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@PTBwrites Countries that offered telehealth abortion during covid made it permanent, i.e. England and Wales in 2022, also France. Most countries that today require in-person visits didn't waive them for covid.

I wonder if Sen. Smith realizes that for women to "talk to their own doctors" - and not be subject to their partners mail-ordering abortion-inducing drugs and covertly slipping it to them - the US would need to join the rest of the world in reinstating in-person requirements

@DiamonDie @mauve_sky Bromelain has the same issues as ibuprofen. It's an insecticide that indiscriminately cleaves proteins. This actually kills the cells recruited to heal the sprain. You're fighting your own body's repair mechanisms.

@mauve_sky And yet bromelain is the best treatment by far.

so it turns out how to treat a suspected ankle sprain is kinda contentious! the updated guidelines say no ice no ibuprofen for first 72 hours and people have RICE (rest, ice, compression, elevation) so deeply entrenched that they are horrified to hear if you aren’t icing

@anderssandberg I am not a libertarian but I, too, want to eat lab grown meat. "It's competition" is NOT a good reason. Both conservatives and liberals are and should be against government-granted monopolies, not just libertarians.

I am a libertarian. I want the government out of my bedroom and my wallet. And I want to eat lab grown meat if I want to.

@stephmurrayyyy 100%. In the younger days they could actually feed whilst I was mostly asleep, I would barely wake up at all. Much better than getting out of bed to do it, being full awake, and then having to fall back to sleep. But then when they're toddlers they become horrible bedhogs, haha

In my experience cosleeping helps improve sleep (relative to the alternative) early on when babies are nursing constantly but eventually reaches an inflection point where it starts to hinder good sleep (relative to the alternative).

@moultano When my eldest got a tablet there was no YouTube Kids and there was no android parental controls yet. It's kind of wild to me parents are freaking out *now*, that was a decade ago!

This makes me wonder, how many parents with a youtube addicted kid didn't care enough to prevent that, and how many didn't know how? It is pretty easy to lock down the device to what you think is a worthwhile use of their time, but nobody else is going to decide or do it for you.

@AptExplanations @mbateman Show me the current research where they're teased out this particular use of an ipad versus typical use. I'll wait.

@mbateman Man this guy looked at the current research and said "nah im gonna keep debilitating my kids brains"

I strongly recommend giving a 4yo an iPad, strictly for the child’s sake. Details in next reply.

@orphicresonance In the UK they teach printing at 4 and then cursive at 5. Both mine started in state school originally so they exclusively write in cursive. They actually don't really know how to print tbh...

Can the experienced teachers/homeschoolers tell me if it’s bad for a five year old to start learning cursive even though her printing is Not Good? She’s asking if she can learn cursive when she turns five I know the waldorf people *start* with cursive but that’s at what, 6, 7?

@pastasnack_e @Sam_Dumitriu I suspect this is adaptive in the ancestral environment to keep your kids from eating the poisonous frog eggs... nowadays not so much!

I think @Sam_Dumitriu actually nails it here: "Men and women alike both massively overestimate the risks from a nuclear accident – men just have a lower threshold for seeing nuclear as safe, just as they have a lower threshold for seeing motorcycling as safe."

Women: 👏 do 👏 better! #YesAllWomen

@ryan_jamieson @__apf__ @ThymeToBeBorn Homemade pizza rolls would go over fine but the *homemade* aspect is itself not the draw. My daughter's favourite dish is a roasted veg and bean salad for but I'm not making that for sleepovers because I don't want to risk hungry kids. Home-made mac & cheese is my go-to.

@__apf__ @ThymeToBeBorn Kids love all sorts of stuff if given the chance. Many parents, unfortunately, don't have the time to educate kids on what actual, real homemade food can taste like and so they subsist on processed things instead.

"All your dad's friends wanted to come to my house, because I made homemade food." --my grandma Unimaginable. No kid wants someone else's homemade food. Unheard of. When there's a sleepover I bust out the pizza rolls. What were the other moms making when my grandma was young?

@VVBellerose @NinaPanickssery Conveyor belt sushi is basically this. The food comes on the belt and you drop your used plates in a hole. No human involved. When you think about it having a human whose whole job it is to bring food like 10 metres from the kitchen is a bit absurd.

@NinaPanickssery It depends on how good the robot waiters are. If they're some kind of hyper-realistic androids it kind of changes things, but otherwise robot waiters are a bit depersonalized I said human overall

would you prefer robot waiters all else equal (price, food, location, etc)?

@jamesstout This is true but it's also true they're a lot less popular. I was very excited when grocery stores started carrying poppyseed bagels this year for the first time ever! (Previously only available from bakeries.) Now I just hope strawberry cream cheese is the next import.

People have been having bagels, or beigels, in London since the 19th century

@kbloomie94 @ThymeToBeBorn Sleep regressions aren't real though so no narrowing down actually occured.

