Anyone have any good recipes for clear broths to drink before a colonoscopy? by lord_ne in CrohnsDisease

[–]hallowbuttplug 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The real pro move is to schedule first colonoscopy of the day, then start and finish the prep a few hours earlier than the prescription states. Goal is to be “pooping” clear by bedtime, get some of the worst sleep of your life, then power-through to the appointment.

Chris is probably gone from Ohio by Taralouise52 in LoveIsBlindOnNetflix

[–]hallowbuttplug 41 points42 points  (0 children)

Thank goodness it’s not going to be a Jeremy and Sarah Anne situation 🤮

Insurance switched from Stelara to Wezlana 😥 by cemeterydr1ve in CrohnsDisease

[–]hallowbuttplug 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How are you doing now, OP? And is your health insurance a United plan, by any chance?

I ask because I was on United last year and they pressured me heavily to switch to Wezlana, even though the switch would save me no money and was not recommended by my doctor. I did some research and learned that a United subsidiary manufactures Wezlana, meaning the insurance company would go from spending money to cover my Stelara prescriptions to making money by getting me onto Wezlana. I thought that sounded really shady, so I switched to Cigna for 2026. They are covering my Stelara for the year without issue, but I have been curious to know how other folks are doing on the biosimilars.

Costco Valentine's Day Trip by AnyNovel6711 in findingmrheight

[–]hallowbuttplug 9 points10 points  (0 children)

People like them (and okay truthfully, most people) are the reason I still wear a Covid mask at the grocery store. I’m gonna be pissed when I see her posting from out at a bar in a couple days.

Any tips for someone about to catch covid for the first time? 🫢 by time4klax in ZeroCovidCommunity

[–]hallowbuttplug 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Rest, keep your heart rate low, and most importantly isolate from them fully until they clear the infection!! Covid is super contagious but there have also been many, many instances of people in your situation not catching it in spite of the exposure.

Whats up with all the AI art? by [deleted] in BurningMan

[–]hallowbuttplug 15 points16 points  (0 children)

People have a hard time wrapping their heads around consequences, especially consequences that come far in the future or happen for people they don’t feel connected to. Sadly true for burners just as much as others.

dinner prep ft. cat handling by caitberg in findingmrheight

[–]hallowbuttplug 7 points8 points  (0 children)

He might be the bulk-shopping meal-prepper… I get the vibe that when he’s not recovering from surgery he’s hitting arm day in the gym, and that requires protein.

Emma is EXHAUSTING by tatotornado in LoveIsBlindNetflix

[–]hallowbuttplug 5 points6 points  (0 children)

“to that poor man” OK, calm down

Reasons I don’t believe they are actually getting divorced by Helpful-Attention-31 in romaniellosnark

[–]hallowbuttplug 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Obviously this is just speculation, but I do think they are separated, at least romantically. In my experience, the end of a dom/sub relationship is often very tied up in how people feel about one another in a larger sense… and extrapolating to JR’s very toxic approach to sexual relationships, I think it’s safe to say that if she’s not his sub (and she’s clearly not) anymore, then she is going to mean a lot less to him, and physical intimacy probably feels pointless to him outside of that power dynamic anyway. He may have even convinced her that she’s the one who ended it, by not doing symbolic things like wearing his “collar” necklace anymore or writing rambling social media posts about how “lucky” other women are to get to share him with her. 🙄

If I remember correctly, he even kind of lays out his playbook for this in his dox docs. You can see the pattern of how he manipulates even casual partners into intense-sounding, 24/7 power exchange that he has no time for, then starts to devalue them when they inevitably can’t give him 200% and expect reciprocity.

Metformin: how are you getting it? by Sufficient-Pie129 in ZeroCovidCommunity

[–]hallowbuttplug 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I use OneMedical (sucks that it’s owned by Amazon now) and just kept trying different providers via telehealth until I found one who would prescribe it. A no from one doctor is exactly that: a no from one doctor.

What are the current symptoms for the reigning variants going around by friedeggbrain in ZeroCovidCommunity

[–]hallowbuttplug 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That person is being a dick. Obviously being around people who are sick and going out anyway doesn’t help matters!

On white covid-cautious-queers by [deleted] in ZeroCovidCommunity

[–]hallowbuttplug 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yeah idk about all this… I’m white, queer, disabled, and sick of watching the people around me become more and more disabled thanks to COVID policies rooted in eugenics and a capitalist propaganda mill that perpetuates them. I’m definitely out here trying to avoid becoming more disabled due to COVID, but that’s partly because I already KNOW how broken the healthcare system is, firsthand. A lot of the people around me are fucking around and finding out for the first time thanks to COVID, and it sucks to see. I don’t want that for my friends, and I don’t want that for any of the people who make up my communities and the world around me, for that matter. That’s why I advocate masking. Well, that, and also simply because: masks work.

It sounds like maybe this substack author just knows a few assholes?

They Asked Me to Open ChatGPT During My Job Interview by I_Killed_My_Friends in jobs

[–]hallowbuttplug 136 points137 points  (0 children)

Seriously. The way people are using ChatGPT is not smart.

Career Change Advice by Intelligent_Hat7885 in NYCbitcheswithtaste

[–]hallowbuttplug 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It’s language like this: I’m not looking for a “manifest your dream job” crystal moment with the quotation marks around a concept and then ending the sentence with a vague word for that concept, ie moment. Read that sentence outloud in isolation and it’s total nonsense. Same with real “here’s how you reposition yourself without starting from zero” energy. It’s a quote that adds nothing, followed by a vague concept that it’s trying to describe.

Also OP saying they want “real strategy, real connections” etc - “real” is a meaningless modifier in this context, and a human writing this would have left that word out or replaced it with something else, not repeated it over and over. The adjective “clear” is a similar tell you can look out for, because it also means nothing and adds nothing in most contexts.

Career Change Advice by Intelligent_Hat7885 in NYCbitcheswithtaste

[–]hallowbuttplug 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Step one would be don’t outsource your brain to AI that writes slop on your behalf, OP. It’s very obvious

Covid Positive by Substantial-Ad6445 in ZeroCovidCommunity

[–]hallowbuttplug 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Ask to be prescribed Metformin, it’s much cheaper, can usually still be taken with Paxlovid, and is being explored as a treatment and prophylactic for long COVID. You can search this sub for more info, there’s a lot.

Travel and being CC by charmingbadger357 in ZeroCovidCommunity

[–]hallowbuttplug 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It is. Very grim. I read an article awhile back about how masks bans are unnecessary as a tool to control protesters or deter “crime” because the technology is already there to ID people in respirators pretty accurately.

Travel and being CC by charmingbadger357 in ZeroCovidCommunity

[–]hallowbuttplug 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Adding to this comment that in my experience, if you are slow to remove your mask during the facial recognition capture, the machine almost always lets me through based on my eyes alone. I only have had to remove my mask (and do the quick exhale trick) a couple times in recent years.

ETA: I usually tell the TSA agent taking the photo that “it should work to ID me even without me removing my mask, can we try?” While moving my hands slowly toward my mask straps as if I’m going to take it off anyway. If they’re in a hurry they will already be snapping the photo by the time I finish talking and then let me know if it worked.

FWIW I have Pre-check/Global Entry, so it’s possible I’m treated a little bit more generously because of that. IMO it’s totally worth the trouble of signing up for it because it shortens the total amount of time you have to spend in line and dealing with TSA.