dragonflyteaparty @ dragonflyteaparty @lemmy.world

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Way to misrepresent what they said completely. Please point to exactly where they said what you're claiming.

available income to support the child

So poor people don't get to have kids, huh? Which is easily and quickly turn into only rich people get to have kids. How would you enforce that? Involuntary sterilization? Involuntary abortions?

This is the exact same story that's been told for years about immigrants to justify racism. "These twelve kids list the same address as their house and the teacher drove by the address to find that no house existed. These kids are brown and must be illegal immigrants and are taking away from my children!"

So you think politicians should have the protected right to lie to the voters?

We could move if we wanted to. We aren't, at least right now, because we'd leave behind our entire social network. Even if we moved where we know people, they wouldn't help as much with our two young children. I know and understand and accept that. They don't have to help with our kids, but we'd lose the people who can. We'd lose our kids friends and the network we are building in the neighborhood, which of course can be rebuilt, but that's also a consideration. I'd probably only see my sister once a year if that because she can't leave the state due to a custody agreement. Funds would also be an issue.

I also worry about too many democratic people leaving and making the state more red as a result and leaving behind those who can't move, like my sister and her kids, who will suffer as a result of increasingly authoritarian laws. Some regressive politicians have outright said that it's their goal to make it miserable for democratic and liberal people to force them to move, make the state redder, and thereby gain even more power.

So did my then five year old. She had a period where she went through an entire hand soap dispenser every two days until we got her to quit. She still uses shampoo, but as far as we can tell, only (mostly?) when we give her permission. It doesn't run out super fast.

From the article it seemed that a big criticism of the amendment was that it was too vague. There were people from different political beliefs and some aboriginals who didn't like how vague it was, though the aboriginals wanted it to further.

Huh, in the US we use it as a term for a violent group of people. Does it not mean that in Australia?

I think it's the idea that military families have the issue at higher rates, not that no one else does.

Because he's a name people recognize, people like him, and, as much as I don't like it, Trump's name in articles gets clicks. Maybe you view it as more of a tabloid article, but if you could maybe stop being so argumentative about it for ten or fifteen seconds, you'd realize the man actually said something pretty damn good. And made you'd think the same of Joe Schmoo down the street if you paused to listen. Not everyone needs to be an expert in order to speak and have a platform.

Ours has a function where you press and hold one of the numbers and it turns off the beeps. Not sure what it is anymore, but most people should be able to look it up and find one for their microwave.

Or the cops told him that they had plenty of evidence to convict, scared him with a lengthy prison sentence, and he chose a plea deal because he viewed it as exactly that, a deal for a lesser punishment.

Sure, but I don't really think that pertains to the parents here. It's the dad's family who's hardcore Christians.

No, actually they're not. One paragraph about the in-laws, particularly the mother-in-law, does not characterize the whole situation or the birth mother. What does, though, is the mother-in-law stating that she'll support the birth mother's decision no matter what. Did you miss that bit?

Neither of your articles prove what you said about LGBTQ people, but no matter what this school shouldn't exist.

ProPublica then contacted the 12 medical examination offices and discovered that only two actually used the test at all, and none of them considered the results definitive proof of live birth.

Source?

Note that they were aware of which offices had performed the 11 tests they were aware of, and yet they could not find anyone willing to "[express] full-throated support for the test."

This is the full quote. "None of the 12 largest offices by jurisdiction expressed full-throated support for the test." They didn't state that the 12 largest offices were the ones who performed the tests. What you posted was taken out of context and given new context.

Here's the surrounding context to give more insight. Nowhere did they state that these 12 offices who didn't express support for the test are the ones who did the test.

" Cook County, home to Chicago, pathologists use it, but give more weight to “more reliable methods” including X-rays, microscopic examinations and autopsy findings to determine whether a birth was live or still. Others, like the Virginia Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, said the test may be useful only if a baby was not born into a toilet, CPR was not performed and decomposition was not present. None of the 12 largest offices by jurisdiction expressed full-throated support for the test.

And while the national organization that represents medical examiners said that it doesn’t have an official stance on the lung float test, it said it “strongly advocates using scientifically validated and evidence-based practices in forensic pathology.” The National Association of Medical Examiners called the lung float test “a single, dated test” that has not been subjected to the organization’s rigorous evaluation process."

Their point still stands.

I wouldn't. The vast majority of people are not tech savvy and generally just go with whatever the default is.

Exactly what part was "misinformation"? Are you trying to say that the celebration wasn't peaceful?

I actually agree with this. We use a big fan at night that's really loud. With the baby's door closed and the fan on, I wouldn't hear her unless she cried super loud or screamed. I personally think it's nuts that some people never used a baby monitor. There's no way I wouldn't have one.