My impression was that Bujold was using the setup as a way of making some feminist points as much as anything else (eg the hero is shocked at the idea that women would be doing childcare unpaid and u… (View Post)

Yes, I agree the southern route is the best option available and if they went north there'd be a bunch of practical disadvantages and merely a different set of villagers who'd rather not be… (View Post)

Indeed, for any individual footballer it is and should be entirely their own choice whether to come out publicly, be 'out' in their personal life but simply never mention it in interviews, … (View Post)

It's amazing how many interesting bits of data and graphs are lurking behind various links and search boxes on that site -- I only stumbled on that particular page fairly recently. The graph for… (View Post)

Or maybe we could try to make a national level decision about whether there are useful measures that might keep cases lower overall while vaccination rolls out to lower age groups, rather than taking… (View Post)