Mx Verda20h ago
ok yeah,
1. https://www.latimes.com/environment/newsletter/2024-08-29/boiling-point-is-it-ethical-to-have-children-in-the-face-of-climate-change-boiling-point
2. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2023/nov/ethical-environmental-and-political-concerns-about-climate-change-affect-reproductive
these first two are basically the rough conclusion I'd come to anyway, especially after thinking about Yui in NGE (altho jfc lady, your life choices suck!)
Boiling Point: Is it ethical to have children in the face of climate change?

From rising temperatures to species loss, there's so much at stake for children and the planet.

Los Angeles Times
Show threadMx Verda20h ago
3. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/11/thinking-about-having-baby-even-during-climate-crisis/
4. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/phn.13455
Although number 4 does sound an awful lot like "these silly women, worrying their pretty little heads about it. They just need more education to learn why what's best for them is best."
5. https://journals.plos.org/climate/article?id=10.1371/journal.pclm.0000236
Thinking about having baby? Even during climate crisis?

Scholar says increasing numbers of young adults are weighing what is best for planet, children.

Harvard Gazette
Show threadMx Verda19h ago
I have lamictal / sinus infection questions.
1. https://www.reddit.com/r/BipolarReddit/comments/v0uat1/lamictal_lamotrigine_is_currently_ruining_my/
2. https://www.epilepsy.com/connect/forum-archive/medication-issues/anyone-lamictal-xr-chronic-sinus-congestion?page=0%2C0
3. https://www.cuh.nhs.uk/patient-information/lamotrigine-drug-information/
4. https://niformulary.hscni.net/acute-sinusitis/
5. https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(22)00592-4/pdf
Top half of my face feels puffy, not sure if postnasal drip, but gd, the headaches. Mostly just contented to stay on the Lam (lol) anyway tho. my brain needs it.
Show threadMx Verda19h ago
it's my left maxillary sinus that feels full. 1. https://www.cdc.gov/sinus-infection/about/index.html
2. https://www.massgeneralbrigham.org/en/about/newsroom/articles/sinus-pressure-relief
Other head bits have felt pressure https://theentconsultancy.co.uk/persistent-sinusitis-why-your-sinus-infection-will-not-go-away/
Sinus Infection Basics

Stuffy nose that just isn't getting better? You might have a sinus infection.

Sinus Infection
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PIP review stuff. Forgot I had a charity appt to help me fill out the form today.
1. https://www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/beware-latest-pip-review-form
2. https://mentalhealthandmoneyadvice.org/welfare-benefits/pip-mental-health-guide/help-with-your-pip-claim/how-to-fill-in-the-pip-form/
3. https://mentalhealthandmoneyadvice.org/welfare-benefits/pip-mental-health-guide/help-with-your-pip-claim/supporting-evidence-for-a-pip-claim/
4. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/67446cf2ece939d55ce92fa1/AR1_Personal_Independence_Payment_Review_Form.pdf

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Beware latest PIP AR1 review form

Get the benefits you're entitled to: help with personal independence payment (PIP), universal credit (UC), employment and support allowance (ESA),disability living allowance (DLA). Claims, assessments, reviews, appeals.

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Show threadMx Verda18h ago
https://mentalhealthandmoneyadvice.org/welfare-benefits/pip-mental-health-guide/pip-resources/requesting-evidence-for-pip-letter-template/
Requesting evidence for PIP letter template - The Mental Health and Money Advice service

This letter template can be used to request evidence from medical professionals for a Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claim. Download today.

The Mental Health and Money Advice service
Show threadMx Verda18h ago
https://www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/personal-independence-payment-pip/pip-reviews
PIP reviews

Get the benefits you're entitled to: help with personal independence payment (PIP), universal credit (UC), employment and support allowance (ESA),disability living allowance (DLA). Claims, assessments, reviews, appeals.

Benefits and Work
Show threadMx Verda17h ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7uuRBsnXR8
We Uncovered A Conspiracy To Poison Your Food

YouTube
Show threadMx Verda14h ago
Kids are all nerds.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EYAL2aT6Rww
I asked my students to be creative.This is what I got #art #drawing #students #creative #philosophy

YouTube
Show threadMx Verda14h ago

6:40 literally could apply to the parent as well. How old is the kid? Is this developmentally appropriate regardless of parenting history? Is the parent doing well mentally?
Did something change at school? Are they watching a snotty TV show or streamer encouraging this? Do they have some unmet need they're not communicating?
I'm not a parent (yet?) but I had a terrible childhood. Bits were great, bits were awful, and mostly meh to eurgh. Kids pick up intent.
You could probably use authoritarian techniques sparingly with (GENUINE) intent to help them be who they want to be, in the most sustainable, healthy way possible. Or you could use (perhaps excessively, perhaps expectedly) gentle parenting with the attitude of "but I'm _doing_ what the book _said_! [so it should just *work*!]"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TGymGONI3E

Millennials Are Giving Up On Gentle Parenting

YouTube
Show threadMx Verda14h ago

18:50 again feels like it could apply to the kid too.
We all need the combination of "cause influences effect"
*and* "you are not your behaviours"
*and* "I believe you can choose better".

Authoritarian parenting uses your kid to make you feel better. Overly permissive parenting doesn't help anyone. It's a false dichotomy, ignoring a kid's part in any given situation.
Like... obviously parents need to self-regulate. *and* obviously millennials (and zillennials or whatever) are burned out.
*and* we need to all support parents and carers more.
*and* if talking a bunch isn't working, then obviously they're not listening or overwhelmed or whatever.

*and* like you said, shouting can be the perfect response to an urgent situation.
E.g. I hate my mom's parenting, and it was her best, and it was under extreme duress. Even so, a good example was me walking into the road as a toddler or a bit older. She pulled me back and shouted in fear, which was proportionate to the threat of death by car.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TGymGONI3E

Millennials Are Giving Up On Gentle Parenting

YouTube
Show threadMx Verda9h ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vemiqyyk-RA
Freebirth Influencers are Killing Babies

YouTube
Show threadMx Verda8h ago
Idgi. Why would learning 'need' a brain or neurons and synapses? Learning is adaptation, yeah? So it's information storage, then changing that stored information, then accessing that changed information.
That just means you have anything that can hold and change its own info...?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQa0DowQ_oE
Shocking Discovery That Single Cells and Even Molecules Can Learn and Exhibit Memory

YouTube
Show threadMx Verda8h ago
Reaper Leviathan: 5000 health.
Thermoblade: 40 damage.
125 hits (that connect!) is a bit many.
I think I'll try the Tiger Plant in exterior growbed tactic. Takes longer, but fuck Reapers, mlem.
Show threadMx Verda8h ago
Are shounen stories all martial art therapy?
Show threadIan Turton16h ago
@MxVerda good luck