In case anyone wants to learn more, there’s a list of related reproductive organs on Wikipedia. (NSFW, obviously.) It’s pretty detailed.

My pet theory about '50s recipes is that they were thought up by subjugated housewives who had few outlets for expressing their bitter feelings toward their situations. Think about it -

Women in the United States in 1950s couldn’t have their own bank accounts, beating your wife was considered normal, and no-fault divorce didn’t exist in the country yet. Women were cloistered at home, made in charge of domestic work and child-rearing, which heavily limited their freedom.

So imagine it: you’re made to spend almost all of your time inside your house, taking care of several kids (because baby boom), and you’re solely in charge of ALL the cleaning and cooking. Your social interaction is largely limited to tupperware parties and events that involve your kids. You have zero time for hobbies. Even if you did, your ability to pursue one would be entirely contingent on whether or not your husband approves - because most hobbies cost money, and your husband has control over that.

Now you’re spending yet another afternoon scrubbing the pitstains out of your husband’s laundry, which smelled oddly like perfume. Moments ago, he phoned you to say that he’s “staying late” again today. Two of your kids decide to start a screeching contest, which scares the baby and now she’s crying. At least your twins are playing outside, not that you have any clue where they are exactly, but you are almost certain that they’ll be home by supper. You’re also almost certain that they’ll come home with salmonella.

“Knock it off!” you yell to the kids, as you pick up the crying baby and pat her on the back. The house returns to peace as her cries become soft mews. You attempt to regain your previous train of thought.

Supper, you think, I’ve still got to plan supper.

You swaddle the baby up in your arms as you walk to the pantry. After having to ration food just a few years ago, the sight of your kitchen’s diversity brings you a bit of pride. You grew up having to make do with what you had, but modern supermarkets give you an opportunity to explore whole new ingredients. Some people go for recipe books, but you? You find you’re always personalizing recipes anyway. And just like that, without even trying, cooking the family meals has become the sole outlet for your creativity.

As you go through the shelf trying to think of what can go with what else, a sudden crash! erupts from the living room. The kids broke a lamp. The baby begins to cry again.

The older kids are sent to their room and the baby is rocked to sleep, before being placed into her bassinet with the tender, gentle care one would have when setting down a glass of nitroglycerin. You return to the kitchen, your blood pressure higher, unable to recall what ideas you had thought just moments before. Wait you think, as you notice how much mayonnaise you have. Waaaaait… You glance at the boxes of gelatin. What if… Nah, that’d probably be awful.

The door slams. The baby starts up. The twins run into the kitchen, covered in mud. One opens his hands while the other proudly announces, “Mommy, look! We found a frog!”

Seconds later, a terrified amphibian leaps behind the fridge.

You close your eyes, rub your temples, take a deep breath, then look back at the shelves.

You know what? Screw it. I’m gonna cook whatever I want. If they want something else, they can pick up an apron and cook it themselves.

And that, my friends, is how I imagine horrible 1950s recipes began.

Como esta la vida en Mexico hoy en dia? A veces me pregunto si deberia mejor mudarme alli. Me da miedo todo lo que pasa en los ee.uu, pero cuanto mas oigo hablar de la presidente de Mexico, mas esperanza tengo sobre su pais.

I really hope the rest of the world leaders keep this at the forefront of their mind: Trump doesn’t keep his word. Also, Trump doesn’t pay his debts.

Attempting to make ANY deal with him is foolish. The wisest move is to expect him to screw over anyone who attempts to “work with” him, because unless you’re holding his purse strings, he’ll use you and lose you at his soonest opportunity. He is a cancer cell stealing resources from all the healthy cells around him - expect him to give nothing and take everything for his own gain.

I know to some that is “preaching to the choir,” but living in the U.S. at a time like this, I really don’t know who’s been charmed by his BS vs who can see what’s really going on. I imagine those outside the U.S. have better perspective, but I can’t just expect people to be rational anymore.

Most children have no idea how sexuality or genders work anyway

So all the kids who make fun of the “fairy boy” or “butch girl” don’t have pre-existing knowledge of gender and sexuality expectations?

Then why aren’t bullies targeting girls for dressing up in boas and singing pop? Why aren’t boys made fun of for cutting their hair short and liking sports? Put a boy in the first scenario and a girl in the second, and other kids will point them out as being “different.”

If kids have “no idea how sexuality or genders work” then what, exactly, makes this type of discrimination possible?

On an unrelated note, your understanding of children in general is absolutely baffling. It’s clear you aren’t around kids much, don’t remember your own childhood, and know diddly squat about child development. Kids are much smarter than you think.

Ugh, I just had a flashback to middle school, when my very attractive friend (who was already a model) complained that she was ugly because of an itty, bitty little zit she got one day.

Meanwhile I sat there, a relative pizza-face, thinking: Seriously? If you are ugly, what does that make the rest of us?

But good news about crafters.

