You know, there is a community called No Stupid Questions you may want to check out

FB: no, since AGES. 5 years at least

Insta: occasionally, to chat with people mostly. Couple of times a month

Whatsapp: regularly, unfortunately. Work group chats there, clients there, friends there, I wish I could move them elsewhere

I’d be a good forager, gatherer and tracker. I have a knack for identifying plants and animals and spotting signs of their presence. I’m sure with a bit of training I could become decent at trapping too but I’ve never done that.

I’d also be good at art, be that cave wall painting or figurine sculpting/carving.

I’m not the same person you replied to, but the link doesn’t work for me and neither do your images. It might be on my end though

There is one (the lemmyworld one which I’m also subscribed to) but haven’t seen much there lately. Got a question? Go ahead and post

This doesn’t look like seeds to me, but it’s also super hard to see what the eggplant tissue is like. If you didn’t mention eggplant, I would never guess what you’re holding is an eggplant. A classic cross section of the whole thing would be more useful to identify what’s going on.

Next time if you can just cut the eggplant in half, either along its length or across, and take a photo

You mean as terms/words or as media? I can’t say I understand if there is much of a difference between the three, as words. I use “manga”. As media, yeah, it’s cool, some manga is great, some is just mediocre. Like anything else. I’m not a fan of the genre but I really enjoyed some of its titles

I’d name it Someday just to mess up with people.

Okay, I don’t know if the word has a very specific meaning in contemporary military vocabulary.

All I know is that a mercenary is an umbrella term for a “warrior for hire”. It’s typically associated with having to do jobs most others don’t want to do, either because they’re very demanding physically or because they’re morally questionable. And this is where your confusion with assasins and hitmans comes in. A mercenary may also be a hitman, it depends on the context. But not necessarily. Usually mercenaries are supported by ( because they work for) either the government or some other legal entity. An assassin or hitman usually doesn’t, or at least isn’t supposed to.

In other words, a mercenary has a reputation for taking morally questionable jobs but isn’t regarded as a criminal, whereas assassins, hitmen, and evil henchmen are criminals from the get go.

I hope that helps

Never. I can’t stand the crowds and the loud music. And I don’t appreciate the crowds singing and screaming on top of the music either. I’ve been to concerts like two times in my life just because others insisted so much I joined them, and the experience was exactly what I thought it would be.

I’m just not cut for them.

I don’t think I bought band related merch ever, but I’ve seen some really cool stuff so that is something I would consider if the opportunity presented itself.

Your grandma sounds like a legend. I know for a fact mine couldn’t have touched the topic

Good on her!

Yes I remember seeing the 70s Playboy magazines for the first time in my life just a few years ago, and I loved them. As you said, they were more about erotic nudes but it was also mixed up with tasteful art, literature (not all of it erotica either) and articles on contemporary culture. I would absolutely want to buy a few issues if I ever get the chance.

Kudos to her, I don’t think my own mother would have bothered to go get books if she didn’t know how to explain things to me. I think most people’s reaction to facing something they don’t know how to do is to just avoid it, which she clearly didn’t. So yeah, cheers for progress!

How old were you at the questioning time?

Anecdotally, the stork along with other stories (did you know? Human babies can also sprout from cabbages) were more effective a few generations ago when people were actually in contact with and interacting with storks or cabbages etc.

My mother has a large family. Some of her aunts/uncles would tell the stork story to their youngest kids so that when the newest baby had to be delivered (at home, in some rural area) the kids would be distracted looking for a stork in the skies while their mother yelled her lungs out in pain from the contractions indoors. Once the kids grew up they figured it out obviously, and as adults they would laugh about it, but as a tool for distraction I think it’s pretty clever. It makes sense in the context.

Did you resent the avoidance at any point? Also, did you have questions before getting sex ed talks that went unanswered? I guess that’s what I’m curious to find out, from those who didn’t have any talk or had it too late, what did they do before hitting the first school lesson on the subject.

Nice write up. Yes, I couldn’t agree more. I guess it’s the potential for abuse where things get really complicated, not so much the biological and mechanical side of sex- which makes even more baffling to see being avoided as a topic. Getting a child to understand the many ways they are vulnerable is certainly difficult no matter the topic.

Glad to know nothing happened to you, scary to see how easily someone could get groomed online. I’ve had a close call with a pedophile when I was a kid, in spite of being well aware of sex in many ways at that age, but at the time I didn’t recognize his attempt at manipulation for what it was- precisely because there was no mention of anything sexual at all. I got really lucky that nothing happened to me either, and walked out if it absolutely oblivious to everything, but unlike you I do owe some of that to good parenting though. A few years later when I remembered the incident and realized what had been going on it hit me like a truck. An “oh shit” moment.

Your experience sounds similar to mine.

That talk sounds awkward but necessary. I also recall my mother always stressed that if I was going to have sex to always always make sure the guy was wearing a condom.

Did you believe it at the time? How did you feel once you eventually learned about sex from a non religious source?

Yeah but at what age?

Productivity is when you do the stuff you need to do. If you can do even more in advance, you are more productive.