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- Comment on This is real 1 day ago:
It says VOA at the bottom. Volunteers of America manages a ton of affordable and voucher-based properties around the country. Some of the people I’ve helped move into units with them have been on the streets for years and have zero living skills. A class like this could genuinely help someone stay housed who might otherwise lose their housing voucher and be back on the street
- Comment on Colorado delenda est 3 days ago:
I don’t know, they took some of the most conservative parts of the state to the north and northeast, plus the panhandle. Maybe we’ve got a chance now.
I’m just glad they took Oklahoma
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
What is it that will make your parents happy? It sounds like nothing that you want will make them happy, so at some point you either need to do what they want and be miserable or do what fulfills you and let them handle their own misery. Secrets are not sustainable.
Caveat that most of the advice you’re going to get on here, including mine, will be from western countries.
- Comment on Can someone fact check this 4 days ago:
What if it takes a boat?
- Comment on what's a good answer to placate the c-suite if you're accused of lacking motivation and being unfriendly? 5 days ago:
Everyone is only there for the money. No one would be there if they weren’t getting paid. It sounds like you’re walking around telling all your coworkers “I’m only here for money,” which very honestly sounds insufferable. When you say the “C suite” wants to talk to you about this, are you referring to your boss, or your boss’s boss? Unless you’re in a high level job at a large company, those people are definitely not in the “C suite.”
- Comment on Ants Trapped For Years in a Soviet Nuclear Bunker Survived in The Most Horrifying Way 6 days ago:
When they say “graveyard,” they mean “trash pile.” Every any colony disposes of their waste away from the colony, and many will have a specific place they dump it. They throw their dead in the pile along with everything else that they need to remove from the nest.
As far as having an understanding of what’s in the hole? Ants do not understand like that. They instinctually follow pheromone trails but don’t really think about it.
- Comment on f u c k 6 days ago:
Like a thumb
- Comment on What is lunch like in exclusive private schools for rich kids? 1 week ago:
We send my son to private school. It’s not for multimillionaires, but it’s basically the cost of a second mortgage. We make his lunch every morning. Today it was a bean taco with cantaloupe, olives, cherry tomatoes, and cheese crackers.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
A Dog Called Kitty 😭 4th grade
- Comment on Has anyone else experienced these psychological changes after eating meat? 1 week ago:
Bipolar disorder is not curable, meaning that if you have it, you have it forever. That you have experienced mania before, but think right now it’s “impossible” that you’re manic, that’s a worrying sign.
- Comment on Has anyone else experienced these psychological changes after eating meat? 1 week ago:
The food is not doing this to you. The increased energy and irritability you describe are hallmark symptoms of a manic episode. Other symptoms include increased sex drive, loss of impulse control, and increased goal-directed activity.
I had a patient once who was manic as fuck and even came into the hospital denying that he was manic, that instead he started an all-meat diet and it gave him limitless energy. In real life, he was experiencing mania before he started that diet, and his manic brain was just continually connecting dots that weren’t actually connected.
I highly recommend you see a psychiatrist for an evaluation. If you are experiencing a manic episode, it could get worse before it gets better. I’ve seen it get a lot worse for people
- Comment on Has anyone else experienced these psychological changes after eating meat? 1 week ago:
My genuine advice for you is to find a psychiatrist, tell them everything, and then follow their recommendations
- Comment on 1919 (correctly) 1 week ago:
I’m also 43, and I and many of my friends call each other all the time
- Comment on On Jeopardy, does getting the Who/What/Where/When/Why part of the response necessary? 1 week ago:
This is called “uptalk,” and it’s most famously associated with the “valley girl” culture of 1980s Southern California
- Comment on How much grams? 1 week ago:
I’ve heard both in the US
- Comment on How much grams? 1 week ago:
We measure lots of things in grams in the US, like weed and psychedelic mushrooms
- Comment on Just tryna survive 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 1 week ago:
You weren’t kidding
- Comment on £500m Thames Water desalination plant has provided just seven days’ water over 15 years 1 week ago:
Upgrades are under way, with the aim of getting 50m litres of water a day [Ml/d] by the end of the current five-year investment cycle and “75Ml/d during drought periods” by 2031, according to the water company’s documents.
A Thames Water spokesperson said the Gateway desalination plant is designed to provide up to 5% of London’s supply “during very dry conditions”, with decisions on operation based on long-term forecasts and storage levels. Once safety works and maintenance are complete it will run “in line with our water resources management plan”.
- Comment on Hotdog, egg, and pickle bunt aspic 2 weeks ago:
Maybe throw in some cubes of cream cheese
- Comment on NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE 2 weeks ago:
Joey Santore’s got you!
Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t. One of the best YouTube channels
- Comment on NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE 2 weeks ago:
Shout-out to Native American Seed Company in Junction, TX for all your native grass and wildflower needs in the south and southwest
- Comment on Traders Say ‘Insane’ Tech Is Making FX Markets Sleepier 2 weeks ago:
TIL
- Comment on Traders Say ‘Insane’ Tech Is Making FX Markets Sleepier 2 weeks ago:
Some warned that the lack of dramatic action creates the risk that market makers may exit as it becomes harder to generate profits.
Wtf is a “market maker” in currency exchange markets?! Those people add nothing of value to the world and only suck wealth from others. Please, exit.
- Comment on Bulls On Parade 3 weeks ago:
There was just another thread where people were talking about how many Gen Xers have gone full MAGA, but Rage is a quintessential Gen X band. Wtf happened
- Comment on How many hands long do they get? 3 weeks ago:
This meme wasn’t created to ridicule Americans, it was created to enrage the French, and to a lesser extent the Germans.
- Comment on Bulls On Parade 3 weeks ago:
Weapons, not food, not homes, not shoes.
Not need, just feed the war cannibal animal.
I walk the corner to the rubble that used to be a library.
Line up to the mind cemetery now - Comment on 3 weeks ago:
problamy
- Comment on Why is the human body so incredibly bad at responding to colds? 3 weeks ago:
Certainly possible, if not likely, that when these viruses first evolved to infect humans or human ancestors they caused increased mortality
- Comment on Why is the human body so incredibly bad at responding to colds? 3 weeks ago:
I disagree, there’s a no way a rhino could fit in there
- Comment on Why is the human body so incredibly bad at responding to colds? 3 weeks ago:
The common cold is a family of coronaviruses, our bodies have been fighting off their mutations for millennia. An mRNA vaccines for colds, if I remember correctly, was in the works, but, well, we’ve all seen what’s happening there