ericatty
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- Comment on Is it normal that you feel very shaky as soon as you start to get hungry? 3 days ago:
Very shaky, every time? Not an emergency room visit, but you need to see a doctor to rule out possible health issues. People have already brought up some serious possibilities that can become major problems if ignored.
Are you on any medications that could be causing it if you take it on an empty stomach?
It could be something you can just manage by keeping some bite sized Snickers available. (Literal suggestion from my doctor 30 years ago when I had something similar I was working through lunch and getting angry)
But my doc ruled out other issues with bloodwork. The miniature candy bars were to even out my blood sugars until I could eat properly.
I had to learn to manage it better so I didn’t snap and get fired.
For people who don’t know: Snickers candy is peanuts, caramel, and nougat covered in chocolate.
- Comment on conditional soap 2 weeks ago:
Those are called split ends. If you have a lot of them, it’s best to get a trim (just enough to snip off the split ends) and then try to figure out what is causing them.
You can’t repair them. You can only get rid of them and then avoid them. Or keep getting maintenance trims.
With split ends trimming = longer hair over time.
Source: I had them so bad for years that my hair would break off and not get any longer looking. For me, it was too much heat (hair dryer and curling iron every day)
- Comment on Do people actually believe those "gurus" on the internet that supposedly "give advice"? These seems very sussy and feel scam-adjacent, isn't it? 3 weeks ago:
Are you talking about a certain guy who openly talks about what he does beyond the gym & diet to have the build he has? If so, I watch because he’s really good at explaining technique. Even though I’m not trying to be a bodybuilder. I just want to be strong and not get hurt.
- Comment on Anon lives on a budget 1 month ago:
I would also like to add, that it’s sometimes almost impossible to have a 2nd part time job because one or both are not regular schedules. People won’t know when they are working until the week before. If both jobs do this you will end up with scheduling conflicts.
Like it would be better if you were scheduled the same 3 or 4 days a week and had the rest of the week off.
At least then you could either chill or find other activities. But they want you at their mercy and constantly in crisis.
Like you said, All Obamacare did from a company standpoint was make people no longer reliant on their employer for healthcare. So it has no bearing on 25 hr work weeks. Although with subsidies going away, a lot of people are becoming uninsured again.
FMLA was 1993, so Clinton Required lunch breaks, etc are state laws, so not Obama OT pay and some other federal protections were pre-WW2
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I think they were addressing an implied specificity in your question. You were asking about American-based media or media for US audiences without explicitly saying that.
For instance, Get Out wouldn’t have hit the same if the entire cast had been white. The racial tension is the point.
Because it sounds like you are saying we accept The Ring remake being a white cast. But if Ringu had been remade with a non-white English speaking cast it would be called woke by US right-wingers. (Even though it’s Japanese fiction. At least I hope it is fiction)
Siothe other person is asking, I think, if Japan remade Get Out for the Japanese audience and used Japanese speaking white and black people, would Japanese right-wingers lose their shit and call it woke for not casting ethnically Japanese actors?
The follow-up question becomes: is it a right-wing issue regardless of the race or nationality of right-wingers or is it a uniquely US problem because of the ignored national diversity of the overall population?
- Comment on Why isn't it considered vegan to harvest animals who die naturally? 2 months ago:
You made you literally laugh out loud. Thank you
- Comment on How bad is it really to listen to music with headphones? My mother told me if I keep doing that I'd go deaf... Is that fearmongering? 2 months ago:
Yeah, for sure. My husband and I are both like this. Waving my arm often works for getting his attention.
But a frustrated parent could definitely blame it on headphones or think the kid is going deaf. Especially if they are not the kind of person that immerses like that.
Unless the parent can hear the headphone music themselves from a few feet away. In which case, they have a point that it might be too loud.
- Comment on How bad is it really to listen to music with headphones? My mother told me if I keep doing that I'd go deaf... Is that fearmongering? 2 months ago:
The issue is probably more that you don’t hear her when you are focused.
My husband is like that. Especially if he’s listening to something with headphones.
It’s not the volume (he’s not got them loud) it’s that he’s locked in. I’m the same way, except if you say my name and pause a beat, I snap out quicker.
I have to say his a couple times. Just starting to talk without a cue and the focus makes us miss the beginning, if not all.
Also happens with reading, programming, writing Which are immersive. quiet activities
- Comment on Deep throat 2 months ago:
Jeffrey’s brother (Mark)
From context and references to “Donald”, “with Bannon”, “Ask Putin”, and “Donnie Tee” - I’m guessing “Donnie Dee” also refers to the current President.
