I’ve had chemical peels done at the dermatologist and at home. I’ve not bought from Amazon, but platinum skincare does sell dermatological grade chemical peels for at home use:

The article doesn’t make clear if she bought from Amazon directly or through their marketplace. I suspect the latter since they’re suing a Thai supplier. In that case all Amazon is, is a platform for the exchange and often the bans comes after they realize their is a problem. It’s like how eBay didn’t have a policy…

I didn’t think the waiters were rude in France. They only time they sometimes rude in Paris, was usually at the larger more tourist centered places because they were dealing with morons (I can’t blame them). I can see how if that’s your only experience of a french restaurant you might thing that.

Did you see the video of the Syrians arriving in Germany? The Germans are cheering them on, but a lot of the Syrians just look so confused. Like they can’t really wrap their head around the fact that their ordeal is over. Or that they’d be welcomed. The world has so much pain, yet at the same time we live in a world…

I’m varying degrees of multilingual. In my experience the speak English crowd are suffering a cognitive dissonance: they resent foreign language speakers because they don’t like feeling excluded and/or have a hard time understanding their accents (which again makes them feel uncomfortable) while not understanding how…

You’re missing the point. These shitty things are done by people who plop themselves from nowhere and remake the city in the image of what they think NYC should be.A coworker would tell me over and over again that she wears black because New yorkers wear black. She’s a transplant, I’m a native, and I wear colors.…

Yeah I mention somewhere downthread that apparently it looks like they’ve broken up.

Natural doesn’t actually have a defined meaning so...

It’s a faulty thought.

I don’t work in “show business” but I have a sibling who was show business adjacent here in NYC (went to some of the same performing arts schools and such) and in my very limited experience the depressing truth is that very few healthy, stable families who are not already somewhat connected to show business (and thus…

Blame taco bell and Ortega. The first mainstream tacos used a molded corn chip shell:

There are some gynecologists who haven’t been trained on insertion especially if they trained in a Catholic Hospital. I came up against one (who regretted she couldn’t help me and referred me out). I’d say it took me about a month - I think some people are coming up against is that some doctors have incredibly busy…

Mine was super concerned about removing mine too even though I was having issues (turns out I had a small fibroid that the iud was annoying, she never noticed but my original gyno who I went back to despite being out of network did). She was SO concerned about how I’d avoid pregnancy. I was like I’m in my…

There is - your cervix is more open and insertion is easier and less painful. Also, they want to make sure you’re not pregnant, and there can be a delay in hormone levels between being pregnant and the test registering it. Tail end of your period means you’re pretty likely not pregnant.

Having spent a lot of time in canada (mostly but not exclusively quebec) we’re going to have to agree to disagree on this one ;)

I think perception of fear is a huge part of culture. Americans are afraid of our government - it’s a fear literally written into our constitution - and of each other. Good fences make for good neighbors etc.

I don’t know when it became cool, but even as a kid I hated turkey bacon. My mom would buy it or sizzlean when she was trying to be healthy and couldn’t understand why I wouldn’t eat that shit. Bacon has a lot of umami which turkey bacon does not. There’s this deli chain that I swear must be owned by Muslims or Jews…

There’s a freaky Wired article about how he made an untraceable AR15

You can have AK’s in NV but I think you have to remove the part that makes it automatic. Gun laws are on a state level and in some places on a municipality level. New York State has fairly strict gun control laws, and New York City’s are even stricter. Unless you’re in law enforcement here you will not be allowed to…

A lot of the survivors are surviving because of increased understanding of trauma medicine. A generation ago they’d have been dead.