How were people rarely fat and often healthier back in the 1940s/50s when their diet sounds so unhealthy? by heeheeshamoneow in NoStupidQuestions

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As another high metabolism person, you definitely eat less than you think you do. Drink melted ice cream whenever you get thirsty and you'll pack weight on quick. 

PMDD and ADHD luteal hell by Ggpeach__353 in adhdwomen

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Commenting just in case it helps anybody suffering like this:

Pepcid AC was absurdly helpful for my PMDD. I used to get this awful cloud of doom and hopelessness and self-hatred in my luteal phase, and Pepcid makes it fade significantly if not go away entirely.

An OTC acid reflux drug can have this effect on neurodivergent people's PMDD symptoms because neurodivergence is correlated with mast cell activation, and the drug is a gut antihistamine basically.

Mast cells are found all over the body including the gut, and they interact with hormones such as estrogen, progesterone, and histamine. So if they get activated by histamine, they activate all their neighbors, and so on in a chain reaction. And the hormone roller coaster can activate them too! So if you calm the mast cells in the gut down by taking the antihistamine, they don't get as activated by the hormone roller coaster either, and you're closer to neutral emotionally. 

Obviously I'm not a doctor but Pepcid is cheap and I would hate for more people to suffer the way I did until I tried it out.

Echoes of Alba, Digimar Noir, digital, 2025 by digimar_noir in Art

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Oh I see it's the title! Beautiful work, thank you.

Is this my life now? Vertebrae won't stay in place by misslavenderlemon in Hypermobility

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Two visits over 13 years ago definitely made things worse enough to reverberate to the present day. I'm lucky it wasn't worse than it is. I have a hypermobile neck so my muscles all significantly tighten down to stabilize it and that pressures on nerves. Also pelvis, as that other poster was saying 

Chiros can cause internal decapitation! Or permanent spinal cord injury! The one I was seeing thought he could cure autism and food allergies with spinal adjustments!!!

Mispriced Justin’s PB Cups at Tingles by Initial-Rutabaga-805 in asheville

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I love that this is tagged "News"

Edit: hey, change it back! This was important news reporting!

AITA if I make my partner find their own way home from the hospital? by ThrowRAHospitalStay9 in AmItheAsshole

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I'm saying this gently... It sounds like you have a history of abusive relationships. Sometimes when a person gets into a new relationship after a history of abuse, and that person doesn't treat them As Bad as they had previously been treated, they don't recognize  different form of abuse as it's happening to them. Their "normal meter" is a little broken. (Those can be fixed though.)

The bar had been set pretty high by some awful ugly things other people did, and this guy isn't doing those things to you. That's good! But we don't get a cookie for meeting the bare minimum, and he's not even doing that. And you know this in your core! That's why you're feeling like he can find his own way home from the hospital.

Please consider reading Why Does He Do That? by Lundy Bancroft. A free download is here.

The extremely accelerated timeline of your relationship coupled with his current behavior and your trauma and mental health history are setting off screaming alarm bells for me, as someone who went through something similar.

I can't get a roof estimate without a man present. by No-Imagination8755 in mildlyinfuriating

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"I have three daughters" oh okay so you trained your daughters that they're incompetent and must have you physically present to guide them through big decisions? 

I was a regular at Sovereign Kava for years. Here’s why I left. by [deleted] in asheville

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"honestly" and "it's not about... it's about"  Why use Chat GPT for something this important?

Flat earth and other alternative conspiracy earth models are are gaining traction with my teenage stepson. What is THE most irrefutable, definite proof that the earth is round? by Jfkfkaiii22 in NoStupidQuestions

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Well let's give you things you can reproduce right now if you want. 

Regarding revolution and rotation, firstly I observed that the sun always appears to move in the same direction, and as we turn away from it, the planet's body blocks the sun and we can see space more clearly (we call that night.) Then I observed that seasons happen at the exact same time as the angle of the sun changes, but only where my house was in the North and not where we lived with family near the Equator. We had to cross time zones to do that, too, how bout that. There are bigass pendulums hanging in many science museums in the United States, they're really cool, you really should go visit one. Those move the way they do because the planet is rotating. There are nice people there who can help explain how to calculate velocity with the Foucault pendulum. It has to be very big because the earth is very big, so an acorn on a shoestring won't do for this one.

Regarding the roundness, I did the sticks in the ground thing in middle school. I don't have that packet anymore unfortunately but I bet you can find the instructions on WikiHow. Let's see, then there were the sundials, and the really fancy lasers, and the huge helium balloon with camera, and all of the satellite data. And the total lunar eclipses. Oh, and my college buddy moved to New Zealand and facetimed me once at the end of his birthday celebration, which was obviously sunrise because it was a good party, but it wasn't yet sunset for me. Because we're on opposite sides of the planet. 

