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Shocking with cold water when it’s still hot

Please take another pic in 3030 miles

Yo wtf

I am not looking forward to the day that medical implants and devices become subscription-based.

Missed too many monthly payments? Your pacemaker gets shut off until your account is no longer delinquent.

I was not going to subject him too either of those treatments.

This is it for me. Chemo sucks so bad that there’s are humans who decide to pass naturally instead of going through hell to get a bit of extra time–maybe. Putting a pet through chemo without their consent and not being able to explain to them why they feel so bad, that’s way worse than making the decision for them to be humanely euthanized.

I’m sorry about your doggy, and about your dad

Uncle John by Jonathan Colton

“Your uncle’s late again, last minute Christmas shopping at the airport, a dozen ringer tees he bought at Eddie Rickenbacker’s bar–ladies extra extra large” is such a mood

Very true. But, to extrapolate on Plath’s metaphor, you must select the ones that look best and harvest them, dry them to properly preserve them, and store them in a way to prolong their shelf life until you are ready to eat them. Without that planning, they’ll simply rot.

I’m so sorry about your friends,. How painful to lose either, let alone both in such a short time.

“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn’t quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn’t make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.”

–Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

Not my choice for sure, but since I have to live in it, committing it to memory seemed worth it.

Good to know a few phone numbers even if you aren’t at a protest, though. Everyone should memorize the phone number of at least one partner/family member/friend who lives local to them in case of an emergency. Lawyer is a bonus.

If you cook, bake, brew, anything with food and drink.

Common volume conversions: 3 teaspoons in a tablespoon, 4 tablespoons/2 fluid ounces in a quarter cup, 8 fluid ounces in a cup, 2 cups in a pint, 2 pints in a quart, 4 quarts in a gallon.

Common weight conversions: 28 grams in an ounce, 16 ounces in a pound, 2 pounds and 3(ish) ounces in a kilo.

And common volume to weight conversions based on ingredients you use. For me: 200 grams in a cup of sugar, 125 grams in a cup of AP flour, 6 grams in a tablespoon of cocoa powder.

Makes it a lot easier to halve/double recipes, or use a scale for a volume written recipe.

It’s not about the specific year though, it’s just that the average life expectancy includes infant and child mortality, which used to be a lot higher in most countries. This pulls down the average but there were still plenty of people who lived to 50-60. Our upper life expectancy is higher now, but not 50 years higher.

Feeling like my body is fat and gross and there’s nothing I can do about it. (Even though I know I can.)

Yes, exactly. But also when I have to force quit my browser and it asks me if I want to reopen the tabs, I immediately click no. It’s like I’ve been released from an evil wizard’s curse. Then I can start a fresh tab hoard.

Yeah, I was thinking the 30 from your original post is rookie numbers.

So you hang up and practice the voicemail, and when you call back to leave it, they answer

Okay Satan

Yo I called in sick to work today after I posted this and put in an 8 hour shift on Silksong instead aaaah