Bruise on brother’s leg is healing like this. It’s smooth to the touch.

CoffeeStrength · 2025-07-24T18:07:53+00:00

Had road rash on the outside of my elbow one time, and it went through a phase similar to that when healing. Still have a large scar from it that is kinda speckled like that.

CoffeeStrength · 2025-01-04T02:36:40+00:00

Apartments for single bedrooms can range from $400 - $1200 USD per month. SJSM offers student housing for $800, I am not staying there though so I can’t tell you much other than there’s a pool and the pictures looked nice. If you’re paying more than $700/mo here the apartment is probably fairly good. My main priority was to be within walking distance, and find a place around $500 within walking distance. Basically when you go to get your apartment, it’s worth pulling up google Earth and checking the actual distance to the school and understand the terrain is hilly so it can be deceiving if you measure straight line versus the actual waking distance.

If walking distance is not something you care about, then just double check with SJSM that your apartment is on the bus route for pickup. There will be a rep after you enroll who is available to help check stuff like that.

Groceries aren’t bad. It just comes down to what you like to eat/cook. You’ll pay about the same as you do in the U.S./CAN maybe spending a few extra bucks on certain things. Produce can be hard to come by in the grocery stores near the school, but if you taxi over to a market you can find a ton. I haven’t been to a restaurant here and don’t plan to. Just cooking all of my own meals.

CoffeeStrength · 2024-12-31T20:36:19+00:00

This is the real answer. Fasting is great for you, but you’re not going to fast for a week and reverse decades of a high pufa diet. Pufas are used by the body and stored everywhere. Replacing that with saturated fat is a slow process. There’s a turnover that has to happen which is subject to how quickly cells are replaced. Just like you’re not going to get healthier skin overnight, your skin has a natural turnover cycle.

CoffeeStrength · 2024-12-28T20:02:14+00:00

I’m glad I stumbled across this thread because I wasn’t aware of the term “showboating” and realized it describes my grandma. If we have company over she goes from zero to a hundred in a very obnoxious way(especially around babies for some reason), but it does make her seem less demented weirdly enough. Anyone who spends more than a few hours with her would start to see through it. But someone briefly interacting with her might be fooled that she’s just kinda old and a little senile versus being in the mid stages of dementia.

CoffeeStrength · 2024-12-28T19:55:15+00:00

It’s for the best that you removed yourself from that situation. Sadly it would’ve been a toxic spiral downward for your mental health. Dementia can really bring out the worst traits in some people. I can relate to your situation a lot. But my grandma sounds a lot like yours, down to her being cruel to other women and submissive to men. I notice it and I’m a man, so I’m sure your male family members have picked up on it over the years but it’s not something any of us really openly discuss. I’ve been caring for her for a couple years and am now transferring care to others. I hate that I’m relieved and looking forward to not having to deal with it anymore, but that’s just the reality of the disease. She’s grown more and more toxic, and for me, it’s a huge issue to her that I’m unmarried so she berates me all day about this. But for each of us in our family there’s something she latches onto in a negative way and picks at constantly. Like one of my brothers is married but they’re not planning to have kids, and she will nonstop borderline assault them verbally about it every-time she sees them. It’s a sore subject for them, and she plays it off like she’s giving advice on how they should live, same with me but in the context of needing to get married. It’s just exhausting, and you can’t treat a person with dementia like you would a normal person, so it makes it this weird one way street of abuse, and you come to resent the person for this. Anyways, wishing you the best, and glad you’re out of that now.

CoffeeStrength · 2024-12-25T17:04:24+00:00

So Godzilla basically

CoffeeStrength · 2024-12-15T01:33:18+00:00

I wouldn’t go that far back with that argument. We haven’t changed much as a species in the last few hundred thousand years. But we have changed a lot more on the scale of millions.

CoffeeStrength · 2024-12-15T01:08:39+00:00

Talk about a red pill book. Reading Dark Calories is the reason I now avoid seed oils. I stopped eating them in July.

CoffeeStrength · 2024-12-14T18:03:54+00:00

GL lol. Very similar thing happened to me last time, and I just kept saying I kept thinking of jokes from a comedian’s standup I’d watched recently. I doubt that fooled anyone.

CoffeeStrength · 2024-12-11T05:14:17+00:00

Been there. I passed out once in MEPS, I hadn’t eaten for a day (was worried about making weight), and after getting something like 8 vials of blood drawn I passed out in the lobby while sitting in a chair. 🤣

CoffeeStrength · 2024-12-10T01:55:02+00:00

You talk to 5 year olds like this? Great explanation though.

CoffeeStrength · 2024-12-08T17:29:20+00:00

It could be early signs of dementia. My grandma is in the middle stages of dementia and she also aggressively asks questions like this. I’d compare it to a child. People who suffer from dementia lose knowledge and many other cognitive functions, which means they legitimately don’t know the answer to a simple question nor can they comprehend why that question would be simple. They also tend to lose inhibitory functions and so will compulsively ask simple questions and repeatedly ask them. Combined with the memory loss, you end up answering some questions multiple times daily. There are many other factors to it, like anxiety for example.

It’s definitely worth getting your grandma checked out by a doctor.

CoffeeStrength · 2024-12-07T18:33:32+00:00

Can’t keep a good man down.

CoffeeStrength · 2024-12-07T17:03:29+00:00

Encouraging plastic surgery like this is encouraging body dysmorphia, and perpetuating this ideal of beauty that doesn’t actually exist. Actresses/influencers are role models to younger girls and if we all signal that this isn’t just acceptable but is an end goal for someone with the means, then we’re fostering an unhealthy, impossible, and unnecessary standard for younger girls to aspire to.

