Skyblacker

Skyblacker t1_j2e5rxx wrote

If you didn't learn to cook at your mother's knee, it's a skill that has to be learned as an adult. Which makes the mental load of it much higher. Every meal takes more deliberate effort and is less likely to actually be consumed. Which is discouraging.

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Skyblacker t1_j2e4mgu wrote

You want to watch my kids while I do all that prep and stirring?

Considering the cost of babysitting, it would be much cheaper to buy a $10 heat-and-eat from the supermarket.

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Skyblacker t1_j2e1mex wrote

Edible doesn't mean tasty. Sometimes it's a pile of mush that you can only choke down enough to quell stomach rumbling. Most of it goes to compost, which isn't the best use of resources.

That said, I only order delivery when I'm too sick to cook nor drive but the kids still need to be fooded. Otherwise I'll heat something at home or pick up my own damn carryout.

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Skyblacker t1_j2dnigy wrote

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Skyblacker t1_izubiqq wrote

I've also read that pushes during natural birth tend to be shorter (less than 10 seconds each) than when coached through an epidural, and it's long pushes that increase the odds of pelvic dysfunction afterwards.

I actually ran that experiment myself during my last birth. While coached, I watched the clock behind my doctor and deliberately did not go over 10 seconds per push. It made a difference!

After a previous birth, I fainted. But after this one, I still had enough energy to be hungry and demolish a cheeseburger from hospital room service. After another previous birth, I had hemmeroids that felt like continuous contractions. But this time when the epidural wore off, I was just sore like I'd overdone squats at the gym.

Were there other factors? Maybe. And I admit that this is anecdotal. But I do believe that shorter pushes made the difference between fainting from exhaustion and screaming in pain, to being merely worn out and sore.

And up until the advent of the epidural (which I love overall, don't get me wrong), shorter pushes were the norm.

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Skyblacker t1_iztquhs wrote

So the issue was scar tissue. That's what I attributed my pelvic pain to after my first childbirth, until a pelvic floor therapist diagnosed vaginismus instead. She assigned pelvic relaxation exercises that might have been adjacent to massage.

I just think the phrase "husband stitch" is reductive and fails to acknowledge the complexity of pelvic floor dysfunction and treatment.

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Skyblacker t1_iyoxisf wrote

And since there was no barrier between states that implemented restrictions and those that did not, covid casualties practically flattened out across the US. So in that context, the economic effect could have been larger than the health effect.

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Skyblacker t1_ixjo0yt wrote

Most people also don't ride roller coasters. Anything that's only open to the healthiest part of the adult population will be a fringe mode of transport.

Just look at bicycling: If there are flat routes away from most car traffic that link residential to commercial districts, the entire family will go out on bicycles for everyday errands, and the roads will be full of bicyclists. But if the only route between home and errand is a multi-lane stroad where any pedestrian or bicyclist takes their life in their own hand? Expect to only see a young single man occasionally.

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Skyblacker t1_ixj469r wrote

Not only does this open astronauting to disabled people, but also commercial space flight -- which will have to accommodate the general population before it becomes mainstream. Not just people in peak physical condition (even this disabled astronaut is a para athlete whose vitals are probably top notch), but Grandma with the pace maker and Aunt who's pregnant and Nephew who's a small child.

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