I also have chronic pain and it’s really the worst. Sorry you’re saddled with it too. It’s interesting how if you say what you just did to “normal people”, they’ll often react by trying to talk you out of your opinion, but chronic pain sufferers usually just grunt their agreement.

My cat ate almost 40 hair ties. We discovered this because she went into shock and required emergency surgery. The alternatives were an excruciating death or euthanasia. We were quoted up to $15k but got a relative steal at $7500. My partner fucking loves that cat.

Glad I saw this, time to hit the comics tab. New Oglaf just dropped!

I still like FF12, although I’ve never beaten it. I had no idea people disliked it.

Same. I just switched a few months back. My laptop runs cool and quiet on Linux. When I need to boot to Windows, I hear that poor cooling fan laboring even when Windows is idle, plus everything is much slower and poorly organized. Why does my context menu have 14 selections?! Going back to Linux feels like coming home.

Apparently dementia.

I gotchu fam:

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Ahhh, I didn’t know about this, but it makes sense. Very interesting, thanks for sharing!

I don’t understand the point of your comment. It’s the First-Mover Advantage, not the “First Mover always wins in perpetuity”.

I first read artisanal as arsenal and thought that’s about right.

I’d probably hit her up for barbecue advice, though.

…What did I just read?

It totally looks like purple drank/lean/prescription cough syrup and soda.

I had moderate mysophobia as a child to young adult. I wouldn’t share food or drinks due to a fear of mouth bacteria (and would throw it away if someone else helped themselves to it), I’d excessively clean dishes and cooking surfaces, wash my hands multiple times if I touched something I considered contaminated, cooked meat until it was beyond well done, etc.

It got way better after I went to college for microbiology. Actually understanding microbes helped immensely. I’m still a little weird about other people’s bodily fluids, especially saliva, but otherwise probably care less than many people about “germs”. I uphold much higher standards for other people’s food, but I’ll (conditionally) eat food I dropped on the floor, cook my chicken to a bit less than 74°C and eat blue rare steak, ferment my own foods and brew my own alcohol, pull mold off my bread or cheese and eat the rest, and I now wash my hands an appropriate amount.

I can’t say no fucks given, but instead a situationally appropriate amount of fucks given, with a lot of extra leeway due to uncommonly advanced knowledge.

Given that’s now my field, why haven’t I started that comm?! I’ll get on it.

I did the same! In retrospect, I’m surprised it never occurred to me that something wasn’t quite right.

Thank you!

Seconded, I need this!

I’m 5’6. Yeah. So much. I was rejected like crazy for my height in my teens and early twenties, but I lived in a particularly shitty part of the United States, so I’m not surprised in retrospect. I also dated a ton, so there was a lot of opportunity for rejection. I even remember a woman I was not interested in and had shown absolutely no interest in going out of her way to tell me she would date me if I wasn’t so short.

I relocated to a much more progressive part of the country and it hasn’t come up once in nearly a decade.

Edit: I should mention it was only an issue with women, I never heard anything about it from men.

Haha, I did what I could. Thanks!