Don’t know if Dee is a typo or a dick joke.
- Comment on An Idea That I Could Get Behind 2 months ago:
Pence was the vice president of the first term.
- Comment on And what car did you learn in? 2 months ago:
I learned in both because while automatics were the norm, my parents never wanted me stranded in case a manual was my only option. So I learned in an older cute as hell red paint faded it was almost pink Jeep pick up truck with no tailgate.
Looking at photos online, I think it was maybe a 60s era Willie or a Gladiator from the 70s. It was pretty old, but not a classic, when I drove it.
- Comment on engagement 3 months ago:
I looked it up. It’s an independent surreal horror rpg. I’m guessing it’s got a lot of fanart that is nsfw
- Comment on Who got raptured today? 4 months ago:
Maybe you, but definitely not me.
- Comment on Is it? 5 months ago:
Does the algae taste like spiralina? Because if it still tastes like an aquarium that needs cleaning smells, it will be incredibly difficult for some of us to eat without gagging.
And I’m not a particularly picky eater.
- Comment on LPT: Go get a shot, now. 5 months ago:
I’ve gotten Covid and Flu vax at the same time. I prefer it, I usually get a fever and my arm gets really sore. One time I tried one in each arm, and I had two sore arms for a couple days instead of one.
- Comment on Better Watch Out Eddy 5 months ago:
Mine in Brandi and she has property that people want to buy and Republicans want her to fill out surveys
- Comment on How are you really doing? 5 months ago:
Some people work together well. My husband and I have been married over 25 years, the last 20 years we’ve worked closely together.
It’s hasn’t been perfect 100% of the time, but I wouldn’t change a thing.
You just have to figure out conflict resolution AND how to respect when one of you needs downtime (we are both mostly introverts that need to recharge sometimes)
- Comment on Done with being the one in charge of maintaining friendships 5 months ago:
I definitely have friends like this. I have some family like this. We are good no matter how much time between communications.
I also have some family that put zero effort in and maybe they’d show up if I needed them. But given that after one text, they haven’t checked in at all after my Dad died unexpectedly 7 months ago…
They still have each other and both parents. I’m not going to be the one comforting them.
So I’m not actually sure they’d show up even if I asked.
Luckily, I have people who have checked in on me without me having to reach out first.
- Comment on PSA on privuhcy 5 months ago:
As someone who has link tracking in our business, yes, some of the stuff after the ? isn’t nefarious tracking, like the utm mentioned above.
All the “list-unsubscribe” options you may have noticed starting about a year ago, are actually required to be there for any company that sends out any kind of email newsletter over a certain threshold. (Lists around 5k or more)
If the unsubscribe links aren’t there, with the required url-encoded parameters (along with some other requirements with DNS) the email will not be delivered to any of the majors (google, yahoo/aol, hotmail, big ISPs) and we get blocked.
The unsubscribe parameters are being tracked, yes, but we have to have them so we can unsubscribe you “in one click” We are not allowed to require you to sign in to unsubscribe you. (Not that we ever did that, but now there must be a one-click option.)
(We used to just be two clicks to unsubscribe off an encoded link. Click -> this you? If yes, click -> you are now unsubscribed. Or sign-in and manage subscriptions without an encoded link.)
Again, the point is that not all url encoded tracking is nefarious. Some of it is now required to try and minimize spam and nefarious emails.
- Comment on Too true 6 months ago:
I’m glad you said jjk… it would have driven me nuts today trying to remember where I know this from.
It’s been on my mind too. Hidden Inventory is in limited run in theaters right now. I want to go, but hate crying in public.
- Comment on I'm intrigued 6 months ago:
I remember reading Ron DeSantis (governor of Florida) said he did this on dates. He would say Thigh Food for Thai food. If they corrected him he wouldn’t date them again.
He’s married now and I wonder if his wife ever offers to pick up Thigh food for dinner.
- Comment on I'm doing my part! 6 months ago:
I don’t see it as a way to justify inaction. I see it as a way to be forgiving of myself if I mess up sometimes.
Example: in the worst of my grief, I threw away some recyclables because I just couldn’t wash them out properly. It took everything just to eat.
I didn’t pile guilt on myself over it. I recycle 99% of the time, I never litter. I have to check my pockets for random trash before doing laundry.
Utility companies, corporations, and rich people are not cleaning up after themselves and their inaction almost negates everything me and everyone I personally know can possibly do.