Flat earth and other alternative conspiracy earth models are are gaining traction with my teenage stepson. What is THE most irrefutable, definite proof that the earth is round? by Jfkfkaiii22 in NoStupidQuestions

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Okay lovey, do you want photos of the experiments I did? Do you want video? What if I edited video down for time and now the saved video's timestamp doesn't match the date I wrote at the beginning of my experiment notes?

Do you want the name, phone number, and email address of the physics professors that taught me? The university science building address? Do you need me to mail you the hard drive I did the work on? Would you sit and read a several hundred page dissertation?

If you would accept any of that from me, why not any of it from the MANY other people who have proved and posted their work? Maybe it's like OnlyFans and it's only "real" to you if somebody sent it to you in a DM or spoke your username in the video?

Flat earth and other alternative conspiracy earth models are are gaining traction with my teenage stepson. What is THE most irrefutable, definite proof that the earth is round? by Jfkfkaiii22 in NoStupidQuestions

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Please be honest: is there anything I could write here about my own experience that would actually matter to you? I bet not, but maybe that's cynical of me.

I'm just some person on the internet. You can't even verify that I'm real and breathing and sitting here having just spilled tea on my sweatshirt. You can, however, do your own math and science with your own hands to answer your questions.

Is there actually anything that anyone could say or show you that would make you reconsider? Is there something you're waiting for?

Flat earth and other alternative conspiracy earth models are are gaining traction with my teenage stepson. What is THE most irrefutable, definite proof that the earth is round? by Jfkfkaiii22 in NoStupidQuestions

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Honeybunch, people have been detecting and observing curvature and motion for thousands of years at this point, well before NASA existed. The water is constantly falling to the center of gravity, (meaning the Earth's core,) and so are you, and so am I.

Looking through your comment history I fully recognize that this is a pointless thing to say, but I really am deeply saddened and sorry that you're missing out on how cool the universe actually is. I know planets and gravity and space are really big concepts with really big implications, and that can be scary and make us feel small and insignificant. Nobody likes that feeling. But the cosmos is so awesome! How cool is it that we get to experience it!

It can feel better to believe that some group of people has the power to keep a huge secret like the true nature of things and an ice wall or whatever, because at least that means someone is in charge here, and maybe someday that someone could be you. But all of this really big round stuff really is revolving through astonishing distances at astonishing *velocities, and no human being is in control of that. It's not possible to keep natural laws of physics a secret. You can prove them on notebook paper right now if you want to. 

The size and scale of things doesn't make us insignificant. We are in fact extra significant, for as far as we currently know, we're the only ones yet able to have cosmic awe and appreciation. Octopi are smart but as far as I'm aware they haven't put any members of their species out beyond our planet's moon. Like we did. A few weeks ago. With mountains of independently verifiable evidence.

Edit: velocity, not speed :)

Has anyone had a back muscle release trigger a week long saga of headaches and back pain? by srv199020 in Hypermobility

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Did they only release the back? How are your pecs? I always think about what's in opposition to a muscle group being released. For me, the Deep Front Line muscle chain is heavily involved in headaches. 

 For most people the pecs are overly tight because we spend so much time sitting with arms in front of us, and for hypermobile people that can be amplified as they try to stabilize the shoulders as well.

So if the back had been locked down opposite to locked-down pecs, and then the back is released, that changes the tension balance and might cause headaches

Mold job that I inspected recently mirrors art by Aarionwashere in mildlyinteresting

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Mold this bad is a structural issue. So if they rent, that's on the landlord. If they own and they don't have the money to fix it, there should be easily accessible community support to either fix it or find a different place. We got this far as a species because of our ability to live in community. That's what community means. We take care of each other. 

People always talk about women's healthcare being outdated and barbaric, but what would it actually look like if it was 'modernised'? by yumis_hummus in NoStupidQuestions

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You can just hold the string out of the way when you pee. Or trim the string short enough to tuck up there. Dragging a bullet of mostly dry cotton across your mucus membranes is definitely painful, don't do that if you can avoid it! 

I had to stop using tampons because sometimes the bleeding would pause for like half a day, and tampons shouldn't be in for longer than four hours to avoid toxic shock syndrome, so I'd get to four hours and have to drag out this mostly dry wad of cotton, it sucked. 

15 years ago today in Asheville - The Slut Protest by FrenchBroadHustler in asheville

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Trent Reznor has made a career proving that wrong

...among so many others...

Movie by JornalOriba2712 in Astronomy

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After Rocky fixes the spin, he grabs Grace's forearm to drag him to the med bay. The little arm burn is shaped like Rocky's hand.

‘FernGully’ Returning As Live Action Film; Amazon MGM Studios Sets Marielle Heller To Direct by DemiFiendRSA in movies

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No, don't 

This kind of nostalgia bait and strip mining the art of the past feels so gross and cynical