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    When my cat was a kitten he was underweight and had frequent diarrhea from poor nutrition.

    When we get him neutered he had the cone, but he had diarrhea and got it on the cone. That caused him to roll around and rub against a bunch of surfaces. The he threw litter everywhere trying to cover it up.

    When I got back the the grocery store the room he was in was a total wreck, with litter and smears of poop everywhere. I was only gone like an hour.

    Thankfully we confined him to a storage room.

    https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/aa91b98d-2e17-4b36-80ec-ab2d75178dcf.jpeg




  • My grandpa, my dad, and my wife’s dad never got taught how to cook at all. My mom taught all my brothers and we share a love for cooking today. Half our conversation at (Canadian) Thanksgiving was about cooking and recipes.

    I think it’s an important skill for everyone, and it’s definitely a taking care of yourself skill.

    Cooking is cheaper than buying cooked/packaged food, it’s healthier, it’s rewarding, and girls love it when you cook for them. There are no downsides to learning, and there are recipes for every budget or amount of time online.




  • I read the whole article and I don’t think it’s bad.

    He does have some points: that masculinity itself need not be seen as inherently toxic, and therapy for men should be designed for the needs of men.

    Overall, the broad ideas all seem reasonable to me.

    I even read a couple more of his articles and read one of his papers.

    In the one paper I think his methodology from a math perspective was a bit dated and weak from current standards (e.g. binning and grouping variables, trimming outliers, how he used PCA), but is fairly average to see in research.

    One thing he focused on and I want to call out specifically was his inference that a negative coefficient on the view “masculinity is negative” implies seeing masculinity as positive is good for mental health.

    That inference isn’t logically or statistically correct. It’s simply stating that men who see masculinity as inherently negative had worse mental health, it says nothing about seeing masculinity positively impacting mental health. That’s a really big distinction to me, and it wasn’t a huge factor in the analysis to be the main conclusion (and he criticizes another paper for doing the same thing).

    I’d love to see his same analysis done with some improvements to the math though!

    Anyways, I digress, I get too into math. His ideas are not Jordan Peterson’s ideas, they’re reasonable ideas.