I think the machine runs Mac OS by default

Transcript from the article:

“Sex change for minors. Do you support that?” Watters asked El-Sayed, to which the former public health official said, “I just think the government shouldn't tell you what kind of healthcare you should have.”

“So you think it's okay for a parent to slash his kid’s ding-a-ling off?” Watters asked.

Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Michigan (Jesse Watters Primetime)

El-Sayed retorted: “Do you really want to have this conversation? Are you circumcised?”

The shocked Fox News host said, “Yeah, but I mean that’s a personal question, doctor.”

Watters then said circumcision is “different than castration,” but El-Sayed argued, “I’m just saying that yes, circumcision is surgery on a kid’s ding-a-ling.”

I believe it. But I'm not going to watch him :p

Yeah when i first heard "pilot" i thought exclusively of airline pilots. But if you include all pilots it makes sense.

Pilot surprised me as well. Thank you for the link. Here is the pilot section:

2. Commercial pilots

This does not include pilots of passenger planes for major airlines like you might use to travel for work or vacation. These folks navigate planes or helicopters to carry cargo and, in less common and less hazardous roles, lead air tours or navigate air ambulances. Nearly all deaths and injuries were caused by catastrophic crashes, which is why the nonfatal injury rate for the profession ranked low, at 297th.

I saw this with spreadsheets and fps

Not so fast. A solitary example of it happening once in Roman times and people writing about how they didn't like it seems to show the opposite -- it didn't happen as a rule, with the Romans at least. Compare this to the Aztecs.

The gladiators certainly resulted in human death and if you wanted to count it as that, I'd certainly agree. Although it is interesting that the Romans didn't consider it sacrifice, and it differs in character from directly sacrificing someone.

I am more curious about Pliny the Elder being sure that the pagans in Gaul and Britain practicing human sacrifice. Was that real, or invented? How about Carthage?

What about Greece? Is that where we get the trope of virgins sacrificed to a volcano (or the Oracle?) I don't know the history.

I combed through the article and found this small section,

Human sacrifice

Human sacrifice in ancient Rome was rare but documented. After the Roman defeat at Cannae two Gauls and two Greeks were buried under the Forum Boarium, in a stone chamber "which had on a previous occasion [228 BC] also been polluted by human victims, a practice most repulsive to Roman feelings".^[119]^ Livy avoids the word "sacrifice" in connection with this bloodless human life-offering; Plutarch does not. The rite was apparently repeated in 113 BC, preparatory to an invasion of Gaul. Its religious dimensions and purpose remain uncertain.^[120]^

In the early stages of the First Punic War (264 BC) the first known Roman gladiatorial munus was held, described as a funeral blood-rite to the manes of a Roman military aristocrat.^[121]^ The gladiator munus was never explicitly acknowledged as a human sacrifice, probably because death was not its inevitable outcome or purpose. Even so, the gladiators swore their lives to the gods, and the combat was dedicated as an offering to the Di Manes or the revered souls of deceased human beings. The event was therefore a sacrificium in the strict sense of the term, and Christian writers later condemned it as human sacrifice.^[122]^

The small woolen dolls called Maniae, hung on the Compitalia shrines, were thought a symbolic replacement for child-sacrifice to Mania, as Mother of the Lares. The Junii took credit for its abolition by their ancestor L. Junius Brutus, traditionally Rome's Republican founder and first consul.^[123]^ Political or military executions were sometimes conducted in such a way that they evoked human sacrifice, whether deliberately or in the perception of witnesses; Marcus Marius Gratidianus was a gruesome example.

Officially, human sacrifice was obnoxious "to the laws of gods and men". The practice was a mark of the barbarians and thus associated with Rome's traditional enemies such as the Carthaginians and Gauls. Rome banned it on several occasions under extreme penalty. A law passed in 81 BC characterized human sacrifice as murder committed for magical purposes. Pliny the Elder saw the ending of human sacrifice conducted by the druids as a positive consequence of the conquest of Gaul and Britain. Despite an empire-wide ban under Hadrian, human sacrifice may have continued covertly in North Africa and elsewhere.^[124]^

That last source is ++Beard, Mary++; North, John; Price, S. (1998), Religions of Rome, vol. I, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-31682-8

So far what you've presented here is that the ancient Romans believed that barbarians in Gaul, Britain,and Carthage practiced human sacrifice, but you have not presented any historical evidence of it actually happening.

I'm no historian and i don't feel like putting work into researching this, but your Wikipedia article doesn't appear to be a slam dunk.

I bled "I'm in this picture and I don't like it."

That makes a lot of sense. I searched and found a good article on the subject: https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/48224/20240117/why-poop-smell-bad-science-behind-unpleasant-odor-stool.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skatole?wprov=sfla1 (this is a volatile, airborne chemical)

This is from the Wikipedia article on human feces. Did not link it because content advisory: pictures of human feces. According to this, it is mostly volatile organic compounds, and I'm not seeing anything about smell aerosols.

