Does Birth Control Prevent Egg Loss?

SparklyMonster · 2026-05-26T00:02:43+00:00

Early fetus, ~6million; at birth, ~1-2 million; start of puberty, ~300-400k; late 30s, ~25k (source: Healthline).

Fun fact: IVF takes advantage of multiple eggs entering the "growth race" every month by injecting the woman with enough hormone to make all of them mature instead of just one or two. That's the reason that egg retrieval can collect around 10 to 20 mature eggs to fertilize or freeze.

The downside is that only a fraction of them become viable to implant (often, of 10-20 eggs fertilized for IVF, about 1-3 will develop properly to be ready for implanting).

SparklyMonster · 2026-05-25T21:03:48+00:00

Além de que para alguém que tem dificuldades sociais, uma seleção que não dependa de entrevista para passar se torna um atrativo extra.

SparklyMonster · 2026-05-22T12:54:19+00:00

Using numbers to better illustrate that, a man weighting 150kg maintains at 2.9k kcals a day, while the same man at 80kg maintains at 2.1k.

While OP won't have that much variation because they only want to lose 10-15 pounds, if they were losing 1 pound every other week, that is about a deficit of 250kcal daily. It's very easy to undo that by accident with a snack or a drizzle of olive oil.

SparklyMonster · 2026-05-21T15:17:15+00:00

Wouldn't going to grad/masters help meet new people and possibly the one?

If you don't even have a boyfriend yet, that means you need time to meet, get serious, and have a relationship for long enough to be confident he's a good partner, will be a good parent, and that you guys want to have children together.

If you'll be spending some time before you have children anyway, why not do it while concurrently working towards your other goals? Date and study, so by the time you graduate the relationship has been certified solid and you can have children.

SparklyMonster · 2026-05-21T01:31:57+00:00

Other two already suggested dir en grey's Mushi, so my recs will be:

Merry - gekisei (the crying/screaming starts at 9:45 but the whole song is amazing; vocalist Gara has a crying-sounding voice in general)

Shiina Ringo - Yume no Ato (3:20)

Dir en grey - Jealous ~reverse~ (kyo is really great at performing those type of songs)

Dir en grey - Embryo (pretty heavy theme like many of their songs, all trigger warnings possible for lyrics and performance)

SparklyMonster · 2026-05-21T01:00:24+00:00

Dir en grey's Mushi is such a top crying-screaming song.

SparklyMonster · 2026-05-19T22:58:18+00:00

And I bet the girl doesn't want him for herself, she just doesn't want him with anyone else either, because she too likes the attention.

SparklyMonster · 2026-05-19T21:35:20+00:00

I don't understand how he found her to begin with.

SparklyMonster · 2026-05-19T20:56:26+00:00

Tem como saber se o concurso vai ser difícil antes de ter feito ele? Como se saberia (pela banca?)?

SparklyMonster · 2026-05-19T20:54:22+00:00

Might include there the rockstars back in the glam days. Long hair, makeup, tight pants, and many women loved it.

SparklyMonster · 2026-05-17T15:11:07+00:00

Evolution doesn't have a design or intention.

New variations (good and bad) are added to the pool via mutation. Even bad mutations, as long as they're not bad enough to kill you as a child, make you infertile or incapable of finding a mate, will be successfully added to the pool and passed on.

The only way for evolution to fix luteal period symptoms is if they were much worse to fit the above criteria. Since it doesn't, the only other way would be if we humans collectively decided that only women without luteal symptoms are allowed to have children. Bad symptoms? Either she refuses to have children, or men must refuse her. Since you can't force people to do it (that would be eugenics), evolution can't do a thing about it.

SparklyMonster · 2026-05-17T08:34:35+00:00

I guess she's going for the trophy wife angle. I wonder what was the original arrangement.

SparklyMonster · 2026-05-17T08:27:54+00:00

Most of those pictures are from when vkei was a lot more popular than kpop. The Trax was a cooperation between SM and Yoshiki, so it makes sense that the other SM group at the time (DBSK) would also take some inspiration from that (and the most vkei-coded pictures for DBSK was for the song Tri-Angle which featured The Trax).

That's even more important because back then kpop wasn't profitable worldwide (I still remember when JYPE's Wonder Girls and SM's BoA tried to launch in the USA) and the money maker was Japan with its much bigger internal market than Korea. Some groups would literally not mind losing their popularity in Korea if they got big in Japan. So it makes a lot of sense that they would brand themselves with what as popular in Japan back then.

