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New parent. Just had some questions
  • The feeding issue seems like it's probably just newborn lazyness/lack of muscle still and bottles are easier, but tongue ties, lip ties, and muscle strains are all incredibly common in babies and can make suction much harder. If your wife is dedicated to breastfeeding then you could go to a lactation consultant now if you want, but if that's difficult you can definitely keep offering nipples at most feedings and then supplement with a bottle. Not sustainable forever but will help the baby start developing the right muscles and energy for proper latch suction. If the problem persists then a lactation consult would be a good next step.

    Hang in there, it's a tough few weeks with a tiny human who doesn't know how to live yet! Things change quickly though so what seems impossible today may well be routine in a week.

  • What is the best degoogled tablet for an artist?
  • It's not fully featured but the remarkable series of epaper tablets are supposed to be pretty good and run a Linux fork. The supernote family run a version of Android that's very stripped down and doesn't require an account or an Internet connection ever.

  • Cyclocross gravel, or road?
  • I started out as a mountain biking kid with my dad, but pretty much exclusively road bike now. To be honest, I routinely go over grass and dirt on my road bike for shortcuts, as long as you're careful it's fine. Especially if you throw slightly more robust tires on them and it's more the occasion than the rule I wouldn't worry about it.

  • What did your engagement ring cost, married/engaged people?
  • My grandmother gave me hers, so free. But I ended up getting a wedding band for somewhere in the neighborhood of $1500, made custom to match the engagement ring which was alternating sapphires and diamonds. Lab grown small diamonds, but I think it was 4 of them with 3 sapphires, plus a 18k gold band.

  • Tablet suggestions for taking handwritten notes
  • As far as I've seen/read they don't really do sales ever, but sell open box good condition items at a decent discount.

    I have the smaller one, and text looks a lot better than my Paperwhite from 2015, but I haven't spent a lot of time with a newer Kindle for comparison or looked at manga on either. Even with a magnifying glass you can't see individual pixels on the SNs though so I would think graphical content would look good?

  • Tablet suggestions for taking handwritten notes
  • I recently got a supernote, same idea but a bit cheaper, they offer a smaller one, and it runs an android fork instead of a Linux fork. Great for notetaking, haven't used obsidian but you can side load almost any android app with mixed success

  • Sexy queer goth dance parties rule
  • A lot of people, particularly reactionary right wingers, use it to mean good times make effeminate men who respect women and ruin things for said reactionary men's unwashed undatable asses.

  • OnePlus 13 'Mini' reportedly pairs two 50MP cameras with 6.31-inch display
  • That's a bigger screen than my pixel 6a, which is borderline unusable one handed for me. I'm in the market for a new, smaller phone, but unless they've warped space to get this thing smaller I don't know how it completes against all the non 'mini' phones which will be mere millimeters larger

  • Help identifying mysterious pen
  • Thanks for the replies everyone! It definitely looks like a dip pen from what I can see, I can't even see where a feed or reservoir might attach now that I'm looking. I'll try to post some better pictures of the actual nib and interior tomorrow, today escaped me.

  • Help identifying mysterious pen

    Recently I had some guests stay for a while, and while they were packing and cleaning this pen rolled out of a bedroom closet. I can't find any identifying marks on the pen itself anywhere, and in fact it looks quite a bit different inside than any pen I have seen before (not that I have tons of experience)--it's just a completely hollow tube made of very thin metal, with a friction-fit cap that holds a #773 R. Esterbrook & Co's Natural Slant, also friction fit and with no reservoir to speak of.

    The only information I can find on the nib is that the nib is possibly from around 1938, or at least that that model was being manufactured at the time (The Esterbrook Project).

    The house where this was found was constructed in ~1939, and I have no idea how long the pen was hiding in the closet since we've cleaned it out several times before and it wasn't even the first time this month that we had guests staying in that room. We're also far from the first owners, though I found a penny from the 1940s when we did a demolition project in the garage so there are some artifacts from the early days of its life still hiding around!

    Any pointers would be appreciated! I'm not sure what to call the raised vine and flower motif on the outside to help narrow my searches to try to find similar pens by blind luck.

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    WTF is going on with TikTok?
  • Except it went dark before the law had a chance to be enforced, and was back up before trump was ever in office and able to use executive orders. So points 3 and 4 have nothing to do with the actual law and are decisions completely from within tiktok

  • Why do cats yell "Nooooo!" the entire drive when you are taking them in the car? It's heartbreaking!
  • My cat did this in many cars until I got an EV. No idea what's different, but I've tested it in a relative's series hybrid and he gets a bit annoyed for a few minutes and then settles in electric, but still complains for hours in gas or parallel hybrids

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