Huh, interesting. I could have sworn that the "block of crystal" thing I had N years ago was an antiperspirant and not just a deodorant, but it's been a while and I can barely remember what happened last week. I just remember that it was some aluminum salt or another, but thought it specifically wasn't alum (which I still use for small nicks and cuts)
"Natural deodorant" is usually just a block of an aluminum salt crystal, which'll work just fine since that's the kind of stuff in "industrial" deodorants too. Stains more and dries out your skin though since you usually end up with way more of the stuff in your pits, which is sorta ironic I guess.
I don't think "what value are we bringing to the academic publishing industry?" is something anybody there really considers. Well unless you define "value" as "shareholder profit", at any rate.
Elsevier's response, they said, was "to maintain that the editors should not be paying attention to language, grammar, readability, consistency, or accuracy of proper nomenclature or formatting."
Fucking hell, Elsevier, we all know you're shitty people who are doing immense harm to the world for personal gain, but do you have to rub it in our faces every time? Can't you at least like pretend?
Yessss let's go back to the good old days where you didn't dare get divorced if you were the "homemaker", because who the hell's going to hire a person who spent the last 15 years at home raising children? And it was awesome that when 1 parent was the one making money, they spent less time with their kids, so kids bonded more with just one parent!
Liiike, maybe start with work-life balance? Or, more importantly, have a think on how we do families nowadays? The "nuclear family" concept, which only really got going in the 40's, is fundamentally broken and unsalvageable, but you're just assuming that's the way things should be and that the real problem is with both parents working.
Think about how children were historically raised in western countries, and still are in many many cultures around the world (and even in the west too for that matter.) "It takes a village" was pretty literal: it wasn't just the parents looking after their own kids, but various grandparents, cousins, aunts, uncles, friends etc. were a part of it. The fact that kids mostly grow up without those kinds of "networks" has been a huge factor in how alienated people feel from society. Growing up in a hermetically sealed cube with much less watchful adult guidance or a feeling of community, yeah that's going to cause problems.
We as a species dumped all out skill points into cooperation and being social, and we seem to have forgotten about that.
I let them know! They're pretty tickled that it's clearly given people a chuckle.
It's a ridiculous app which makes it so funny, but it's also kinda cool that it's possible to bang out an app that actually streams the real time status of a fucking space station's toilets in an afternoon. I mean what the hell
My guess would be that'd depend on who's calling it "natural". You definitely do see that meaning here as well, even in the same store