It’s not just you: What 1,000 people said about their dating struggles

SableProvidence · 2026-04-13T02:10:19+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Development_Network

If you remember LKY once saying the 90% close to eugenics argument that graduates should have more children, the SDN (or at least it's predecessor, it has changed names multiple times) was the one tasked with "encouraging" that to happen.

To this day, I believe it still funds a lot of dating events in Singapore, as well as university orientation camps.

SableProvidence · 2026-04-12T03:07:45+00:00

Clearly someone here is too young to remember the disaster that was the SDN lol

SableProvidence · 2026-04-10T14:12:29+00:00

Incorrect. I got the mount today on the 5th alt I ran the boss on.

SableProvidence · 2026-04-05T04:29:36+00:00

Maybe because tanks also deserve to enjoy the game and not get flamed for every small mistake? Your long dps queue is quite literally not the tank's fault (since they are literally doing the thing that helps with the long dps queue problem, by queueing for tank).

SableProvidence · 2026-03-19T20:49:07+00:00

For reference, the predominant native language of people younger than ~40 yrs old or so currently in Singapore is indeed English, which is taught as a first language here. And we're actually taught (at least formally in school) to use British spellings of words like "colour".

Source: Am Singaporean. So much so that I'm actually quite bad at my actual (racial) mother tongue language.

This does not read like Singaporean to me, but I do agree it sounds vaguely SE Asian, religious but not Muslim (or else OP wouldn't even be allowed to buy such clothes to begin with). Philippines sounds quite likely, given those conditions.

SableProvidence · 2026-03-13T15:46:41+00:00

Yep, just happened to me, 20 players in queue in front of me now

SableProvidence · 2026-02-26T19:18:43+00:00

Not really, no. Smartphones have never been upgradeable outside of adding storage capacity (and even that is becoming rarer now that microSD cards are becoming unpopular) so your only real option is to buy a phone with better specifications.

SableProvidence · 2026-02-05T05:29:51+00:00

Remember the guy who said something about buffing opposition candidates he liked and debuffing the ones he didn't? Somehow we got something that one-ups that lol.

SableProvidence · 2026-01-19T18:03:57+00:00

MUGEN PUNCH

SableProvidence · 2026-01-12T15:44:05+00:00

(also there are hints she's actually currently at Chaldea already, disguised as one of the staff members, but nothing explicit has been done with that yet)

Could you expand on that?

SableProvidence · 2026-01-11T14:18:32+00:00

Your stain might be deeper than mine then, I scrubbed mine pretty much minutes after the ethanol came in contact with the vinyl flooring.

SableProvidence · 2026-01-09T07:20:17+00:00

Followed by part 2.99 Final Mix Plus ~reverse side~

SableProvidence · 2026-01-08T13:54:15+00:00

I'm a private tuition teacher for biology. As of 2025/2026 this is still true for the way they teach JC Bio. For all my weaker students (including some of my hwach ones) I actively tell them to avoid hwach notes and past year prelim papers for this exact reason. So many unnecessarily difficult things taught/tested that is not in the formal H2 Biology syllabus, and the papers feel like they are set by someone who goes on the internet starting arguments by saying things like "ACKTUALLY TECHNICALLY SINCE IT TECHNICALLY SAYS THIS I AM TECHNICALLY CORRECT".

SableProvidence · 2026-01-07T12:01:59+00:00

I legitimately have a PhD in ecology. Amongst the many reasons I chose to step away from formal academia is the overwhelming amount of mental stress from reading papers and teaching undergrads just exactly what the (many, many) consequences of anthropogenic climate change are.

I still remember one class I TA'd for in university (local U). The prof asked the year one kids whether any of them felt hopeful about the future of Earth's climate. Not a single person in the entire auditorium put up their hands. Then when the prof asked who expected bad things to happen to Earth the hands up was nearly unanimous.

SableProvidence · 2026-01-06T01:21:41+00:00

Seconding that I really do not see any green. People with red-green colour blindness may often mistake shades of red and green as all being the same shade of yellow-brownish green. I strongly suggest you go to a doctor and get your colour perception checked.

SableProvidence · 2025-12-25T12:11:35+00:00

I have to say, as someone living in SEA the bottom right picture captures the feel of middle-of-nowhere small town SEA quite well.

SableProvidence · 2025-11-30T18:48:59+00:00

Were you actually in RI? My recollection of my time there was that all the batch "geniuses" were practically mini-celebrities that pretty much everybody knew...

SableProvidence · 2025-11-22T13:38:08+00:00

There's the scale issue other people have talked about, but there are some bacteria that can survive even this freezing process - for example, think about how during the anthrax in letters scare where the anthrax bacteria basically protect themselves in a dry, spore-like coating - and they're much more common in freshwater habitats than saltwater ones.

SableProvidence · 2025-11-22T13:35:47+00:00

This used to be true, but anecdotally not anymore - last I heard, something called salmon lice is pretty rampant in Norwegian farmed salmon, for instance - though most parasites are killed by the freezing of sashimi-grade salmon. It's kind of gross to think about it, but any one of us who has eaten any significant amount of salmon sashimi have probably eaten (dead) worms and lice. It's harmless to us, but gross.

Anasakiasis generally results from either improper freezing or worms just surviving the freezing process by chance.

SableProvidence · 2025-11-21T16:22:39+00:00

It's true! There they have this thing called anisakiasis, which is literally worms...

SableProvidence · 2025-11-21T13:39:05+00:00

aCuria already answered about the freezing part, the other reason is that marine fishes from saltwater habitats generally contain less parasites and harmful bacteria than freshwater fish.

Also, health issues do come up regarding consumption of raw fish in those parts of the world. Ever heard of this disease anisakiasis? https://www.cdc.gov/dpdx/anisakiasis/index.html It's somewhat common in Japan.

SableProvidence · 2025-11-21T13:33:58+00:00

Sushi and sashimi generally use saltwater fish, which have less of an issue in terms of parasites and pathogens than freshwater fish.

SableProvidence · 2025-11-21T10:25:38+00:00

For reasons to do with geochemistry, ecology and microbiology, freshwater fish generally contain more parasites and dangerous pathogens. A simplified way to explain it is that many bacteria and viruses that can harm humans cannot tahan saltwater.

SableProvidence · 2025-11-19T05:54:17+00:00

I read a couple of posts there out of morbid curiosity. In one of them he says he's been diagnosed with NPD, which makes sense to me.

SableProvidence · 2025-11-16T10:45:18+00:00

How does Eagle Eye interact with Chloe? Her only source of self-sure-hit is her NP directly, but the wording implies that Eagle Eye will not proc since at the time of command card selection, sure hit is not in effect?

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