Time to double-down on making ironic kitsch that say violent things but in a cute, folksy way. Like a pretty sign with script letters and flowers adorning the edges, saying Deny, Defend, Depose instead of Live, Laugh, Love.

It sounds like they mean a certain procedure that’s done to animals that cuts them off from the influence of hormones.

I’m glad to be of service.

I always figured mermaids would be more like cetaceans than fish. Having scales on their tails would be inaccurate, but breathing air, growing hair, and having a horizontal tail fluke are all in-line with mammals/cetaceans.

Not to mention, it would mean mermaids would have regular genitals (albeit hidden inside a genital fold, to increase hydrodynamics.) It would also mean they’d have normal placental pregnancies.

So that’s, uhh… a thing to consider.

I work with preschoolers. Mainly autistic preschoolers.

It would be a huge help if the makers of slime would go back to making unscented versions. Whenever I look in stores for these things, it’s like companies straight up stopped manufacturing anything without a scent.

I’m trying to discourage kids from putting toys in their mouths, especially sticky toys that tend to gather all sorts of oils and gunk through regular play. It would be so much easier if everything out there didn’t smell like candy.

Please forgive them, such a concept is unheard of back where we come from.

This, but at legal dispensaries.

Not even joking. I don’t know if it’s my state’s specific laws or what, but the dispensary cashier can either process your card like an ATM (they round up to the nearest $10, then give you the change) or they can process cash.

There is a third option, but it involves downloading an app specifically to pay for cannabis. And… yeah, I’m not doing that.

Isn’t that the point? They want people to work in the private sector instead.

It doesn’t matter that it will probably cost the government loads more to contract skilled workers from the private sector when the need inevitably arises. Long-term consequences don’t even occur in the minds of those currently in charge.

Then with a new middle man, the private business owners’ pockets get lined from all the work these people would’ve done anyway. In the end, isn’t that what’s really important in life? Not working to support the good of your own country, but rather, working to make the rich even richer? So fulfilling.

I know you’re joking, but clearly you’ve never seen it performed by a rando with a guitar in a nursing home.

For the residents, clapping to Sweet Caroline is the highlight of their day.

Not that there’s a high standard in nursing homes, but that song in particular seems to light the people up. Considering what hell such places can be, I can’t help but appreciate the heart-lifting power of Sweet Caroline.

I think OP mentioned “a generation of Americans” because that’s the example they thought of, not because they think being American made the people exceptional.

You’re not wrong though - a lot of Americans definitely seem to think that just “being American” is some kind of accomplishment in and of itself. Meritless jingoism is intense here.

But I don’t see it being related to the previous comment.

How weird. It’s almost like Lemmy isn’t a single individual who can’t get their story straight, but rather a collective of different people who have different opinions, some of which contradict each other.

But confusion has caused delays. Ben McLane, a fire crew captain for the U.S. Forest Service in Washington state, said uncertainty over whether firefighters are exempt from the freeze stalled the hiring process for seasonal wildland firefighter positions.

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“We’re very confused, and we’re not being told anything,” he said. “I don’t know whose job it is to say that firefighters are an essential aspect for public safety and are exempt from the hiring freeze. But whoever’s job it is, they need to say it, because if they don’t, then there will be situations where people call 911 and there aren’t enough firefighters to go around.”

This is what happens when reality is repeatedly contested, when so-called “leaders” lie and obfuscate what’s really going on. All the rapid-fire news sent out since this election was called, deliberately overdone to confuse us, has led to this consequence.

Now, due to a lack of clarity about changes in government hiring, we’re got people with both the skill and the desire to be firefighters, who are not signing up to fight fires. Even with Trump leaving a loophole, its effectiveness is zero because everything Trump says appears to be liable to change. Cult-members may hold firm to his ever-changing whims, but people who live in reality have to make realistic calls. The most realistic call is to go by his history, and Trump’s history shows him lying, backpedaling, and flip-flopping more than a fish on a pier.

I can’t blame anyone for being confused about what’s going on, nor can I blame anyone for seeing what is happening and choosing to get out of the way before the wrecking ball hits.

The only reliable thing about this administration is its unreliability, and having fewer firefighters is only one consequence of that.

In my experience, the situation created significant tension as I was navigating policies and expectations that conflicted with my personal beliefs and professional judgment

Exactly what kind of “professional judgment” does a teacher bring to this situation? Unless they’re being consulted about a puberty issue, a student being transgender shouldn’t make a difference in how a teacher teaches them, right? Or is she implying that being a teacher makes her more knowledgable about gender, somehow?

If she were the school psychologist, I might buy that she has “professional judgment” worth valuing. But for a teacher (especially one who goes on to appeal to religion in the very next sentence), it sounds like weasel words that were tacked on. She probably knew that simply saying her “personal beliefs” caused her conflict would’ve sounded too weak as an argument. So, she put in the empty phrase “professional judgment,” knowing full well that she won’t get called out on it by anyone with power.

Women outnumber men

Wait, did the topic of the conversation change? Because China absolutely does not have more women than men.