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  • Don’t be pedantic with a pregnant person who is trying to reach live birth and raise the child about when it’s ok to say “child.” There’s nothing paradoxical about it in that situation. The time to consider being pedantic is when debating with a pro-forced-birth authoritarian who thinks they should have a say in someone else’s reproductive choices. And even then, the person who needs to have an abortion at 20 weeks isn’t going to think they’re discarding a fetus, they’re going to think they’re losing a child they wanted. At 20 weeks it’s about the size of a banana (so it’s not going to just idly discharge along with the uterine lining like it’s a zygote that just didn’t implant) and has a brain, a nervous system, a hardening skeleton, a digestive system, a functioning pancreas, etc… It’s very much their child (and their choice).





  • I’m not lamenting technology being a thing. I’m lamenting how its adoption is hindering learning basic stuff like writing out all your work in pencil for math class. If everything is multiple choice quiz, they learn to work through the problem step by step or have the chance for partial credit by showing they understand the overall process even though they made a minor arithmetic mistake.

    Sure, a tablet and stylus for free-hand writing can solve that. But why add that additional cost of providing that to every student in primary school instead of just using pencil and paper for it?