Godfly
@godfly.bsky.social
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Atheist; evolutionary geneticist; mocker of creationists and similar fools. 🇦🇺 (@Godfly__ on the other platform, formerly known as Twitter)
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16 October 1938 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Klára Boda, was born.

In July 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
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A short video showing the ruins of gas chamber and crematorium III: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ipQmBPAlJQ8
Vintage black and white photo of a young girl holding a toy and standing next to a stuffed animal, set against a patterned backdrop.
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Papers should be reviewed without knowledge of the state, the institution, or the name of the author !
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More stool needed.
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Fuck the wowsers !

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Nine, by my count.
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Of course, there're lots & lots of books about the subject - but here are two that were very informative for me.

"Rise&Fall" is the classic - and, a good read too.

Tim Snyder's book is very recent, & will give you a lot of background information that you probably weren't aware of.
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I remember learning a bit about nylon, in chemistry @ uni.
There are a lot of different "nylons".
But I remember noticing that one of them had peptide-like links between the sub-units.

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godfly.bsky.social
... to eat all the plastic that we've made - a novel kind of biogenic chemical, as cellulose once was.
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That would be coal, wouldn't it ?

Anyway, I'd not thought about things that eat cellulose not having evolved yet. Interesting. I suppose be there still aren't too many things - cows & termites rely on tummy bugs ...

Maybe (in 20 million or so years), things will evolve ...
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What do you think of the idea of petroleum being made by subterranean bugs, rather than being fossilised dead yuck from the floors of ancient oceans ?
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... like prams, and cots, and single beds.

Medicals & risk - yes, I agree with you there (although, it was ever thus, with regard to risk - and, if you look back 2 or three generations, the risk is now a lot lower)

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Food - not much, really. Two can live as cheaply as one, and 3 (where #3 is very little) can live almost as cheaply.

Clothing - in our experience, so many people gave us their (children's) out-grown clothing, that all we had to buy new was shoes.

Same goes for lots of other baby things, ...
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... (baby or not) will always turn a bigger profit, in the long term.

Income foregone - it was ever thus.

Childcare - I'd probably agree with you there. Over-regulation, IMHO, is probably one of the culprits here.

Schooling - primary & secondary schooling still free, here.
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Housing - I think you're actually underestimating the cost of rental housing - it's probably twice or more than that, now!
But - back to baby - while bigger accommodation is nicer, you don't actually need that for the first couple of years.
And, if you can manage to buy, buying earlier ...
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My mum knew this, when I was a baby.
Sixty years ago.

(She also knew that fluoride was a poison, used for killing insects. She was involved in that sort of research at CSIRO.)

Whether something's "good" or "bad" depends on what you're using it for, & how much you use.
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One bullet, two holes.
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GAY NAZI TECH BILLIONAIRE PT IS INSANE

GAY NAZI TECH BILLIONAIRES OWN TRUMP AND THE PRESIDENCY

STOP GENOCIDE

STOP NAZI VANILLA ISIS

CC TRANSHUMANISM

ELON GTFOH!!!
Evil Billionaire Peter Thiel Has Completely Lost His Mind | The Kyle Kulinski Show
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Nice that they lined up Caucasuan Jesus's hand hole (historically NOT in the right spot) with Kirk's neck Whistle Hole. Conservatives are so ridiculous.
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... other parents would overload us with.

Of course, we had to buy nappies. Lots.

But, that was about it.