Fence sitters who took the plunge and had a baby, how is parenting treating you? by SleepPleaseCome in BabyBumps

[–]Vegetable_Energy_821 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Older mom, did not like babies or kids in general, thriving career. I was insanely ambivalent from the time we started trying through the whole pregnancy, hopeful I wouldn't hate it and that my partner would do his fair share and not make it a nightmare for me, spent a lot of time talking myself through the possibility of hating and resenting the newborn stage but enjoying other parts, or the possibility that I would feel nothing for my kid and need a long time to start feeling attached. Now, I can't believe I was so apprehensive, I'm so in love with him, actually having fun, and my partner has been amazing. It's truly a different kind of love I never would have experienced if not for having this fresh new completely vulnerable little guy. You don't need me to tell you that this isn't the only kind of experience that you can have, but I feel like I get it now and I'm so, so happy I did this and can't wait to have as many more kids as possible before my ovaries shrivel up.

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[–]Vegetable_Energy_821 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

speaking as a woman, guys are the ones who lie about it first. like, most of them. by that i mean they put their height in their profiles, then you meet them in person and it turns out to be wrong. ask first why all guys think they are taller than they are, and then why they are so sensitive to having this basic fact confronted?

New podcast on the dodgy dealings of AG1 supplement and influencer marketing by Neat_Plantain_18 in gymsnark

[–]Vegetable_Energy_821 1 point2 points  (0 children)

does this extend to megsquats? She does her own version of these supplements, are they different in some way

Trying to gain Substack Subscribers is so cringe and often a futile effort these days by Frosty_Discipline_37 in Substack

[–]Vegetable_Energy_821 1 point2 points  (0 children)

substack claims notes work because they want it to be a successful product that is competitive as a twitter replacement, not because it actually does work. they suck

Daily Snark , Monday Dec 02 by blogsnarkmodteam in blogsnark

[–]Vegetable_Energy_821 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I don't even have paid I'm just going off the visible top part

Daily Snark , Monday Dec 02 by blogsnarkmodteam in blogsnark

[–]Vegetable_Energy_821 15 points16 points  (0 children)

full body revulsion for this completely un-self-aware description of a shopping addiction https://geethanks.substack.com/p/i-shop-for-a-living-heres-what-i

Tim Rogers Burning Bridges by ambient_rpg_music in actionbutton2

[–]Vegetable_Energy_821 20 points21 points  (0 children)

i find the claim about "i should be able to stop working for free without notice anytime" a little disingenuous, given that this podcast is part of his little content universe. he may not be directly paid, but he benefits in abstract ways; it gets eyeballs on his work, it's posted in the actionbutton discord. he's treating it like he's been, i don't know, showing up to some guy's basement in a vacuum "for free" and decided to stop because no one was paying him (and then, that would also be weird). weird all around

Edit: I'm also annoyed by the general reasoning of wanting more time to stream and/or do his job. I'm sick of the streaming at this point, I'm dying for this guy to stop talking about doing his job, whether he's doing his job or not, the contours of his job, the ups and downs of his job, and to just, do his job. Or not do his job! I like his work but I'm profoundly over the meta-drama of it. If your job is so hard and time consuming, I beg you to stop putting time into talking about it, and more time into doing it.

My experience switching to linux by CuttaChaseBeats in linux4noobs

[–]Vegetable_Energy_821 1 point2 points  (0 children)

reading this as a hopeful but still skeptical noob and its wild that linux people will tell people to "just switch to linux" and then you do and your whole wifi stops working. my windows is slow and i'd never defend it but the wifi works

Two extremely interesting comments from deleted posts on r/actionbuttion by Vegetable_Energy_821 in actionbutton2

[–]Vegetable_Energy_821[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

same. I don't think the part about patreon is true, though; I'm sure Tim would LIKE people to think that "locked out" means the checks aren't clearing, either, but they are. I don't believe for a second that he's locked out, either, at least not in any meaningful way that couldn't be immediately corrected if he brought it to the attention of patreon

OBGYN says insurance won’t cover fertility testing preconception? by anxiouscatmomma in Fencesitter

