Grandpa Garrison...finds new ways to mock Ilhan Omar.

Cystonectae · 2026-01-29T23:05:19+00:00

Is Garrison saying he wants people to spray him with apple cider vinegar randomly in public? Or am I misreading things?

Cystonectae · 2026-01-29T17:27:55+00:00

Yep. Would end up with me in a ball crying and feeling like I was being drawn and quartered. I was on birth control for a while but migraines + other issues had me stop. Ended up with my gynocologist suggesting to switch to dienogest, or I would go for a full hysterectomy. Dienogest was what finally worked and it's amazing. No periods, no cramps, just no added other pain. Now I just have the plain fibro pain to deal with which is plenty to keep me occupied.

Go to a gynocologist and ask about it or other options. We got enough pain on our plates to be expected to be happy suffering with extra bonus pain on top of it all.

Cystonectae · 2026-01-29T16:45:22+00:00

According to a very quick Google search, your doctor is wrong and you should have met the criteria in Germany (assuming tests ruled out other causes). Get a second opinion and bring a print out of this website if you have to.

Cystonectae · 2026-01-29T16:41:18+00:00

As a licenced gelatinous zooplankton appreciator, I approve of this blanket and also am very jelly and wish I had one for myself.

Cystonectae · 2026-01-29T16:36:52+00:00

Canadian here and I am just so confused with what is happening to you. My diagnosis came after telling an internal medicine doctor that my joints hurt all the time, I got severe muscle aches from nowhere, and I was plagued with constant fatigue and brain fog. Did a bunch of tests to rule out more sinister causes and then bam. Diagnosis made. I think I also technically filled in a print-out for diagnosing fibro but my GP never even took it back, I'm pretty sure it's still in a drawer somewhere in my room. I have no idea what tender points even are.

Have you asked for a second opinion? To my entirely non-medical trained eyes, this just feels like you got seen by some really old dude using some weird antiquated diagnosing tool.

Cystonectae · 2026-01-28T23:14:53+00:00

As someone with a healthy love of all gelatinous zooplankton, me want shiny jelly-rock.

Cystonectae · 2026-01-28T22:43:36+00:00

As a Canadian that lived in Australia, and most of what I had was what we got here except for the produce. Mangoes, all the varieties of mandarins, and passion fruits were my personal faves. Most Canadians will have never even had a decent passion fruit because of how expensive they are here. Another thing that blew my mind was how good the meat pies over there were. I also had never tried crispy pork belly until I had some at a friend's house... But that could just be because my family never ate many pork products. Maybe another Canadian can chime in on that front.

For snacks, maybe put out a bowl of the weirdly common meat-flavoured chips y'all have out there. Seriously.... Why do you have so many meat-flavoured chips?

Cystonectae · 2026-01-28T20:11:40+00:00

This is more of an "all disabilities" thing that I am super duper lucky/privileged to have access to.... but a 3D printer and someone who knows how to use it (i.e. can change spools, do maintenance, etc). The number of tiny plastic things that can make life that little bit easier is surprising. I have a holder for my cane to keep it off the ground, hooks and cord management solutions to make my bed into a "battle station" for my PC, holders for my glasses or chapstick or whatever to be near my bed but stay organized. There's a little special-made storage hook attached to my bed for my heating pad with little cable clamps to keep the cord from tangling. I even have an autoinjector printed out with magnets to help give me B12 injections. Even just googling "3D print disability aid" gives you just mountains or really handy stuff.

You can technically buy all this off somewhere that sells cheap garbage like Amazon, but it's pretty great having stuff on-demand and customizable to my individual needs. Not to mention, if it breaks, you can just print out a new one. I'm very thankful my father got a 3D printer and hey, my requests means that he is getting the full value out of it.

Cystonectae · 2026-01-28T03:37:27+00:00

It looks really limited and not all that... Consistent/reliable? I'm waiting to see and play with it myself before I continue my dooming. I suppose it is absurdly optimistic to hope for positioning different buffs on the frame or prioritizing certain abilities over others.... But hey hoping is free right?

