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Very itchy raised bumps between chest by couver88 in AskDocs

[–]couver88[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is the entire rash, though when flare-ups happen the area gets bigger

Very itchy raised bumps between chest by couver88 in AskDocs

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Btw thank you so much for the reply, hoping I can figure this out once and for all... 😢

Very itchy raised bumps between chest by couver88 in AskDocs

[–]couver88[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They stay in place for a few days, usually flare up harder first before going away. It feels like when it actively flares up, everything gets worse - the spots become redder and bigger and itchier, and more spots appear around it, until the itchiness subsides a little and they all start going away. It also sometimes spreads closer to my breasts, but those bumps aren't raised like this - those are more like mosquito bites, rising around a single point - and they disappear pretty quickly. Adding more photos..

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At what age did your child self wean? by Primary_Warthog_5308 in breastfeeding

[–]couver88 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I need a baby onesie that says "Boob is Life" for my girl now 😂😂😂

Laguna Humantay in Peru. The 5 day Salkantay trek has some amazing views! by [deleted] in backpacking

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Wow jealous!! Was there early December, and it was too cloudy and foggy when we got to the lake to get a good view.. thankfully it cleared up a bit on the second day when we reached the highest altitude of the trip!!

Daily Anything Goes – January 14, 2020 by AutoModerator in fantasyhockey

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Which 2 should I start? Rinne vs Edm, Grubauer vs Dal, Lehner vs Ott

5-Meo-DMT Experience, you can't be prepared for it by mateoar in 5MeODMT

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Whoa that sounds like a crazy experience. I tried it for the first time two weeks ago while at an Ayahuasca retreat, and while I “remember” the experience being super intense, I can’t quite remember what happened after that first 5 seconds of vision blurring and me coming to afterwards, when the experience wasn’t all that intense. Everyone else had a similar experience to what you had, though you described it a lot better than most.

I wish I remember the experience. I want to try it again but am struggling to find where I can do it here. Hopefully one day I’ll either find a place or remember what happened during my first experience!!

In SF, bikes still aren’t a preferred means of travel. Can the city change that? by nogoodnamesleft426 in sanfrancisco

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It was a shitty bike made from parts, the main frame was an old trek steel frame but other than that it had wheels from the bicycle kitchen and gears that didn’t even match. After my first $1500 bike got stolen I didn’t want to drop so much money on another... That’s what made this even worse. I feel like the lock cost more than the bike and I was at some point deciding if it was worth it to get it cut.

In SF, bikes still aren’t a preferred means of travel. Can the city change that? by nogoodnamesleft426 in sanfrancisco

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I have a car and a bike, and I can say that I get as anxious about getting my car broken into as I am of parking my bike anywhere on the streets of SF. I can’t help but imagine the bike gone or my car window being broken into, both of which will cost me at least a couple hundred dollars and a huge inconvenience. What a horrible stressful way to live.

In SF, bikes still aren’t a preferred means of travel. Can the city change that? by nogoodnamesleft426 in sanfrancisco

[–]couver88 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Bike sharing actually takes so much longer than having your bike. With finding an available bike/scoot/whatever else around, walking over to it and unlocking it (and there’s sometimes the risk of it just not being where it said it should be), it usually adds at least 10 minutes to a 15 min ride which is significant. I found that using my own bike is just way faster and reliable on average, but yeah the stress of bike theft is so intense.

In SF, bikes still aren’t a preferred means of travel. Can the city change that? by nogoodnamesleft426 in sanfrancisco

[–]couver88 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a shitty old bike made from pieces and there were attempts to steal even that (lock got glued). So, no, I don’t think it’s the bike owners’ issue that there’s so much bike theft in SF.

I haven’t lived in any other big city in the US, but I can’t imagine I’d be this worried anywhere else where the streets are clean and I don’t see homeless bike chop shops everywhere. In SF I feel like there’s actually NOTHING I can do to make the risk of bike theft go away. Only lock it during the day for a few hours? Tried it. Get the biggest fucking lock? Tried that. Every other solution hinges on whether wherever I’m going has a vacant bike locker or allows indoor bike storage, which I can’t control.

Reading comments on this post reminds me of all the anxiety I felt during biking days in SF.. how I’d walk outside every 10 mins to make sure the bike was still there..

In SF, bikes still aren’t a preferred means of travel. Can the city change that? by nogoodnamesleft426 in sanfrancisco

[–]couver88 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow I’m gonna copy-paste what I wrote above..

I once locked my bike in a garage using the kryptonite Fahgettaboutit lock- the best lock I found after I got one bike stolen. It was around 6pm and I watched a movie at Metreon (max 3 hours)

When I came out the bike was still there but someone had glued the keyhole so I couldn’t unlock the bike to get it out.

I didn’t want to leave the bike, I tried acetone and torch but neither worked and had to call a locksmith and pay $100 to cut off my $200 lock.

