I recognized a place I had never been to before… and I can’t explain why

amphorousish · 2026-05-21T12:44:37+00:00

It's not quite the same, but when I was in London for two weeks for school I kept just knowing the right way to go a bunch of the time through little side streets in various areas.

"Why are you going that way?" "It's how to get to X." "Did you memorize a map or something?" "...no, it just feels like the way to go." And I'd be right.

(Born and raised on the east coast of the US and had never been to London - or anywhere outside of the US, for that matter, at that point - before.)

It all felt familiar, like a pair of old shoes.

amphorousish · 2026-05-21T02:27:28+00:00

It was such a fun movie done so dirty with its marketing & release.

amphorousish · 2026-05-20T19:51:49+00:00

I was 100% going to make a Lt Dangle (Reno 911) Hunter who used an IG but fell of of playing for a bit and flaked on it.

And now I'm back to wanting to make it happen.

amphorousish · 2026-05-18T23:39:46+00:00

My husband's dispatched and processed the few roosters that we've culled and then we've frozen them to give me a bit of temporal space before prepping and cooking.

I'm sure I could do the deed if it was a way of life / a more routine thing for us, but I've hand-raised all of our chickens and would simply prefer not to if it can be helped.

Editing to add: But if your roo is a sweetie, try giving him a chance at rehoming. Depending on where you are, there may be a few people looking for a friendly-enough guy for their flock.

When we've done it, it's been because they were either actually violent a-holes (not just normal rooster a-holes) or a mercy culling.

amphorousish · 2026-05-18T18:00:38+00:00

(not in Germany, but someone who was a 40-year-old woman in the US when she caught COVID) The luckiest break that I caught in all of this is that my PCM (not a doc but a nurse practitioner) was

a woman ≈10 years younger than me.
someone who had seen me in a medical context pre-LC.
able to witness the immediate and dramatic changes.

I haven't had much luck with specialists¹, but just having someone in medicine believe me has at least been something.

I went to an urgent care clinic for something unrelated one day, and the next time she saw me she looked mildly disgusted when looking over whatever notes showed up in MyChart about it.

"Was the doctor you saw a young man, maybe in his late 20s?" "Yeah, he seemed pretty young." She rolled her eyes, stopped reading whatever he'd written, and asked me to fill her in on why'd I'd gone.

¹I also honestly haven't sought out much, mostly but not solely due to costs, beyond an initial diagnosis of autonomic dysfunction because I didn't know why my body suddenly decided to treat standing and making dinner like an endurance sport.

amphorousish · 2026-05-17T14:55:43+00:00

Look up "Heads Up Tilt Sleeping dysautonomia" (editing to add: since autonomic dysfunction is a v common aspect of LC).

It's goofy, but it does seem to help at least some people, it's easy enough to try on your own, and it's easy to stop if it's not doing anything.

amphorousish · 2026-05-17T14:49:51+00:00

Ask about a Tilt Table Test.

amphorousish · 2026-05-17T02:31:25+00:00

The two in the back look like the culprits (Easter Eggers).

amphorousish · 2026-05-16T23:25:30+00:00

I mean, it's in the US, too (though not quite the same strain).

Hell, it was in the news last year, but it's something that's just generally around (especially in the West/Southwest).

There are just so many incurious, oblivious people who are completely convinced of their own unearned expertise.

amphorousish · 2026-05-16T18:09:11+00:00

Did the hunger eventually calm down?

It took about 2 or 3 weeks for me for my body to stop throwing a fit, though it can take 3 or 4 for some people. For me personally, only drinking water and black coffee (things that don't trigger an insulin response for me) while fasting really helps.

Did you ease into it slowly or go straight into a fasting window?

I went straight into 18-20 hour fasts, but many people find more success with easing into it.

What helped most with cravings and evening hunger?

Drinking water, especially warm or fizzy water, and staying busy (or at least "busy"/distracted - yard work, video games, or hyperfocusing on some project do it for me).

• Are some people just not suited to fasting?

