In another thread, one about extremes of weather, I noticed

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11. Women get people's unsolicited opinion about their childlessness even more.

In my experience, other women were the worst culprits in thinking they could ask me why I didn't have kids & then make judgements or pronouncements on how much I was missing. Men, OTOH, usually only asked when they were interviewing me for a job, although women managers did that, too, & when you remind the questioner that that question is illegal, you rarely get a call back. I was even asked that by an attorney once. That interview ended early.

Six billion miracles are enough. I bought a bunch of ecology bumper stickers to put on the back of my truck back around the turn of the century but my husband vetoed the idea. That was one of them. Another one I liked was Urban sprawl - cut down all the trees & name streets after them.

There's an 8-billion pound elephant in the room but we don't want to talk about it. We have a global economic system built on continual growth but we live in a finite system. We are consuming our planet for the profit of a few.

Frozen juice concentrate has become harder & harder to find in my area, & the berry blends are gone completely. Has anyone else noticed this?