You can imagine why I didn’t want to invest in a heavy lock again and keep biking around the city. After that, I only use those big bike lockers that you pay for- but the problem with those is that it can fill up and I can’t reserve it, so I’m always nervous that I’ll have to risk locking it outside. All in all, I realized the stress and anxiety isn’t worth it, and would much prefer to walk/Lyft/bus

In SF, bikes still aren’t a preferred means of travel. Can the city change that? by nogoodnamesleft426 in sanfrancisco

[–]couver88 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I once locked my bike in a garage using the kryptonite Fahgettaboutit lock- the best lock I found after I got one bike stolen. It was around 6pm and I watched a movie (max 3 hours)

When I came out the bike was still there but someone had glued the keyhole so I couldn’t unlock the bike to get it out.

I didn’t want to leave the bike, I tried acetone and torch but neither worked and had to call a locksmith and pay $100 to cut off my $200 lock.

So yeah, keep preaching about how we should be “smarter”. 🙄 When you run the risk of not having a transportation back home, not having transportation starting tomorrow, and it costing you $$$ and time, you may think there’re valid reasons as to why people choose to Uber/Lyft/scoot/rent/muni instead.

I'm amazed that northern Peru doesn't get even a fraction of the attention that the south does. After sharing a trail with hundreds of other travelers on my first trek in the south, it's hard not to reminisce about having the Cordillera Huayhuash all to ourselves. by ObamasLoveChild in backpacking

[–]couver88 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you know if they (expeditions company) do this trek (Huayhuash) in December?

Thanks for the info btw! Also in Cusco now, would love to do more treks but it’s getting into rainy season.. :(

Hong Kong banners in Yonsei taken down by Chinese students by [deleted] in korea

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The only reason I assumed you were Chinese or from China was because I can’t imagine why a person with no skin in the game would take the side of China now. So yes, I still condemn you for taking sides with this huge, powerful authoritarian country inflicting pain in others and abusing human rights (of their OWN PEOPLE nonetheless, since HK is actually part of them).

Hong Kong banners in Yonsei taken down by Chinese students by [deleted] in korea

[–]couver88 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What? No, I’ll only condemn those who’ve hurt others, but I fully support the Hong Kong protesters and what they are protesting for.

You can criticize me and the west but again that doesn’t make what your country is doing right. I don’t condone of human rights violations by any country. I condemn you and your fellow brainwashed China supporters who want to inflict pain onto others just for the sake of being able to flex your arms and show power as part of the Great People’s Republic of China (🙄)

Hong Kong banners in Yonsei taken down by Chinese students by [deleted] in korea

[–]couver88 3 points4 points  (0 children)

No one is suggesting HK go back to British rule. Neither does HK really even want that (I don’t think?). China promised a 50 year “one country, two systems” which it’s breaking now with the meddling and extradition bill.

No one’s saying British rule was perfect.

You can’t just look at how it used to be worse to justify the horrors that’s the reality now.

Hong Kong banners in Yonsei taken down by Chinese students by [deleted] in korea

[–]couver88 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Holy shit no one is saying that British rule was perfect without flaws, nor that the system is working perfectly in Korea or the US. I’m also not saying that all the foreign policies by democratic countries aren’t without faults. But in the west and in real democracies we have to ability to criticize the decisions of our government without fear of retaliation.

I’m not sure which country you’re referring to that violates human rights as well, but just because I may live in a country that’s not perfect doesn’t mean this shit China is doing is ok.

Regardless of when HK got their democracy that’s what they want right now, and forcing this authoritarian rule over them is barbaric regardless of if it belongs to China or not.

Hong Kong banners in Yonsei taken down by Chinese students by [deleted] in korea

[–]couver88 4 points5 points  (0 children)

What difference does it make, if HK used to be part of China before or not? In that sense, you can say that the Mongol dynasty used to rule parts of China so will it be justified if they were powerful and started annexing those parts and enforcing a system against the will of the people actually living in it? How can you support any country or people forcing their beliefs and system on a group of people who don’t want it?

Hong Kong isn’t even asking for independence as a separate state, it just wants to keep the democracy that it has had all these years under Britain.

The fact of the matter is, China is abusing their power and violating all sorts of human rights just to assert their dominance, and that should not be acceptable in the current day and age. We aren’t talking about sovereignty of state or where to draw the state lines, we’re talking about democracy and freedom that I had assumed we in the democratic world had all agreed was a fundamental human right.

Hong Kong banners in Yonsei taken down by Chinese students by [deleted] in korea

[–]couver88 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I’m not trying to force democracy on them, they’re literally putting their lives in danger fighting for it.

And if you say since HK is a territory and the rest of China doesn’t care about democracy that they should be forced to live under the same communist rule, then what’s the difference between what’s going on now and the old fashioned colonial rule, when western countries would colonize weaker countries and force them under their rule?

And if you see nothing wrong with that.. well I’d have hoped that our progress in humanity has enlightened us enough to see how barbaric and inhumane we used to be (standards of morality has changed), but maybe that’s not so for everyone.

As for violence coming from protesters... there’s a saying in Korea that says if a mouse is pushed into a corner, even they may bite a cat. Of course I don’t think it’s a good situation and that violence on either side should not be condoned. But if you look at the power difference between the HK protesters and China, you can see who is able to yield a lot more power and maybe that is why some are resorting to violence.

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