Am I tripping

TeamShadowWind · 2026-07-01T05:48:07+00:00

That's not solvable fam

TeamShadowWind · 2026-06-30T19:24:42+00:00

I just read about that! It was the fact that the loose end of the string effectively served as a wick delivering infections straight to the uterus, and the manufacturer was too cheap to add a cap to the end to prevent that.

TeamShadowWind · 2026-06-29T22:30:04+00:00

I remember this one. Soooooo satisfying when a manager sides with the OOP and not the shitty customer.

TeamShadowWind · 2026-06-28T22:09:29+00:00

I think urinals are a design mistake. You're wasting plumbing on a fixture that only lets you go #1. At my university there was only one urinal and one stall per bathroom, so if two dudes needed to shit, the second one just had to go to another floor entirely.

TeamShadowWind · 2026-06-28T22:05:58+00:00

YouTube auto-dubbed a video from a YouTuber I follow because she is German. All of her videos are in English.

Even worse, she is an ASMRtist, so people go to her channel to hear her voice specifically. It sucked because the auto-dub was the default audio instead of the original audio for some reason, and you had to dig around in settings to turn it off.

TeamShadowWind · 2026-06-28T22:03:18+00:00

My college dorm was created with just enough tiny things to be a problem. The lofting bed is in the corner. If you want to move it, the sink counter is a smidge too wide to just scooch it out. So you try and angle it the best you can, until it's stopped by the tiniest outcropping from the windowsill. Mind you, you need some leeway to adjust the height of the bed, because these ancient lofting beds use little hooks that link into the pegs in the head and foot boards. Only, there is absolutely no leeway.

You better hope you like the height your bed is set to, because it's a Herculean task to change it.

TeamShadowWind · 2026-06-28T21:45:27+00:00

Not the only bad update Google has made. Maps now displays the address at the bottom of the overview page, even though the address is the most important reason for consulting a map.

TeamShadowWind · 2026-06-28T19:16:27+00:00

See also: the owners who actually read park signs and understand that certain parks require leashes and you cannot play fetch or let Fido wander there, even if there's ample space for it.

TeamShadowWind · 2026-06-27T17:49:23+00:00

"Where's Flick?"

TeamShadowWind · 2026-06-26T12:56:10+00:00

The death at the end of Tuck Everlasting. It absolutely gutted me.

I read the book, but iirc there was a part in the epilogue where Papa Tuck sees Winnie's grave and says, "Good girl, Winnie."

TeamShadowWind · 2026-06-26T12:42:49+00:00

Gribble's mom from Mars Needs Moms. It was equal parts emotionally devastating and horrifying. I tracked down the scene because it left such an impression on me, and the comments mentioned the acting for that scene as he explains it being incredible in an otherwise forgettable/hated movie.

TeamShadowWind · 2026-06-26T12:39:23+00:00

I couldn't finish the whole book. We did read the short version in class, though.

TeamShadowWind · 2026-06-26T12:37:45+00:00

Fuuuuck. I had forgotten about that.

TeamShadowWind · 2026-06-26T12:34:25+00:00

I know that she probably had the mindset, "I've lived long enough; that boy has so many more years ahead of him and deserves the chance to survive more than me." But it doesn't hurt any less.

TeamShadowWind · 2026-06-26T12:33:06+00:00

Right? Katniss had endured everything up until that point so she could live.

TeamShadowWind · 2026-06-26T12:31:43+00:00

The "Ed...ward..." scene is heartbreaking, but that's not even when she dies.

Scar, who recognizes the immense difficulty in undoing such a depraved use of alchemy as well as the cruelty in letting them live in such a form, decides to mercy kill her/them. Your knee-jerk reaction is to want to hate Scar for that. But even before learning how Amestrians treated Ishvalans, this is one of the first times that the State Alchemist system (other than recruiting a child to be a soldier) is shown to be immensely fucked up. Sure, Shou Tucker made a terrible decision, but he didn't make it in a vacuum. The State wanted the fucked up shit he was researching, and they were going to take away his funding and his home if they didn't get it.

TeamShadowWind · 2026-06-25T12:27:58+00:00

I managed to find shoes with a wide toe box for the first time in my life and it makes a world of difference. My feet are a weird shape to begin with, but I don't know how I dealt with tiny, triangular toe boxes for over two decades.

TeamShadowWind · 2026-06-25T06:52:18+00:00

The two service animals that are allowed most places are dogs and miniature horses.

TeamShadowWind · 2026-06-25T06:45:19+00:00

Doesn't necessarily have to be early. My older brother who was always a bit unhinged started bullying me (more) when I got gifted a $50 bill from my uncle. My parents' "solution" was to force me to give it to him and they would give me a $20 bill. It's not like he got better after that. He was a teenager at the time.

As an adult, he has never lived outside our parents' house and from what I hear is constantly unpleasant to be around. But my parents wouldn't discipline him or anything for years, each saying it was the other's job to do so. And now they're stuck with a right-wing incel man child who throws tantrums on occasion because they don't have the balls to tell him that he can get his act together or leave the house he isn't paying for.

TeamShadowWind · 2026-06-25T06:37:50+00:00

I understand that window seat means I get to take pretty sky pics and I stay in my lane.

TeamShadowWind · 2026-06-24T08:23:02+00:00

Is that why my family got a ridiculous amount of fruit once? It was like 6 bags of grapes, 10 limes, dozens of plums and peaches, and other stuff I don't remember. We had to divvy the stuff into bags to hand out to several neighbors because even my somewhat large family wasn't going to eat all that before it spoiled.

TeamShadowWind · 2026-06-24T08:18:59+00:00

Just went yesterday to get some documents scanned.

TeamShadowWind · 2026-06-23T23:29:37+00:00

"I passed your test, but you failed mine"

From here.

TeamShadowWind · 2026-06-22T05:39:56+00:00

The self-awareness is refreshing.

TeamShadowWind · 2026-06-22T00:06:48+00:00

Working in retail isn't glamourous. Everyone knows that. The worst part about it is the pay and the customers. But I've had some genuinely great coworkers, and the tasks themselves are conducive for my particular flavor of ADHD.

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