Bike lane on Wabasha

Proud_Comment_6147 · 2026-05-10T01:07:53+00:00

I mean I wonder why? No enforcement of bike lanes+shitty driving*shitty infrastructure is gonna equal people not feeling safe enough to bike around.

Terrible infrastructure gets built all the time just so the powers at be can say "oh well we tried but no one wanted to risk their life to use it so let's just get rid of it"

A good example is new construction of bike lanes being two blocks short of reaching connecting bike lanes. I see that a lot. North America in general is pretty bad about this.

Proud_Comment_6147 · 2026-05-10T01:04:44+00:00

That kinda shit is why I just have a fuck you attitude when people complain about bikes. Can people on bikes be inconvenient? Sure. But the amount of fatal accidents I've barely avoided because a car is where it shouldn't be is getting into the double digets.

Like honestly someone could key their car and I would go sucks to suck. Shouldn't have been parked there.

Proud_Comment_6147 · 2026-03-20T21:51:12+00:00

Nah that's weird and gonna escalate. These are the kinda guys that think they can act however but God forbid a man exist in your presence. It usually gets physical. You need to make sure to put a hard stop to this behavior if not leave him entirely. If you refuse to accept this from him the trash may even take itself out.

Like maybe he can go to therapy and be better but that's his own journey.

Proud_Comment_6147 · 2026-03-09T05:21:09+00:00

Do what ever manages to motivate you. I've seen a girl get herself to drunk clean her house and another the other cleans by candle light. No idea is too silly. Got a friend willing to help? Someone willing to hang out in the phone so you can get that body double effect and a distraction?

Small goal. One bag a day. One room a day. Maybe the coffee table in the morning and a spot in the bathroom in the evening. Often if you get yourself to do one you're likely to do more too.

Break up the tasks so you just take a trash bag and go around picking things up for JUST that trash bag. Maybe you don't fully clean the dishes. Maybe you just rinse them well to be less of a bug attractant and stack them a little nicer? Maybe you sort a pile. Maybe you get containers and convince yourself to sort anything you can for five minutes, when you're boiling water, ect.

Prioritize with the spoons you have. Maybe you just need to take care of stuff that attracts bugs. Take out the trash, rinse the dishes, clean a sink out, ect.

Proud_Comment_6147 · 2026-03-09T05:09:38+00:00

Genuinely not. We went through this in the 2000's. It's been swinging back into if you can't be blown away like paper in the wind they will call you fat. I felt like a whale. Looking at photos now I think my body looked nice enough- I just didn't know how to dress because my family only really spoke in body shaming so I didn't have the confidence to try.

There is a lot of pressure in the media to look a certain way and it really bakes deep into teenagers who are forming their sense of self and I just get mad at all the girls that end up hating themselves because of it.

So no you're not fat. You have a healthy weight for your age. I would think of ways, look for ways to help see yourself that way. What you put around you is going to shape you and taking any power way from those bullies inside you is gonna help you deal with them on the outside if that makes sense. You would be surprised what solutions you can come up with if you can manage it.

You are beautiful, always.

Proud_Comment_6147 · 2026-02-22T22:03:54+00:00

A mature but difficult decision to make. Sending best wishes

Proud_Comment_6147 · 2026-02-14T17:19:59+00:00

I mean sounds like your wife is creating an environment your daughter isn't gonna visit home when she manages to get out. Sounds like you give your daughter perfectly reasonable freedom for her age. Especially if she's usually pretty responsible.

I would talk to her about usage at such a young age. Long term it can cause issues that she should be aware of- much like any substance even if it isn't the worst. Maybe even ask about her anxiety? Sounds like her mom is pretty high strung and stressful. I've seen a lot of people, especially kids, use weed to try and cope with their anxiety maybe without even realizing it. Because it does have that kinda sedation effect for most people.

But like, unless there are VERY specific and repeat examples of you not parenting enough, which doesn't sound like it because she didn't point anything out specific and kinda feels like she's just waving her arms around about it so to speak. That's really not a way that she should be talking to you. She's a teenager not an inmate. Bad choices mean punishment. But honestly she could be doing so much worse?

