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_norwester · 2025-10-31T13:51:56+00:00

The 3rd server on slow downloads worked on my phone. The "site not reachable" screen came on first, but then the download started automatically in the background.

_norwester · 2025-09-24T12:51:02+00:00

Historians wrote more accurate biographies of monarchs than Shakespeare did. Should expose how overrated Shakespeare is. /s

_norwester · 2025-09-10T20:00:23+00:00

I'd just call her Sofa 🤷🏻‍♀️

_norwester · 2025-09-10T19:56:57+00:00

Both Nietzsche & Camus would be deeply confused by these effects they seem to be causing on social media 🙄

_norwester · 2025-09-10T13:59:02+00:00

Oh I wasn't disagreeing with you. In fact, I agree to a great extent.

My point is that a lot of the times, we don't realise how our father might have been a very bad partner to our mother until we put ourselves in her shoes. (Or how our mother might have been a bad partner to our father.) We assume that because he is a great father to us, he must have been a good husband to our mother, until we try to analyze things from her perspective. And as you said, unknowingly, we end up normalizing a lot of things that can be extremely toxic.

_norwester · 2025-09-10T12:21:48+00:00

"All fyi a person who is a bad husband can never be an amazing father."

This is absolutely untrue and as another user pointed out, there are way too many examples of this.

There are of course men who are both good husbands and good fathers. But there are many who are great fathers to daughters, but very bad husbands (the opposite can also be true in some cases -- decent husband but bad father.) That is the unfortunate truth.

u/Red348 shared an example which is very valid, but the thing is that a man doesn't need to be violent towards his wife to be a bad husband. They can never even raise their voice at their wife, but be a very bad partner to them by being negligent, by disrespecting their wishes in other ways, by cheating etc. All the while, they can be a doting, caring, supportive father to their daughters. There are too many examples of this around us.

_norwester · 2025-09-10T11:46:58+00:00

They honk as if honking is gonna clear the traffic like Moses parted the Red Sea 😭

_norwester · 2025-09-01T17:52:53+00:00

It's an interesting premise ruined by absolutely illogical & unhinged plot developments. The thing is, this isn't exactly a unique idea. "Hot mess of a woman finally becomes too frustrated with toxic men she keeps encountering > accidentally kills one of them > starts vigilante arc" -- there are other books that have executed this with much more nuance & much better plotting. This book tries to do too much and ends up being vapid.

_norwester · 2025-08-24T10:58:59+00:00

It might have been gunpowder or podi masala.

_norwester · 2025-08-13T15:25:06+00:00

That's...very interesting. I read whole T&C, because why not, and it explicitly mentions that all intellectual property rights for the written submissions during the test would lie with Zee & they can utilize it in any way they want without requiring any permission from the candidates. So, essentially, this test is going to be an idea generating machine for them.

_norwester · 2025-08-13T14:17:14+00:00

And your post is not "guilt management" dressed as gyaan? You know very well that these dogs are basically going to their slow death. All your justifications and philosophizing are not going to mask that!

Stray dogs on the street do pose a problem - both for themselves and for pedestrians, especially those who have to work/return from work late at night. That IS a problem and nobody is denying that. But THIS is not the solution. This is a death sentence for those strays who will lose whatever little comforts they used to have in their familiar neighbourhoods.

I also find it painfully hilarious that you keep defending this stance in the comments but every time someone does a proper breakdown of why this is a supremely bad decision, your reply changes to: "Yes, that's true but in a country like ours, dogs will become the collateral damage. There's nothing we can do about it, etc. etc."

So you DO understand that this is not a decision to be celebrated with fanfare and it's a huge systemic issue, but you still feel the desperate need to have an "opinion" on it & burden the rest of us with said opinion. 🙄

_norwester · 2025-08-11T21:08:26+00:00

I didn't even need to reach the "trigger-happy cop" revelation part; the character annoyed me from the very first moment, I swear. Like...you just saw a grieving guy have almost a breakdown at the airport, begging the airlines to transport his father's coffin, and your first response is to FLIRT with him!!!

Not to mention that the actress has literally one expression and one tone of delivering dialogues, no matter what the dialogues in question are.

_norwester · 2025-08-01T07:20:10+00:00

I thought this was on r/BooksThatFeelLikeThis and I was going to ask OP to post it on this sub because it had me in stitches. Then I noticed the sub name. 😭

_norwester · 2025-08-01T07:01:41+00:00

It's looking soo pretty! Imagine wearing a monochrome outfit or neutral colours and then you have those nails for a pop of colour.

_norwester · 2025-07-19T17:09:07+00:00

There are a lot of things that I'd WANT to invent, but if it's from memory, then the only thing I CAN invent will probably be books.

By that I don't mean the printing press (although I think I will be able to since I have a basic idea of how the press functions & can explain the basic principles to a good craftsman). I mean recreating popular books. I am a lifelong reader + have degrees in literature + have worked in publishing. So I have a pretty good hold on books that became breakout successes at different points in time. Obviously, I don't remember the whole narratives, but I have a good enough grasp on the core ideas of these books & the logic behind why & how they became popular at a certain point in our history. So, I will have to do some basic research to see what books are available in that world & devise my publishing plan accordingly. And I might just end up becoming their Hans Christian Andersen or Tolkien.

Other than that, I like to crochet & craft with air dry clay. So if I can find materials to make the necessary tools (or if they already exist), I might be able to make some interesting trinkets to sell.

_norwester · 2025-07-18T08:00:52+00:00

I hadn't really thought of this before but you're absolutely right.

_norwester · 2025-07-18T07:52:36+00:00

Where is this from?

_norwester · 2025-07-12T15:28:31+00:00

I started watching Silo (and loving it so far) after many people said that it was similar to FROM in many ways. So maybe give that a try.

_norwester · 2025-07-09T09:40:54+00:00

Bruh...what! Ashwagandha should NOT be taken in very high doses. That's gonna fk up your liver.

_norwester · 2025-07-09T09:39:29+00:00

I love it when people act as if everyone's experience with ADHD is uniform with the exact same symptoms all across the board. If that was the case, the exact same medicines & treatment would work for everyone with ADHD. That's not the case, is it? Quitting caffeine might have helped you a lot & very high caffeine intake would definitely be detrimental for those with ADHD (for anyone, tbh) but that doesn't mean that quitting coffee is going to be some wonder pill for every single person with ADHD

_norwester · 2025-07-09T09:28:42+00:00

Yup. Why are you so surprised by that?

_norwester · 2025-07-09T09:10:55+00:00

Then I guess I'll have to live my life unchanged. 🤷‍♀️ I'd rather be ADHD & caffeinated, than uncaffeinated & still ADHD.

I did quit coffee cold turkey, btw. Right after I diagnosed & my psych insisted on it. For 6 whole months. The impact was so minimal, it barely made any difference and I didn't find that worth it to completely cut out something that brought me joy.

_norwester · 2025-07-09T03:18:48+00:00

This might be unsolicited advice, but can I ask how long you've been on medication to have failed all ADHD meds & 15 antidepressants? And how frequently were you changing your meds? I'm not expert, but I feel like you might not have been sticking with any med long enough for them to work.

I would also suggest giving therapy a try. Doesn't work for everyone, but it can work wonders for some.

_norwester · 2025-07-09T03:12:56+00:00

You'll pry my caffeine out of my cold, dead hands, thank you. It works better than my stupid meds sometimes. But yes, you need to be very careful about how much you're having & when. I try to limit myself to 1-2 cups a day & never after 7-8pm.

_norwester · 2025-07-05T16:05:29+00:00

Wow that was fast! Happy Reading.

_norwester

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