Knowing they are dumping faster than I can shovel doesn’t mean I stop shoveling. I still want and actively work to leave this place better than I found it.
Those 91 jets just mean I don’t feel overwhelming guilt when I fail. I just try to do better next time.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
It’s not the same (obviously) but it depends.
If I buy a bag of jelly belly candy, I will eat the whole bag until I have a stomach ache, and then eat until the bag is empty. So I buy smaller amounts.
But other sugary snacks? I went cold turkey and cut out all sugar and it was all I could focus on, I craved sugar to the point of being miserable. I bought a bag of chocolates, told myself I could have one a day (like a mini snickers) - what happened will shock!
I ate one a day, and sometimes not even that. Just knowing it was there as an option took away the obsession and I ate overall a lot healthier.
So, yeah, I could do sugar in moderation with chocolate, but not with those tiny jelly beans.
Whatever your addiction is, only you know if you can really do moderation or not.
I know of other people that kept a pack of smokes or a pint of whiskey in the back of a cabinet. Knowing it’s there is enough, and they just keep putting off partaking until suddenly they realize it’s been a year or more and they haven’t thought about it in ages.
- Comment on i broke 8 months ago:
Someone, not a therapist, told me pain isn’t a competition. I don’t have to wait for my pain to be worse than the pain of the people around me before I go get help for myself.
In this case, I had physical pain I put off getting checked because it wasn’t worse than what why partner deals with daily. Turned out I needed antibiotics for a bad infection.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 9 months ago:
I’m pretty sure all personal data leaks to me and my friends and family have nothing to do with personal EOL OS on personal PCs/laptops.
My Dad, ran Windows 7 (yes, 7) until he passed last year, almost 80. We had his credit locked down, we had antivirus running, we kept the browsers up to date, and he was very good about not clicking weird links or calling fake support numbers.
His biggest data breach (and ours too)? Was from myChart a couple years ago, he got a letter that his data was part of the big hack, yada yada yada free credit reporting - so sorry. If you don’t know, myChart is like The Main medical everything portal in the US at least for most doctors and hospital systems. So all your test results, making appointments, sending messages, requesting Rx refills, all through myChart’s website. The hospitals and doctors using MyChart can see pretty much everything in your myChart health record (some exceptions)
So using super secure OS on your personal computer means nothing when you are part of a hundreds of millions data dump from someone hacking into that. Not having an account just means you don’t have access to your own records, they are still part of the system.
But Yes, I was in the process of getting Dad an upgrade to a flavor of Linux that would be the closest to what he was used to. And the only reason was because browser support was coming to EOL for Windows 7. He really didn’t want to change or lose his solitaire games and he deserved a stress-free life to play his damn games like he wanted.
THAT SAID - if businesses are using EOL OS and getting hacked - they definitely need to do whatever they need to do and protect their customer data. But EOL OS for an average person checking email, making doctor’s appointments, checking headlines, and playing solitaire while streaming music certainly doesn’t call for a need to panic.
IF you are a power user doing sometimes sketch things (according to Apple/MS anyway) probably switch to Linux sooner than later.
We have computers running Linux, Windows 10 (one of which was on 8.1 until a year ago), and Windows 11 in our house. The one on 11 is being tested basically, and will probably be reinstalled with Linux. But we are trying to give it a shot.
- Comment on We are so cooked 9 months ago:
The actual city sends a fine. If you don’t clean it, they send a crew. If you don’t pay for the crew, the lien the property.
Source: got letter from the city a week ago.
In fairness, I’ve been dealing with a lot and there were some areas that looked like we were abandoned. I’ve been meaning to clean out the unwanted stuff so the flowers can grow. My lawn is mostly moss and clover and that’s not what they cared about.
- Comment on CISA: We didn't fire red teams, just unhired some of them 10 months ago:
Do you want more Anonymous? Because that’s how you get more Anonymous…
As a business person, my first order of business is always to piss off the red teams and then cut them loose. Not these people would do anything illegal or untoward… that we’d know about.
quite a bit /s mixed in there
- Comment on The IT Crowd: Jen has been transported 11 months ago:
Do you have a website recommendation that’s accurate? Or are they all pretty much the same?
- Comment on The IT Crowd: Jen has been transported 11 months ago:
It would have been funnier to say ‘speaks random Italian words’ for the people relying on CC
- Comment on This app requires access to your contacts 1 year ago:
NOOO!!! This is the Torment Nexus of toilets… now some company is going to do this…