Signtist

@Signtist@bookwyr.me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Go ahead, take one⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Got a huge bag for Christmas one year and ate the whole thing in a few days. The inside of my mouth was white with canker sores for a good while.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The green lean mean killing machine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The damage is permanent on a cellular level - the affected cells will either die, or in the case of radiation exposure, can become cancerous instead. If you got a small enough exposure, and immediately sought medical attention to remove the toxin from your body in the case of amatoxin ingestion, then only some cells will be affected, and maybe your organs can continue functioning and eventually recover after the affected cells die off. If the damage is significant, you might survive if you get a liver transplant and dialysis, since the liver and kidneys are the most affected due to their role in filtering and removing toxens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The green lean mean killing machine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not just similar, it’s the same symptom - they both kill you through damaging your cells’ ability to create proteins, radiation through damage to the DNA itself, and amatoxins from deadly mushrooms through blocking of the cell’s ability to read DNA to create mRNA, which is necessary for protein synthesis.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Me in my home office at exactly 5:01pm everyday⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That was an issue for me as well when I started working from home, but I was able to slowly start getting myself to do things on my own, instead of needing to tack them on to preexisting commitments like going to work, which has actually helped me out a lot. The trick was for me to do the smallest possible thing, and ramp it up incredibly slowly. I started working out again by literally doing one sit-up a day. For weeks that’s all I did, but eventually I moved up to 5, then to more, and added more exercises until now, where I’ve got a whole weekly routine.

  I did the same thing for other chores that needed doing, and it’s been long enough now that I can just decide to do something that I need to do in the moment, instead of always saying “I’ll do it after work,” which would always turn into “I’ll do it after work tomorrow” when work actually ended. It makes outings more fun, too, since they’re not always filled to the brim with all the things I was putting off doing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨everyone agrees⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I like that people like dogs - they deserve a good home and loving owner - but they make me nervous. I was almost attacked by a dog on the street as a kid, and my dad had to take the bite instead to save me. 2 other kids in my family have been bitten by dogs as well, both times by dogs they had spent a significant amount of time with, but that suddenly got triggered by something out of the blue and attacked. I just can’t trust that they’ll always be friendly, and even one second of aggression is enough to cause some real damage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BIG (like Americans) IF TRUE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, annatto is a traditional cheese dye, but outside of the US cheddar doesn’t often have much annatto if any, so it’s not usually died orange. Here’s a video of someone making a marbled cheddar cheese where one part has annatto and the other doesn’t, so you can easily see the difference in the final product.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨W for Uncle Ted⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty sure that was the joke - a guy randomly trying to kill people did more to punish members of a pedophile ring by complete happenstance than the governmental body whose job it’s meant to be to do so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Always works and tastes better⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My dad’s got that exact style that he uses when camping. I didn’t drink coffee, but he says it’s great.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Retro Gaming is a Playground for Billionaires and Nazis⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, the work I did last month made my company over 4 million dollars, and my salary earned me about 7k. That’s a normal salary for my position, but if you and a partner made that much money together and they took 99.8% of the share, it’d feel pretty scammy, right?

  I’m not sure how much money my ISP, electric company, grocery store, or hospital make, but I can imagine that they have a similar issue where the people doing the work get way too little of a piece of the pie. We consider it normal because it’s so prevalent, but it used to be that the CEO and other executive suite members had a much smaller piece, allowing for everyone else to get relatively more.

  Sure, the higher-ups always took the biggest chunk and always will, but at this point our economy is entirely based on the idea of extracting as much wealth from the people generating it as possible, which is definitely a scam.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You are allowed flavor⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A Hawaiian corset tests hundreds; indie hero icon hence absolved.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Retro Gaming is a Playground for Billionaires and Nazis⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sitting here wondering why I ever trusted one that didn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If vegetarians eat vegetables, and humanitarians eat humans, what do Bavarians eat?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bavarian cream-filled donuts

  Source: I’m classified as Bavarian by diet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I would also be confused⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Usually when someone is contacting someone else while working on making peace with their feelings about that person’s behavior, it’s because they want to have a discussion with them about it. It’s unusual for it to be a one-and-done text without expectation of a response. But if a response is expected, it’s then unusual to follow up that text with another concerning a completely different topic. If I were in this situation, I’d find it hard to begin a discussion about her annoyance, which is valid and deserves to be explored, when the current topic is now a winery van.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please hold⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My work office has a full kitchen that nobody ever uses, so one day I decided to just make cookies for everyone while I was on the clock. As I suspected, nobody wants to be the one to reprimand the guy giving out cookies for wasting company time. I work mostly remote now, but once a month when I come in for a meeting I’ll spend a couple hours in the morning making cookies, and everyone’s always excited for it.

