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The article says "Although long courses of antibiotics were once thought to prevent resistance, we now know that overuse actually causes more resistance to develop." I haven't tracked down that claim though - I heard the same as you.
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This sort of article isn't really part of the "Neat" aspect of "Neatorama". And the summary leaves out that it was a black student who "believes he was singled out in class because of his race, and that he feared for his safety when police were called", and that 'More than 100 faculty members signed a letter to the student newspaper “condemning the misuse of police in the classroom, calling out the institutional racism behind it, and telling you, our students, that we are with you.”' - quotes from https://triblive.com/news/world/ball-state-professor-suspended-for-calling-police-on-black-student/ .
Which makes it rather not neat.
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So not necessary. At least, not for our kids. Nor the preschool teachers. (What at they going to do - sync their phones they don't carry because the kids will want to play with them all the time to all of the diapers in the room? And how do they know *which* kid is wet?) Plus, do I still get the notice about a discarded wet one which I wrapped up but haven't discarded yet because the baby needed soothing?
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The term "eugenics" applies only to humans. Using it to mean simply "selective breeding" diminishes the atrocities done in the name of eugenics. Or are you a kook who accuses everyone who had the polio shot or took penicillin of committing genocide?
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Our library has a bunch of golf pencils for kids to use. No erasers. We've got colored pencils at home, with no erasers. I've even got some regular pencils (for drafting) with no pencils. So our kids won't come up with that conclusion.
"I can get it myself" are truly magical words.
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There's 10 years of experience with the common external power supply memo of understanding - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_external_power_supply - to suggest that what you say isn't true. Apple complies by including an adaptor. It's a lot easier to have charging stations (eg, the local science museum here in Sweden) when only one or two plugs are needed. Ahh, those poor car companies who can't innovate in fuel nozzle technology - only available from Ford™ gas stations.
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We politely ignored the severe warnings about co-sleeping, on account of wanting to keep our sanity. Our littlest had such difficulty sleeping for the first 10 months. He would wake every two hours then cry. He could sleep in the stroller, but walking for hours, day and night, was exhausting - to the point of extreme frustration in the parents. Then we tried co-sleeping. That worked. He would start to wake, I would wake, jiggle his butt, hum a bit, and he would return to sleep, without 30+ minutes of crying. Our frustration levels greatly decreased as our sleep increased. Also, we don't smoke, drink, etc. and kept the pillow count low. (My wife can't co-sleep as she wakes too easily, so I and the baby co-slept on a bed in the baby's room.)
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To give more detail, the women is not requesting a legally recognized marriage. For that, I shrug. People have been "marrying" all sorts of things since forever.
However, if she did want it legally recognized, then what I described gives an easy out for the authorities because legally recognized marriage requires consent. On the other hand, there is no need for state recognition of one's ability to have sex. There are prohibitions on sex with underage minors, sex with people unable to give consent, and sex with animals, among others. But there is not a requirement for consent for everything - including inanimate objects - involved in a sex act.
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If the plane consents - and it must be informed consent - then I have no problem with it.
But people in a coma can't consent to marriage (eg, http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2013/10/can-a-person-in-a-vegetative-state-get-married/ - "Recently in Illinois, a woman, Colette Purifoy, has been denied a marriage license because her fiancé, John Morris, who is in a vegetative state, cannot sign the marriage form and consent"), so I don't see why planes should be allowed to be forced into a non-consensual marriage.
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My Dad also cut off fingers in multiple table saw accidents. They were reattached. He still didn't learn good caution. My Mom got in the habit of always being there when he used the saw.
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