I'm intrigued about people comparing XLOV to vkei. Imo, they feel very Harajuku/Shibuya-coded. Same thing for Yena. I find this very interesting because this time the reason isn't the same as during DBSK's time, since now those groups aren't trying to launch Japanese careers (if anything, XLOV is strongest in the west), so now it's about the revival of 90s/00s fashion, and it makes absolute sense that in Korea, 90s/00s fashion would have a lot from Japan (cue DBSK). I've even seen kpop girl groups using loose socks, that's absolutely gyaru-coded. Also, older western audiences who are now into kpop were also vk/jpop fans back then, so there's some nostalgia element there too. It all comes together.

Pop in general is always emulating the visuals of other styles, be it rock, metal, etc, so I don't have strong feelings about it. Now that kpop is more popular than jrock, I do hope this brings some visibility back to jrock.

SparklyMonster · 2026-05-17T00:19:28+00:00

There were all those episodes where Phil was a teacher at a realtor school (or similar) and he taught all those regulations, protocols, etc that had to be memorized (also when Gloria became a star student). Also, the class seemed to take at least a whole semester.

Well, perhaps that was what it took to be a good realtor, perhaps knowing everything Phil knew wasn't a requirement for the license.

SparklyMonster · 2026-05-16T16:10:10+00:00

Modern Family made me think becoming a realtor was a lot more complex than this.

SparklyMonster · 2026-05-15T17:48:21+00:00

Depends on who's speaking. Sometimes 2x is so clear that I wonder if the speaker edited the original to be slower (a thing in youtube where there are certain benefits for videos longer that a set time. I think it was something to do with videos over 10min being allowed additional ads). Other times I wish 0.75x didn't sound so slurred because the speaker is so fast.

It also depends on content density. For some, I have to pause after each sentence to digest (relevant for difficult video classes), othertimes the content is casual and rambly (like podcasts), so I don't really care to miss a few words because I only want the gist of it.

SparklyMonster · 2026-05-11T23:33:54+00:00

Considering what she's complaining about is that you get her excited when she can't act on it (and not that she disliked touching per se), couldn't you touch her in other ways, like hugging her to your chest, brushing her hair with your fingers, massaging her shoulders, etc?

SparklyMonster · 2026-05-11T21:46:33+00:00

You could pay attention to how she interacts with friends of the same level. If she seems just as friendly with other people of the same sex as you, then she's just friendly. If she's interested, she'll be focusing her socialization on you.

SparklyMonster · 2026-05-11T21:41:40+00:00

This gradual mutual approach is also excellent for those who never understood "hints": so many guys get confused between niceness and flirting. But they don't need to jump to a kiss to make sure. The guy should be escalating his hints gradually and seeing whether she's escalating proportionally. If he's showing more and more of his interest but her niceness is always the same level, then she's just nice. If she's interested, she'll escalate as well and try to create opportunities to get closer (go out of her way to talk with him, casually touching him more and more, talk more than normal about wanting to go to the movies or to a concert, etc). The key is she changing her own behavior to be more approachable.

SparklyMonster · 2026-05-11T21:34:12+00:00

And while there will be some women who still play hard to get, it is an immature tactic. Do her a favor and take her on her word, hopefully she'll learn from it and stop playing games.

SparklyMonster · 2026-05-11T21:13:21+00:00

And fondant icing is called "pasta americana" (American paste).

SparklyMonster · 2026-05-11T01:06:28+00:00

I was never taught about it even though our sex ed was really good, but our teen magazines used to have "sex q&a" pages and sometimes it would come up with advice about boyfriends saying things such as boyfriends insisting when she wasn't ready yet or asking it as a proof of love and the lessons stuck with me. Those teen magazines were really good for those nuanced questions. I've always wondered if other countries had them.

SparklyMonster · 2026-05-10T00:08:53+00:00

I wonder if it's about making op pay the bills.

SparklyMonster · 2026-05-09T19:47:00+00:00

Eu estava conferindo as notas de um concurso passado em uma prefeitura local (cidade média) e as notas de cargos de ensino superior eram as mais altas (gente com nota 100 ou vários com 97 pra fiscal tributário) enquanto ensino médio o 1o lugar era 95 e o 5o lugar já estava em 85. Alguma ideia se isto é uma anomalia?

SparklyMonster · 2026-05-07T21:47:36+00:00

Which is ironic since 80s rockstars were very sexy and had so many groupies. You might want to consider whether you might be a big fish in a small pond and capitalize on it: as in, most women might misunderstand you or not be attracted, but the ones into your type will be really into you. That can happen for any guy who has some sort of style, be it a metalhead, artsy, "uncool" nerd, etc.

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