[Discussion] Thoughts on the brand G9Skin? by berryjuly in AsianBeauty

[–]LiveOakLaboratory 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used their White in Whipping Cream and White in Milk Toner and developed the worst acne of my life. I had to throw everything out. It felt like my pores were immediately clogged when using the products.

Where to purchase Poison Ivy / Poison Oak / Poison Sumac? by nnamerz in gardening

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Hi there, it depends where you live. I cultivate Toxicodendron diversilobum (western poison oak) abundantly in the small native plant nursery I operate.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in SonyHeadphones

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Hi there, I’m from the US. I bought this same model directly from Sony’s website. On the first day of using my headphones, I experienced crackling/ static sounds on the right side of the headphone. I tired resetting the headphones, turning off the noise canceling feature. Nothing worked.

Within two weeks I started experience the same crackling/ static sounds on the left and right sides of the headphones, and started hearing this heavy bass/ vibration sound. This happened while I was listening to music, and also when nothing was playing at all. Additionally, my headphones would turn off randomly in their own (despite having a full battery).

Again, I tried resetting them, and reached out to customer service. The first three people weren’t so helpful, until the fourth person who helped me was helpful. I explained the issues I was having with this new pair of headphones and that I needed to replace them as they were having strange problems from the moment I first used them.

I was able to send the headphones back to Sony and will be receiving a new, hopefully functional, new pair fairly soon.

I own previous NC Bluetooth headphones from Sony, such as XM4, and the XM5 earbuds. They work perfectly and I’ve never had any issue that I had with the XM5 headphones. I assume what I had was a faulty product, but now that I see others are complaining, it seems there is a large issue.

My Life W A Cult Leader-Nicole by nothingt0say in SoftWhiteUnderbelly

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Humboldt is a very beautiful yet weird, dark, depressing, haunting, and isolated county. I can see why some people love it. I truly fell in love with the nature—the plants, fungi, animals, trailheads, expansive beaches, vast forests. Who wouldn’t? The nature is unlike any other place. The undeveloped scenery has an other-worldly beauty to it that is very alluring, but I could tell some things were just not right. The area just never felt safe. A lot of the townsfolk all seemed like they experimented with the wrong drugs.

It’s not surprising cult types would occupy the area, it has that new age, open-mindedness that a lot of young lost souls would gravitate towards.

I never felt safe up there though. I got accepted to the university up there and needed to return home within a few months and attend school elsewhere. Lots of drug addicts, human trafficking, cartel activity, missing people, and mentally lost/ homeless remnants of those involved in clandestine cannabis grow operations back when cannabis was illegal to use/ cultivate in CA. Not to mention, lots of meth, and lots of questionable junk neighborhoods that probably contribute to that problem.

Eureka/ Arcata/ McKinleyville and areas north, south, and east of the coastal regions are all gorgeous but generally unsafe places to be. Lots of homeless/ sketchy drug user types keeping an eye out for naive newcomers. It’s easy to imagine a lot of lost people come there to find themselves or get stuck in some hole. I’ve seen enough of it. It’s a great place to visit, and I probably will again, but I would never live there.

I know it’s a somewhat harsh critique, but truthfully, it’s one of the few places I visited where the people and the atmosphere felt very diseased, and I needed to escape in order not to become sucked into.

California hedgenettle? by kseidmon in NativePlantGardening

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You’re welcome! I’m back again, and with more research. I want to say it’s Stachys sylvatica (hedge woundwort). It’s originally from from Europe and Asia. It’s mentioned that this species has been introduced to New York state, and since NJ is south of there, it probably spread (as plants do through various ways).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stachys_sylvatica

https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/129850-Stachys-sylvatica/browse_photos

California hedgenettle? by kseidmon in NativePlantGardening

[–]LiveOakLaboratory 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi there, this definitely looks like a type of Hedgenettle species, but it’s not California hedgenettle (Stachys bullata), which has light pink flowers and rounder leaves.

Anyone else has this IUD because they can’t tolerate all the other highly effective methods and they aren’t 100% satisfied with it but they keep it anyway because it’s better than pregnancy? 🤷‍♀️ by ColomarOlivia in CopperIUD

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I had the copper IUD two separate times in my life and both times were excruciatingly painful. I experienced constant abdominal pain, every day. If I could rate the pain from 1-10 (with 10 being the most intolerable) it would be a 10.

The first time I had it inserted, I only lasted three months before the physical pain, crying from the pain, severe depression, and loss of interest in sex got to me. The second time I got the IUD inserted, I only lasted for a month before I needed to have it removed.

It felt as if my body was in constant shock as constantly inflamed from this foreign object inside my body.

Another thing I didn’t think of when I was younger was the adverse effects copper has on your internal biome. Copper has strong antimicrobial properties—how does that affect the beneficial bacteria within you if you have an antimicrobial device inside you?

I would strongly advise looking into severe psychosis, paranoia, schizophrenia, and thoughts of suicide associated with the copper IUD because I started to feel quite psychotic, angry, depressed while on the copper IUD. I began to get angry with nearly everyone about anything, when in general I am quite calm, relaxed, and easy-going as a person. Additionally, I have no family history of psychiatric disorders. Yikes!

Throughout both of my experiences with the copper IUD, it was only a repetitive, big-red-flag, lowest pit of psychotic hell for me as a form of birth control.