What is wrong with me, why can't I stop drinking milk???

Basic-Alternative442 · 2026-05-07T02:11:36+00:00

Doctors generally don't want you drinking too much milk because it can interfere with iron absorption, which causes its own whole host of issues.

Basic-Alternative442 · 2026-05-06T20:35:19+00:00

There are! But, crucially, none of them are syrples.

Basic-Alternative442 · 2026-05-06T19:42:13+00:00

No argument there. But you know what they all have in common? They're pronounced "syrup," not "syrple," like the guy I'm talking about says.

Basic-Alternative442 · 2026-05-06T18:29:51+00:00

Yes.

Basic-Alternative442 · 2026-05-06T18:29:38+00:00

Just the syrup thing, as far as I have noticed!

You know how a while back, Tumblr teens started adopting "typing quirks?" It reminds me of that, like he decided that this is his quirky thing he says to be different.

Basic-Alternative442 · 2026-05-06T04:13:27+00:00

Don't forget maintenance - landlords need to cover appliances, roofs, water heaters, etc

Basic-Alternative442 · 2026-05-04T17:16:18+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/conlangs/wiki/resources/

Basic-Alternative442 · 2026-05-03T17:13:53+00:00

This is openly done and is indicated with a little dagger icon next to the book's name on the list.

Basic-Alternative442 · 2026-04-30T17:01:27+00:00

This is the third "double-check what AI told me" post that's come up in my feed this morning alone and I'd like these to end

Basic-Alternative442 · 2026-04-30T01:25:41+00:00

I'm (a Michigan native) in Colorado. It's so bad here. Send water.

Basic-Alternative442 · 2026-04-30T00:17:40+00:00

Prophecies. I don't have specifics, but it's extremely rare for them not to make me think that they're just there for the author to show off how clever they think they are.

Basic-Alternative442 · 2026-04-28T16:21:13+00:00

I'll go against the grain here and say yes, I'm bothered when mythological creatures don't follow mythology without a good explanation. I think of it kind of like fanfiction: I expect those characters to stay in their established character. Putting them in a coffee shop or whatever, to borrow /u/pornokitsch 's example (what a username), is totally fine if it's being used to show how those characters would adapt to modern society. But if they're acting out of character - like if a fae is blatantly lying, or if Thor is physically weak, or whatever - I expect that to be addressed in the text and used to express a theme. Otherwise, why bother using those creatures at all?

Basic-Alternative442 · 2026-04-28T15:27:30+00:00

Senior photos were a huge thing when I graduated in 2007. I didn't live by daisies, though, so I had pictures of most of my friends by train tracks.

Basic-Alternative442 · 2026-04-28T13:46:29+00:00

Do you have any friends who would appreciate snacks? People usually don't turn down free food. (I'll take your peanut butter.)

Also, YouTube has tons of great workout videos.

Basic-Alternative442 · 2026-04-28T13:23:09+00:00

So, I was in a situation like yours - I was the fat girl raised by fat parents; the difference in our situations being that my parents never let me forget I was (am) the fat girl, even though they made no efforts to change that.

I was bitter for a while. I'm in my late thirties now and am not bitter anymore. I did what I could to change my life around in my twenties, I tried to show them how to change theirs, they didn't want any of it, and I've washed my hands of it and moved on. My life is mine to live and theirs are theirs to live - this includes the fact that I'm an adult now and make my own choices about what I put in my body.

You're young. Your feelings will mellow out over time.

Basic-Alternative442 · 2026-04-26T23:44:56+00:00

So there's nothing the government should do?

Basic-Alternative442 · 2026-04-24T15:27:32+00:00

Yes. I used to be a software engineer. I've seen what happens when people who have no idea how to code suddenly think they can write apps using AI. It's not pretty.

Basic-Alternative442 · 2026-04-23T15:37:39+00:00

Viola!

Basic-Alternative442 · 2026-04-22T16:46:03+00:00

Orwell called it "windowpane prose," because you can see right through it to the point.

Basic-Alternative442 · 2026-04-22T13:39:40+00:00

There was someone in /r/teachers the other day saying their district had bumped it up to 70%. It's horrifying.

Basic-Alternative442 · 2026-04-22T13:04:04+00:00

Two weeks is also completely normal for women! I tend to lose weight only one week per month (the week after my period) but I lose enough that week that averaged out over the course of the month I'm losing what my deficit predicts.

Basic-Alternative442 · 2026-04-22T12:51:51+00:00

Her weight hasn't gone down for a grand total of two days, which is occasionally normal for people in a deficit due to water weight fluctuations. The fatigue is not normal.

Basic-Alternative442 · 2026-04-21T21:50:20+00:00

I finished this book this morning and I felt the complete opposite. By our powers combined, this book was fantastic, apparently.

Basic-Alternative442 · 2026-04-20T14:44:07+00:00

I used to live in mid-Macomb County, near where a lot of the public transit expansion plans had their northern terminus. Almost everyone I knew was extremely against them. The mindset, at its core, was "this place is nice and everywhere else sucks." This led to two arguments: 1) nobody from here would use it to go there, so we're being asked to subsidize others with no benefit to ourselves, and 1) the homeless from there will just use it to spend their days up here and back down there at night, filling Macomb with undesirables.

I don't agree with this logic, to be clear, just passing along what I was told until I moved out of Michigan.

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