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oddjobbodgod286 karma

It’s a bit unfair to say that women are just “expected to deal with without complaint”. I most certainly care about the side-effects the pill has on my partner. I don’t like that it depresses her, and even convinced her to take a break from the pill for a while, knowing that it was likely we wouldn’t have any sexual contact during that time.

In my opinion there should be just as much research going on into reducing the side effects to women as there should be to create a male contraceptive pill/gel. Both sexes should be able to choose any method they wish for contraception without having to worry about the side effects.

oddjobbodgod29 karma

I’m not as much of an expert on hurricanes in particular as OP, but I work with the data provided by organisations such as NOAA and they provide a vital role for the apps I work on.

A lot of these agencies provide their data for free, and obviously if they were privatised there is not a chance in hell that would continue! We recently had to change from a free weather tile service to a paid one for one of our apps and the private company that provided it charge a small fortune for usage.

It’s affordable by big companies but a lot of indie devs and innovators would be completely priced out of the market!

oddjobbodgod24 karma

Thank you for responding! Without going into too much detail (it’s 3am here) we are fully aware of all options, but the pill is the only one which suits us due to her thoughts and feelings on the matter. But much appreciated, I for one welcome a more open discussion about all possible methods and better education on the topic!

Edit: I forget, she actually changed pills recently - which I was super proud of her for as she’s quite iatraphobic (TIL). So fingers crossed it may make at least a slight difference over the coming months!

oddjobbodgod8 karma

I gathered, I just wanted to reiterate how bad that would be for everyone were it to happen!

oddjobbodgod4 karma

Personally, I want to meet my person

Is that why you did an AMA on reddit? :P Because if 15 people do this a year in your whole country, chances are you could fairly easily work out who you'd donated to! That leaves on average a 24 day window between donations/surgeries so if someone comments here that they just had an anonymous kidney donation it's fairly likely that it's the person you donated to.