Odor

Feces possesses physiological odor, which can vary according to diet and health status. For example, meat protein is rich in the amino acid methionine, which is a precursor of the sulfur-containing odorous compounds listed below.^[12][13][14][15][16]^ The odor of human feces is suggested to be made up from the following odorant volatiles:^[13]^

• Methyl sulfides
  • methylmercaptan/methanethiol (MM)
  • dimethyl sulfide (DMS)
  • dimethyl disulfide (DMDS)
  • dimethyl trisulfide (DMTS)
• Benzopyrrole volatiles
  • indole
  • skatole
• Hydrogen sulfide (H2S)

(H2S) is the most common volatile sulfur compound in feces.^[13]^ The odor of feces may be increased when various pathologies are present, including:^[17]^

• Celiac disease
• Crohn's disease
• Ulcerative colitis^[18]^
• Chronic pancreatitis
• Cystic fibrosis
• Intestinal infection, e.g. Clostridium difficile infection.^[19]^
• Malabsorption
• Short bowel syndrome

Attempts to reduce the odor of feces (and flatus) are largely based on animal research carried out with industrial applications, such as reduced environmental impact of pig farming. See also: Flatulence#Management, odor. Many dietary modifications/supplements have been researched, including:

• Activated charcoal^[20]^ (In this study it was found that activated charcoal at a dose of 0.52g four times a day did not appreciably influence the liberation of fecal gases.)
• Bismuth subsalicylate^[21]^
• Chloryphyllyn
• Herbs such as rosemary
• Yucca schidigera^[22]^
• Zinc acetate^[22]^

Ok, this is really weird. According to the flatus page, it implies that some people have complete voluntary control of their gas releases...?? It doesn't come as a surprise to them??

Incontinence of flatus

"Gas incontinence" could be defined as loss of voluntary control over the passage of flatus. It is a recognised subtype of faecal incontinence, and is usually related to minor disruptions of the continence mechanisms. Some consider gas incontinence to be the first, sometimes only, symptom of faecal incontinence.^[14]^

I'm glad that cold water works for you -- I'll keep trying different variations with it.

The manual salad spinner washer sounds really cool

Have a pleasant life!

Thanks :/

Hmm, i had never considered that question. I suppose using a bidet is basically a habit every time you use a toilet with one, but i can't imagine any advantage from using a bidet by itself before getting in the shower. If anything it might be too much cleaning, re: skin flora balance.

My question was more like, let's say you wake up in the morning and want to go on a bike ride, but you're all sweaty from the night, and haven't pooped yet or used the bidet. Do you have to wash first before getting in the bike shorts? The consensus seems to be that since the bike shorts are going to get "gross" and washed at the end of the workout, it is unnecessary to shower beforehand.

But to me it seems worth it to try to go to the bathroom and use the bidet before the bike shorts as an extra precaution.

Other people have mentioned eating more fiber to try and reduce liquid stool which can escape the butthole more easily. This also makes sense to me. I wonder if it wouldn't also be a good idea to reduce gas-generating foods to avoid farting in the bike shorts.

I've definitely learned a lot in this thread :)

Nothing is sarcastic on the internet without an extra indicator, via Poe's law. If you don't know what that is, I've helpfully provided a link here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law

;-)

Thank you for actual advice. It seems like at much of this thread is missing the point of No stupid questions.

Thank you for appreciating it. I'm getting a surprising amount of hate for a comm called "No stupid questions"

Thank you!

I've been a fan of bidets for years and have two at my house. Was considering getting a portable handheld one for when I'm at work too, but haven't taken the plunge.

Thank you for sharing your advice, and really taking the time to put it understandable terms. I am still trying to get better at washing polyester fabrics. I have not been putting white vinegar in the rinse water; i can try that. I have been using a technical fabrics detergent that's mostly Sodium Carbonate (very basic) and enzymes. It recommends either a normal wash, or a soak procedure for tenacious smells. I once let it soak too long, and i think the chemicals ate into the fabrics too aggressively and wore them out. I suppose that all laundry is finding the balance between preserving the clothes vs. getting them clean. I mostly have space for line-drying indoors, not out in the sun, but I could try line drying in high UV sunlight from time to time.

Some technical fabrics say wash cold, some say wash warm. I typically do cold for everything to try and prolong the life of the fabric. What water temperature are you using?

I regularly skimp on tires, headphones, speakers, rode a broken saddle for years and years, handlebar grips wearing out and getting gummy bits everywhere, computer monitor, keyboard, mouse and chair all completely wrong, work gloves disintegrating, etc. I dont have that much money to invest into hobbies, so I try to make things last.

But i really feel you on climbing shoes. I climbed in a $20 bargain bin pair that didnt fit for way too long, and it really hurt my feet. Eventually i invested in the moccasin style that was my exact size, and while they are not aggressive or high performing, they are more comfortable.

Recently I had to buy some new (to me) used tires because mine were so dryrotted they kept getting flats. While I was at tge community bike place, i bought a used pair of bibs to try (I've never ridden in bibs), and a used pair of bike shorts that are similar to mine. They didn't have a smell, and I was pretty amazed. I'm a little bit apprehensive about wearing second hand underwear, but the price was right, unfortunately. In hindsight, this is surely what started me on this train of thought.

Thank you.