Team Yes, The Amish Are A Cult. Pennsylvania residents, holla.

I think OP was just using “lactose intolerance” as a way of quickly expressing “she can’t consume dairy” in a way folks would understand.

Breastmilk has different proteins than cow milk. Breastfed babies having problems when mom consumes dairy is actually pretty common.

My chickens are flighty assholes, so only some do, apparently. I imagine it helps if you raise them from chicks, but I don’t want chickens in my house for 8 weeks so I got mine as teenagers and they kind of hate me.

Being able to “diet harder” is not really a pro. It means you have way way less wiggle room in your diet and even one slip up is a large percentage of your daily calorie budget.

laughing at work and pretending I’m coughing

Doing shit alone is THE BEST! Vacations, movies, dining, travelling, these are all things that I have no problem doing alone. Vacations especially, I’m not sure I could go back to vacationing with someone else at this point. (I’ve been married for 15 years, but generally vacation alone except for short weekend getaway…

This infuriates me too! I mean, there's all the "normal" non-fatal pregnancy stuff that is extremely non-trivial and can be temporarily disabling (PUPPP sounds like a goddamn nightmare and I have a friend right now with hyperemesis gravidarum). And then there's shit like pre-eclampsia, HELLP, post-partum…

I don’t think so because they’re basically competing products. If you have a Fitbit and use the Fitbit app, it does all this already.

I read all of her “feminist retelling” books because fantasy books centered on young women were kind of hard to come by when I was young (early 80s) but I tried to re-read Mists of Avalon a few years ago and it is definitely not good enough to justify trying to forget everything I know now about MZB.

It blew my 12-year-old mind what with the paganism and sex (and gay sex! and incest!).

And I don’t understand why just enabling the HR LEDs kills the battery so quickly. My Fitbit Charge HR has always-on LEDs and I only charge it every 3 days. Not that I’d expect that kind of battery life from a device that does much much more than a Fitbit, but I don’t understand why just turning that one function on…

Vitals is kind of a hate read for me, tbh. Every comments section and 80% of the articles can be boiled down to, “Do you even lift, bro?”

Meanwhile, I assume that everyone is pointing and laughing at the snails pace I run for 30 minutes. *shrug*

Oh, it’s the same where I live, too. This is a NYC (and probably also LA) thing. But there’s a whole lot of NYC people in these comments who seem to be shocked that the only thing that is cheaper in NYC than anywhere else is cheaper due to major unethical shens. Did they think the mayor’s office subsidized mani-pedis…

It doesn’t cost $10 where I live (like you, it’s $35-$40 at the low end for a mani/pedi here) but all the people in the comments here say this is a NYC thing and it’s basically the only thing that is cheaper in NYC than anywhere else. And now they know why. (But apparently they couldn’t intuit why before this article…

My picks for Pittsburgh:

I’m a little surprised that anyone is surprised, tbh. I always assumed that this was one of those things where people who use these services know in the back of their minds that paying $10 for 30 minutes of someone’s time + supplies + retail space is not likely to add up to that person making any money. Factor in if…

Wait, hang on, I thought cardio was for losers and never did anyone any good. Pretty sure I read that right here.