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- Comment on Hardest battles 3 hours ago:
I always say: if it’s worth doing a half assed job, it’s worth stressing out about for days
- Comment on Fuck you in particular 3 days ago:
On the backdrop you mean? That would be from light refracting off of other places in the background and converging behind the gadget, partially illuminating the shadow.
- Comment on No words 4 days ago:
Larry David introduced RFK Jr and his wife (Cheryl Hines, also from cye)
- Comment on Oh, right... 4 days ago:
Is “spring and fall” actually a set phrase or not? My actual not to pick was that “fall” only refers to the early part of the season, I just wanted to get a little more of the quote.
- Comment on Perfection. 4 days ago:
There’s also something to be said for the strength required to constantly operate a heavy body. I used to do a lot of community dance, and it’s so, so much easier to do that at a low weight.
Immediately post COVID, I danced for the first time in ~18 months after having gained probably 10-15 kg, and I was fucking wrecked. Since then, I’ve lost the weight, but I’m now a smoker. It’s still so much easier to dance now, and I don’t have a way to test it, but I would be surprised if I’m in better cardiovascular health now than I was then. I’m just lifting less weight with every movement.
- Comment on Oh, right... 4 days ago:
Your source doesn’t say that at all.
Autumn and fall are used interchangeably as words for the season between summer and winter. Both are used in American and British English, but fall occurs more often in American English.
- Comment on Give a lil, get a lil 6 days ago:
Yeah, you hit the nail on the head. I’m desperate for any other way out of this mire.
- Comment on Give a lil, get a lil 6 days ago:
Luckily, they might be too young to really remember it. One just turned three (so she may remember, unfortunately), and the other is under 18 months. I hope they weren’t watching.
I’m generally very squeamish, but I didn’t think the video was that bad. Then it kept playing in my head while I was trying to sleep. I have no love lost for Charlie Kirk, but I hope those kids avoid the video for as long as possible.
- Comment on Perfection. 1 week ago:
My husband has a visually similar body type and has a very active job. He can do ten pull ups at a stretch, which is mind blowing to me. I’ve got a bmi of 20 and I’m pretty strong for my size (I lug around cases of drinks that weigh about half as much as I do regularly), but I’m nowhere close to a single pull up.
Even if this guy’s not a strongman, it’s possible to look like this and still be stupid strong. Just be short and carry your fat in your belly.
- Comment on Awooga 1 week ago:
We already have drugs that increase breast size, they just have the primary purpose/drawback of inducing lactation.
- Comment on observes your slit 1 week ago:
It’s a reasonable thing to think from the way it was described in my physics class, at least. I fault people a lot less for misunderstanding something that even scientists in the field don’t really understand than for something like thinking the earth is flat.
- Comment on Meta uses AI for all their recruiting now and shit has gotten out of control 1 week ago:
Thinking of military tech, I hope not
- Comment on generation 1 week ago:
The apostrophe is there for “verdose”
- Comment on Are there "headhunters" that work *for* you? 2 weeks ago:
Another but:
You’ve got to be a pretty good candidate for them to want to work with you. A friend of mine was placed by one, but she had a decade of project management experience with all the right buzzwords
- Comment on Have you?!?! 2 weeks ago:
Thanks and sorry, Hendrik Lorentz! I’d consider it a grave insult to be confused for Freud, lol.
- Comment on Have you?!?! 2 weeks ago:
I only recognize Nobel (not even certain about him), Curie, Freud, and Einstein, that’s bad.
- Comment on No title and I can't stop laughing 2 weeks ago:
What does this mean? I looked up malazan yoke and got nothing.
- Comment on Reginald Fried Kentucky Jr 2 weeks ago:
Is this edited? He looks rough, even compared to just a few months ago. His job would still be stressful, but probably much less so if he were doing a good job. Pretty ironic that he’s harming his own health through his stances on healthcare while incorrectly attributing the poor health of the Americans to their own stances toward healthcare.
- Comment on Feelin Swifty 2 weeks ago:
I love their music!