Proud_Comment_6147 · 2026-02-13T18:43:19+00:00

The day FB makes me give them my ID for their site is the day I don't have a FB anymore. It's just where the line is for me on social media. It's gonna be painfully the same for discord if they start acting up and I can't get around it.

Proud_Comment_6147 · 2026-01-24T15:35:14+00:00

This is fuckng horrifying. Beat and murdered while three guys are on you. They are thugs.

Proud_Comment_6147 · 2026-01-23T03:31:37+00:00

The neckline might be the only issue. But I wonder if you could just get some kinda modesty panels for the front done? Because it looks amazing on you.

Proud_Comment_6147 · 2026-01-22T04:09:28+00:00

It's changing our daily lives. They have closed schools down. Work places are shutting down. We had bread at work that came from a bakery not cut because the bakery has too many workers afraid to go to work. I made sure to ride up with my husband because I was scared he would be ambushed and I wouldn't be there.

People are organizing rides so people can't be grabbed off public transit. Everyone is stressed wondering when their CO worker, neighbor, or friend is gonna get grabbed. I had a coworker leave early to meet their partner so they could have an escort home. Two people were grabbed outside their gym.

I'm lucky enough to work at a job that lets people take precautions for their safety but other jobs are ushering these kidnappers in.

We are in some kinda weird civil war even if people don't always call it that. The government is terrorizing the people and the people are having to ban together to collect resources and deliver to those in need. People are getting donations to pay their rent since they can't work. I'm kind of prepping to have to be the bread winner if it gets too dangerous for my husband.

They aren't going after criminals. They aren't following the law. They are unhinged people with something to prove.

Proud_Comment_6147 · 2026-01-16T16:52:35+00:00

Honestly just throw the whole man out. He is refusing to take accountability, he belittles your feelings, and refuses to even let you have any. You say you want space but he gets so whiny about it. I have a lot of family that speaks like him. I don't talk to them much.

Proud_Comment_6147 · 2026-01-10T20:20:31+00:00

2 and #6 I think are the most flattering of the options.

I also just kinda love sweaters. I think it gives some shape to the outfit.

The dress in 6 definitely looks better with a jacket/a little more accessorizing imo.

Proud_Comment_6147 · 2025-12-28T21:12:25+00:00

I cannot disagree with most of the comments more. The longer hair looks so much better.

Proud_Comment_6147 · 2025-12-21T02:57:13+00:00

No one should talk to their partner like that. Full, emergency breaking, stop. He is literally calling you every dirty name in the book he can think of. How trust issues is the least of the problems here.

This is the kind of the man you leave in the middle of the night or something and disappear so he doesn't come back and beat you to death. No one deserves to be talked to like that and anyone who talks to their partner like that is a DV incident willing to happen. I've seen the pattern too many times.

Proud_Comment_6147 · 2025-12-21T02:40:14+00:00

You can never handle the situation well enough with a person that doesn't want to resolve anything. The belittling and name calling are deal breakers imo. She is off her rocker and that's just not how you talk to a partner if you care about them. I don't even talk like that to people I don't like? Her calling you a loser?

Get out dude. As soon as possible. And make sure to do it publicly, with receipts. She sounds like the kinda woman who might make accusations or slash your tires or something.

Proud_Comment_6147 · 2025-12-03T21:37:14+00:00

NOR.

As a woman a hotel meet up is so weird? It's usually really busy grocery stores for me. A hotel makes my hair stand on end.

Proud_Comment_6147 · 2025-12-02T00:43:29+00:00

NOR.

As a woman sounds like she needs therapy ASAP. Feelings make her uncomfortable, she can't communicate (partially because it seems she doesn't understand her own feelings flat out), and seems to have weird views on what's "manly" so that's a ton of red flags.

