I mean, that really depends on your definition of “good.” Some lab-created gems are perfect chemical matches for their natural counterparts but the imperfections of nature are what make many gemstones special. I’m fine with large mining operations closing in favor of small-scale family operations and large-scale lab…

You’re also another dude?

Thank you <3 I hope your mother is also with you for much longer! I’m working on my death issues in therapy, but it’s pretty resistant to traditional CBT (I think because there’s no real distortion to work with and it’s so hard to force acceptance)...that said, I’m mid-career-change and have way too much time on my…

Hi, I just wanted to comment and say I really relate to this. Both my parents are still alive but they had major cardiac events only a couple months apart from each other a couple years ago, around the same age as your Dad. My Mom almost died, and though she eventually woke up and recovered she’s a very different…

It’s 3AM and I literally can’t stop laughing at “elbow of legs” = knees; thank you everyone.

Omg yikes, that makes me so mad - I’d definitely leave a review. Do you have the receipt or any certification from the original stone? If so you could get the new one tested and prove theft based on the results. That’s so shitty.

Oh wow. I had no idea this was a thing and it makes so much sense - I was always trying to figure out how these women are so simultaneously curvy but proportioned like a thin lady (I’m a curvy human and assumed they were just sort of lucky?).

Yup, or even worse...howlite or (more likely) magnesite dyed turquoise. Or reconstituted “turquoise” which is mixed with resin. Chrysocolla is actually much nicer than those, which will just break and/or fall apart. I see it less as a replacement and more just mislabeled by jewelry artists who don’t know their…

Oh God, I tried watching that, and was/am so creeped out by the combo of her behavior and the fact that we’re clearly supposed to find her “sexy.” Ugh. I am also like 99% certain they’re going to fridge the rad scientist POC chick so dude who’s mom is a thinly-veiled mermaid in disabled disguise can get with the…

No, it actually isn’t, this sort of misinformation is pretty damaging: https://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter_article/mental-illness-and-violence

Oh my God, my horrible doctors triggered an intense panic/manic episode by totally stopping my 120 Cymbalta and trying to transition me to only 20 Prozac, in ONE WEEK. I should’ve known better since I’ve been on meds. my whole life, but I think I’m just evening out from it out, about a year later.

Why is it that they always want to sit on the face?

Yes, because you don’t compete in new skates. It’s hard to break that shit in.

Have you tried going to the pharmacy and explaining/asking them to give a few pills to tie you over? Sorry if that’s an obvious suggestion but some people don’t realize many pharmacies will do that for returning customers, they just require the original bottle, unless you’re talking about a controlled substance (but…

God I fucking hope so. I would be ecstatic.

Same. I just don’t have it in me to schmooze and network with the sociopaths in the entertainment industry. I surprised myself with my own intolerance, because beforehand I’d considered myself very “tough.” NOPE. Fuck that noise. Cue career crisis...

I’m literally looking at a crack on the side of my $30 case that would’ve definitely destroyed my screen. Just get a clear case, yeah it gets gross in a few years but you can still see the design.

I come from a big Italian family that’s hard a lot of deaths throughout my life...the guilt is SO real, even before I moved across the country (my bro and I are the only ones in the family who live more than 100 miles from their parents). I hate the holidays, I hate Christmas, I can’t wait until the new year so it’s…

Out of 12 ADs, 2 are women. No women PMs, three out of 37 in the entire camera dept., one woman in over 20 in sound dept., production design and art direction are all men, set dec. is a woman, makeup and costume design are women, but you’re right, the editor is a woman so none of this is stereotypical at all...you…

There are also VERY VERY VERY few women working on the show at all, and never in a major role (director, camera, sound, etc.).