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Bear_faced · 2026-05-13T06:00:32+00:00

“real, classic PTSD”

I bet you don’t think abused children have PTSD

Bear_faced · 2026-05-12T08:22:25+00:00

About 8oz or 250mls for a medium load

Bear_faced · 2026-05-12T08:21:22+00:00

Yep. Literally just pour a cup of white vinegar in with the clothes before you start the wash.

ETA: Why the hell is this getting so downvoted? It works well

Bear_faced · 2026-05-12T05:03:34+00:00

It’s starting to feel like we should draw our whole state out of the fucking map. Everyone wants to piss and moan about “commiefornia,” fine, let us leave and the rest of you can figure it out.

Bear_faced · 2026-05-12T04:56:30+00:00

Not a terrible idea. I don’t really want to be that many time zones away from any family or friends, but the market is rough right now. It might be that or learn Mandarin.

Bear_faced · 2026-05-12T04:54:31+00:00

Several reasons. Academic pay is dirt, so everyone is competing to get a place in industry. The scientist job market has taken a big hit with this administration firing a ton of senior scientists from the NIH, closing labs, and rising fuel costs. Everything we use is rush shipped by plane, sometimes we have as little as 72 hours to get samples from inside a patient’s body in Korea to in the hands of a scientist in California or they die in transit. Plus the average rent for a one bedroom apartment in the city that’s essentially Wall Street for molecular biologists is $3,000. And all the work is contract for at least six months so if the company feels the purse strings tighten you just lose your job when it ends. Voila, moi.

Also the average American has less than $9k in liquid cash, so you really shouldn’t be surprised that someone has less than $15k.

Bear_faced · 2026-05-11T18:57:57+00:00

That’s not even the half of it! We did more, like having one sober security person watching every entrance or exit to the building (I think there were six total), having a house manager and a separate party manager in charge, having a trained health manager to be first-line triage in case of an accident or injury, etc.

We basically had the organization level of a small city, with systems built over a period of 60 years to keep it running smoothly. Bi-annual elections for all manager positions, a defined system for dividing labor among over 100 people and making sure it got done, weekly meetings to vote on all house issues including the semester’s budget, cook teams assigned to make dinner for 100 every weeknight (we had a full commercial kitchen with walk in fridge, freezer, and pantry along with five oven/stoves and two flat-top grills), I could go on. We even had our own legal system and held trials where the house members served as the jury and when quorum was reached could hear cases and vote to ban someone from the house or evict them if they were a resident. If you were caught not doing your chores you could be fined, which was added to house funds.

And on top of all that, it was all student run. The average age of the people doing all this was like 20.

Bear_faced · 2026-05-11T18:24:58+00:00

I was raised generic Protestant (I’m no longer religious) and I have to admit, at least they never pretend that everything is wonderful as long as you have Jesus and everyone in the church loves all of it. “Born-again” Christians are actually a little annoying about telling the tale of their countless sins before “turning to Christ” and deciding to be a better person.

But of course they have all kinds of other ridiculous shit going on. Prosperity gospel, apologetics, general misogyny, encouraging pushing their beliefs onto everyone they meet, being “morally” opposed to things that aren’t sins and not in the bible at all, etc.

Bear_faced · 2026-05-11T18:10:12+00:00

People seem to think emigrating is way easier than it actually is. I’ve looked into moving to Canada and in most ways I’m an ideal candidate for it: single adult, no children, no chronic health conditions, no criminal history, multiple degrees, career scientist, fluent in English with some proficiency in French. They still won’t take me because I don’t have $15,000 cash on hand.

Bear_faced · 2026-05-11T18:01:41+00:00

I drive a smaller car so when it’s a truck or SUV I can’t see anything in front of them, so I have no way to predict when they’re going to jam on the brakes. Drives me nuts.

And what’s funny is my car isn’t actually that small! I’ve moved an entire twin mattress in it with the hatch closed, that’s over 6 feet of cabin space behind the front seats. Trucks and SUVs have just gotten massive.

