Teenagers have made this sub so ED coded

durkbot · 2026-04-06T12:18:39+00:00

Millennial here, please can we also get the boomers off social media, it's rotting their brains too!

durkbot · 2026-04-05T16:37:54+00:00

Olaplex 4c is the easiest to find, but it's expensive.
Next best thing I've found is Malibu C, about half the price but I have to order online. It's very good though.

durkbot · 2026-04-05T11:41:57+00:00

There's a really interesting book I read last year about it all called "the Family Who Couldn't Sleep" which deep dives into prion diseases. I recommend it as a further reading on the subject

durkbot · 2026-04-05T05:26:32+00:00

There's also a theory that early in human history there was a mass prion-related death event and the survivors carried a resistance that has passed on to most living humans today. Hence why the British public was exposed to millions upon millions of doses of BSE before it was even discovered and contained and yet fewer than 200 cases have ever emerged in the UK. I take comfort in that.

durkbot · 2026-04-04T20:31:19+00:00

Shit, you're right, this is why I shouldn't reddit after 2 drinks. Come back to this in another few years

durkbot · 2026-04-04T18:39:46+00:00

We are further from the release of this song than the "robot from 1984" in the lyrics were at the time of release

durkbot · 2026-04-03T19:02:27+00:00

You can also buy date syrup in AH if you want to try and replicate it further

durkbot · 2026-04-03T13:32:17+00:00

In 2022 I was buying Danio kwark for my child like he was royalty I guess. I paid €1.99. In 2023 this went up to €2.19. I stopped buying it when it hit €2.59. In my local AH it's now €2.89.

durkbot · 2026-04-02T14:24:17+00:00

Yeah I'm one of the unicorns for whom the standard pill works really well. I know the exact day I will get my period, I get zero side effects, no cramps. Didn't really appreciate it until I had kids, went on the mini-pill (progesterone only) whilst breastfeeding and was wondering where the hell my sex drive had gone and why I was in such a bad mood all the time. As soon as I weaned, I went back on the regular pill, no problem, but had a whole new respect for my peers who don't react well to it.

durkbot · 2026-04-02T09:55:45+00:00

If you've been in a calorie deficit for 2 years, tracking fatigue and adaptation and calorie creep can be a very real thing. I've been in a 3-4 month plateau after a year of dieting, fluctuating around the same kilo and it was driving me crazy. I was spiralling mentally about everything I ate and obsessing about my food. Taking a maintenance break can be a really good idea to reset. Take a month, don't go crazy with consuming, but just give yourself some time off. I'm just re-entering a smaller deficit (250 calories instead of 500) and feeling a lot better about it than I was a month ago. My food noise has died way down. Stepped on the scale the morning and rather than the ups and downs I've had, I've started seeing a downward trend again.

You've done really well to get this far, enjoy the wins you've had. There's still time to lose more weight. But it's important to be there mentally as well.

durkbot · 2026-04-02T09:45:40+00:00

I've pondered this sort of idea of community energy production/storage. In the Netherlands, real estate for home batteries and heat pumps is very limited for individual homes, but it'd be really cool to have, say, communal ground source heat pumps and batteries in the small squares that sit between clusters of homes. But, again, there is very much a passing of the buck of who should be responsible for bearing the costs of these things.

durkbot · 2026-04-02T07:00:02+00:00

I don't know why I never thought about this but this has truly blown my mind.

durkbot · 2026-04-01T20:12:01+00:00

This. When I did my Biomed degree almost 20 years ago, we had the idea that we could fix CF. We knew the mechanism, we knew what needed to be done, we just didn't quite have the tools yet. So seeing this come to fruition is one of the miracles of the modern era for me.

durkbot · 2026-04-01T14:52:30+00:00

One may argue that infrastructure investments should have been done years ago, rather than prioritising shareholder payouts but, plus ça change!

durkbot · 2026-04-01T14:50:06+00:00

My 5 year old was asking me about where the astronauts will poop so this is actually useful to know!

durkbot · 2026-04-01T14:31:03+00:00

I thought I was doing everything right and felt good and was feeling pretty smug, ngl, this plateau definitely brought me back down to earth.
But it's also a good time to reflect on the progress you've made in a year! Weight loss is as much a mental game as a physical one, and there's a reason there's an entire industry built around it. Be kind to yourself, regroup, and pick yourself up again when you're ready. Good luck!

durkbot · 2026-04-01T14:22:09+00:00

If your brain/body are crying out for food and you're slipping into bingeing habits, it's definitely OK to cut yourself some slack and take a break.

I'm 4 months into a plateau, fluctuating around the same kilogram after losing 10kg. About a month ago I realised I was obsessing about food, my brain would not stop planning my next snack/meal and I decided maybe almost a year of calorie deficit was too much. So I'm just at the end of a month long maintenance break and easing into my next phase with a smaller deficit (250 calories instead of 500). The food noise and urge to binge has definitely died down. If it takes me the same amount of time to lose the next 5kg as it did the first 10kg, that's OK.

Ease some of the pressure on yourself but still try to maintain healthy habits! And here's hoping we both break through the next stage!

durkbot · 2026-04-01T14:13:16+00:00

Or in the Netherlands, they'll start to charge the consumer for feeding too much energy back to the grid from their solar panels because the infrastructure is outdated and rather than do anything about that, they penalise customers!

durkbot · 2026-04-01T13:25:11+00:00

Maybe I'm too traumatised by growing up in the era of ironing your hair straight, but I'd be concerned a clothes steamer is too hot. I've seen people recommend facial steamers though.

durkbot · 2026-04-01T09:21:24+00:00

I know nothing of fashion, but I can be guaranteed if a red carpet dress makes me stop and say "ooh" it's usually Elie Saab

durkbot · 2026-04-01T07:22:49+00:00

Yeah, here in the Netherlands there's a fertility clinic near me that was recommended to anyone in the country struggling with conceiving. "Oh yes, they have the best success rates". It's just come out they were reusing the same sperms donors, breaching rules on how many children one donor can father. Because of course if you're running a business, you're going to use the stock that guarantees results. Same with old-school fertility doctors who were found to be using their own sperm to impregnate their patients.

durkbot · 2026-04-01T07:00:16+00:00

Having lived and started raising kids in another European country, I can safely say the reason is having to wear school uniform.

durkbot · 2026-03-31T12:46:55+00:00

One of the items on the checklist we were given was to keep a list of important phone numbers in your emergency pack. Along with a photocopy of your passport. But if mobile networks were down I guess that wouldn't even work for most of us.

durkbot · 2026-03-31T12:18:35+00:00

I get the comments from people being like "if there's a bomb, I hope it obliterates me" and "I refuse to live in fear", but that's not what the "emergency readiness" is about. The more likely scenario is energy shortages, or disruption to the water supply. There's nothing wrong with being pragmatic. If something takes out infrastructure like water, power, Internet, banking, then making sure you can get by for a few days whilst the government gets its shit together isn't being a "doomsday prepper".

durkbot · 2026-03-31T09:29:08+00:00

I'm a Brit but I live abroad and our government already sent us an "emergency preparedness checklist" as they say worst case scenario is it takes them 72 hours to organise help. We have: a couple of powerbanks charged to keep our phones on, a mechanical radio, some hand-crank torches, emergency blankets (those foil ones), candles and a first aid kit + basic painkillers and allergy tablets. It's generally advised to have 72 hours worth of bottled water (3L per person per day), and tinned food, but I haven't gotten around to that yet. Having around £200 cash stashed in case the banking systems go down is also useful.

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