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anyone wanna talk about gardening? share some tips? I live in an apartment, so I just have a container garden on the patio.

Since there's too much talk about moids in our boards, I decided that I should do my part and contribute something non-moid related. So I'm making this thread about science, maths are included as well of course. I personally think that the soft sciences are actually closer to the humanities than to the hard sciences, but in the spirit of avoiding a flame war, I'll try to avoid this point as much as I can from now on.

You can ask questions and discuss stuff about science here, I'll try to answer whatever I can and perhaps attempt to guide posters in the right direction if I'm not familiar with the topic. I'm a physicist by training but I have a basic understanding of general chemistry, geology and biology as well. I know the most about astrophysics and meteorology/climate stuff, I'm OK at mechanics, thermodynamics and quantum physics and not so great at electromagnetism, relativity and maths in general (as in, compared to a mathematician, for a physicist I'm average at maths). Sorry if that came off as a bit pedantic, I just wanted to let you know the kind of stuff I'm more likely to give good answers to.

So yeah, ask away!

Anyone here feel a sense of relief that they aren’t the only ones still at home
Do you feel the stigma is dying down now

If you think about it, abortion is actually pretty trad. There's this meme that abortion is the modern woman's sin, yet, it was a normal practice in the past.

>The Stoics believed the fetus to be plantlike in nature, and not an animal until the moment of birth, when it finally breathed air. They therefore found abortion morally acceptable.[19][39]

>Aristotle wrote that, "[T]he line between lawful and unlawful abortion will be marked by the fact of having sensation and being alive."[40] Before that point was reached, Aristotle did not regard abortion as the killing of something human.

>In the Roman Republic and Principate, abortion was punished only when it violated the father's right to make decisions about rearing his offspring.[18]: 3  The Stoics did not view the fetus as a person, and the Romans did not punish abortion as homicide.

The Christian world generally condemned this act but did not really punish it harshly.
>But church councils, such as those of Elvira and Ancyra, which were called to specify the legal groundwork for Christian communities, outlined penalties only for those women who committed abortion after a sexual crime such as adultery or prostitution.
>Several historians have written that prior to the 19th century most Catholic authors did not regard termination of pregnancy before "quickening" or "ensoulment" as an abortion.

Fast forward to modernity:

>Social attitudes towards abortion shifted in the context of a backlash against the women's rights movement.
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Bring back opium tampons

What is your opinion of relationships with age gaps in which the older partner is the woman?

Let's have a "moids posting their Ls online" thread. I have a small folder of screenshots that I mainly collected from 4chan. If any of you suffered from the misogyny on that website (which I'm sure a lot of you did), remember that these are the kind of moids that shit on women.

It amazes me how primal people can actually look.
I could totally see this woman opening her mouth and roaring at a foe, and she has front-facing eyes like a predator. This isn't to say she's ugly, by any means (I think she is quite pretty by our conventional human standards). It just makes sense to me that humanity was able to take over the way it did. I'm just kind of shocked at how terrifying we must look to non-humans. We had to literally selectively breed and brainwash an animal (dogs) into liking us and our appearances over generations. I guess apes are fine with us, but I think they're just being understanding.

What's your dream occupation? For me it's the ornamental hermit.

How it feels buying weed and asking the dealer stuff (I was partially homeschooled and have autism)