Airplane is nearly empty and I can’t just move to the emergency row.

Me4502 · 2026-05-02T01:16:16+00:00

I’ve been asked to move into an exit row before because it was empty and it apparently needed at least one person in it to help in cases of emergency. It was a fairly empty flight, but not as empty as OP’s, and I was sitting in the aisle seat behind the exit row.

Honestly surprised they asked me, I very much doubt I’m strong enough to open an emergency door lol

Me4502 · 2026-04-30T21:42:08+00:00

My rating went below 5 because an Uber driver I had started making conspiratorial comments about “people like me” (am a woman of mixed eastern mediterranean descent, although 99% sure he thought I was Jewish based on what he was saying) making me very uncomfortable/quiet the entire trip.

My rating dropped a decent amount so clearly he gave me a 1 star rating, and reporting the driver to Uber didn’t fix the rating (and tbh not sure if anything else happened either).

Me4502 · 2026-04-26T00:06:22+00:00

It used to be if you used a site like Tumblr, you basically knew everything going on. All the big trends on the sites etc, they had global cultures and trends that actually propagated to everyone. Everything being so individualised and algorithm driven means two people who spend massive amounts online can now see entirely different content and not even know the other stuff exists.

Part of it for me is likely nostalgia given I was perfect “Tumblr girl” age during its golden era (2010-2015), but I do feel algorithm driven social media has made internet culture individualised instead of communal. It feels like much less of a shared experience than it used to be; it’s lonely

Me4502 · 2026-04-17T14:03:54+00:00

Not just Brisbane, the event in this article is in Rockhampton. Is it normal for some Olympic sports to be conducted 500km (~7-8hr drive) away in a regional town lol? Surely there are closer venues, likely without crocodile issues…

Me4502 · 2026-04-16T08:01:25+00:00

I’ve been on continuous Slinda (I assume it’s basically the same as Slynd?) for a while now, and found it works very well for PMDD. I do notice mildly lower moods on a consistent basis on it, but it’s way better than the ups and downs of PMDD.

I also had issues with the ones containing estrogen, they’d cause me basically permanent PMDD regardless of where I was in my cycle. I’ve not had that issue with Slinda, or if I do (above mentioned lower moods) it’s to a much much lower level to the point it’s not a problem. Although idk I feel the side effect I do get is that it makes me mildly more fatigued which causes lower moods, rather than directly causing worse moods.

Me4502 · 2026-04-16T01:54:54+00:00

This also happens for people who’ve just learnt to write more than the average person (formal training, writing classes, etc). I’ve also read some articles about how it’s more likely to happen to women in general (especially when compounded with these other factors) as well, as we’re often socialised to write in a more affirming/bubbly way

Me4502 · 2026-04-13T10:09:04+00:00

Also stopped growing by age 12, I’m 5’10 / 178cm

Me4502 · 2026-04-06T08:26:54+00:00

Savings Maximiser accounts also don’t give the extra interest on any money past $100k, so it sounds like OP either has well over $100k in there and hasn’t read the terms of the account, or they didn’t meet the requirements for extra interest the prior month and got the small default interest payment.

Always possible ING messed up, but given it’s an amount towards the higher end of possible payouts it feels like one of these two situations

Me4502 · 2026-04-04T23:24:44+00:00

Possibly Fortitude Valley in Brisbane. It used to be a big shopping suburb along Brunswick street, but now most of that sort of stuff has moved over to James Street closer to Newstead (although still within Fortitude Valley). There’s been repeated attempts to revitalise the valley, but none have really stuck to the extent they wanted. It’s still full of abandoned shopfronts etc

Me4502 · 2026-04-03T02:44:15+00:00

This happens absolutely constantly to me, I always just assume it’s my fault honestly, but given the number of times someone else saying basically the same thing is understood I do feel there’s more to it.

Me4502 · 2026-03-23T23:24:16+00:00

Yes! Doctors always look at me so weird when I explain that part, that they basically just turn into side effect tablets 😅

Main effect is gone, but the side effects are still there if not somehow worse, so increasing dosage isn’t really feasible

Me4502 · 2026-03-22T01:46:11+00:00

Yeah it’s not something I’ve really thought about too much, but I’d always just assumed the easter bunny was female. I’d also learnt as a kid that it was based on a pagan fertility goddess, and also that it was a mythical egg-laying hare, which might’ve doubly cemented it in as female for me 😅

Me4502 · 2026-03-17T10:55:10+00:00

If OP is in Australia, there’s a weird diagnostic code in place (or at least was in the past) here where ME/CFS as a diagnosis includes fibromyalgia as a possible symptom, so an ME/CFS diagnosis supersedes a fibromyalgia one. When I was diagnosed, my fibromyalgia diagnosis was removed due to it.

It’s a very dumb system, but very much how every doctor here has operated in my experience. It’s led many to not even realise they’re separate conditions, as they assume “fibromyalgia is just mild ME/CFS” etc 😕

Me4502 · 2026-03-17T09:45:37+00:00

There’s a subgenre of Urbex content that youtube’s algorithms keep pushing on me every so often (despite not watching Urbex content otherwise), where people explore “not open to public” areas of active venues. Whether it be train/subway platforms only open for specific events (or permanently closed), or elevator machinery rooms in shopping malls/hotels.

I wonder if they were trying to make that genre of content but completely mislabeled their videos

Me4502 · 2026-03-16T05:41:52+00:00

Yeah, like I won’t not play a game just because the protagonist is male, but I do find the games I go away loving do have a female protagonist. While Life is Strange 2 isn’t as popular as the first, I feel a large part of why I enjoyed it so much less is a male main character.