@ThymeToBeBorn Dude idk…. The first 9 months that H labeled app was SCARY spot on. Our lives were IMMEDIATELY simplified and it took out the stress of the guess for naps from 2-9 months. Even the regressions were easier bc we could narrow down teething/hungry/diapers quicker.

The reason you should look up a chart of "wake windows" is because before you have a baby you might be so clueless (as I was) that you don't even know stuff like "babies tend to consolidate to 2 naps a day around 9 months" or "newborns can't stay awake that long or they get fussy."

@lws3737 @alexisgallagher So you want the food to taste bad is what you're saying.

@alexisgallagher Really neat idea, but needs sugar and salt limitation per meal, otherwise optimal taste per calorie always leads to a meal too high in salt/sugar

We were discussing restaurant concepts and here is one of my two ideas. The name of the restaurant: Macros. You arrive. There is no menu. Instead you find a simple mechanical device with four sliders, labeled Protein, Fat, Carbs, and Calories. As you set the desired quantity in grams for each macronutrient, the Calorie slider updates in tandem. Or you can set calories and two macros, and the remaining macros slider updates. It updates with a gentle floating motion, not incrementally as you slide. The mechanism is very clever. Then you are served a meal which matches your desired macronutrient composition, to within 1%, and it is delicious. Critics hate this restaurant. They call it the anti-food, the prioritization of nutrition over culinary art. But they are blind because it is the opposite of that. Chefs love to work at Macros because it provides them what any truly dedicated artist needs: absolute liberty, under strict constraint. The chef has complete freedom to serve you anything at all which meets the macro constraint. You might get pasta. You might get sashimi. You might get a hearty porridge, enlivened with dried fruits. You might get a single oyster, and a small glass of something pungent which the chef declines to name. You might be served the same dish as the man at the next table, and find, on tasting it, that it is not the same dish at all. Your only guarantee is that it will precisely meet your stated numerical requirements. But on reflection patrons often find that it reveals their unstated ones as well, and transcends them. The critics are correct that Macros is the opposite of culinary art. They have only failed to notice which opposite. When the restaurant closes for the night, the device is left as the last diner set it. The staff consider it bad luck to return the sliders to zero. In the morning, the first chef to arrive studies the numbers a moment, then begins.

@drterrysimpson The UK doesn't do birth dose unless maternal infection is confirmed or heb B status unk. There's a weaker case for birth dose in the US whose vaccination programme means most women giving birth additionally have been vaccinated, meaning likelihood of maternal transmission is low.

key facts that (1) infant hepatitis B is much more likely to become lifelong disease, (2) exposure can occur in households without any “high‑risk lifestyle,” and (3) the low number of infant infections is in large part a success of vaccination, not proof the vaccine is pointless.

@jordanmcgillis @ckoopman @TDaltonC @abundanceinst BTW my kids hated the alcohol and my teen recently uninstalled TikTok after trying it a bit because he decided he didn't enjoy it. Exposure with parents around can often be a form of innoculation.

@jordanmcgillis @ckoopman @TDaltonC @abundanceinst The same is true for social media. If social media is dangerous- especially if it's dangerous- it's in society's interest for first exposure to occur *with* parental supervision and guidance. By banning it you *prevent* parents from teaching their kids internet safety.

There’s a point that I didn’t get to make my WSJ piece this week that I want to make on my own. Australia just executed the purest version of what I am warning about. No parental override. No opt-in. A flat ban on under-16s holding social media accounts. And it is enforced on the companies. This is decidedly NOT pro-family. 🧵

@MamaXLife1 @stephmurrayyyy The term as originally coined was indeed for fixed events. Transient unpredictable variability is a lot more defensible but doesn't require tracking; there's no point in tracking something unpredictable! nytimes.com/2020/04/15/par…

@DisplayNom @stephmurrayyyy Sleep regressions are mostly informal labels for normal variability in infant sleep, not universal fixed events, and for easier routine tracking you can also use the Baby Soma app.

The sweetspot for parenting advice is mom of five or six+ but whose youngest is still under four. Also they can't have like a blog or be an influencer or anything. Gotta go full normie.

@stephmurrayyyy True but some of this isn't real, they're basically just memes. Like the 4 month sleep regression has no data supporting it, there's no pattern in aggregate. The baby will fuss as all babies do at 3.5 months or 5 months and they'll be like "aha as the great Plooj predicted."

Ideally they have one child whose out of the house or close to it. Need the numbers + range + proximity to early years = true wisdom.

@Kirsten3531 Deffo vibes

In 2023 post-FTX I wanted to make EA more legible. Who are these EAs? Mostly strangely earnest young adults Now I want to make EA less legible. I don't want to publish interviews with EAs about their unique wedding vows without changing their names Did I change or did the vibe?