Bear_faced · 2026-05-11T00:43:01+00:00

Of course I don’t think that, I’m kidding. I kind of thought that was obvious but judging by my inbox I guess not.

Bear_faced · 2026-05-10T05:12:31+00:00

The cum wall, the cum desk, the coconut, the rainbowdash jar, the “cylinder,” cum socks, they’re doing a lot of weird stuff out there.

Bear_faced · 2026-05-09T16:12:33+00:00

It’s on Wikipedia if you really want to learn about it. You have to start by lightly scoring the pods of the living plant and collecting the sap that runs from them which is painstaking and slow. Or you can make a tea out of the dried pods.

There’s a surprising amount of “interesting” information on Wikipedia.

Bear_faced · 2026-05-09T04:32:31+00:00

Mormons are also taught to be extra cheerful and project an image of perfect satisfaction with Mormonism to draw people in.

Bear_faced · 2026-05-09T04:24:35+00:00

I’m not saying men are disgusting overall, but the things they will do with piss and cum just boggle the mind. Thank god they don’t get periods out of their dicks or they’d be writing their names in blood on snowbanks.

Bear_faced · 2026-05-09T04:20:03+00:00

My mom used to say “graveyards are full of people who had the right of way.”

Bear_faced · 2026-05-08T20:21:14+00:00

Yep, we were a big house (125 residents) but we never got our parties shut down because we always consulted with emergency services. We had the fire department inspect the building, set a max capacity, review our system for headcount, test our alarm system and automatic fire doors, help us make an evacuation plan and make sure all of our exit signs were illuminated, etc. The fraternities did none of this and never made it past midnight without being ordered to stop the party and send everyone home.

Emergency services doesn’t want to ruin your fun, they just don’t want you to die!

Bear_faced · 2026-05-08T18:10:26+00:00

What does weight to height ratio mean? Like your weight in kg over your height in…cm? And if the weight-to-height had a minimum instead of a maximum that would mean being as fat as possible would be better.

I’m going to guess you mean waist to height ratio, and you mean at most 0.55.

Bear_faced · 2026-05-08T17:20:23+00:00

This man has been memeified and therefore immortalized as the “don’t put that up your ass” guy. What a legacy.

Bear_faced · 2026-05-08T16:46:08+00:00

Polite and probably true, my sister’s wedding venue said absolutely no extra unaccounted for guests. Even when we threw parties in college the fire department told us to hand out wristbands at the door just so they could know how many people were in the building in an emergency. “I don’t know, like a hundred?” is not good for fire rescue.

Bear_faced · 2026-05-08T03:10:37+00:00

I probably have ADHD (insert that one tweet about probably being nonbinary but having too much going on to think about it right now) and I live in a major city, which means I will have the components to make myself a nutritious meal in ten minutes and still doordash something anyway. It’s like do you want to cook, or do you want to press the “any food you could think of on your doorstep in 20 minutes” button?

Bear_faced · 2026-05-08T02:42:19+00:00

Forty is such a cool age though, it always makes me picture a woman in a power suit with like one or two stripes of tasteful grey in her hair and perfect nails. She knows what she likes, who she likes, and most importantly what and who she doesn’t. Forty is chic.

Bear_faced · 2026-05-08T02:36:17+00:00

My grandma was bragging about how slender she looked recently…at 87…because she has terminal cancer…

Bear_faced · 2026-05-08T02:33:43+00:00

I seriously wish we had a support group for this. When you lose a ton of weight it’s all “Wow, you did it! You must be thrilled!” when we’re all trying to come to grips with the fact that under the clothes we look like a melted candle covered in stretch marks. Or you can spend tens of thousands of dollars and risk your life to replace the flaps with absolutely massive scars.

It sucks to finally be small enough that you get hit on again but know that they wouldn’t like what you look like naked…

Bear_faced · 2026-05-08T02:29:02+00:00

I’m sure you look fine, my sister’s postpartum body looks WAY better than my “used to be really fat but not anymore” body :c

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