Gaashk
4hr ago
The most famous example Jesus used was a Samaritan, who were the Jews' outgroup.
Gaashk
4hr ago
Enjoy!
We're two teachers and three children on summer break, enjoying a birthday, an anniversary, and the only babysitting we ever get, so we will be visiting mountains, restaurants, swimming, and not fasting. But I'm being a lapsed Orthodox, and most American Orthodox will be fasting until June 29th, some into July, depending on jurisdiction.
Gaashk
5hr ago
They say that the miscarriages are God's responsibility, whereas the IVF fetuses are the parents' and doctors' responsibility, which is different. It isn't necessarily wrong for God to allow smallpox, but if you go and re-release it, you will be doing wrong.
Gaashk
5hr ago
Two people I heard from in person, off the internet:
- Nurse for an extreme case of fetal alcohol syndrome, needs 24/7 nursing care (three full time adults?), cannot communicate, hooked up to various medical apparatuses, was already 8 or so, with no expectations of dying any time soon
- Sisters at a high school, who were part time caretakers for their other sister, who had various health problems that had left her basically without an immune system. The state was also paying for additional care, and they were carers, paid by the state as well. They did sound somewhat like indentured servants to their family dysfunction. Their father had already moved to another state, and during high school one of the daughters moved to join him.
Having a baby with Down's syndrome is probably fine, and it's a sin to kill it. But there are situations that medical science allowed and which it perpetuates, which are basically black holes of suffering, and which society should not subsidize.
Gaashk
6hr ago
Read St Athenasius "On the Incarnation" if you're interested. "God became man by nature that man might become god by grace"
Gaashk
7hr ago
In America at least, standards for what constitutes abuse or neglect are indeed quite high, such that it could feel like enslavement if the relationship doesn't eventually become reciprocal.
Gaashk
19hr ago
What I've heard from couples trying to adopt kids 5 - 12 is that the state's priority is to reunite them with relatives, and even if they've been with a new family for a year, if they find someone in another state who's related and take them in, or their older sibling reaches the age of majority, the state will move them and place them there instead.
Gaashk
22hr ago
Also, the people getting upset about medical abortions could probably easily prevent them by pledging to adopt and raise Down children.
Probably not, since from the point of view of a woman who wants children, but not this child, the recovery is much shorter for abortion than giving birth full term, and it's more common amongst older mothers, who have less time to lose.
Gaashk
22hr ago
That's interesting, and exactly opposite my intuitions. I think that abortion in general is wrong, but that abortion for a life long disability is much more relatable and grey than abortion because the mother doesn't want to give birth to it (assuming the pregnancy and mother are generally healthy and normal).
Gaashk
1d ago
I thought that one was interesting, but incomplete. I wanted him to go on and think it through in more depth.
Gaashk
2d ago
It's great there's a proper website now, with estimated reading lengths and same page ratings.
I was basically agreeing, but for that clip you don't even have to go into aging at all.
I don't know anything about Euphoria either, but it sounds like she thought she would like it, thought it would be female gaze compatible, but then it wasn't. Like, I tried watching Outlander, enjoyed the love interest, enjoyed the costumes, but did not enjoy the rape and torture. So I stopped watching, but if I were a media vlogger, I would have stopped watching and also complained about the rape and torture on the way out.
Edit: looking at the trailer, it does look like the initial pitch to viewers is a lesbian romance between Zendaya and a flat chested blond girl, and them doing drugs together. It does look kind of like it might be a gender reversed version of what they were ineptly doing with Star Wars. "But what if we could reel in more young men with BOOBS though?"
Gaashk
2d ago
You don't even have to go that far. The vlogger linked in the OP is rather flat chested, and still sometimes wears very deep cut blouses anyway, clearly visible in her thumbnails. She does not enjoy watching more voluptuous women looking sexy. Men also complain about media that flaunts being for someone with opposing preferences when they didn't think it would be going in. She seems to feel that way about Euphoria.
The main issue here is that this idea, at least on the surface is that it seems to be fundamentally in conflict with the the sexual revolution and sex positivity of many previous & current progressive movements.
Yes, Gen Z video essay women and Boomer hippie free sex women disagree about a decent number of things. I'm unfamiliar with that specific Youtuber, the clip you linked to makes it sound like she's mildly disapproving of the female social media influencers who wield their sexuality to perform both trad wife and Only Fans.
Edit: looking at her Youtube thumbnails, she probably has mixed feelings about her own desire to generate more clicks by wearing extremely low cut blouses, but then in the actual video she's hiding behind a large microphone. She wants to be a serious writer and book reviewer who isn't just liked for her looks, but also to get some attention based of of her looks, because it's a savage competitive market out there. This isn't fair, for sure, but performance and storytelling in general aren't, especially among young women.
Gaashk
5d ago
Fair. My father cooked that way for Saint Patrick's Day only, and otherwise made normal stews. I cooked that way a couple of times, and had to throw the meat water into the yard refuse pit, not the normal trash, for decomposition, because it was too wet for the normal trash, and too greasy for the septic system. I wonder if they cook that way in cities, or if it's a country bumpkin thing, for the kind of people with a yard refuse pit? I assume some were poor enough they would eat the broth even though it isn't very good.
I do get the impression that both Irish and Scottish cook fires were literally just fireplaces, not ovens or stoves, for a surprisingly long amount of time. Reading Scottish novels from the late 19th Century, the rural folk are always frying oat cakes over the fire, for instance, rather than ever baking bread.
Gaashk
5d ago
Corned beef and cabbage don't form much of a broth; I might pour a bit over the potatoes for seasoning, but it is indeed meat water. My husband, of Slavic descent, also thought it weird and has insisted that we start cooking even the corned beef for St Patrick's Day with some combination of crock pot and roasting, without the cabbage, which smells weird boiled.
Do you eat stew? That seems like the most archotypical version.
We always boiled corned beef with cabbage and potatoes. Maybe it's an Irish thing?
Edit: Also, isn't that the basis of a lot of crock pot cooking? Making kind of a rudimentary stew by cooking the meat and vegetables in broth for a long time. I am confused about the "bacon," but I think American bacon is different from other places, I tried a center cut bacon, and it was more like ham.
Gaashk
8d ago
M impression is that it isn't necessarily more expensive relative to incomes than in the past (well, it is compared to the immediately pre-Covid past, but the generational past), but more that we've been sold a story of getting richer, and are not richer relative to the price of ground beef.
Gaashk
8d ago
Is this a form that might plausibly be filled out by a social worker on someone's behalf, while they aren't present?
Gaashk
11d ago
Having to provide constant supervision for up to 13 years, depending on the specific local, is in fact extremely limiting, especially if there are a lot of rules about babysitting and so babysitters are difficult to obtain outside of 8 - 5 childcare hours (and difficult within those hours too outside of specific programs. I expect to obtain ~4 hrs of outsourced childcare over the next two months).
Gaashk
11d ago
Not particularly. It's neither kind nor unkind. It's not the kind of thing to think about when wondering whether a man is kind.
It looked like much of the skill of ultrasound specialists was in moving the device around to get the correct locations in real time, and then they would mark it off on their checklist, and a doctor would look at it later (but also they already have an opinion on morality in the moment). So an LLM could replace the analysis, but not the moving the device around while jostling the item being scanned (at least for pregnancies).
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