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#101

You'll never guess what bill funded this site... ... the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 of course! It's in Sec 7103: Grants for Healthy Marriage Promotion and Responsible Fatherhood

These levels of irony shouldn't be possible! You could probably fuel a FTL spacecraft using this stuff, and it would probably work better than running it on government money.

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#102

That there is a Federally funded Natural Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse at fatherhood.gov and not an equivalent motherhood.gov reminds me of Paul Graham's "What You Can't Say" [0][1][2]. How much suffering could we avoid for children if we could convince more pregnant women to not smoke and drink and consume drugs? [0]: https://www.paulgraham.com/say.html [1]: https://paulgraham.com/resay.html [2]: https://paul…

You mean like this? https://health.gov/myhealthfinder/pregnancy/doctor-and-midwi... "Don’t smoke or drink alcohol"

It is apparently not working. Maybe it should be at motherhood.gov.

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#103

That there is a Federally funded Natural Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse at fatherhood.gov and not an equivalent motherhood.gov reminds me of Paul Graham's "What You Can't Say" [0][1][2]. How much suffering could we avoid for children if we could convince more pregnant women to not smoke and drink and consume drugs? [0]: https://www.paulgraham.com/say.html [1]: https://paulgraham.com/resay.html [2]: https://paul…

Paul Graham is obviously saying these things. The “I‘n being suppressed because I can’t say these things” articles by extremely well placed people who constantly say these things is tedious.

I think we read different essays. Graham did not complain that he was being suppressed.

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Sounds like you're in a good position to make a lot of people's dreams come true: could you make the TreasuryDirect webapp not so terrible to use? :-)

My prayers were answered when they removed the infernal virtual password keyboard.

That was infernal indeed, but the rest of it still needs a ton of work. Accidentally double-click on a link? Goodbye, session!

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#106
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I don't get this one: Did you hear about the two satellites that got married? The wedding wasn't much, but the reception was incredible. Should the punchline be "out of this world"?

reception is a play on words, in an actual wedding it would mean the that the attendees had a good reaction. In the sense that the newly weds are satellites, the reception can also refer to radio signal reception.

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You mean like this? https://health.gov/myhealthfinder/pregnancy/doctor-and-midwi... "Don’t smoke or drink alcohol"

It is apparently not working. Maybe it should be at motherhood.gov.

Mothers get this kind of advice during prenatal care. Fathers have fewer touch points with parenting educators.

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#108

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It is apparently not working. Maybe it should be at motherhood.gov.

Mothers get this kind of advice during prenatal care. Fathers have fewer touch points with parenting educators.

In my experience, many mothers are not getting any prenatal care. Many are pregnant before they know it and do not discontinue activities which will harm their child.

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Mothers get this kind of advice during prenatal care. Fathers have fewer touch points with parenting educators.

In my experience, many mothers are not getting any prenatal care. Many are pregnant before they know it and do not discontinue activities which will harm their child.

That's a problem. Is the solution to defund father education programs?

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#110

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In my experience, many mothers are not getting any prenatal care. Many are pregnant before they know it and do not discontinue activities which will harm their child.

That's a problem. Is the solution to defund father education programs?

Absolutely not. I think we should fund a Natural Responsible Motherhood Clearinghouse and host it at motherhood.gov. But telling women to be responsible mothers is not as politically easy as telling men to be responsible fathers.
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