SirBillybob

Age is simply a number. It’s just that I cannot see it without having to rack my brain regarding where I left my reading glasses. 

I haven’t myself either. I find that in some places it’s more a travel bonus than a sure-ish thing and my itineraries are shaped to adjust to the varying resource combinations therein. 

Age is simply a number. It’s just that I cannot see it without having to rack my brain regarding where I left my reading glasses. 

Age is simply a number. It’s just that I cannot see it without having to rack my brain regarding where I left my reading glasses. 

Age is simply a number. It’s just that I cannot see it without having to rack my brain regarding where I left my reading glasses. 

Age is simply a number. It’s just that I cannot see it without having to rack my brain regarding where I left my reading glasses. 

On that note, you literally went and told it on the mountain. 

Here in La Belle Province it’s renamed National Patriots’ Day (translated) since about 2003; beginning in the 1920s by yet another francophone name but corresponding by date to Canada’s Victoria Day, for long weekend uniformity.
The point being counter-colonial. Elsewhere one doesn’t tend to see lace doilies perched on heads, but to confuse matters more O Canada was sung in Buffalo.

The key chart is misleading. It cannot be used as evidence that a smartphone inflection point accounts for an already pre-existing fertility decline trajectory that occurred for many of the countries depicted. By flattening one-decade pre-inflection fertility decline trends to about 0%, when some of those actually approach the same level of decline as depicted post-smartphone, as opposed to running temporal longitudinal trend lines through the steadily dropping fertility metrics that unequivocally cannot be attributed to smartphone prevalence, that history is falsely nullified. (See Mexico for illustration)
That is likely an artefact of the attempt to adjust for national variation year by year in a single standard for estimating inflection influence. However, that distorts the graph, visually artificially elevating the true potential impact of smartphone availability, as well its scope of abruptness. At most, such device access can be considered as potentially accelerating fertility changes that had been, and continue to be, attributable to a host of other variables unrelated to the “tech shock” inherent in hand-held computers. 
The verbal presentation compensated by suggesting that the smartphone analysis can only speak to whether fertility fell faster than what might have been otherwise expected. Fertility transition had been substantially well on its way. For example, Mexico’s fertility decline rate is almost symmetrical around (pre / post) the proposed inflection explanation point posed by widespread smartphone uptake.  

Burn-Murdoch's video didn't claim anything beyond correlation.

Shigellosis case incidence by general-population in my city is estimated at about 1 in 10,000-20,000 annually. Quantifying by MSM subpopulation denominator is not easily ascertained but it is disproportionately greater and there can be transmission clusters like for any susceptible group. Computed risk by specific behaviour in probability terms remains elusive. 
But if infection occurs, the chance that the strain is extensively drug resistant appears to be hovering around 10% based on 2023 surveillance data as reported in the MMWR piece, with proportions rising since the mid-2010s. It is reasonable to extend the upward trajectory trend since then and going forward. However, the gen pop incidence of the now two main identified strains of elevated concern together amounts to about 1 per 100,000 by simple arithmetic. 
Hospitalization rates in the MMWR report were roughly one in three. Since no FDA-approved oral drug treatment exists for the extensively resistant strains, the precise role of hospitalization is somewhat opaque, supportive management versus attempts at salvage regimens still under evaluation. 
We are seeing accelerating prevalence velocity in a disease variant that remains relatively rare in probability terms, yet still carries a meaningful chance of making one sick enough to occupy a hospital bed. Those few won’t proclaim it’s much doo-doo about nothing. 
 

Sounds like an appeal for special insight that you apparently uniquely possess relative to certain others. That’s doing a lot of work rhetorically. 
Elevating the preference for condom use for insertive anal, particularly in a transactional context where services and health risk terms are commonly negotiated, to evidence that the client doesn’t understand close physical connection feels like it’s changing the subject from typical boundaries to that of flimsy assumptions about deficits related to grasping desire and arousal. 
Some bottoms find condomless sex more satisfying. Some tops find condoms preferable. (Here I use these terms insertive / receptive behaviourally rather than as defined person categories.) This isn’t to say that both parties’ access to satisfaction reasonably on their terms isn’t important. However, one wouldn’t expect the incompatibility to yield psychological trench warfare at point of intercourse. The reason the OP started the thread was that the experience was startling, truncating the type of encounter that usually plays out without drama. 
Nobody here that may view the ritual of condom application, its brief pause and associated anticipation, as intentional and relational has necessarily lost the plot regarding sex dynamics. 

Whataboutism and false equivalence much?
By that logic, anybody regularly taking one basically established health-related risk such as a side of chips versus rocket at lunch forfeits the right to discuss another, along with weighing in on prevention guidelines and preferences, and gonorrhea checks your BMI before infecting you. 
Of course there is a value judgement regarding condom use, and public health messaging is inherently normative. Avoiding infection is preferable to acquiring one. In fact, it’s a rather uncontroversial values position. Recognizing it isn’t the same thing as demonstrating hidden moralism. 
You yourself may be inclined, with good intentions (how else would your motives be?), to discourage a guy’s smoking habit. Reality is under no obligation to be less carcinogenic in deference to his personal autonomy. 