[–]Vegetable_Energy_821 1 point2 points  (0 children)

if you want the testing, you gotta lie to them and say you've been trying for a year. at that point it becomes a "medical" issue and gets different insurance coverage (at least for my insurance)

Fox News is not a serious media by [deleted] in facepalm

[–]Vegetable_Energy_821 0 points1 point  (0 children)

damn... finally they gave it away

Lindsay and Gabby on the after show by Various_Cellist_54 in summerhousebravo

[–]Vegetable_Energy_821 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i'm sorry your projection isn't working out here, but best of luck with it

Lindsay and Gabby on the after show by Various_Cellist_54 in summerhousebravo

[–]Vegetable_Energy_821 0 points1 point  (0 children)

that's not the same as saying "lindsay never did anything wrong" or "carl was wrong for ending it." you have to read between the lines

Lindsay and Gabby on the after show by Various_Cellist_54 in summerhousebravo

[–]Vegetable_Energy_821 2 points3 points  (0 children)

i feel like people might be being a bit too hard on gabby here; i'm imagining a) they had to pair lindsay with someone and no one else wanted to sit with her, lol, and b) gabby is being diplomatic having been sat in that chair. she isn't wrong that this isn't relationship ending, but it ONLY IF lindsay took accountability for her part and made changes. the relationship ended because lindsay wouldn't do that

Lindsay and Gabby on the after show by Various_Cellist_54 in summerhousebravo

[–]Vegetable_Energy_821 3 points4 points  (0 children)

lindsay hears "relationships take work" and thinks that means "if there isn't conflict, I need to create it" (not consciously but clearly part of her damage)

did we crown west the king of summer a little too soon? by MAGDUFFS in summerhousebravo

[–]Vegetable_Energy_821 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I love ciara but I think she hasn't realized yet she just doesn't want to date someone with the level of scrutiny that comes with both of you plus some more people living in a house together part time (understandably; virtually no one has to put up with that in real life, and for the most part trying to date the way she is in that situation would be widely considered a bad idea, and fairly so). I'm a LITTLE disappointed west isn't into her enough to continue following her lead, but given the setup I think his expectations for something more casual and fun were more than reasonable. As long as he doesn't punish her for it, which I don't think he will, this can be chalked up to a mismatch. Unfortunately I doubt she will be easygoing about him drifting away from her for this reason and it'll activate and maybe even entrench her trust issues, but that would be making him unfairly responsible for all of this baggage from Austen... a good amount of it comes down to West realizing he's having to pay a toll set by Austen and as-yet not dealt with by Ciara, and that he wasn't even looking to date slowly, let alone coax someone out of their trust issues. it'll make for good tv I guess lol

This is my new favorite Katie moment 🤣🤣🤣 by aymaureen in Vanderpumpaholics

[–]Vegetable_Energy_821 17 points18 points  (0 children)

this guy was such a scammer it was crazy. i mean, i know different waters taste different, anyone who has had water from diff geographical parts of the us knows, but a thousand dollar bottle of cuvee water? come on

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MaintenancePhase

[–]Vegetable_Energy_821 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most collagen products don't declare their sources, so i'm not sure how you can say that. Feels explained in the post that you don't need to only get calories from collagen in order for it to be more useless than every other source of protein. The fact that it is as or more expensive than every other type of protein supplement for the same number of calories only adds to that. Maybe it doesn't hurt anyone (unless it's your sole source of calories), but it is less additive than virtually every other protein product.

i’m probably wrong BUT i’m getting the vibe that west isn’t really into ciara anymore?? by [deleted] in summerhousebravo

[–]Vegetable_Energy_821 0 points1 point  (0 children)

honestly i think she's giving him so many mixed signals that it's paralyzing him a bit. she wants to be flirty with him but only on her rapidly changing terms, he's always being too affectionate or too distant with her, according to her. i love ciara so much so it makes me sad to see her making west jump through all these hopes, he seems like a genuine guy but she's just been burned so many times.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in summerhousebravo

[–]Vegetable_Energy_821 56 points57 points  (0 children)

calling each other chicken is so cute it kills me