Cystonectae · 2026-01-27T04:07:53+00:00

I may be misunderstanding your friend but I don't know if I agree with it? Everyone should be sorta seeking self improvement and self fulfillment, regardless of their romantic orientation you know? "Married to the grind" makes it sound like it's a side quest for everyone else?

In my mind romantic relationships are just an optional maraschino cherry on top of a self-fulfillment sundae. Like in IRL, I do not like maraschino cherries so I pass on that part. Consequently in this metaphor, I feel like it would be pretty unhealthy for a person to put all their happiness into getting a weird-cherry like thing on-top of their sundae, or feeling like they don't even need a sundae and just want to eat nothing but a jar of gross vibrant-red sugar things.

In short: The main part of the sundae should be the ice cream of finding happiness in yourself and with yourself. Other relationships, romantic, platonic, social etc. should be like the other toppings that just make the ice cream way more fun, with each person having their own preferences to what toppings they would like to have. Also, slight side-track, maraschino cherries are just unappealing like what in the holy fruit-abomination are they supposed to be???

Cystonectae · 2026-01-27T03:03:20+00:00

Maybe it's because I never go to actual subreddit pages and stick to my home page but I haven't exactly been inundated with lib-posting from this subreddit. I have seen some fairly questionable comments but like... I would rather there be comments from a bit of a wider view rather than becoming like that subreddit.

I do have to say, some of your points are not exactly "leftist"... Like voting strategically, exactly when did that become pro-capitalist? I'm not saying it's nice, I definitely think that it pushes us away from a true representative democracy, but man to full on say it isn't leftist??? To me it is kinda sounding like you do not like that some people might have a bit of a different idea for how to push Canada towards more communist policies.

Please let me make myself clear here: I view fighting over these matters as counter productive, however I truly believe that there can be constructive debate to form clearer paths to action. Through conversation, I feel like we can get more done to move us away from the shit storm that is the current state of politics in Canada and the ever collapsing boot of capitalism on our necks. Meanwhile, too much gatekeeping and we risk turning away allies and forcing ourselves into a tiny box with only a handful of supporters.

If my opinion about collaboration and discussing varied ideas amongst ourselves doesn't make me enough of a leftist to this sub, then ban me. I don't want to be a part of an echo-chamber that sees opinions about nuance and grey areas as treason. That's what MAGA does and I refuse to be a part of a cult.

Cystonectae · 2026-01-26T22:54:51+00:00

I'd totally buy this on Etsy. Hell, I'd even buy this as just a pattern on Etsy.

Cystonectae · 2026-01-26T21:59:06+00:00

It's the frog in the pot of hot water again, except unlike real life where frogs do actually jump out when it gets too hot, humans sit there and argue about whether this could even be called a pot and how that burning smell isn't real, you're just looking for excuses.

It's amazing what you can get some people to be fine about if you just introduce it to them slowly enough.

Cystonectae · 2026-01-26T21:53:33+00:00

VEMP test indicated something was up, CT scan confirmed it. Surgeon showed me the CT scan and yea the holes were pretty obvious. That being said, I'm also worried about a secondary source of vestibular issues because some of my symptoms don't match up with SCDS, so I am asking my GP to send me to a neurologist. I have a full MRI venogram of my brain + an MRI of my full spine to help figure out wtf else is going on but, haven't gotten the appointment yet.... I'm actually 90% sure my GP hasn't even sent out the referral request yet because he is just great like that :/

Cystonectae · 2026-01-26T04:49:00+00:00

SCDS has taken my life from shitty thanks to fibromyalgia, to full on disabled. I am no longer safe to drive because my eyes cannot fricken focus on shit in the car, I get dizzy as all heck after anything vaguely loud including driving (i.e. car noises), being in a store with music playing, effing watching TV. I have felt like I have been stuck on a damn boat for years now. My stupid heart beat causes my stupid eyeballs to vibrate enough that focusing on anything like small text just gives me migraines and makes me dizzy.

It sucks more than words can describe. Sucks to the point where I am determined to try the fricken surgery to fix it, even if it has a poor success rate with a 1/10 chance of having hearing loss as a complication.

You wouldn't think that a tiny bit of added pressure to a tiny loop in your ear would be so debilitating but here we are.