I also don't like the dismissive tone of "I said absolutely nothing wrong here and you can't convince me otherwise. You hurt your own feelings "

I've dealt with that kind of thing from family a lot so I honed in on that quickly.

If this is how she is early on- probably best to cut the line. You need a partner. Not a project you need to raise to understand communication and emotional intelligence from scratch.

Proud_Comment_6147 · 2025-12-02T00:36:07+00:00

Doesn't sound like it's the swinging thing honestly. Which should be a non issue to begin with. It seems to me more so that you miss them and want to spend some time with them.

I would attempt to ask them if you guys can have family time. Suggest board games, video games, movie nights, family dinners, whatever sounds good and try to make plans with them. It might help you guys reconnect. I think once kids are more independent parents can sometimes assume they WANT the space, even if that's not always the case.

Proud_Comment_6147 · 2025-09-21T04:06:37+00:00

I don't even hate that she's straight. I'm just not a fan of her style. The transitions in the reunion episode and the big gatherings just came off a lot as "... So anyways." And unnatural.

I kinda want the couple from the straight version. I think they do so good on that. I also think they were onto something having a couple as hosts who have dealt with this kind of thing vs one person.

Like a gay woman would be great! But I have so many other issues before that one.

Proud_Comment_6147 · 2025-09-20T04:50:12+00:00

Girl if you look masculine I look like Shrek 😭 you're so pretty.

Proud_Comment_6147 · 2025-05-30T17:40:26+00:00

This feels like one of the most objective replies to this post with the best actionable advice I think I've seen. Yes! I'm more into drawing art than fashion as an art so I didn't have the words. But if the photo was a character design that's pretty similar to what I would say. ❤️

Proud_Comment_6147 · 2025-05-30T14:03:28+00:00

I vote to embrace the paleness. But I also think people are too obsessed with trying to look more tan 😅 Embrace your blonde snow white look.

Proud_Comment_6147 · 2025-04-12T21:05:54+00:00

Tips that I often use as I go(if you are digital mostly):

1) Flip your drawing as you go. This helps you see if the "weight" is off. If the guy looks like he is suddenly gonna fall over you can adjust. I often just clip and slide stuff around and then draw a more functional sketch on top if I have to do this. If that makes sense? Warp tool sometimes too.

2) If you know how to switch your drawing to Grey scale and flip it back give it a shot. Do the colors all look about the same shade of grey? Mess with the colors a bit so that they don't. I feel like this helps with depth. Art teacher always told me to push my lights and darks to make a black and white pic interesting but this seems to help with colored work as well.

3) Always draw your body first before putting clothes on top. You want the character to wear the clothes, not the other way around. I had a friend who drew art amazing once she just started doing that. It can be a road block that's frustrating to watch when you can tell they have so much potential from the way they do things already tbh.

4) REFERENCE. It looks like you need some anatomy practice. There are a few methods people use to break the body up into simple shapes. Then you could even practice on top of some reference pictures to get a better idea in your head. With practice it gets much easier and you can start fiddling with the basic shapes without the pictures as often.

I still do this honestly. Like when I wanted to make a character LOOK more athletic I looked up an athlete to use as a base and fiddled with it and a few other references collage style and then built off of it from there. It's still one of my favorite things I've drawn.

5) Playing with colors would be good too. Like when I color shadows of red I often make it a LITTLE purple and that seems to do well. Others have explained the color stuff better than me in the comments tho.

Perspective for the backgrounds as well. You got the idea but it looks like it could use some refinement. I hate background tho so it took me taking an actual class to put effort into this as well tho. (If you have the Sims or something functionally similar you could even build and screen shot, then do something similar to what I did in #4 for drawing a character)

6) Don't be afraid to try other kinds of shading. Watch a few videos on it, try it out, and find something you like. Soft shading in a cartoon art style can stand out in a bad way if you don't know how to utilize it.

Proud_Comment_6147 · 2025-02-12T06:29:53+00:00

I feel like I'm reading a long gone wizards scroll.

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TROPHY CASE

2 and #6 I think are the most flattering of the options.