That was a very thoughtful and validating response. Thank you.

Idk. My birth control triggered treatment resistant depression. Possible it could have happened anyway, but I didn’t struggle with any mental health issues before that. We tried all different kinds of birth control. My doctor certainly didn’t warn me about the risks for any of them.

I wasn’t even trying to be safe for sex, I just had chronic pain. No pain meds ever offered. Just birth control suggested from early in my adolescence. When I finally eventually started birth control it didn’t fix my pain and I ended up leaving college and my life fell off the rails for years. Major depression is no joke.

Is this why strawberries are common allergens? Like so much more common than other fruits?

Is it peri menopause? My mom gets a really bloated tummy which is very similar to a little pregnant belly. She read it’s very common and can last for like up to ten years, which sucks. None of her normal clothes or styles work on this completely new body type.

I spent so long on the 3DS in ocarina of time just running all over the entire map not sure how to progress, I eventually gave up. Those stupid boulders are supposed to give you tips but idk I just couldn’t figure it out back then.

Is it comparable to today’s oatmeal? Is porridge a separate food from oatmeal?

I was going to comment harvest moon after reading the title!

A lot of the older games for me. They’re just a lot harder. Like maybe they expect you to be willing to replay an area or a level over and over, getting a little farther each time until you beat it and I just don’t have the stamina for that anymore, or the time.

Newer games baby you, they increase the difficultly perfectly along side your ability growth. They might even make a level easier if you’ve failed twice. Older games don’t care if you’re having fun as much. There was less competition (fewer game choices) and more of a “gamers like this. If you don’t like it, you’re not a gamer” attitude, and now games want to attract everyone.

I have become such a baby about games. I want to have fun the whole time! I can’t handle failing over and over. I’d rather just read a book.

I’m not positive you mean this, but you’re implying men shouldn’t pay for their intimacy? You think it should be free? Everyone pays, but in healthy relationship the “payment” is emotional intimacy, acts of service, words of affection etc. No one is walking up to a stranger and banging them without giving anything. Heck even in sex alone there’s “transactions.” During foreplay, I get you a little turned on, you get me a little turned on, I escalate, you escalate.

Wow what a great response, thank you so much! I had no idea we had such a Small beam. I guess the downside of that is the rest of the world won’t be as concerned with figuring out how to stop it as they would if it were more random.

How long before impact would we learn where the hit is going to be? A real lotto scenario, but my money is on the ocean. What happens if it hits the ocean?

Obviously in a vacuum laws should be consistently applied, but we are so so far from laws being consistently applied in the US where bad guys get away with literal murder, why be so upset with a loophole that let’s a good guy off for murder for once?

Cops and rich people murder every day and get away with it due to our legal system being broken. The time to put your foot down starts with them.

The pandemic did erode trust in institutions, so there’s that, but also in general I would be very surprised to learn that today’s youth is less or the same amount suspicious as youths in the past. Are those surveys actually anonymous? No way for the youth to know.

Make clue finders for adults! Same game, just adult level facts, puzzles, and math!

If you’ve been challenged to a foot race and you have the choice, wear your skeleton, muscles, and skin for your best chance at winning. If you’re being made to pick only one, choose muscles over skeleton.

Well that sucks. I did not know that.

Libby isn’t the only app though! My library uses Libby and overdrive and maybe even a third one

I don’t understand why people are using apps with ads. What is the reason? Is connect selling my data and boost isn’t? Why would you pick an app that has ads when so many don’t?

It’s a fediverse wide collaborative art project!. You follow the link, log in with your fediverse account (you provide your username, they dm you a code, you use that to login) and then you can start placing pixels to create your art. The purpose in my opinion is two fold: one, making art is fun in and of itself! And two: it’s fun to participate in a community event. The whole thing is practically an exercise in decorum and human nature, and will others graffiti your art piece or cover it up, or add to it?

I added three sprites. A buzzy beetle from Paper Mario, a jujimo from Stardew Valley, and a triforce from Zelda. No one disturbed my pieces, and a stranger worked on my triforce with me, without ever having to speak about it. It was thrilling! Somewhere else in the world, a stranger worked on a little bit of sunshine along side me and with me. It’s possible they don’t even speak English!. Very cool!

Once my phone breaks, I spend $150-250 on a “new” old pixel. a couple gens behind, but honestly when I get the next one, it’s always basically the same, so I don’t know why I’d buy new. My current 4S’s battery is pretty shot, so it’s about time to upgrade again, but I’ll be sad to lose the tinier size and headphones jack. I never use the jack, but I like that it’s there as a backup.

Can you please respond back in two hours?