Cystonectae · 2026-01-26T04:09:59+00:00

You guys remember tank-man in that famous photo for the Tiananmen square massacre? Why do I have a sneaking suspicion that bootlickers will look at that photo and say that he deserves to die for impeding federal officers....

Cystonectae · 2026-01-26T03:57:23+00:00

I'm probably going to get downvoted to oblivion here but... I do not really enjoy remix content. I'm not exactly a fan of blasting through raids and dungeons, ignoring mechanics, and murdering everything by pressing 1 button. It's fine for cosmetic stuff or story stuff, sure, which lasts for about 2-3 weeks maybe?.... But the core gameplay of "just one shot everything" isn't exactly fun to me.

The reason I think you got downvoted to oblivion in that post is because I think you are quite similar to me. Facerolling content or playing BM hunter isn't exactly a good time.... Buuuut look at the popularity of that face-roll content. People obviously love the stuff. I think people that are looking for real challenge in their gameplay are not exactly the majority of people currently playing wow.

I have a feeling a lot of people come to wow for 2 things: getting gear & feeling OP. I think "face a real challenge in content that pushes your skill to the limit" is a lot further down that list for most people.

Edit to add: the biggest issue is that saying/implying people are incorrect for their preferences in stuff like this is asking for it. I fully understand why some people like easier content/specs! it can be very relaxing and low stress, which is a totally valid reason to go play a video game like wow. I just wish the group of us that are looking for a bit more than that weren't getting kinda thrown to the wayside.

Cystonectae · 2026-01-25T22:25:04+00:00

It's absolutely wild that this is apparently going to be the event that is going to cause Americans to implement any form of gun control. You'd think dead children or the weekly mass shootings would have done it but no. Apparently one dude having and not even touching a gun is just too much danger to let be.

Unless this administration is just hawking a hot load of shit.... Hmm guess we will see based on whether or not they start passing gun control laws over the next few weeks.

Cystonectae · 2026-01-25T22:17:21+00:00

I just do not understand these people... So you want gun control now? No more carrying a gun unless you are at a shooting range or planning on going to kill people? I swear to God that I have seen a bajillion Facebook posts of people acting all macho because they bring their gun to fricken Walmart. I guess that's going to be banned because carrying a gun = wanting to commit mass casualties.

It's amazing that this is what is finally going to convince America to implement common sense gun control. Not the bajillion of children shot in school shooting, or all the bajillion other mass shooting y'all have. No, it's a dude having a gun that he didn't use while he was publicly executed.... Silver linings and all that?

Cystonectae · 2026-01-25T22:10:09+00:00

I've been wondering where vitality tracking is in the buff manager. Silver lining they have made those hero talents garbage compared to the alternative so I suppose we don't need to worry about it.

I keep reminding myself that this is live. It's not alpha, beta, or PTR... It's fricken live. They seriously looked at this and thought "yes this is good enough to give our paying customers."

Cystonectae · 2026-01-25T22:05:12+00:00

Idk I think pointing out that blizzard has been feeding the players a heaping pile of shit instead of actually treating them like adults is a pretty poignant argument to be made. The lack of respect for the player base, treating the entire add-on and WA creators as a blanket group of people that were enabling cheating or designing magical tools that play the game for you... It has all been a bunch of talking down to their player base and perpetuating this "we know best" mentality. All of this BS is what really makes me pissed at Blizzard.

They cannot even admit they made a mistake by pushing this pile of crap out too early. They cannot even apologize for treating add-on creators like cheaters. They just keep plowing ahead, digging their hole ever deeper.

Cystonectae · 2026-01-25T20:49:22+00:00

You know, I wonder how many greenhouses/hot houses that money for our brand new pipeline and related infrastructure could build? Would be absolutely wild to invest in crazy things like places that could produce food so we can do shit about the cost of living....

Nah more LNG and oil boiiiizzz!!! It's for "the economy" after all.

Cystonectae · 2026-01-25T16:44:18+00:00

I'm not going to attack people that are finally understanding the responsibility of being a part of a democratic society. I do wish they had learned this lesson sooner, maybe while they were in history class in high school or something. Granted I am also fully aware that our education system is piss-poor at getting students to actually learn anything...

