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What an odd wonderful thing to do. I love it

If a guy doesn’t want to use a condom and insists he shouldn’t wear one you definitely know you need one. This is obviously a standard move for them so you need to make them wear one. Being fluid bonded is a big commitment and risk for both parties involved regardless of hormonal birth control.

If you are a man who wants to not wear a condom stop it. You need to ejaculate responsibility and not cause potential harm to the wonderful women who are letting you in. Please read Ejaculate Responsibly and see what dangers your semen can cause and use this power responsibility. And if you think it feels different just put the condom on earlier so it gets up to body temp before PIV. It’s not that hard guys

Are you implying that a lifestyle where you do the same thing everyday and never have to meet new people would attract autistic people? Crazy

I think it’s funny that dog DNA tests are more accurate than for humans. That is because someone defined a breed and then started tracking that for years. Since these breeders have almost complete control over the mating behaviour of their dogs we can define a breed. Humans are not like that. We move and mate everywhere we want

Homeschooling feels like an act of hubris. The idea that you and your partner know the same or more about education than trainer professionals is crazy. Each teacher has at least a college degree, most have a master’s and they all go through yearly refreshers on how to best teach on top of their on the job experience. How can one (or two) people do more than that?

On top of that your child will be exposed in their home life to things you know and think are important to understand. School can show them things you know you don’t know as well as things you don’t know you don’t know. I want my daughter to know things I don’t know and to expand her worldview beyond mine. Homeschooling limits their knowledge that what I know. (Which is usually the point to shelter a child from scary ideas which is not doing them any favors).

Can homeschooling be okay? Sometimes but not often enough and most people who do it aren’t prepared or qualified to do it

I think there’s is a lot of value in a short term relationship especially if it ends well without lot of resentment or drama. That being said the best short term have a defined end date. For something like this it’s more nebulous communication will be important. At some point both of you will need to find someone that would work long term. You might both agree that you can casually date other people while dating

The younger you are and the newer this relationship the more time you have. If you are young there’s more time in your life to find a different partner and you don’t know what you want and same with him. If you’re relationship is new there is plenty of time for something else to break you up. There are other deal breakers out there

Anyone who says they are self sufficient is lying to themselves. Communities of people can be but we all need each other

Just requested it from the library. Our composting in place garden has been producing a ton over three last year. We have lots of berries now and have a lot of functional plants in our urban yard. It’s mostly teas, medicinals and some cut flowers but we can get lots of use out of it. When you really try there is a lot of space to grow what you need even in a small space if you prioritize. I can’t feed myself but good supplemental for high value things

If you are interested I would recommend reading some books on permaculture. My first book was Gaias Garden which I loved. It talks about how to piecemeal increase your own sustainability starting in your own yard. It’s a great first step if this is what you want to do. Overall no one person / family / farm can stand all alone we are all interconnected

Here is a Time article about it.

In my head the closet part involves someone jumping out of bed and hiding in the nearest place to hide. A closet.

I love my weed burner. Weeding has never been so much fun

I’m not going to buy one because I have a Pixel 9a but it’s good they are making one

I love a budget phone. At this point the lower end specs are good enough for me. I want all makers to have a low spec budget phone

Love the low price. I’ve been buying the pixel A out of pocket for years. Hate having to pay things off installments. Just give me a cheap phone

I’ve been using the A series since pixel 2. I want something new and cheap. I don’t trust used battery life

If you can hike part of the superior hiking trail do it. It’s stunning and super nice

I am going to give you two book recommendations that I think should be done in this order: Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat and The Wok

Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat is great because it talks and about what is needed for all recipes (it’s title). It talks about food science and theory so you can understand techniques and understand what each thing in a recipe does. It does have generic recipes that you can modify as well “lessons” to walk through what you learned.

The Wok is similar but just about using a Wok. I love the wide variety of things you can make with the wok. It also gives you some sidebars about how to shop of ingredients, sauces and how to chop for the recipes. It also talks techniques with then example recipes. Read both and try them out

LemmyNSFW was the perfect example of a single subject instance. So much so that it was the only NSFW instance and another one is needed

I would say something lunar based would be natural.

The harvest would depend on the plant. You can really harvest something most of the year

Are those holidays?