  You’d be surprised what you can get away with by just doing stuff without asking if it’s okay first. Asking first usually gets ideas shot down, but once you’re already in the middle of doing something, most people assume someone gave the go-ahead. Worst case scenario you can pull the “I thought it’d be fine” line, but I almost never have to do that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've wondered since I was a youngin⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a reason it’s pushed so hard, and it’s because people in power don’t want to lose the golden goose that is American apathy. They can oppress us as much as they want, and we think having the moral superiority of taking it on the cheek makes us strong. It doesn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If only⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s why Trump’s smart - he knows that the American people are fine with invasions without any explanation at all!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨anon is hungover⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I had to check to make sure this wasn’t how I first heard of our latest invasion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You mean it's not?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s clearly Spanish for Big Aryan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What a great idea⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I can remember one or two specific instances of people choosing the worst place to stop and have a conversation, but the reason I remember them is because they happen so infrequently. I might need to say “excuse me” every so often, or squeeze by someone who didn’t leave a lot of space, but it’s never inconvenient enough to warrant remembering.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon files a lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, if the siblings are similar in age then yeah, I could see it being like a childhood best friend, but even a difference of, say, 4 years would be great enough that grooming could very well be in play.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon files a lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Haha! I appreciate it as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon files a lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re definitely in agreement with that. Abuse is a tough subject to broach, and requires a lot of tact to do it right, but if someone is well-meaning, I don’t think the conversation itself should be shunned.

  One time my sister’s husband got frustrated while trying to load a bunch of stuff into his car, and ended up throwing something in his frustration. It wasn’t at anyone or anything, but it was such a stark difference from how he normally acts that I felt the need to subtly take my sister aside and ask if he ever hit her. It was a bit awkward, but she knew that my heart was in the right place, so she assured me he wasn’t abusive, and even told him what I had asked to show him how his action looked to a third party, which caused him to take me aside to apologize and thank me for looking out for my sister.

  All that to say, it’s good to care for your loved ones, and having mutual respect can let you poke your nose a bit deeper than usual so long as its for the right reasons. As a society we simply try to keep those situations from being necessary in the first place, which is why we tend to be uncomfortable with relationships that are at a higher risk of being abusive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sharing is caring⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Took me a while to realize it’s a reference to how birds feed their young. At first I thought it was some sort of body snatchers thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Parents... Huh...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My buddy’s parents were like this. They’re very religious, and damn near disowned him when his younger brother snitched to them that he saw a condom wrapper in his trash. This was despite the fact that their older brother was born full-term less than 9 months after their parents got married…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon files a lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Who are we to worry about the wellbeing of our loved ones? We’re well-meaning adults in a situation where we can’t be certain they weren’t raped. We might be wrong and sticking our nose where it doesn’t belong, or we might be right and end up being the one person dedicated enough to save another person from a case of grooming. Those cases specifically rely on a person to dig too deep - they wouldn’t be uncovered otherwise.

  It’s a difficult place to be in, which is why we shun those relationships from the get-go. Nobody wants to be in that situation, and there are enough people in the world to have sex with that we can afford to say “not anyone who specifically had a hand in influencing what your developing brain considered ’normal.’”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon files a lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, people can just be that weird, and maybe most instances are, but any time you’re dealing with a situation where someone is having sex with a person who knew and had influence over them during childhood, it’s difficult to say they didn’t push a little too much to end up at this result.

  It’s like a young adult dating an old friend of their parents; most people’s minds immediately go to that one time 10 years ago where they both disappeared for an hour in the middle of a barbecue and got kinda defensive about it afterward…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elijah Radcliffe⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Danijah Woodcliffe

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good point⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  He originally wanted to call it the Spermy Long Legs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do Costcos usually have an ATM machine?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The ones in my area all have a Wings Credit Union ATM by the food court.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia GeForce Now’s Time Limit Will Stop Gamers After 100 Hours Each Month⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know a lot of people who would consider 3 hours of gaming a day to be plenty, and I know a lot of people who buy Nvidia products. They are not the same people.