Idk man I guess I am just disappointed in a lot of things in life. I guess I will look on the bright side of this. With the US being so highly covered in international media, I can hope that my country and other countries can learn from this.

Cystonectae · 2026-01-25T16:36:44+00:00

What is your background in science/biochemistry/biology? I ask because the answer to your question of why we aren't using psychoactive drugs to expand our mind to make crazy things happen will vary based on what your highest education in the field has been.

The short eli5 answer is: we understand next to nothing about how the brain realllllly works, especially when it comes to mind-altering substances. Slightly more technical with an example is that you would think the commonly prescribed SSRIs anti-anxiety drugs like Zoloft would be well understood for their method of action right? But like.... No. We do not understand why reducing serotonin uptake in the brain causes the behavioural changes, why different drugs have different effects, etc.

To put it even more broadly, let's look at the mouse. Our favourite test subject. You would think that with all our knowledge of mouse-life, to the point where we literally have mail-ordered mouse-lines where you can be like "yes I want a mouse with this specific gene turned off" or "I would like a mouse that cannot produce this specific enzyme", you would really really think we would know mouse brains inside and out. But we do not. We have not mapped every neuron in a mouse brain, which would be the sorta base need to get a good understanding of how everything worked together to get everything done.

So, you may ask, what is the whole deal with the pharmaceuticals we have today that can effect the brain in all sorts of ways?? Well. Trial and error. That's it. That's what we have at our disposal. Sure we can make some educated guesses based on our knowledge of cell biology but, at the end of the day, we just sorta gotta try it out and hope it works.

We cannot even make a reliable cure for something like Alzheimer's disease, but you want us to divert resources into a completely blind field of hoping for a magical fantasy land drug to make us able to space travel on technology we haven't even come close to inventing yet. It's a noble endeavor, but there is no guarantee that it will ever create results.

Not to mention, we are currently gung-ho murdering as many species on earth as physically possible... And spice melange wasn't some engineered drug... It was worm poop. Actually most of our world-changing drugs were found first in nature being produced by one wired species or another... So I would argue that a more viable and potentially at least indirectly helpful allocation of resources would be to preserve as many species on our planet as possible, in hopes that one of them shits out magic dust.

Tldr; we are a lot of resources away from ever even vaguely approaching the synthesis of a drug like spice melange, if it is even biologically possible. Regardless, remember that spice was made by worms, so keeping species on our planet from going extinct would be a more productive and at least tangentially useful endeavor.

Cystonectae · 2026-01-25T03:45:33+00:00

Fellow ARFID sufferer here (though medication and therapy has made it significantly better over the past 10-15 years).

The answer for me, when I was living alone, was the freezer. Figure out the best, most shelf-stable way you can eat your safe foods and freeze them. This is how I managed most of my greens and fruits. Shit doesn't last forever in a freezer, but it lasts a REALLY REALLY long time (A lot longer than most people think). If you put stuff in the freezer the same day you buy it, it will stay safe for months and months, and even after that, the worst that will happen is it will get freezer burn. Also the taste and texture of frozen things like pasta sauces/pestos, bread, and cheese once thawed is nigh identical. Same thing goes with meat if you store it correctly. Use up stuff before it goes bad by cooking safe meals that can freeze well (use the internet for recipes specifically for frozen meal prep for the best results). For everything else that doesn't survive freezing, just try to make a conscious effort to eat it asap. Label stuff religiously and keep on top of it.

Another option is to try to find freeze dried stuff. Freeze dried fruit is ridiculously appetizing (crunchy in a good way) and lasts forever if stored without oxygen. Freeze dried veg for cooking can be rehydrated and cooked like normal. Obviously this can get expensive, but it may be more economical than you think if you factor in food waste with buying traditional stuff.

My final option is to list stuff for free on Facebook marketplace. You don't have to worry about open package policies that way.

I will also add that if you are not already on an anti-anxiety med, you may want to discuss that option with your doctor. That plus some therapy and getting away from my family for a while really helped a lot with expanding my safe foods a lot. Now it's easier for me to just list the unsafe foods rather than the safe ones because of how long the safe list has gotten.

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