Whataboutism and false equivalence much?
By that logic, anybody regularly taking one basically established health-related risk such as a side of chips versus rocket at lunch forfeits the right to discuss another, along with weighing in on prevention guidelines and preferences, and gonorrhea checks your BMI before infecting you. 
Of course there is a value judgement regarding condom use, and public health messaging is inherently normative. Avoiding infection is preferable to acquiring one. In fact, it’s a rather uncontroversial values position. Recognizing it isn’t the same thing as demonstrating hidden moralism. 
You yourself may be inclined, with good intentions (how else would your motives be?), to discourage a guy’s smoking habit. Reality is under no obligation to be less carcinogenic in deference to his personal autonomy. 

The good news is that waivers in general are possible, but I think we’re mixing apples and oranges here. Not all banishments are the same and where a formal bar exists the expected route is a short-term inadmissibility waiver granted ahead of time. The downside of a less structured attempt isn’t just inconvenience. A test entry isn’t “neutral” and can add to the record rather than improve it. The accumulation of well constructed swings (sure, albeit with misses) bodes better for eventual success. 
The billeting idea is innocently cute but not helpful in a public forum if the concept of trade is inferred, however baselessly, considering this time the intention not reaching out for a session. 

Low-intensity shockwave therapy applied to ED has been progressively on the menu for some 15 years. The jury remains out.
There are a half dozen or more systematic meta-analysis reports that overlap in terms of the mainly same dozen or so clinical studies that are incorporated into evaluation as a collective. At this point I think it’s, well, try it if you have the resources. You can always self-administer the before / after questionnaires on function that can be found in the public domain, on top of subjective impressions of change.
With no current registered recruiting studies to be found, perhaps a kind of equilibrium has occurred, outcomes just promising enough for the clinical option to persist, equivocal enough to forestall urological abandonment. At worst, you take your best shock and it ends up consigned to boutique medicine limbo. 
Of course also be wary of testimonials put forward by product entities. I also cannot comment on how the clinical literature translates to DIY home-use gadgets. Although clinical settings are using equipment, if consistent with published research, at a retail cost of $30,000+ 🤷🏼‍♂️
To access peer-reviewed journal articles: Google “shockwave therapy ED metaanalysis” 

A housecat at the time probably filed a missing pyjamas report. 

Low-intensity shockwave therapy applied to ED has been progressively on the menu for some 15 years. The jury remains out.
There are a half dozen or more systematic meta-analysis reports that overlap in terms of the mainly same dozen or so clinical studies that are incorporated into evaluation as a collective. At this point I think it’s, well, try it if you have the resources. You can always self-administer the before / after questionnaires on function that can be found in the public domain, on top of subjective impressions of change.
With no current registered recruiting studies to be found, perhaps a kind of equilibrium has occurred, outcomes just promising enough for the clinical option to persist, equivocal enough to forestall urological abandonment. At worst, you take your best shock and it ends up consigned to boutique medicine limbo. 
Of course also be wary of testimonials put forward by product entities. I also cannot comment on how the clinical literature translates to DIY home-use gadgets. Although clinical settings are using equipment, if consistent with published research, at a retail cost of $30,000+ 🤷🏼‍♂️
To access peer-reviewed journal articles: Google “shockwave therapy ED metaanalysis” 

A housecat at the time probably filed a missing pyjamas report. 

My air purifier is extremely quiet at max video recording volume. I can hear the street garbage collection and sirens (I live a few blocks from a main street artery). Such sounds drive me crazy without masking. 
First clip is all other ambient noise free, depicting what to anticipate from this model of air purifier (from Best Buy). 
Second clip is all other ambient noise free except the sound of ‘Big Water for Sleep’ iTunes track through a speaker a few feet away, though it’s more pleasant than recorded here. I cannot hear sirens or huge metal garbage bin slamming sounds from the forklift operations. And of course one can adjust the volume. 

IMG_8330.mov IMG_8331.mov

When bent over perpetually indulgently, always watch for flying objects that mistake you for the Guajataca Tunnel.

My air purifier is extremely quiet at max video recording volume. I can hear the street garbage collection and sirens (I live a few blocks from a main street artery). Such sounds drive me crazy without masking. 
First clip is all other ambient noise free, depicting what to anticipate from this model of air purifier (from Best Buy). 
Second clip is all other ambient noise free except the sound of ‘Big Water for Sleep’ iTunes track through a speaker a few feet away, though it’s more pleasant than recorded here. I cannot hear sirens or huge metal garbage bin slamming sounds from the forklift operations. And of course one can adjust the volume. 

IMG_8330.mov IMG_8331.mov

When bent over perpetually indulgently, always watch for flying objects that mistake you for the Guajataca Tunnel.

When bent over perpetually indulgently, always watch for flying objects that mistake you for the Guajataca Tunnel.

… while also keeping one eye on the pond riding your cart to the pickleball courts, replenishing electrolytes after the game. In any case, diaper pails bring the thread full circle.