“Am I making all of this up?” - omg, so much this. After divorcing me to move in with (and marry) his girlfriend, and moving hours away, my ex-husband would just show up and literally lurk around my apartment for hours. I don’t believe he’d be violent, but each time was incredibly jarring - both frightening and…

How did we not know this before?? Who’s been holding out on us?!

Ah yes, I believe this falls firmly under the principle of “laws for thee but not for me”

I totally understand your take on this, but in my specific situation the in-the-face goes both ways, lol. Especially my last dog - she had strong tender motherly instincts, and regular mega-licking, aka “grooming” sessions were her jam. Particularly the face, which I’d have to physically limit her access to, or else…

OMG the ear thing is genius! I’ll be trying that for sure!

Yeah I don’t doubt the part about barking in your dog’s face being bad, but all of my pups loved gazing soulfully into my eyes while snuggling (they also didn’t mind me putting my face in their face so long as I was ready for some slobber-kisses)

Yes! We sold our house before the current real estate rocketship 😭 But we were getting divorced and needed OUT. Our agent was amazing and the only thing we did was tame the yard, professionally clean, and then stage the downstairs. Sure we got probably $20-30k less than if we’d done the typical updates but it was…

I’m not seeing a correlation between the banking crash back then to current conditions. The crash happened because the banks were way over leveraged with bad debt in the form of ridiculous housing loans. Colloquially known as the “liar’s loans”, the whole system encouraged risky debt upon risky debt, and was a house…

This exactly! I just went from renting to owning and was fortunate enough to not have to stretch my housing cost much. The benefits of having a stable housing payment ended up outweighing the “risk” of overpaying. The current market is very driven by a lack of new home construction and that problem ain’t going away…

Wow, thanks for this! I had a meal delivery subscription but over the past year have gotten really good at cooking my own stuff. When I tried to cancel back then, they wanted me to call… so inertia made it easier for me to just “skip” my deliveries. Just rechecked the site and was able to cancel with just a few…

Every so often I’ll get a cough from what must be a dry patch in my throat at night that will wake me up or keep me awake. The only think that helps is a glurg of straight-up honey, not mixed in with anything. Maybe 1 or 2 teaspoons will usually coat it enough for sleep.

Look up health issues caused by anorexia and that’ll give you a starting point. Some of them you might not guess, such as the growth of peach-fuzz like hair all over the body. The scariest is damage to your heart because your nutrient balance is so out of whack. The people who do caloric restriction for longevity are…

Yeah, and they couldn’t even take the time to add a sentence or two to wind down the narrative. I swear I’ve got whiplash from that abrupt ending!

That sucks that you’ve had such bad experiences with atheists, but being atheist doesn’t inherently mean you are hostile to religion any more than being Christian inherently means that you are a fundamentalist. Agnostics are basically hedging their bets, saying they don’t know one way or another. Atheists don’t…

Could someone list out the text snippets that are links? It appears my adblocker removed them, but the whole reason I have the adblocker is because this site is unusable without one. I held out against getting one until just recently. I’d forgotten how nice it was to just be able to read the posts without the browser…

Yes indeed! It’s getting free from that cognitive trap that is a key first step

I hear you on the expense! What I started doing a couple of years ago was basically buying a little here and there. It’ll be a long time before I’m actually “prepared” but I’ve managed to pull together a couple of Lifestraws, cheap hand cranked radio, a thing called a WaterBob (put it in the bathtub and fill it for a…

Haha for this reason, I was so happy to discover well made, shaped tshirt bras. Not only does nobody know if I’m cold, they gather up my saggy boobs and make them look great! 😂

Oh for sure, most people I know were knocked flat for at least a day after their shots, including my brother. I joked with them that I’d somehow gotten placebo shots, lol - especially that first Pfizer one that didn’t even give me a red mark at the injection site

A dose of Moderna is 100 mcg, and one of Pfizer is 30 mcg. This is the main reason the Moderna booster is a half dose.