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Didn't Butin offer to stop doing so a few days back in return for the US not helping Ukraine? (I don't rememper details but the US refused)

Woah - there was good reason to get rid of those 'mental hospitals'. There were terriballp abusive. On the streets was more human for most.

The us is trying. We had shelters for many years and the abuse in them was far worse than anything on the streets. Sure a few freeze to death on the streets which isn't good, but don't forget how much worse it was / can be.

don't let that be an excuse for not doing better either but don't lose sight of the possibility for worse.

It never was, but there were always doom and gloomers saying it was.

People said the same we can't fix it about the ozone layer.

That is entirely possible however plenty have found it doesn't work. I know a girl who drank hand sanitizer because she 'needed' her alcohol so much (it was not the kind that had alcohol in it, she just barely realized that and call 911 in time before she passed out, somehow they saved her life)

What is the point of it? If the are doesn't cryptographically trace to the right birth certificate for who is at the keyboard now it won't do anything - kids will lie about age if there is any issues. If it does trace back that well there are huge privacy problems.

where do the maitainers of the linux distro of your choice live? I mean every single person because if even one lives in CA (Brasil...) you have to either 'fire' that person or follow the law for their sake. I agree systemd shouldn't be the place for this, but systemd wants to take over everything and I'm sure some of their maintainers live in CA thus they feel they must.

It won't protect children, but you can't igore the law. You can get lawyers and fight that way. However too many eevelopers live in CA to ignore and every one of them is at risk of the law going against them. Small distros can say they don't have anyone who maintains it in CA so the don't allow their distro to be used in CA. Large ones cannot ignore the law just because it is stupid and won't work.

They don't. they are people jus like anyone else. They hang out with people who are genuine and figure out who isn't fast. They have limited numbers of people they want as friends just like the rest of us (you run out of time to spend with them if there are too many).

The genuine is why they hang out with only rich. A few are not and they seek out the rich and famious, so as protection the rich hide. too many people make real death (rape, kidnapping...) threats to risk being easy to find.

but in the end they are humans just like the rest of us seeking genuine friendship.

You don't have to be. If anyone finds out it spreads.

There are differences in favor of breastfeeding. You can look them up if you care to. However encouraging breastfeeding has killed babies when mothers tried to force it despite the below making it impossible. Thus fed is best applies even though breast feeding is better - the difference is stastically there but not that much.

However breastfeeding is hard! Most don't appreciate how hard it is in the modern world. It was 'designed for a world where mom was never more than a few steps from babp. Women's work is historically (acoup.blog has a whole series on this) defined as the work mom can do while breastfeeding and thus mens work is anything that can't.

modern offices don't allow for mom to take the baby to work every day. Many have private spaces to pump which can work, but not well. Problem is you need to manage supply which is hard to do correctly. also when mom gets home they want to switch to breastfeeding but baby is used to the bottle and doesn't suck hard enough to get fed. It is too easy to give up on the whole thing because it is so hard.

on top of that formula makers are sending free formula samples those first hard months - use those a just a couple times in a row and mom dries up forever. (Or until next baby)

finally not all mothers have nutrious milk, some babies histrically died because mother was porducing 'water' not milk. Also some babies are allergic to milk. These are both rare cases overall but they happen.