The cashier's getting paid the same. If they were like waitstaff that get paid by the customer, it'd be a shitty thing to do, but for folk that are hourly/waged, it's still not nice, but not quite shitty territory, since you're not messing with their income, just time (and as someone that's worked customer support, I'd rather count pennies for 2 hours than deal with another irate "I'm angry because I can't read" ahole)

Talk to other parents. There's a non-zero chance that your child is not the only one. Also, for children that young, a lot of the times such behaviour comes from negative home experiences - be it their own parents bullying them, or even just neglect (no corrections, guidance, etc), so you can't always expect help from the kid's parents. However, if you manage to get the involvement of other parent(s) then it becomes more serious, and hopefully will have the staff listen and act.

According to this stackexchange:

fat chance is like a cynical no chance:

You think you can win the lottery? Fat Chance.

slim chance is when there is a small possibility. It does not infer any hidden meaning.

Even though I did not study, there is a slim chance that I will pass the test.

I don't know if you could call "less bad" the same as better....

That's sadly how conservative politics works. People tend to fear what they don't know, and defunding education + excessive belief in own intelligence results in the use of fear, hatred, disgust, misinformation, and lack of awareness to stir up furor and influence people to vote against their own best interests

That's neat and all, but it's not using semantic HTML, so won't be using it. Hopefully one day they'll upgrade, until then more power to 'em, we need more folk doing web accessibility stuff!

Yea, it's a sucky situation. At least they're not actively investing into Yandex, it's just a source (like Google) for the search results. Though since it's a paid service, the most likely way to make em stop is to express your displeasure and vote with your wallet, and if enough people do that then it'll cost less to stop using Yandex than it does to ignore unhappy (potential) customers

I wish I could be willfully ignorant, life would be so much simpler if I wasn't aware of all of the clustertrucks, and wouldn't be thinking further ahead than my next meal... But alas, suffering it is

Oh boy, make sure you've got tissues at hand. It's a beautiful game though, enjoy!

I'm glad to hear that, hopefully she'll recover well and be happy and healthy

Can do. I'm not sure what's unclear, so I'll cover my bases.

Endometriosis - as part of the period cycle, the layer of the womb's walls that's inside (endometrium) thickens, ready to take a fertilised egg, but if there's no egg (or none in time) make itself a cozy home among that lining, then it sheds, and is ejected from the body along with blood during periods. Endometriosis is a disease where that lining starts to grow elsewhere outside the uterus, most commonly around it, but can end up all over the body, even inside lungs or growing on skin. And, of course, it makes periods quite a bit more painful. Current estimate is that it affects 10 percent of menstruating people, yet it's regularly misdiagnosed or the diagnosis is delayed, leading to years (if not a lifetime) of pain. This article is a good read on the troubles with endometriosis.

The research about its effect on men or another one about how endometriosis affects the sexual wellbeing of men - even though over the recent couple of years there's been an increase in the number of studies on endometriosis, it's upsetting to people that instead of focusing on better diagnosis, care, alleviation, etc, people are still looking into "but what about the men 🥺". Not to mention the biased / lacking variety selection of participants for existing research. This all ties into medical misogyny and women's concerns being consistently dismissed (see more below).

On period pain - this article is a good read (anti-paywall proxy), but in a nutshell, it is so "normal" that people have pain during periods that people just suffer in silence, or are dismissed when they do try to seek help. There are some materials (example, example) online, though even official materials can downplay period pain, which is just an example how normal and systemic it is, though one should not be surprised as half report their symptoms/concerns being dismissed. Which also ties into endometriosis, since it can increase the painfulness of periods, to the point of being debilitating. Not to mention the general dismissal of people's pain in gynecology, what with for example medical professionals underestimating pain and just not offering pain medication.

On the cervix - things have gotten better in gynecological care in more recent years, though there's still a lot of room to grow. In Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953), Kinsey’s group wrote that the surface of the cervix is "the most completely insensitive part of the female genital anatomy." based on a reaction to a gentle stroking by a probe. And then, it was taught to doctors for years, decades, and some healthcare providers still keeping to the old beliefs. It's obviously wrong (ex. a neat read on cervix and pleasure), but what do you expect, the doctors no longer use the word "hysteria", but medical misogyny is sufficiently embedded that just slapping on a generic diagnosis is a thing.

Did that clarify things for you or is there something more you'd like to know?

Damn, I thought toxic masculinity and mysoginy stayed in X, not dragged along to Lemmy