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Cake day: October 10th, 2023

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  • As someone who is taking Kaiser Permanente to court over their refusal to release documents, let me confirm that grievance coordinators are the most useless wastes of oxygen ever to steal air on this planet. Even having your lawyer send them the actual text of the law they are currently violating, they will refuse to do anything not explicitly outlined and approved by their policy. Fuck the law. Fuck common sense. If it’s not policy, it doesn’t matter.



  • Nah you’re missing the chemistry. The irritant in teargas is an oil, and using water just spreads around the oil. Enough water will work, sure, but you’re going to suffer the whole time. Milk contains lipids and fats that will actually dissolve the irritant, allowing it to be washed away much easier. Soapy water would also work, but then you’re just irritating your face holes all over again. The risk of bacteria feels like a dog whistle though. Just rinse yourself after, like idk a shower or something, and you’ll be fine. We wouldn’t drink it if it was a plague potion.







  • Buddy I never enlisted lmao I’m a civilian welder who has worked with CG/Navy/Army/Air Force on occasion. I even worked directly under homeland security for a while. I’ve seen everything you’re talking about laterally, without any bias from any command or politics threatening my career. I’ve welded in fireman bunks as well as officer cabins. I know what I’m about with US ships.

    Living on the boats for extended times is a pain, but it’s pain for everyone. Yeah an officer gets a cabin and better mess, but a fireman knows all the best corners to disappear in and won’t have 8 pissed off jackasses looking for them if they fuck off for a 15 minute quickie or whatever. The only really carefree son of a bitch I’ve seen on a boat is the captain, and that’s because the boat is the only place they can’t get their ass chewed off for whatever flavor of shit their command is spewing that day. Generally.




  • The bigger difference imo is the brain development due to hormones in the womb. Old TLC program had a whole section on this suggesting it’s why STEM fields are generally male dominated. Turns out hormones that determine biological gender also very much effect the development of the brain, and the male chemicals tend to develop the spatial reasoning part of the brain faster/more thoroughly than those who get don’t get the male chemicals and stay female. This average higher spatial reasoning capacity creates an advantage in tasks or objectives where complex visualizations are necessary, like visualizing chess moves in your head.

    It’s not some massive, overwhelming difference, but it’s enough to tilt the table. Play out that average enough and you have 42 women out of 2500 chess grandmasters