You are correct that women were not included in clinical trials for general medications up until fairly recently, and this has arguably lead to slightly worse health outcomes for women. A very narrow group of young, healthy usually white men in their 20s have always been the primary labrats. Women were excluded not because they were forgotten, but because

• The role of the young female is to churn out babies
• The role of the young male is to risk and potentially sacrifice his life in service of others.

Absurd? Maybe. Just maybe.

Where you’re wrong is your assertion that treatments specifically for women were not tried on women. Progesterone birth control go through the same clinical trials as any other treatment, but let’s not pretend that they tried them on a bunch of young men and declared them safe and effective for women.

The commune says no

Don’t try to pretend that treatments specifically for women are not tested on females.

I mean anything from HPV to AIDS can still kill you directly even with access to the best health care on the planet.

I think that if a company was serious about bringing a male contraceptive to market, the medical benefits of preventing unwanted pregnancies would be taken into account by the EMA/FDA, even if the user of the drug isn’t the primary beneficiary.

The problem is that despite lots of research no viable drug has been found yet.

Yep. Plenty of women out there that insist on having sex without condom as well.

Oh please. Female contraceptives have been available for 80 years. The first ones were extracted and slightly modified from yams.

We’re now in a time where pharmaceutical development is in a space age compared to what it was 80 years ago. We’ve mapped the entire human genome, we can bioengineer bacteria to spit out custom molecules and proteins, we have freely available XRC 3d models of hundreds of thousands of proteins and their docking sites, we have (free) computational chemistry software that can do quantum molecular dynamics and supercomputers (but you only really need a fucking laptop), and the toolbox of organic chemistry is vastly larger than what it was in the 1950s.

The reason why no-one has come up with a safe and effective male contraceptive that can be anywhere near compared to existing female contraceptives is because it turns out to be fucking difficult.

I guess we all should. Fuck the Nobel Peace Prize committee, and also fuck FIFA. We need a new peace prize with blackjack and hookers.

They should rescind the Nobel Peace Prize committee of clowns.

I mined a bit too. Got almost 2 bitcoin in 2 weeks. Figured it was a pyramid scheme, went back to running folding@home. Forgot my wallet passphrase.

You can rinse your hair with water as much as you goddamn like. Once a week, three times a day, doesn’t matter. It’s not going to ruin your hair.

But add shampoo or conditioner and you need to be wayyyy more careful what you’re doing. Now you’re messing with your head’s natural oils and it can quickly spiral out of control.

I mean, there is some nuance to be considered here. The USA has made it abundantly clear that they plan for a major conflict in the South China Sea for over a decade now.

When they finally left Afghanistan, the plan wasn’t to bring the troops home and never go on another campaign again. It was about shifting priorities. That’s what we’re seeing now.

I don’t mean to downplay the aggressive aspects of this military exercise, I’m just saying there are multiple shades of gray here and that we lose some of the power to explain what’s happening if we amp up the contrast too much.

There’s also a thing called dual sim. Which is standard in the Asian market and used to be common in Europe.

I prefer GOG over Steam for the simple reason that I’m not forced to use a launcher if I don’t want to.

This is 500+ hours of gameplay:

• Half-Life 2 ($2)
• Portal ($2)
• Portal 2 ($2)
• Psychonauts ($1.5)
• Psychonauts 2 ($9)
• Subnautica ($8)
• Hollow Knight ($8)
• Silksong ($16)
• Hades ($8)
• Disco Elysium ($4)
• The Witcher 3 ($3)
• Terraria ($5)
• Left4Dead 2 ($2)
• Kingdom Come ($5)
• Mass Effect 1, 2, 3 ($6)

I think it’s more than that. The way the game criticizes legal institutions, religion and the union is clearly informed by a revolutionary perspective. I don’t think Disco Elysium is subtle or coy about its politics, it just doesn’t pretend like achieving these goals will be easy.

First of all they use the same model for all countries, so it’s not unexpected that it’s not perfect. I’m sure they would be happy to explain this to you themselves if you asked them.

But just to be clear, if an expert explicitly claimed that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is safer for women than Turkey, then they’re drunk and need to go home.

I felt that way until I found a nice community. Not everyone of them were friends, but they were friendly and helpful and I got to help out too, which actually made a massice difference on my self esteem.

I know it sounds super corny and I had serious doubts at first, but it still has a really positive impact on me years after moving on.

I don’t mean to be cold, but have you considered that it’s not (just) your responsibility to keep the friendship alive? There are people out there longing for you.

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