candybrie

It's kinda hard to raise your body's resistance a ton outside of not making good contact (e.g. wearing rubber boots/gloves). Things like your skin being moist lower resistance, but I'm not sure it's really that much of a safety factor when dealing with high voltage.

I think people just don't understand ohm's law. They seem to think voltage and current are unrelated to each other.

No, that was certifying the election (where Congress counts the electoral votes). Inauguration is the 20th.

6 days until that happens.

I don't think the gender reveal party adds to that in any way. It doesn't matter to the kid and everyone else in the kids life is going to still have the anticipatory moment of finding out their assigned birth gender even if it's just the parents/doctor telling them. The gender reveal party is such a minor thing years down the line; it's not like a wedding or something. It's like saying that theming your kid's 2nd birthday party Bluey and them deciding they don't like Bluey when they turn 10 is going to be such a bummer.

NIPT is now standard care in the US. It is covered by insurance and offered to every pregnant person. I didn't say everyone gets it, just that it's increasingly used. Something like 25%-50% of people do it and it's growing in popularity. You haven't answered if that would take the creepiness out

Most names are definitely gendered. If they weren't, changing your name when transitioning wouldn't be so incredibly common. You might think they're unnecessarily gendered, but they are currently gendered. You also haven't answered if you're ok with expectant parents and parents of infants telling people the kid is a girl or a boy without the party.

I don't know the episode, but when is House not an ass? Him signing you up for a surgery that you haven't even had time to consider and consent to because he thinks he knows best is not kind. And if you do balk, he'd belittle you.

Unless you really are drinking that much water. If you're drinking a few gallons a day, expect to be peeing constantly. Your body isn't going to water to retain all of that and it has to go somewhere. Most bladders can only hold like 2 cups.

Placebos are so effective, we've just started selling them explicitly (Zeebo). If it's cheap and doesn't have any negative effects, I don't care if it's a placebo or more; it works.

People do often take a blood test on Mom which will include some fraction of fetal DNA. They can do a blood test where they just check if there's any Y chromosome (sneak peek) or they can take a blood test which is to check for chromosomal abnormalities which also happens to tell you the sex chromosomes (NIPT). These happen much earlier than you can tell via looking at genitals on ultrasound and is increasingly becoming how people find out the sex of their baby.

People very often say they are having a girl or a boy and give them a gendered name. Do you have an issue with that?

So a-ok as long as it happens after the thing is passed? Because then it's just a tip.

And they currently just deny everything and hope you don't appeal.