Bingo.

I saw your previous comment and I appreciate you digging into it! To be clear, I don’t have a special affinity to Girl Scouts of America and I agree that the cookies probably are contaminated, although not enough to really matter. It’s just a fun activity for my kid. If my uncle or whoever doesn’t want to give them money that’s fine. I just don’t want it to be because he was influenced by some organization with an ulterior motive. I don’t think it’s really about the cookies.

The article provides a decent explanation.

Makes sense. Thanks, Gayhitler.

I think so.

The headline means newly manufactured e-bikes with lead acid batteries.

There’s a fair argument to be made that MADD is also one of these bad Mom organizations. The temperance, surveillance, and tough-on-crime aspects of their advocacy are plainly regressive. On top that they never seem to advocate for better public transit. Their website has one sentence mentioning public transportation, but proudly boasts of the lives saved by ride-sharing companies like Lyft and Uber. No me gusta.

Are AGM batteries really inferior? Sure, they’re heavier, but they aren’t vulnerable to autoignition and thermal runaway. They also contain less conflict minerals than other types of batteries.

It’s absolutely on Biden, the Democrats, and the Universities for their crackdown on the pro-Palestinian protestors since Operation al-Aqsa Flood. Otherwise there would have been no criminal charges to use as a pretext for this order. The protests were peaceful until the authorities and unrestricted pro-Israel mobs escalated.

Yup.

Are moms okay?

Here’s MAA’s article about the findings. It does include numbers, but offers no comparison to similar treats on the market. For contrast, this Consumer Reports article addresses lead contamination in Lunchables type products from several manufacturers and does a decent job explaining what their findings mean. The CR article references California’s daily read consumption limit, which I think properly relevant for foods, but the MAA article references the EPA limit for lead in water. I can probably do the math to better understand MAA’s findings, but I have a feeling that they’re presenting them this way in order to make them seem more alarming.

I’m not sure what locally sourced means. Girl Scout cookies come from a factory somewhere. I’ll check the boxes when ours arrive, but I always assumed that Girl Scout cookies were just like any other processed junk food: probably containing trace amounts of various types of contamination, but unhealthy in the first place for their sugar content.

I’m not trying to defend Girl Scout cookies or Girl Scouts of America. My suspicion is that this awareness campaign by MAA isn’t really about the cookies. I think it might be a rouse to rope people into their anti-vax agenda.

Thank you!. My wife filmed it and her commentary still sends me.

I’m still nervous about letting her ride near street traffic, so that is good advice.

I followed my cousin’s example of using a balance bike and skipping training wheels entirely. I can’t recommend it enough.

Thank you! This video is from about a year and a half ago. Hoping to get another couple of seasons out of this bike before we get something bigger. She’s already asking about a gear shifter.

Lol my old Maytag is probably the most polite and introverted appliance in my house.

I think there are sensitive locations in Florida where you are not allowed to carry without a permit, even if a permit isn’t needed elsewhere in the state.