ChexMax

Too young? My sister got shingles in highschool! Anyone can get it.

How is academia totally separate? I get how the opiate crisis is purely big Pharma exploiting people for profit, but the tuskeegee experiments were research. Isn’t that medicine and academia?

Women who have been through childbirth have certainly earned the right to be skeptical of doctors/ medicine. Women are still being mistreated and discounted in hospitals today, especially women of color. You have to get lucky to get nurses and doctors who treat your body as worthy of care, and you as worthy of belief and autonomy.

The red ones are sexier. That’s the short answer. The white are more functional, you are correct.

Ooh I’ve never realized that women and black people are both denied access to pain meds for opposite reasons. I mean I knew it was baloney, but I never thought about the fact that it was exactly contradictory.

I think i may be missing the point of your comment? People don’t think smoking is bad for you because of rumors being spread. They think it’s bad because of increased risk of cancer and disease.

Well they are pretty correct when you think about them not as does this person pay their bills, but as will this person make the bank money.

That’s why you’re penalized for paying off something early and credit cards help your score but consistently paying rent doesn’t.

Credit score just shows they can make interest off you, not that you’re good with money, and in fact I feel like the people who are best with money (saves up and buys things cash) are just penalized with crappy credit scores.

Yeah I feel like i can’t smell a foul old coffee cup better than anyone else, but everyone’s sponges always smell bad to me. I always hate washing a dish at anyone else’s house because the bacteria in their sponge leaves a smell on my hands that doesn’t come off from a normal hand washing or three. Rubber gloves also leave a smell on my hands that will make it difficult for me to sleep that night it smells so strong. Latex ones only, though.

Did you get into the relationship building part? Not trying to convince you to, just curious. I got pretty bored with it because I was neglecting that whole side because it seemed hard. I kept giving Linus what little food i had and he hated it. Also I missed Qi’s side quests completely my first play through

30 Rock Though now I’ve watched it so many times while sick/ can’t sleep that it puts me right to sleep.

Sometimes there’s a ring wide around the moon that looks a bit like a white rainbow.

In my area if you press the second button from the top on the left it mutes these!

My dishwasher used to be for sanitizing only - id have to hand wash first, but now I use the Kirkland pods and I don’t even rinse things. I used to also think dishwashers were a scam.

Idk about op but the vast vast majority of my voting decisions are local. It’s a bit easier to call the local guys good. Voting is about so much more than the president or governor

Incredible

Oh my God is Linux pronounced Line-ux?

Leaf blowers and my neighbor’s power washer that emits a high pitched tone like a mosquito ringtone the whole time he runs it. It pierces my brain.

It’s because the water is hot and comfortable and helps with pain, but it’s boring as heck to sit there long enough to enjoy the pain relief. So you bring a book or a tablet and a snack. Or if you’re extra bad at relaxing, a tablet for show, a phone for game, a sweet treat, a salty treat and a nice cool water to help with the heat

How old are you guys, if you don’t mind me asking? It seems that generally younger people don’t see this as an innate violation of privacy, where older people feel quite surveilled and even like they’re being viewed as untrustworthy for someone to ask this of them.

I’ve never cheated on my spouse (not even close), I’ve never felt any inclination to lie about my whereabouts. I can see the safety aspect of this, logically. I would feel offended if my spouse asked me to be a dot on his phone, as if he was asking to own me. We share a home, a child, a bank account, a car, but we don’t share location. I don’t even keep my location activated for my own use unless I’m actively navigating somewhere new.

We’ve got plenty of “normal” problems, but none of them lead me to want his location. I simply trust him enough. It feels to me like if you need your partners location on tap, you must first have other problems

Nah, you’re all good! It’s just the parent comment calling her untrustworthy I don’t like!