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Science disagrees: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45721179

Studies disagree with you. Children are absolutely at risk for a wide range of increased impacts from the disease: Children have increased likelihood of anxiety, communication diso…

I vaccinate against flu and Covid, and vaccinate my child against flu and Covid.

"I'm not like those vaccine hesitant people, I just hesitated about a vaccine!"

Covid is a serious illness. It can cause a wide range of effects from death, to myocarditis, to immune system resets, to long covid, to permanent scarring on the lungs, mood disord…

People compose and mulch their waste to control weeds regularly. Burying weeds under decaying master (including poop) is super common.

Wasps in a high traffic area are definitely bad, but if the nest is somewhere not too in the way I'd encourage folks to leave it be. Wasps are predators, and they eat a lot of the …

Because other countries aren't surprised to see slurs?

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I'm LGBTQ. I know LOTS of folks in my communities who use and embrace the term f*gs. But that doesn't make it ok for others to use it. Slurs are complicated, but the goal of my pos…

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The communities I'm in in America avoid the use of the term precisely because it's an exonym. Around here people use Roma or Traveller. Granted my sample size is O(100), but that's…

The answer to your question is "yes, but typically only very mildly". Offense is not some Boolean, and intent matters in determining how offense something is. For example, a kid re…