sacred grove ambassador

Yes!!!! I did a review of literature on PFASs in human drinking water about half a year ago, and there is a lot of really good progress! Please celebrate this, please don't let this solution be forgotten (at least so quickly) as the ozone layer or acid rain.

Thinking about that very first Trill episode in TNG where Dr. Crusher fell in love with a man and then he died and his symbiont was passed to a woman and she was like "anyway Bev, shall we continue" and Beverly stared down the camera to say "I wish my world was ready for that" in a way that definitely meant "I wish I could be gay" but in story technically had to mean "you changing bodies is too confusing for me"

“Dating still suffers from a kind of prostitution complex. I have heard many debates about whether you ‘owe’ someone ‘something’—meaning some act of physical intimacy—in return for an evening out. The people who say these things do not usually seem to think that they are negotiating a price for their time or access to their bodies. But it would be difficult to pinpoint what exactly makes sleeping with someone because he bought you dinner different from sleeping with someone because he paid you what that dinner cost. At the same time, the very ambiguity that is supposed to make a date different from a sex-for-money transaction makes people nervous. Who has not wondered: Does he like me? Is she just using me? What is the other person really in this for? American English still has a huge store of slang that describes dating as transactional. Expressions like 'damaged goods’ no longer fly in polite company, and few people I know wonder why a man would ‘buy the cow when he can get all the milk he wants for free.’ But we do say that both men and women should shop around. If you really like someone, you should play hard to get. If you let a partner get some for nothing, you risk selling yourself short. He or she may just want to seal the deal. Friends with benefits offer a sense of security. But they come with trade-offs. Wait too long and you may have to settle. If you're on the market, it's wiser to invest in a relationship. This is before we even get into all the increasingly common ways of talking about dating that self-consciously borrow concepts from economics. People conduct ‘cost-benefit analyses’ of their relationships, and cite the ‘low risk and low investment costs’ of casual sex. They try to ‘position themselves’ to ‘optimize’ their romantic options.”