicely paved sidewalk in my neighborhood that I didn't get charged for using.

I'm not going to reply anymore because I think your real aim is to keep wasting my time.

Sure.

Now you can go to your libertarian friends and say, "I keep offering to have these people debate us and none of them will because they're too chicken/too insecure of their beliefs/etc"

And they'll go, "yeah"

And I'll move on with my life and actually do things that, you know, help people.

I have never seen a debate that resulted in changing a speaker's mind, or even really an audience, even the dang debate podcast with Oxford-style debates usually only change maybe 5% of minds - and if you go back and unterview the audience again months later, they've pretty much all reverted back to their former way of thinking.

The goal of a debate from a libertarian perspective is the gish gallop so much the other speaker just spends all their time refuting without having a single unified comment. All the libertarian had to do is say, "and another thing, freedom!" And the non-libertarian has to wait for the idiotic applause to die down before re-explaining their main points again to people who do not care. Then the libertarians clip all the parts that make them look good, ignore the parts that make them look bad, and use it as advertisement within their own group to go "see, look how stupid the other side is."

The actual libertarian agenda is, "I want what's mine and to do whatever I want and also want everything else to stay pretty much the same, except then I can ignore the poor and disadvantaged more blatantly since they don't deserve to live if they can't take care of themselves."

That's why libertarians are mostly people who've a) never had a real, genuine struggle that their money or their parents' money couldn't save them from or b) have convenient amnesia about all the ways a society works to protect them.

No, that is a waste of my time.

Like there is any greater fairy tale than libertarianism.

Yeah... I won't because I have better things to do. I hear the bears in Grafton are doing great.

Lots of us choose to avoid Amazon. But my main complaint against your comment was claiming people could easily find another job. You know that's not true, why pretend it is? That's like saying it's easy to move to another place if you don't like where you live. It's more complicated than just apply and get another job.

I think actually, we're just mad that people like you like to shove their noses up his butt because you think somehow celebrating his greed will give you more money.

It won't. He's part of our society and should be contributing appropriately. He could pay his workers better and provide insurance, but he chooses not to. And that makes him suck. He can donate as much money as he wants and all it does is highlight the real problem - he's giving a dollar when he owes us 10.

You certainly "take advantage" of the system in the exact same way I do and if you don't think that is true, you are absolute idiot.

A society requires funds to cover basic expenses and infrastructure that no one person can handle.

Read Snow crash, read The Disposessed. Then reevaluate your own opinions because I don't think you can properly imagine what the world you want could actually look like.

I'm worried I may have caused permanent damage to my sight from the eyeroll I just did at this comment.

Why wouldn't we want to tax it? Seriously, it's recreational, it's entertainment. That means it's a luxury item and if anything should be taxed, it's that.

Was the arghavan exhibit still there? So beautiful

And lots of local libraries have free passes!

Oh did Big Pharma admit that?

Show any evidence at all apart from your assertion.