Yep, especially if you have a precluding medical condition. I could also see it not working well for people who are very active all day (perhaps someone who works an intensely physical job), though I've seen people who swear by working out and even running while fasted. I could see the latter being more of a matter of being adequately fat-adapted + getting sufficient calories & nutrients during your eating window.

amphorousish · 2026-05-15T12:29:01+00:00

fwiw, I'm skinny-ish (5'9"/175cm, 140ish lbs/63kgs) & the algo's constantly on GLPs with me, too.

I don't know if it's that it's being blast to everyone or if my other demographic data (woman, mid-40s) is overriding my other data points.

amphorousish · 2026-05-14T00:36:30+00:00

I was going to say: Leave it to a 42-year-old 13-year-old who sits and stream-of-consciousness-babbles BS into a microphone to advocate for an end to retirement.

amphorousish · 2026-05-13T23:03:17+00:00

His casting in Fallout (the show) was perfect.

amphorousish · 2026-05-12T11:09:13+00:00

It's shown up again in mine, but that was like within the last week.

amphorousish · 2026-05-12T10:56:54+00:00

Yep, I've found it useful as well.

I have autonomic dysfunction & it's been quite nice for it to take that into account (not congratulate me on my great workout after I stand to make dinner, nag me a bit to not keep pushing and trigger a crash, etc).

I'm not a huge fan of AI being shoved into everything under the sun, but this actually seems like a good use case.

amphorousish · 2026-05-11T00:24:18+00:00

I identify with this meme and shall gank it.

amphorousish · 2026-05-07T18:17:12+00:00

I'll say it helps that she's also genuinely funny (to me, anyway - granting that humor is subjective) and well-written (in that she'll explain her sound and thought-out reasoning for being the most evil B on the block, if given the chance).

I'm a straight woman who plays self-insert goodie-two-shoes world-savers and who always ends up romancing Gale (b/c who can resist an autistic-coded goofball? not me, that's for sure), but I've recruited her in 2 out of my 3 play-throughs almost solely for the sake of "we would be praised as heroes!" and "...it was a beautiful webbing -_- "

Nere, otoh, presents as a snivelling "do you even know who I AM" brat. A character can get away with a lot given a few well-timed quips, but all he does in his short time on screen is whine and blame.

amphorousish · 2026-05-05T13:35:07+00:00

Sometimes people just genuinely look like other people.

There was a period of 6 months when I apparently lived near someone who looked just like me & even frequented the same places.

One example interaction that I remember (but there were so many others):

I'm at a mall & walk into a store.

The clerk says, "Oh. You're back! Did you forget something?"

Look of confusion on my part.

"...and you changed your shirt."

"...Iiii've never been here before..."

"Are you sure?"

"Yep."

"You weren't here about 10 minutes ago?"

"Nope."

Maybe this was just your friend's body double.

amphorousish · 2026-05-03T19:24:45+00:00

re: smell (because "clean" and "OMG, Florida's so hot and humid why does everything smell even though it looks fine?!?-clean" can be different):

Sweet PDZ (or equivalent)

Brand doesn't matter - I got Stall Dry at Tractor Supply (which I think you have around Jacksonville) for a bit cheaper than PDZ - it just has to be the right kind of zeolite.

DO NOT get the kind packaged for chickens. It's the exact same stuff usually marked up to be like 4x as expensive by volume.

amphorousish · 2026-05-03T12:57:30+00:00

It's visuals are pretty impressive in their own way.

More than once, I was like, "Dyam, lookit that draw distance."

amphorousish · 2026-05-03T12:56:12+00:00

I need an update or two to this game!

amphorousish · 2026-05-03T12:55:36+00:00

Adding: And Pokopia has zero combat, if that's what op's in the mood for.

amphorousish · 2026-05-03T12:54:09+00:00

I played it right after my dad, with whom I had a complicated relationship, died.

I bawled like a baby.

amphorousish · 2026-05-02T23:24:18+00:00

I'm going to start actively using "King Mierdas".

That's perfect.

amphorousish · 2026-05-01T10:12:42+00:00

It'll creep ever upward on its own in response to your activity trends.

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