I sleep sideways/diaginal on my bed about half the time at this point because I have a cat who likes to lay between my legs, and that only works for a short time for me. So when I move, I just lay differently so she doesn’t get up, and I’m still comfortable.

Yeah, I wasn’t going to suggest that one because it’s easy to mess up and get frustrated with if you don’t know what you are doing.

I’ve tried it with no skill and uhh… heh

But then I helped wrap several race vehicles, the storm windows (with frosted glitter so it looks like frost) and my own shower (underwater world from Mario) and learned how the soapy water thing actually works.

If someone does want to try this, apply a lot of pressure. You need to squeeze all the liquid out, or any pockets will degrade quickly and fail.

Don’t therapists have -required- therapy?

Suicide scramble actually sounds fucking badass, so I’ll take it.

Test taking is a skill all its own. It shouldn’t be, but man I have slacked so many classes because I have that skill.

The best class I ever had, a course on the physics behind the functionality of renewable energy systems, the professor would give you the equation if you couldn’t remember it. You’d have to go up and talk to him, if you were really struggling, and you needed to know what you were trying to do, but he’d try to hint you through it first, then provide what you were missing. Ultimately he didn’t see students failing on dumb memory stuff as any sort of win for anyone.

As he said, despite being physics, memorizing math, and especially formulae, isn’t the point of the class.

He was my favorite. He wore white socks with soccer ball-patterned sandals every day, with dress pants and a blazer/tie combo, even winter, and rode his bike to campus. Dude was an absolute gem.

You can get vinyl adhesive-backed sheets to get this look (and many others!). You just cut and stick them.

If you go that route, apply to the glass fully, then use a razor blade to cut around the edges, else you’ll likely end up with skew or edges that don’t meet the corners. (Learned that trick from a vinyl graphics installer)

That looks just like the call center I used to work in.

So dumb that it’s ai when places like these are everywhere…

Being productive all the time is for suckers with no actual lives.

Unless you count forming and maintaining social bonds as productive, which it absolutely is, in which case your point is just straight moot.

There’s a place near me that has 75 cent tappers (like 10oz).

A soda is 1.25 for 12 oz.

It’s the beer that is cheap in this case. It’s basically sold at cost because the owner isn’t real bright and thinks the added traffic is worth only breaking even.

Oh man my chickens get aggressively excited when I find worms and throw them in the run for them. Especially those whopping night crawler bois. They do the keep-away prance with them held aloft and peck at each other about it.

I’ve decided to start vermicompost specifically to raise worms for them to nom, in addition to the cricket and mealworm tanks I’ve got going :)

Ok well that’s definitely not a “usually” situation then.

Excuse me, what?

I’ve never been anally penetrated during a gyno visit, not a single time in many many years in many different places. If you have, that’s fucking weird.

My cats always look at me when they hear something unusual.

They want to know if they should be concerned or not. If I look concerned they go investigate. If I don’t, they settle back down.

They also gladly follow me into the basement when there’s a bad storm and I rush down. Doesn’t take much convincing, they trust me very much. Won’t come when I call them any other time tho.

My mother used to go for groceries once every two weeks for 4 people.

It would cost about $80 in the 90s. I know this because she always saved receipts where she saved a lot on the total (back when sales were actually sales and not markups in disguise).

My grocery trip for one for two weeks is over $200. And I’m extremely frugal about it (couldn’t tell you the last time I bought meat, eggs, or butter, but easily over a year ago cuz it’s too expensive) something she wasn’t.

We were always poor, but that means something entirely different now…

I used to be the unsolicited advice sort of friend, and various others in my neurodiverse circle addressed things in other ways, but it didn’t really work super well overall. So now we just skip this guessing and ask “what can I do to support you?” Or “what kind of support would be helpful right now?”

And the supportee answer truthfully. I just need to vent, I’d like advice and to vent, I want a hug and not to talk about it, I don’t even want to acknowledge it, etc. the supporter then knows exactly what to do, even if that’s nothing, which it often is (the most common answer to the question is some variation of “I don’t need anything, I just wanted to share my frustration, and I’m good now.”)

It takes all the effort out and makes sure the person gets exactly the support they want and need.

Here’s the relevant bit about how it works, in conjunction with inhibitors:

“They discovered that mRNA vaccines work like an alarm, putting the body’s immune system on high alert to recognize and attack cancer cells.

In response, the cancer cells start making the immune checkpoint protein PD-L1, which works as a defense mechanism against immune cells. Fortunately, several immune checkpoint inhibitors are designed to block PD-L1, creating a perfect environment for these treatments to unleash the immune system against cancer.”

Is this not a mocking meme with that adulterous couple (a ceo and HR manager) that got discovered at a Coldplay concert? It looks just like them to me but I’m faceblind so I might be wrong…?

I’ll play with you.

Seriously.

I haven’t before but I’d love to. Last dnd I played was 3.5. I won’t touch anything else, except pathfinder and other non-dnd games.

Those are wonderful and I love them so much.

This is what happens when nerds get to name things.

It becomes highly problematic when it comes to the medical field and genetics, tho, like imagine telling someone their fetus is going to die because they have a sonic hedgehog mutation.

I’m actually a huge fan of stopping mid conversation, like when there’s a lull, and trying to piece together the convoluted paths we took from our topic of origin to the one we are talking about now. It makes for a very fun bonding experience because you have to work with your conversation partner as you’ll only really remember your own diversions a lot of times.

I find it helpful to understand how conversation flows work, but it’s also just a good tool for grounding yourself and recognizing that conversation is an evolution no matter who it’s with.

Also other people seem to also find it fun to track back through the conversation to reflect on the twists and turns it took and why.