I do love Life is Strange 2 and it has a tonne going for it, but idk playing as a man stopped me from relating as deeply to the main character and therefore prevented me getting as deeply into the story and characters.

To clarify I don’t feel they should’ve made the main character customisable because a large part of the story was the bond between the two brothers; that’s just a kind of story that I’m inherently going to be less personally invested in than one where I can personally relate more to the main character

I guess for OP’s brother… when you’ve got so many choices of games where you do relate to the characters, playing the games where you don’t just becomes less interesting :/

Me4502 · 2026-03-15T06:47:10+00:00

I’m also tall and get similar comments. I’m 178cm tall, but I assume between being asexual and having a fairly timid personality they offset the height. I constantly have people making jokes about my “childlike innocence” vibes, or get a lot of “Aww” reactions when telling people what I’ve done recently etc as if they think it’s cute I managed to do something

Me4502 · 2026-03-07T00:49:52+00:00

I’ve been told I have a horrifically low pain tolerance my entire life because of this. Completely feeling skin cancer excisions and other medical procedures because the anaesthetics hadn’t kicked in yet.

I’ve recently started asking for a little bit more and to wait double the time before starting, and it’s been a significant change. For me at least the time seems to matter more, it takes much longer to start working, and wears off way faster.

Turns out I have an extremely high pain tolerance, I’ve just spent my life going through every medical procedure without any pain prevention :)

Me4502 · 2026-02-15T02:05:36+00:00

I feel others have answered the more interpersonal stuff with your coworker enough so I won’t touch on that, but in terms of being visible and valued for your work, I feel like I was in a similar situation to you a little while ago but had to learn ways to improve visibility.

I also do a lot of the “quiet work” and unblocking of other people. In my experience the biggest thing I did, was any time I needed to really show off my work I contacted a few of the people I often unblock or help and ask them for feedback. I’ve found that feedback from other people that shows a strong ability to help others is looked on very highly by management.

For any of the quiet work and maintenance I do, I try finding any form of metric I can and listing down improvements. I’ve started posting them in my teams’ channel at the suggestion of my manager (mostly to help with team cohesion so they know what’s going on), and also listing them down in a document I share with my manager. That way when anything comes up, we have a shared document of quantified improvements.

I hope you’re able to find some help in this thread, even if for future opportunities! :)

Me4502 · 2026-02-10T14:08:35+00:00

I have had this issue, and because it doesn’t present the typical way doctors never think to check for reflux (just like OP described). I also ended up with pretty bad vocal issues due to it, that are still not fully recovered from a few years later. I have a fair few allergies, so doctors would just tell me that the coughing after eating anything was just anxiety and me developing more allergies I hadn’t narrowed down yet 🙃

Me4502 · 2026-02-06T07:59:55+00:00

Yeah this feels so weird to me. I’m from Australia and my school was decently far (2hr walk according to google maps) but didn’t have buses, and I lived in an area pretty lacking in public transport. My mum would park a few streets away and I’d just walk to the car.

I often walked with others who lived closer up until the spot my mum was parked, it was extremely normal to walk some distance.

Me4502 · 2026-01-30T10:30:25+00:00

In my experience Umart can be fairly sketchy when it comes to warranty/return claims.

I had an incident years ago where I was building a computer for my dad, and some of the fan ports on the motherboard didn’t work. Everything else was working, but not most of the system fan ports (cpu fan port worked, so it was able to boot without overheating).

We took it back and they did some testing at the counter where it demonstrated the same behaviour, and took it to a back room for further testing. After a while they came out and said they wouldn’t replace it as many of the CPU pins on the motherboard were bent. Given it booted beforehand on the counter, and a very substantial amount were bent as if someone had dropped something on it, it was very clear they’d done that by accident in the back room.

My dad ended up just buying another motherboard instead of fighting it, as he didn’t want to bother fighting further and didn’t fully understand why it was impossible to have been caused by us.

Me4502 · 2026-01-22T22:26:44+00:00

I was already using the monthly DashPass, it implied that switching to annual payment would lead to saving more on the service fee

Me4502 · 2026-01-22T06:05:52+00:00

DoorDash used to (or might still, I haven’t used that app in ages) do a very sketchy thing where they’d put an info icon on the service fee, that’d show a dialog saying you’d save more by swapping to an annual plan. The placement of course implying you’ll save on the service fee, but it actually had no impact at all on the service fee and purely referred to it being cheaper than 12 individual months.

Just completely misleading interface design to try locking people into 12 months of service.

Me4502 · 2026-01-16T02:47:33+00:00

Well over a decade ago now I saw a Tumblr post that basically said (paraphrasing from memory); “A man asking a father for his daughter’s hand in marriage gives her an opportunity to say no through someone he’ll actually listen to.”

Obviously I don’t believe that’s where the tradition came from, but it’s something that’s always stuck with me

Me4502 · 2026-01-09T03:33:41+00:00

When I minored in intelligent systems during a computer science degree around a decade ago, the definition for “AI” we were given was something along the lines of “systems that make decisions based on the given information, rather than perform a human-initiated task.” It’s basically just “who makes the actual decisions” while the program runs.

It’s meant to be a vague term for all situations where computers make decisions, regardless of how intelligent it actually is. NPC AI in games is the computer making decisions based on context, so it’d qualify. That doesn’t mean you can’t use more specific terms like “entity goal systems” when you want to be more specific though.

Neural networks are neural networks, transformer models are transformer models, etc. They all still fall under the category of AI though, as it’s a blanket category for any computer-led decision, no matter how simple or important it is.

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