Stella C.

I'm not married to my opinions. I throw them out here to see if someone can convince me otherwise. If they can show me I'm wrong, I update my opinion. In some cases, I'm really hoping someone will show me I'm wrong, because there are things I don't want to be right about.

@anishmoonka Cue the stoners telling me that alcoholics are worse and no one is mean to them

@anishmoonka Cue the stoners crying about how unfair this study is

The research behind this is wild. Your sperm carries a set of instructions that tell your genes when to turn on and off. A Duke University study found that THC rewrites those instructions. The more weed in your system, the bigger the changes. It goes straight for the genes your future embryo needs in its first week of life. I had to read the "day 3 crash" part twice. For the first three days after fertilization, an embryo runs entirely on the mother's DNA. Day 3, the father's genes switch on. If those genes carry cannabis damage, the embryo just stops growing. Fertility doctors see this happen in their labs: embryos that fertilized fine and looked healthy on day 2 go completely still by day 5. Boston University tracked 1,535 couples trying to have a baby. Men who smoked weed once a week or more doubled their partner's miscarriage risk. That number held up even when the woman herself never touched cannabis. And the miscarriages clustered in the first 8 weeks, right when the father's damaged DNA would be doing the most harm. Duke also found that the specific genes THC alters in sperm overlap with genes linked to autism. One of those genes, called DLGAP2, helps brain cells communicate with each other. It was changed in cannabis users' sperm. When researchers bred THC-exposed male rats and checked their offspring, the same altered gene pattern showed up in the pups' brains. The damage crossed a generation. Weed has gotten way stronger over the last 30 years. THC content was about 4% in the 1990s but nearly quadrupled to 15% by 2018, and modern dispensary strains regularly sit at 20-30%. Concentrates go up to 95%. Quitting for about 11 weeks (one full cycle of sperm production) reverses some of the DNA changes. Not all of them. Duke's lead researcher says men should stop at least 6 months before trying for a baby. Half of your kid's genetic blueprint comes from you, and right now, THC is editing that blueprint before conception even happens.

@atensnut lol no it's not

OMG!! Bee Gees without music 😂😂😂

She's delighted. This is completely consistent with what they want already, but now they can blame outside factors.

@brianstelter Delusion or dishonesty? Either way, it's shameful.

Eric Swalwell ending his bid for California governor is, among other things, a testament to the power of investigative reporting

@MostlyPeaceful Seriously...what do they think our choices are?

Long time Trump supporter here. Not a fan of the photo he posted. I’ll now be voting for the people pushing the satanic agenda of abortion and transgenderism.

@JamesAFurey Praying for you

I have an interview for a Catholic school principalship on Thursday. I’ve had a series of career near-misses recently. I really hope that ends soon.

@ick_real like, you picked up the phone and called their family's house and asked for them if someone else answered the phone

@ick_real phone

People who were teenagers before social media existed… how did you communicate with your friends???

@RobProvince Me neither and i'm glad

Literally no idea who these people are.

@GenXReaction @pregnantman666 @karldinmanfor 👏👏👏👏👏

Who cares if people find you revolting? Just don't cut 13 year old girls tits off/castrate boys, steal girls sports, put men in prison/homeless shelters/breast feeding groups/locker rooms/bathrooms with women+girls, try to guilt gay men into sleeping with women, and go about your life not worrying about who finds you gross-like everyone else on earth has to do.

I'm a man. I love everything about being a man. I have straight male friends. I date other men. My life is all about the male experience and masculinity. A man who pretends he's a woman, or a woman trying to cosplay a man - both are repulsive and I want nothing to do with them.

The only thing allowing Marxism to survive as some kind of belief system is a steady supply of people who desire and love to be totally disconnected from reality.

@sarasteinmd @ValerieAnne1970 And yet, what does that have to do with anything he said?

@ValerieAnne1970 And yet, Dan has never had polio. Dan never had smallpox. Dan never had hepatitis B Dan never had diphtheria Dan never had tetanus Dan never had whooping cough Dan is alive. Not sure if Dan had chickenpox and measles because not sure how old he is.

🚨SHOCKING CONFESSION: Former Cleveland Clinic Medical Director Dr. Daniel Neides breaks down in tears, apologizing to ALL his vaccinated patients. "I didn’t provide informed consent…ABSOLUTELY DEPLORABLE on my part and I apologize to my patients."

Back in the 90's I was into New Age stuff, and I attended classes with a guy who would channel this entity that actually had some pretty dang useful info. Anyway, there were these two female friends (I thought) also taking the class, and they asked a question about their relationship. The entity spilled the beans that they were gay, and it said that one of them had got involved with the other one because she had been hurt by men and she thought a woman would be safer. And the woman wasn't mad, she seemed to feel seen. That was the first time I had ever heard anything even remotely close to that line of thought. I could hardly believe it, it was directly against everything I had ever been taught.

Below is a reasonable, common question. There's nothing wrong with this question. Nothing "phobic." She's also right to notice it. It *is true* that we see a lot of gay men dating very feminine men, and gay women dating very masculine women. She's not wrong, and you know she's not. So why is that? Here are my thoughts. There's more to this than a tweet can do. I can't capture every jot and tittle, so don't jump on me, OK? 1. Men--the vast majority of gay men are attracted to masculinity. The biggest fantasy of gay men is to be "taken" by a straight man. Fact. Now, this can't happen. In reality, the majority of homosexuals are more on the effeminate side than the masculine side. (The "not all" you're looking for is already implied in that sentence, so don't ask for it or I'll scold you hard). It's numbers. Most of us want what we are not. Most of us are more effeminate than we are butch. So we date who and what we can. We compromise. This is a broad, reductive sketch, and it's not meant to be more than that. 2. Women-(you're going to really hate this). I think lesbianism is different from male homosexuality. I don't believe that as many lesbians are genuinely sexually attracted to females hardcore the way gay men are really, really turned on by men and male bodies. I think many of them *think* they are. But they end up dating "Pat" or "Barb," who is more masculine than most gay men, and is functionally "male" in terms of her bearing, her interests, her tools, etc. I think, deep down, unconsciously, these lesbians want a man. They see "Barb" as a "safe man." It's a compromise. Now, go apeshit with the accusations-I'm going to the grocery store. -Josh

@InternetH0F I am filled with hate

Why do parents act like their kids will never grow up and be stuck with the atrocious name they've been given

@ronin21btc Now that my husband and I have kids, we understand there were good reasons for some of those sayings.

Waking up to the fact boomers were awful at being parents

@TrumpsHurricane Same thing that's happening to you

What happened to Ellen DeGeneres ??

@bankertobuilder absolutely gorgeous

Small windows with shutters are too 1920s Dark green is too 1960s Tall shrubs are too 1980s We updated all the old, tacky features on this house and made it into a modern masterpiece How did we do?

Boy I tell you what you give the journos 10 years to chase down leads and a half dozen whistle blowers on a silver platter and political expediency and by god they will break the story.