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Harris raises $81 million in 24 hours since Biden dropped out, endorsed her, setting new presidential donation record
  • I gave to the DNC. I specifically did not give to the Joe Biden or Harris reelection fund. I imagine others are in the same boat - telling him their congressperson to push Joe out or they wouldn't give.
    Its lazy reporting and dishonesty on part of actblue

  • Harris has support of enough Democratic delegates to become party’s presidential nominee: AP survey
  • Yeah. I just wish things all happened a few months ago so we could have had a contested convention. We have lots of choices - just a lack of circumstances to let us do it.

    If we had ranked choice primaries all these problems would all just go away.

  • Please let this be a turning point...
    • Babies yes. I don't think 1 year olds like the op are in that category. Both I and my friend with a baby recently asked our separate pediatricians that question - and they both responded with what I said.
    • https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/sids-risk-by-age. The highest risk is 1 to 4 months old. That's not op. This is about assessing risk vs other risks - like PPD and health of the parents. It's ok for you to take that risk assessment one way and others to do differently.
    • what I've heard is the same - there's no difference in sleep trained vs other babies at the end of the day. So another way of saying that you can balance the impact on the parents and baby. We needed to do that for us. It's ok if you didn't need to.
  • Found these guys going to town on a few leafs on my Columnar Aspens
  • Its about degrees, right? If you see 1 leaf with 1 slug are you going to bust out the poison? Prob not. That's different from seeing a plant overrun. If those cateepillars aren't mobbing on your tree en masse it's prob OK to leave em alone.

  • Please let this be a turning point...
  • Yes to the milk vs solids. Kids are smart and they know if they can get the bottle they will skip on other foods so they can get more of that.
    My 3 yr old niece kept getting a big glass of cows milk before bed. As a result, she wasn't really eating dinner. Was underweight. They cut milk out and suddenly she's eating a lot more.

  • Please let this be a turning point...
  • OK. I recently had to go thru a lot of this and here's my experiences. Every child is different... But there are some points here I think I can help with.

    • night feedings. Talk to your Dr. if you don't believe me. But I asked ours when our baby was 6 months old. The Dr. said that the baby was completely possible of sleeping thru the night - they did not need extra food in the night. They just wanted it. That's fine … but it seems like that is affecting their sleep.
    • location. Both of our kids slept better outside of our room. Noticeably so. I think us turning in our sleep or snoring is what triggered them to wake up. From tossing and turning and waking up to going much longer before wakeups. I subscribe to the view that your job as a parent is to minimize sadness in the long term - and sleep training does that - you have a bad week and at the end of it you're kid can sleep in a room by themselves.
    • sleep training - The goal being that your kid knows that their bed is a safe place to fall asleep - and to do that they need to fall asleep there by themselves. Wait until they're sleepy, almost falling asleep, place into bed, pat pat on back for 10 seconds, then leave. Let them cry. Wait 10 mins and come back, comfort, get breathing even. Then place back in bed and let cry. Repeat a few times and they fall asleep. A few nights of that should be enough as long as you stick to the schedule.
    • when child was 6-9 months, we did the transition to falling asleep by themselves. At first we got 8 to 3 am. Wife was doing night feeding, just to let children sleep so that she could go back to sleep quicker. Once we quit that by me stepping in instead at nights, child stopped waking up in middle of night. We were getting kid to sleep for 8-5. Now at almost 1 yr we're getting 8-630.
  • Gender positive movies?

    A lot of kids movies/tv perpetuate harmful gender roles. The obvious culprit is Disney - and the 'a woman's role is to get married' storylines. Even the later Disney movies seem to be embracing the message even while appearing to refute it.

    But it's larger than that. All the instances where a female character is only in a supporting role, or female characters have certain traits (empathy) but lack other traits (aggressiveness). Doing a gender swap and seeing the differences in how characters are portrayed has helped me see the double standards.

    I've become more sensitive to this as I'm screening media for my young girls to watch.

    A couple of the media that I've seen are the g rated Ghibli movies - Totoro and Kiki's shows young girls that are independent, aggressive, courageous, and go through problems and overcome them.

    I'm looking for some more examples of movies - g rated especially - in that vein.

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    Come offer suggestions for direct democracy: Voter Initiatives

    I live in California and am sick of good legislation being sidelined by lobbyists. So, let's identify ideas for how voters (in any state) can improve their situation via direct democracy

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    CA electricity w PGE is more expensive than electricity in Guam

    My friend lives in Guam. Their electric price is around 0.27 per kWh. I'm getting 0.46 - 0.50 per kWh with PGE. How is it cheaper to send refined oil by tanker to a tiny island in the Pacific than it is to get electricity in a state with massive solar, wind installs and multiple refineries? I'm guessing public ownership of the Guam utility is part of the answer.

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    Filtered window fan?

    I live in an area with not so great air quality and no AC. We have little air filters inside the rooms, but at night we have to let the cool (and dirty) air inside to cool down the house. I'd like a solution to blow air in while also filtering it - but aside from one Amazon listing and makeshift solutions with zip ties, I haven't seen great options.

    Any recommendations you have?

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    Spouse - 0; garage door opener - 3

    Today marked the third time my spouse has lost their battle with the garage door opener. We have historically been used to a smaller car. But upgrading to a new EV crossover (a year ago) has brought with it its own challenges.

    The first time it happened, the lift gate was up when the door button was pressed. Minor scratch to the plastic covering the light bar.

    The second time, a few months ago, a scratch in the back metal that is somewhat noticeable. They said they were tired after a long day and the washer door was open so it seemed like they needed more space and weren't thinking enough when they closed it.

    The third time, tonight, they were also tired. No washer this time. Noticeable small dent in the metal panel accompanied with a scratch that went thru to the metal underneath.

    I have gone ahead and finished putting up the tennis ball on a string as a guide. I started the idea after incident #2 but procrastinated on putting it up as I thought that was the end of it. I learned we needed it.

    I have let them know that accidents can happen, but that they can be responsible for getting it fixed. It's ok. We just need to keep this car now until it dies.

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    Any restaurants you know that are reducing plastic?

    Looking to see if you know of any restaurants doing anything interesting for reducing takeout plastic waste. Deposit for using Pyrex? Discount for byo? Etc

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