From what I’ve heard adopting is actually very difficult and arduous. There’s way more families trying to adopt an infant than there are infants that can be adopted

This will be great for my daughter, thank you

I don’t know if anyone outside Australia knows Fern Gully… But anyway, years ago, watching that movie with friends I casually suggested that possibly fairies in Australia would more likely be indigenous looking than white, and got told off for “making everything political”. And by migrant friends.

One of whom used to get quite offended at any implication that they were anything other than Australian.

PASH? 😆 really??

An acquaintance at work (in Australia) went to work as a developer for Amazon in the US a few years back. According to him, the hours he was expected to work meant that his really great salary actually translated to a quite shitty hourly rate. And he never got to go sightseeing and tourist-ing with his wife and kids because he was always working.

My friend and her husband also worked in the US for years, in mining, and said similar things. Terrible leave offerings, and a culture where even if you have leave you feel extreme pressure not to take it.

Is that what a flatworm looks like?

I would not describe that as flat. It looks like some kind of dragon imo.

Very long but interesting interview

There’s a sports scientist, I’ve forgotten her name but she wrote a book called Women are Not Small Men. In her book she says that long distance swimming is one sport that women actually outperform men in.

Edit: her name is Stacy Sims