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As near as I can tell from a quick look, there might not be a lead free version -- the lead's coming from contamination involved with some of the plant based stuff that's used to make the junk. They're not adding lead intentionally, it's coming in through one of the other (apparently key) ingredients.

E: Like, more specifically, the problem is the psyllium fiber -- metamucil, and anything offbrand from it, is specifically a psyllium fiber supplement. It's apparently inherent to growing the plant in question, you basically can't have lead free metamucil unless you can figure out how to make psyllium that doesn't soak up heavy metals. So... y'know, heh. You don't want offbrand, you want different supplement entirely, at a minimum.

That feeling when you go to make a fairly important (if fortunately not time sensitive) phone call, and realize on getting their answering machine that, oh yeah, it's a major holiday. No one's open and you shouldn't bother folks anyway. Whoops. Bonus points for distinctly thinking on friday you'd take care of it monday.

Like, there's no frustration with the holiday itself (above and beyond folks deserving a day off here and there, mlk day is legit on a lot of levels), just with myself for not remembering it existed... it's fairly normal for me to forget holidays, but it's still kinda' unfortunate.

Good example, although not neurological, is the military. Men are on average stronger than women, which is a desirable trait in the military.

Pain resistance and cooperation are also desirable traits in the military, often moreso than physical strength in a modern army, and women on average have the advantage there.

Part of the myriad issues with that kind of reasoning is that people, in general, are often remarkably bad at actually identifying what heuristic is going to produce the best outcomes of a particular organization. You see it with all sorts of qualifying practices, from SATs and such, to physicals, to basic resume shit. There's ways to at-least-be-better at that sort of thing (that involves a lot of effort and second guessing and we're still not super good at it but still), but in general when the processes involved are applied to any sort of hiring/recruitment practice, they end up looking roughly fuck-all like the previous "best" practices, which are often enough found to have actually been shite :V

... anyway, tl;dr, we try to do that but like with driving and standing straight and all sorts of things we're generally not good at it, like actively bad holy shit how do we not die more kinda' dealio. Theoretically is a good way of putting it, very "understatement chic", heh.

Ah. Yeah, bank card and debit card are more or less the same thing. It's fairly common over here for debit cards to actually be able to function as a credit card (up to and including having a credit line it defaults to if for some reason it can't withdraw normally), too... it's somewhat weird that doesn't work in this case. If those bank cards are ones that operate through the major card networks (i.e. they're a visa or mastercard or whatever operating with the bank), there's no reason they wouldn't function just fine where a credit card is needed.

I mean, by that spoilered mess, you'd be berating people for calling cancer something going wrong with their body, too. Considering the amount that the "wrong" puberties in question increase suicide rates at a minimum, the amount of malfunction involved is only one of degrees.

Now, if that's actually your position, you do you -- just be aware no one's going to be surprised if someone metaphorically or literally decks you for trying to correct them about what cancer's doing to a loved one or whatever. There's times and subjects "close enough" terminology isn't worth worrying about.

Relatively possible -- not for infants, but younger children can understand things well enough to consent in some cases.

When it comes to intersex, though, it hasn't been particularly uncommon for the parent to not be informed, either. Doc just "fixes" it as a matter of course, and the law was by and large a-okay with that. Most of the point is just that legal systems don't actually have to recognize the fiddly bits of intersex folks, it's perfectly (and historically) capable of just eliminating them by force.

the law has to leave room for that

I mean, do note that one of the ways the law has "left room" for that historically is "non-consensual surgical procedures on children", so sometimes the room made is not exactly kind or comfortable or actually there, it can be less like a room and more like assault inflicted on infants. Sometimes humans look at something breaking their categories and choose violence