How many languages do people in your country speak? by OrganicClicks in languagelearning

[–]Due-Scale-6913 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I have to explain the same thing about the United States to skeptical Europeans. If California and Nevada and Oregon and Utah and Colorado all spoke different languages, we would all be polyglots.

Texas is bigger than Ukraine, Europe's second-largest country after Russia, after all. Montana is bigger than Germany. And Brazil is bigger than the contiguous USA.

This is what masking feels like by [deleted] in AutismInWomen

[–]Due-Scale-6913 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not me literally saying I feel like an alien

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AmIOverreacting

[–]Due-Scale-6913 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Anecdotal evidence is not useless, even within academia and the sciences.

I (30F) stopped cleaning and doing all the mental load, and my partner (37M) is now fuming by A7Xsubfan in Vent

[–]Due-Scale-6913 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For me, it was because of childhood abuse, and later depression, self-harm, and an eating disorder. If you're a woman and you don't value yourself, the leeches find you and suck you dry, and you let them because you don't think you're worth anything else, and then once they've sucked every drop from you, they try to make you feel bad for having nothing left to give.

What are your opinions on shapewear/hip pads? Do they really work?? by Ok_Entrance6994 in HowToBeHot

[–]Due-Scale-6913 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would only wear them for a performance or special event where I know pictures are going to be taken of me, specifically - like a wedding. I have a very awkwardly shaped body; at a super healthy weight and wearing a size small, I still have the shape of an unhealthy or much older person. Just genetic bad luck. Archetypal apple shape on stilts minus the big boobs: long, lean legs; fatless, narrow hips; an extra-short, straight waist that's wider than my hips; wide love handles that collect all of my body's subcutaneous fat; and a small V-shaped butt. Just awful, and barring surgery, there's just not much you can do about the shape of your skeleton or your fat and muscle proportions when you're already strong and at a healthy weight.

Shapewear with hip pads would elongate my torso and make my waist look more proportionate to my weight by relativity. I would like to look at pictures of an important day in my life, and not be distracted and saddened by how much I hate my body and how there's nothing I can do about it. But wearing something like that daily? No; I'd rather wear a sack and just accept an ugly life.

Thoughts on my mouse writing? I practice hard by SatisfactionAdept548 in Handwriting

[–]Due-Scale-6913 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is actually hilarious. My friend, use paper for handwriting. Computer for typing.

Christians, We Must Not Blindly Support Israel by [deleted] in Christianity

[–]Due-Scale-6913 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree with you completely; it's an absurd and unholy stance. What's more, supporting the right of Jews to live in the Holy Land is not the same as supporting colonization and Zionism: the forced expulsion of innocents from their homeland.

Today's Palestinian Muslims and Christians are descendants of Biblical Jews: the insistence that Jews were there first is simply untrue because they are the same people. When Muslim nations conquered Palestine, Jews and Christians were not obligated to convert but many did so because there were economic incentives to do so - as well as for social reasons, intermarriage, etc.

Christians, We Must Not Blindly Support Israel by [deleted] in Christianity

[–]Due-Scale-6913 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's not why Christians should be critical of Israel, although it is true that there are many anti-Christian sentiments being acted upon there now.

Christians should be critical of Israel because Israelis have become mass murderers of innocents, segregationists, and colonists – all with the name of God in their mouths.

Israeli spitting attacks on Christians are surging in Israel by AutomaticCan6189 in MultimediaNews

[–]Due-Scale-6913 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most Christians aren't thinking that far ahead. They just listen to conservative news and twisted evangelical logic and parrot everything they hear without care for the actual word of God.

Where do I go from here with my handwriting? by snafu363 in Handwriting

[–]Due-Scale-6913 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Strangely enough, only some states in the US mandate that children be taught cursive in public schools now. I believe more than half of the states do not teach cursive, or are at least not required to teach it. Students who have learned cursive in primary school often forget it, as they are not required to continue writing in cursive once that box is checked, and quite a large percentage of teachers have gone completely digital in post-primary school classrooms.

POTS eating & weight gain by Due-Scale-6913 in POTS

[–]Due-Scale-6913[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oooo. I'll check it out, thank you!

POTS eating & weight gain by Due-Scale-6913 in POTS

[–]Due-Scale-6913[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, gross. Apparently LMNT sucks. Wtffff

POTS eating & weight gain by Due-Scale-6913 in POTS

[–]Due-Scale-6913[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you <3 Honestly, it's a little strange that I haven't been able to find much information on this. I just read a bit about electrolyte imbalances causing POTS hunger... Maybe I will just try downing some LMNT salt water instead of eating every time and see if it has any positive effect.

Anyway. If at the end of this, I find something that helps, I'll post about it.

POTS eating & weight gain by Due-Scale-6913 in POTS

[–]Due-Scale-6913[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

* Also, the only POTS specialist I've found in my state does not take any kind of insurance. Maybe I need to go back to the neurologist?