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thesweeterpeter t1_jaxuw5k wrote

>Wedding planner Georgie Mitchell visited a podcast called ‘Unfiltered Bride,’ and as she was chatting with co-presenter Beth Smith, she recalled a story told by a wedding make-up artist Jenny, whom she used to work with.

>Mitchell told Smith how the bride had gone to the restroom, only to be greeted by the shocker of her life!

>Smith’s first guess was that the groom was caught cheating, but that was not the case

It sounds like the reporter listened to a podcast, and this isn't the podcast guests first hand account - it's a recollection from a makeup artist they used to know.

This is like 4 degrees away from the reader of the article. The reporter is going out of their way to distance themselves from accountability to verify the sourcing here.

I read it, I read it like three times because I couldn't believe someone would have the gal to publish something so incredibly flimsy

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Yolectroda t1_jaxfxqr wrote

That's actually one of the biggest reasons to oppose restrictions at that point in pregnancy. Women who get abortions that late in a pregnancy almost always have exceptional situations, either medical or personal, and as you said, would be harmful. It's kinda like what the Utah governor said about the trans sports bans, there's so few of them and they're doing their best to work things out, that treating the situation with compassion rather than anger and prohibition makes the most sense (though sadly, they then overrode his veto, passing law that screwed over like 4 children in the state, at that time).

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chasonreddit t1_jaxdsrv wrote

Sure, I'm a grammar nazi. If a word is based in latin and ends in -us it is usually plural as -i. Radius/radii, Cactus/Cacti, etc. Except when it's not. We usually don't say a university with multiple locations has campi, or that a group of naked men are showing their ani.

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chasonreddit t1_jaxbxm6 wrote

Hmmm. I usually go with the classical plural for latin based terms, but I have certainly seen both. OED gives both plurals as acceptable.

But I appreciate the comment. I used to do a lot of proofreading. Reddit can be painful sometimes.

In this sense it's more of a descriptor than a plural. Almost everyone has either 1 or 0.

I suppose I would be more proper to say "People with a uterus."

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