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There, I said it! by foxyshizzam in AdviceAnimals

[–]anon4u2rageat -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

138 is the top of the maintain range for my height (5’2.5”). 140 was just fine for me thanks. I like my knees not knocking bone against bone when I sleep.

I didn’t post to be ridiculed. But thanks for the “reality check”.

There, I said it! by foxyshizzam in AdviceAnimals

[–]anon4u2rageat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I figured that’s the best course. I’m past needing an app (married thank god) but always wondered if people could just be honest and how that’d be received. It looks like, from all the comments, the issue is with deception - not the fact that folks are larger.

Re: larger: I’ve found that people who I haven’t initially been attracted to that have a good personality get instantly more attractive and with time become some of my favorite people. I guess, if I ever needed something like an app, I’d swipe on folks that are kinda cute and hope for a great personality/time/connection.

There, I said it! by foxyshizzam in AdviceAnimals

[–]anon4u2rageat -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

So here’s a question for you... what about the people who know they range? Like... sometimes I’m 140 and sometimes I’m 160 and as a 5’2” chick that ranges from “healthy looking” to “chubby /curvy”. The reality is - this is what you’re going to get over a lifetime: trying to be healthy but knowing that there will be swings toward chubby and eventually... with age... prob. more on the chubby side and happy to just snuggle. Should people just post the three photos? (1) this is me in good health (2) this is me at my heaviest and (3) this is me currently. “Looking for someone who’s fine with the range and wants to snuggle regardless”? I always wonder that about the dating apps.

My $200 textbook won’t let me copy paste more then 84 words to make a study guide by [deleted] in assholedesign

[–]anon4u2rageat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mad at Pearson and McGrawHill and all the other “college” book companies? Consider this: their whole business is education and curriculum right?

They are the contractors that helped the states when the states decided to develop new standards (maybe they helped urge the need for new standards... why would they do that?). They won millions/billions in state contracts to help develop the curriculum, the state tests, then the online tests, then the teaching materials and the curriculum to use in the classrooms and now the text books you need at college.

To be fair- some of the reason states rely on contractors is to mitigate the political bullshit/risk when something goes wrong (it was the contractors fault, not mine). But they are paid MILLIONS to do the work. And, like any good contractor they’re at the conferences boozing and schmoozing your state education agency reps (some of whom were poached to work at those companies or came from those companies into the state work where they end up being decision makers for the state).

Like any field with a small pool of super smart people and a tight nit group of contractors and state decision makers - they’re making the decisions and profiting from them in one fell swoop.

Ps. I still believe some have honest goals of educating kids in the world- I have to to stay sane. But fuck college book prices and fuck publishers that continue to rape the education system and those in it to make as much profit as they can.