If only it wasn't for planned obsolescence. Then I could own a well made, long lasting product.

If only everything new coming out wasn't "smart" then I could fix it myself (or take it to a generic guy who'll fix it way cheaper with non branded parts).

If only people remembered how that used to be the expectation we had when buying big ticket items.

Can't have that, instead you can have endless bills to pay for shitty garbage. Think they'll make it better? Nope they'll make it even shittier then charge you for "damaging" it when it breaks.

2015. I was a security manager at a public transport hub. We had a homeless guy who wore dresses and used the women's rest rooms.

He was well touched in the head. Not sure if he actually thought he was a women and he never (as far as I know) did anything predatory but we got called pretty quick everytime he went in the restrooms and we'd drag him out.... so it's not like he had much opportunity.

Moral of the story is don't ingest shit when you don't know where it's from or how it's processed. Most people here alrrady seem to get that for food and water. I don't know why tea would be surprising (also tea leaves tend to hold onto the fluoride that's in the water you use on the plants).

If you want tea, organically grow a camillia bush and some herbs.

There's an article that suggests that diclofenac might be used in constructed wetlands to improve efficiency. So depending on what's in the tea maybe it gets uptaken by plants and stored in the leaves?

The problem is things like holodomor grief out the ones that will stand up to defend themselves and their people.

Then you're essentially left with the donkey from animal farm: they can see what's happening but don't think it can be stopped. Only endured.

Your not wrong. The first words out of every shitty mother's/authority abusers mouth when they can't deny anymore is "I was doing my best". No, you did what was best for you.

I told my husband if I ever tell our kids I "did my best" he should slap me. That shit is not acceptable.

Moose isn't an option where I am. And beef isn't a regular option unless I want to buy it from the shops (no thanks). Not much cattle farming where I am so can't really buy fresh from the farmer like we do with sheep

anecdotally - my iron levels used to always sit at the lower end of the healthy levels and would absolutely tank whenever I was pregnant. Supplements barely helped even with a focus on iron rich food.

With my last pregnancy I said "fuck the doctors, they're help isn't doing shit" its probably some trace element I'm missing out on.

I started taking 2 tablespoons of Black Strap Molassess everyday. a few days in I felt so much better. I dropped it down to 1 or 2 teaspoons a day after about a month and have been taking that ever since. guess I wasn't far off.

I recently went to a new dr and he asked what drugs I'm on. I told him none. He was surprised and asked if I was sure. I said yeah, I don't take anything. Never have.

Then he was like... "No contraception? No anti depressants? There's nothing you take that's prescribed?".

I haven't even taken over the counter pain medicines since I gave birth to my second. Apparently this guy just couldn't comprehend it.

No one I know. I don't have numbers but I beleive they really only went after the noise alt media types.

There was a big stink in 2022 that almost none of the fines had been enforced. Only (I think) about 20% paid theirs fines and where complaining when caught decided to forgive the rest as contesting them was eating up too much court time (I.e. they weren't actually legal fines but they didn't want to admit it). It was in all the mainstream media.

Damn. I guess ting mong (magic scarecrows) only protect you from covid.

Doing this prevents delayed cord claiming. Thanks but I'd rather pump all my kids stemcells into them when they're born not wait on some hyperthetical situation only to find out they've been "lost" or "degraded".