- Comment on I may swear like a pirate, but I'm a fucking PRINCIPLED pirate 2 weeks ago:
I had an aunt Julia growing up and my parents sat me down when I was four or five and they heard me calling her aunt Ju to explain that “Jew” wasn’t inherently a slur, but it could be offensive to people if I just shouted it randomly after my aunt. Based on that, I suspect they would have talked to me about slurs if it had come up, but I never used them.
I did once talk to my grandmother at around age eleven about seeing a huge Afro and she asked if I meant the person or the hairstyle. I complained to my mom about her being racist and she set me straight. Both of my my grandparents taught at colleges in the greater Boston area around the time they were integrated and my grandmother insisted on renting a room in their house out to black students who couldn’t get housing otherwise throughout my mom’s whole childhood and ended friendships with people who had a problem with it. She was just from another time and didn’t consider “Afro” to be an offensive term, probably because she was involved in civil rights through the seventies, when that was used by lots of black groups as a term of empowerment
- Comment on Looks like she's making it official...! 2 weeks ago:
And why does everyone assume that everyone cares about youth and has the same taste in appearances? Maybe she grew up a patriots fan and her absolute dream was to meet belichick, then they hit it off. Maybe he makes her laugh and he’s kind and good with his hands. Maybe they’ve got a super niche kink in common.
- Comment on Intelligent Design 2 weeks ago:
I cannot describe how much I hate this feeling. It’s probably honestly been protective because I have another reason to always use condoms, and even when I’m drunk, I’m still autistic.
- Comment on Informative review 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Informative review 3 weeks ago:
Could be boba
- Comment on leading ai company 3 weeks ago:
I’m nowhere close to tech and this is obviously a bad sign. Imagine an apartment complex trying to get new tenants by advertising that they have plumbers and exterminators do work twice a day at various units.
- Comment on President Trump shows President Zelenskyy and President Macron his 4 More Years hats 4 weeks ago:
I think I’d prefer a comprehensive test of each maga hat’s tensile strength, just to be sure.
- Comment on Anon thinks there is a bicurious double standard 4 weeks ago:
Tbh, the fraternity was pretty inclusive. It wasn’t required that they go coed, they just decided to. I do wonder what she’s like now that she’s a lot further removed from her hometown, but I know she’s at least still heavily anti-trump.
- Comment on Anon thinks there is a bicurious double standard 4 weeks ago:
For a long time (at least through the late 2010s and possibly still now, I’m no longer a good candidate to donate for other reasons), you couldn’t donate if you were a man who had sex with men (MSM) or if you had had sex with a MSM recently (6 months-2 years). Your own condom use was irrelevant.
I did once decide to stick with hands only with someone because I had an appointment to donate blood later that week. My stepsister wasn’t aware of that restriction though and I can’t imagine it’s the presiding reason why a lot of even queer women aren’t interested in bi men, given the demographics of blood donation.
There are a lot of wild things that preclude you from donating blood depending on where you live though, including time spent in the UK during the mad cow disease spike, even if you were a vegan. I understand that blood donation organizations are working with such large numbers and such a small margin for error that they would rather exclude a thousand good candidates than let one bad candidate donate, but it ends up being extremely discriminatory. I looked for some recent numbers, and it is true that even today the majority of new HIV cases occur in MSM or people who have sex with MSM, but given how widespread HIV suppression treatment is (in the US), correct condom usage reduces that risk to nearly zero.
- Comment on Anon thinks there is a bicurious double standard 4 weeks ago:
I’m in my mid thirties, and I’m a bi woman who tends to go for bi men. I was once chatting about one of my exes with my dad and same aged stepsister, when she expressed deep surprise that I would be willing to date a man who had dated a man. My dad agreed, which is par for the course, but I could not for the life of me get a believable answer from my stepsister as to why that would be a dealbreaker.
She had been part of the GSA in one of the most progressive towns in America and was at that time in first cohort of women to join a previously men-only fraternity at her college, so she definitely falls under the progressive umbrella.
I literally can’t think of a reason except for donating blood, but that wasn’t it.
- Comment on Me too. 4 weeks ago:
That’s why I said salty protein :) Swiss cheese is imo so unremarkable that the dairy free version is just as good, and a vegan Reuben is still a perfect sandwich.