Science disagrees: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45721179
Studies disagree with you. Children are absolutely at risk for a wide range of increased impacts from the disease: Children have increased likelihood of anxiety, communication disorders, and other developmental mental…
I vaccinate against flu and Covid, and vaccinate my child against flu and Covid.
"I'm not like those vaccine hesitant people, I just hesitated about a vaccine!"
Covid is a serious illness. It can cause a wide range of effects from death, to myocarditis, to immune system resets, to long covid, to permanent scarring on the lungs, mood disorders, embolisms, and permanently reduced…
People compose and mulch their waste to control weeds regularly. Burying weeds under decaying master (including poop) is super common.
Wasps in a high traffic area are definitely bad, but if the nest is somewhere not too in the way I'd encourage folks to leave it be. Wasps are predators, and they eat a lot of the bugs that damage gardens. Yes, they are…
Because other countries aren't surprised to see slurs?
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I'm LGBTQ. I know LOTS of folks in my communities who use and embrace the term f*gs. But that doesn't make it ok for others to use it. Slurs are complicated, but the goal of my post was specifically not to discuss this…
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The communities I'm in in America avoid the use of the term precisely because it's an exonym. Around here people use Roma or Traveller. Granted my sample size is O(100), but that's not nothing either. Although I tend to…
The answer to your question is "yes, but typically only very mildly". Offense is not some Boolean, and intent matters in determining how offense something is. For example, a kid reading Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn might…
Science disagrees: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45721179
Studies disagree with you. Children are absolutely at risk for a wide range of increased impacts from the disease: Children have increased likelihood of anxiety, communication disorders, and other developmental mental…
I vaccinate against flu and Covid, and vaccinate my child against flu and Covid.
"I'm not like those vaccine hesitant people, I just hesitated about a vaccine!"
Covid is a serious illness. It can cause a wide range of effects from death, to myocarditis, to immune system resets, to long covid, to permanent scarring on the lungs, mood disorders, embolisms, and permanently reduced…
People compose and mulch their waste to control weeds regularly. Burying weeds under decaying master (including poop) is super common.
Wasps in a high traffic area are definitely bad, but if the nest is somewhere not too in the way I'd encourage folks to leave it be. Wasps are predators, and they eat a lot of the bugs that damage gardens. Yes, they are…
Because other countries aren't surprised to see slurs?
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I'm LGBTQ. I know LOTS of folks in my communities who use and embrace the term f*gs. But that doesn't make it ok for others to use it. Slurs are complicated, but the goal of my post was specifically not to discuss this…
[flagged]
The communities I'm in in America avoid the use of the term precisely because it's an exonym. Around here people use Roma or Traveller. Granted my sample size is O(100), but that's not nothing either. Although I tend to…
The answer to your question is "yes, but typically only very mildly". Offense is not some Boolean, and intent matters in determining how offense something is. For example, a kid reading Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn might…