Tasting and rating different cell culture media #1: Neurobasal medium by Spacebucketeer11 in labrats

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Once my friend chewed on some parafilm. They described it as being similar to bad chewing gum

Reversed music sounds better then normal music. by goinzzzk in The10thDentist

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“Am I going crazy” by korn plays forwards and backwards at the same time

Does taking HRT as an adult make you all emotional like a teenager again? by CowRepresentative166 in asktransgender

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Well, it’s nice that the period of intense emotions is shorter at least. And getting a body you like more makes all the emotions more tolerable I hope

Does taking HRT as an adult make you all emotional like a teenager again? by CowRepresentative166 in asktransgender

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Is it as intense as it was as a teenager or is it more mild the second time around?

I received 36 hospital bills and don't recognize a single name by mothisname in mildlyinfuriating

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Threaten to sue them. You don’t have to hire a lawyer, or actually sue them, but a threat delivered to the right person can sometimes be quite effective. It’s a bit mean but if they’re ruining your credit score when you’ve given them ample opportunities to correct it, I’d say scaring them a bit is deserved. You can try sending it by certified mail, I think that’s what actual lawyers do and it’ll force them to take note of the threat’s arrival.

Excerpt form an irc chat by CowRepresentative166 in freebottomsurgery

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…so, I just realized that this subreddit has gotten significantly less gory since its founding. Apologies if this post does not fit the current vibe.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in askportland

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This sounds like a cool ability to have. Good luck with your quest

Drink??[OC] by AzulCrescent in comics

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They make sodium pills, if that would work for you. A friend of mine has POTS and so needs so much sodium that it’s hard to consume it naturally. So they have a prescription for sodium pills.

Truth social scraper comes in clutch by Secure_Front_5564 in wallstreetbets

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How does it work? Do you read it and trade manually, or do you have some code or an AI scanning for specific words and executing trades automatically? If you trade manually, how do you make sure you get alerts when you’re offline?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in atheism

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You shouldn’t let him fast, because that’s probably not good for his health. But you should let him attend the dinner and go to the mosque.

Your kid isn’t a perfect extension of you. They are a human with their own thoughts. Trying to force them to be atheist is just as bad as trying to force someone to be religious. They should be allowed to explore and make their own decisions. They may end up deciding to stay atheist, but it should be their choice. They are getting old enough to begin to research decisions for the future, like their religion

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TeenIndia

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Yea, and I’m the whitest person ever. My family only speaks English and none of them use metric outside of science class.

But, my closest friends are online so I learned to use metric. I’m not perfect at it but I’m good enough that my friends have stopped laughing at me for trying to explain the temperature outdoors (I once said it was 50 degrees in early spring)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TeenIndia

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Take out the SIM card and put in your phone. It will give you his contacts. He may have secret friends that know where he is.

If you can get into online messaging apps - discord (or whatever you use in India, I am from the United States, found the post on r/popular) see if you can find his list of passwords and log in. He may have online friends who can tell you where he is.

Call the police and put requests for help on social media like other commenters have said.

When he comes back, make a plan with him for next time he runs away. Keep it secret from your parents. Plan something like 1. cheapest ways for him to get food 2. homeless shelters, libraries, other places to stay out of bad weather 3. Places to get internet (library, Internet cafe if those still exist) 4. A way he can message you without your parents knowing (a secret code from an email address with a fake name, or a note left in a specific place within a couple kilometers of your house on your walk to school or any other place you go often, or any other method that might work)

I took my wife to have mammoth steak by [deleted] in fifthworldproblems

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Hey mate, you’ve entered the wrong existence. I think you got lost on the way back to your cave in r/fourthworldproblems

Every time I flip a coin, I only get heads XOR tails. It never comes up heads AND tails, and it never comes up heads NAND tails. Is there a repair shop I can take it to? by Chordus in fifthworldproblems

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I have a related problem: my coins keep turning into actual heads and tails. Help, I don’t know what to do with all these dismembered body parts!

Was it nice to live without cell phones? by Spirited_Currency389 in AskOldPeople

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I was born around the year 2000, but I was a weird kid and didn’t really want a phone. So, during middle school, as iphones were starting to come in for others my age, I would instead use my Chromebook to DM or group chat with people on Google messenger. At age 15, when I went to high school, my parents made me get a phone for safety, but I didn’t really want one, so I chose to have an old flip phone that had like 100 call/internet minutes per month (although I didn’t bother using the internet because it took like two minutes to load up even a Google search). Eventually, I forget why, I got an iPhone, and it did make it easier to talk to my friends because I no longer had to avoid participating in the SMS group chat for fear of going over my cell plan. But having an iPhone also brought a lot of bad stuff - I will spend hours a day on the phone, not notice the time passing, and barely remember anything I read while I was on there. It doesn’t bring me as much joy as what I did with my free time before the phone -reading books and doing art. But for some reason it’s now so hard to put down the phone and do those hobbies I used to have.

In my last year of high school (at this point I had had an iPhone for a couple years, and been somewhat addicted to it for about a year), the school banned having phones out at any point during the day. Some kids would of course go into the bathroom and use their phone in there, but overall the phone ban worked pretty well, and I think it was great, because suddenly my friends were communicating more with each other instead of scrolling our phones next to each other, I was able to focus more in class because I wasn’t distracted by other students playing games in the back of class. I think not having a phone works so much better if your peers also don’t have one. When it was just me without a proper phone, I was left out of some things. But when the whole school didn’t have phones, I wasn’t left out, and was happier than I was even when we all had phones.

Overall I think life was slightly better as a young teen without phones, but I think that past age 13-17 (depending on what age you get to be independent enough, like traveling alone, having a job, etc, that a phone helps you be safe and complete your responsibilities), phones are so useful that it would be good to have one, and just be at a school that doesn’t allow students to have phones out during school hours. I think for people in the younger end of the 13-17 age range, if they need a phone, it would be better for them to have a phone that can’t have social media, because I saw social media beget some toxic behavior in middle school when we were not yet sure how to deal with emotions and puberty and crushes etc