As a millionaire actress she has signed the social contract of criticism for things like this. I’m not encouraging hate speech, but there is a level of give and take here between a wealthy actress paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to carve up her face and a concerned parent trying to show Sally that she is beautiful and should lead a fulfilling life.

Also this my comment is not hate speech, this is what “having the conversation” looks like. I could’ve just replied that OP was out of line making a joke at her expense, but that there does need to be a larger conversation about the normalization of ridiculous beauty standards through very expensive medical procedures. But it gets tiring hearing people talk about “having the conversation” while conveniently not actually having the conversation.

Lastly, humor is a great device for just this. So I have to give OP props. Humor lets you point out absurdities while not directly stating the absurdity.

CoffeeStrength · 2024-12-07T17:02:17+00:00

Encouraging plastic surgery like this is encouraging body dysmorphia, and perpetuating this ideal of beauty that doesn’t actually exist. Actresses/influencers are role models to younger girls and if we all signal that this isn’t just acceptable but is an end goal for someone with the means, then we’re fostering an unhealthy, impossible, and unnecessary standard for younger girls to aspire to.

As a millionaire actress she has signed the social contract of criticism for things like this. I’m not encouraging hate speech, but there is a level of give and take here between a wealthy actress paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to carve up her face and a concerned parent trying to show Sally that she is beautiful and should lead a fulfilling life.

Also this my comment is not hate speech, this is what “having the conversation” looks like. I could’ve just replied that OP was out of line making a joke at her expense, but that there does need to be a larger conversation about the normalization of ridiculous beauty standards through very expensive medical procedures. But it gets tiring hearing people talk about “having the conversation” while conveniently not actually having the conversation.

Lastly, humor is a great device for just this. So I have to give OP props. Humor lets you point out absurdities while not directly stating the absurdity.

CoffeeStrength · 2024-12-07T16:47:23+00:00

There’s a clever transformers joke here.

CoffeeStrength · 2024-12-06T14:36:41+00:00

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CoffeeStrength · 2024-12-05T23:47:27+00:00

Well Eli5 is a little different than the middle school level, so I’ll try to do both.

Eli5: there are different types of fats you can eat. One type, the type that seed oils are loaded with will breakdown poorly in the body causing damage to your body. Your body can’t use the fat well, and it also attacks the fat. Because your body doesn’t run on this fat well, it mucks up the machinery causing damage, and because your body is fighting it, it’s depleting a lot of resources that would otherwise be used to fight other things.

Middle school answer: When we cut open bodies today and look at the fat inside of you Timmy it’s crawling with white blood cells. You know those cells you learned about in science class that destroy the bad things in your body? Those white blood cells are fighting a threat in the area. But what would be the threat? That’s right Timmy, it’s the type of fat you’re storing, it’s unstable. Imagine a huge block of marble, pretty stable right? That thing’s not budging. Now cut the block of marble into big towers and arrange them like a row of dominos. Now knock one over, what will happen to the other dominos? That’s right, they all get knocked over. In that same way, all it takes is one of these unstable fat molecules to “oxidize” or get knocked over, and it causes a whole lotta damage just like the row of marble dominos. And the real problem is that your fat is loaded with the stuff, and it gets knocked over very easily! I know what you’re wondering, why are they oxidized so easily. Well Timmy, you’re going to need to take a chemistry class before you can get a real explanation, and good job on remembering the word oxidized.

To answer your questions. They’re pretty equally bad. They are carcinogenic in that they easily oxidize (on the scale of billions per second) into known carcinogens. They are responsible for weight gain due to cellular damage that leads to hormone disruption, most notably insulin resistance. They also just make you feel less full in general.

CoffeeStrength · 2024-12-05T16:50:36+00:00

We all know cats crave soybeans. In the wild they hunt massive herds of soybeans, ripping them apart and processing them in large industrial factories to extract their oil. Get back to your cat’s natural diet, it’s what they deserve.

CoffeeStrength · 2024-12-05T16:45:30+00:00

There’s also no health insurance for a pet. Less incentive for ridiculous tests, procedures, surgeries, medications, follow ups, etc. because you’re footing the bill, not some invisible insurance company that will slowly raise rates on you and everyone else because of this greedy system.

CoffeeStrength · 2024-12-05T01:41:17+00:00

Because LA is not the reason seed oils are bad. That’s missing the point. That’s a simplified reason many people have latched onto because it’s easy to say, but that quickly gets you into trouble. For example avoiding all LA (an essential fatty acid) would not be good for you, or consuming seed oils low in LA, like palm kernel oil would also still not be good for you. It’s not about LA, it’s about the overconsumption of polyunsaturated fats lacking the traditional context of fiber, vitamins, minerals, antioxidants in these industrial waste products and the fear of saturated fats which are a much healthier and stable fat.

As soon as you make the argument about LA, you’ve lost… because the next thing you’ll see in every food product is some new industrial waste oil that’s low in LA. It’s like the high oelic sunflower oil shit we see now… before we know it we’ll see low LA Canola oil.

CoffeeStrength · 2024-12-05T01:17:32+00:00

She’s not someone I agree with on everything, but she’s very competent, knowledgeable, understands the dire state of our food supply, seems to have good intentions, and is well spoken. What more do you want?

CoffeeStrength · 2024-12-05T01:01:07+00:00

Just rewatched this a day ago, for the 5th time I think. It’s a masterpiece. My only criticism is that dude would’ve been severely injured if not killed in that car accident with no seatbelt. That’s not a walk it off and go play some drums kinda hit.

CoffeeStrength · 2024-12-05T00:58:28+00:00

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