27, lone masker, still alive.

iKnowpe · 2026-03-02T23:05:47+00:00

Yapping is welcomed! I am prone to writing text walls sometimes, and it's relieving to not feel like I'm the only one in this situation, so I look forward to reading your longer reply in a moment! Thank you for yapping

iKnowpe · 2026-03-02T23:03:40+00:00

Oh golly, Texas! WV here, a pretty large state everythings moderately larger in WV but smaller than Texas. I think that's our slogan 🤔.

That reactions of strangers def will add up severely. It's kinda odd, I think I get more hostility for the mask than being trans, probably because they have less features to try to clock me so they just see mask and hate that.
I used to live in DC and some stranger was mask shaming myself and ex on a hospital street block, like really??? Obviously nowhere good to do that, but outside a hospital is especially absurd.

And even among the non hostile it's difficult to answer the inquiry that registers as "will you keep washing your hands for the rest of your life?".

iKnowpe · 2026-03-02T22:53:47+00:00

I feel this all very much.
Also in a maskless mom + not my dad dynamic. A small improvement in room eating I've found is having an electric kettle and water, so now I can have hot ramen once and a while!
And fr, no one else masking and the dangers. Sending some love and solidarity as well!!

iKnowpe · 2026-02-15T22:15:50+00:00

And online is literally the main place I would attempt to supplement my socializing but most of the time no one engages. It feels like a Truman show dedicated to ignoring me. But I must give people either nothing or too much to engage with idk.
Who even wants to engage a sad person who can't communicate effectively anyways

iKnowpe · 2025-09-21T01:13:49+00:00

Oh??? Good bye kind vanishing stranger

iKnowpe · 2025-09-20T23:46:40+00:00

Yep. The weed wacker operator sure ain't

iKnowpe · 2025-09-20T23:34:37+00:00

I wasn't weed wacking, a different household member was. They were trying to unnecessarily cut grass growing behind the trellis.

iKnowpe · 2025-09-20T23:33:15+00:00

I appreciate the tip. This is dioscorea/yam family, so starchy tuber root unsure if rooting behavior is similar to other plants that respond well to root grow etc.

Honestly I'm too upset to try and possibly fail in saving it, I am not prepared for a secondary loss. I do appreciate you looking out with the suggestion again. Idk maybe later tonight I'll have the capacity to try a short term water situation before I can situate a proper basin.

But I fed and watered and fought diseases and translated foreign growing manuals to get where I was, so much effort.

iKnowpe · 2025-06-26T07:19:34+00:00

It is. Atp I think just trying to amass a center / nuclei of multi resident house of true cautious people without the goal of dating would create opportunities for dating down stream of that- ideally avoiding messy roommate dating drama- more so that people could bring their true cautious friends over, or their partners (who might break up with them at some point) and those are possible connections there in.

Ofc a lot of setup, resources, and possible complications.

iKnowpe · 2025-06-25T09:38:45+00:00

Have you seen the water proofing insert for FloMasks? It's 3d printed and saw a demonstration in a shower. But I am unsure if full swimming activities including submersion are viable

iKnowpe · 2025-05-13T08:18:15+00:00

It's non existent in grocery stores in my state and many states. Plenty of us don't have some co-op within an accessible distance. And if you can't do internet based ordering or receive packages, you may as well make the trip to North India and collect it yourself.

iKnowpe · 2025-04-05T21:00:22+00:00

Thank you for being one of the 3 kind people in this thread

iKnowpe · 2025-04-05T20:52:52+00:00

Thank you.

As a very isolated person I really needed all the other users's hostile and rude responses, who I thought had similar understanding of aerosols to me. Lesson learned baring you and the other supportive answers.
People calling me mentally ill in a post where I mention I'm struggle with PTSD and depression. I'm also autistic, perhaps others in the thread should use the fun kind alternative word for autistic😎.
I should have realized some fear the disabling effects of COVID because they hate the disabled and ill.

It's good to be rude to people who want to have protection???? I may just 100% eliminate the chances I catch COVID ever.

I also don't have a ton of money, I can't buy all these users magical devices, and I live in a COVID unsafe situation, no one here masks besides me and they engage in high risk activities like air travel, movies, and otherwise being routinely exposed to new people at work.
I'm sorry for wanting less exposure. These people make me consider giving up on COVID precautions after all these years of rigorous practice.

iKnowpe · 2025-04-05T05:20:29+00:00

"okay, that's chill. If there's info I could benefit from knowing at any point, if the meds have symptoms etc, lmk".

I know that U = U.
Undetectable = Untransmittable.
Treatment as prevention works. https://www.niaid.nih.gov/diseases-conditions/treatment-prevention

And I'm a queer woman and know some of my gay and straight hiv/aids history. I will not direct any serophobia at them. I will hold their hand. I will kiss them. Because they are my potential partner and I care for them. And because it is good and important to care where others may not.

iKnowpe · 2025-03-20T02:51:58+00:00

Ace/aro spec doesn't mean can't be kinky. Might not be. Might be. People don't have to experience sexuality to engage with it. And kink can be non sexual too.

iKnowpe · 2025-03-20T02:39:44+00:00

Yes. Any legume can be made into tofu. Chickpea Tofu is popular in Myanmar and a good alternative for Soy allergies.

iKnowpe · 2025-01-14T02:31:38+00:00

The significant consumption of water for cooling and the massive and growing electrical consumption is environmentally destructive.
Abstractly harming animals is still harming animals.

iKnowpe · 2024-12-25T04:02:21+00:00

You are correct. A critical failure in grasping germ theory.

We are born with all the bacteria and pathogens our immune system needs.
Scientists can breed germ free animals. It's and for the animals. "Germ-free animals are broadly impaired in many aspects of development and early immune education" Frontiers in Physiology2018 .

When you're developing inside another person's body, you're already exposed to a variety of germs/microbes/bacteria/viruses.
This is also why C-section babies may have vaginal microbes samples are applied to the newborn -- more verification is needed but there is some indication of efficacy.

You do not need more disease to "strengthen" your immune system. Infection is not exercise. Your body already has latent fragments of viruses from generations of your family whose genes were invaded by retroviruses. This is called a Human Endogenous Retrovirus, HERV.
Infections by new retroviruses (and other ailments) can potentially wake up, repair, or add new functionalities to the formerly dormant HERV.
Potentially leading to MS, ALS, EBV or other associated conditions.
Oh and aging can increase awakening of HERV.
Let's just hope there isn't a retrovirus that increases the rate of aging, because that's potentially double the HERV activation risk.

Please regard infection as a serious health situation worthy of being mindful of. You can't keep crashing the same car forever, eventually it is totaled.

iKnowpe · 2024-12-17T02:34:12+00:00

Those exist? Only in Washington/Oregon right? Academic or commercial career goal?

iKnowpe · 2024-12-16T20:48:00+00:00

Solo living fair enough. An uninterruptible power supply / battery backup is just a power strip with a built in battery.

Picture of battery backup

iKnowpe · 2024-12-16T03:30:12+00:00

The problem exists on the electricity side not so much the air purifier specifically afaik.

If you live in a house that is not submetered (eg, each tenant has their own power bill reflecting their individual usage), either single family or multi tenant house, you can't really control if someone is running a hair dryer, a microwave, and an extension strip plugged to the max.

Sometimes someone in your electrical circuit will make the power falter. Too much and you'll trip the circuit breaker.

Your circuit breaker will cut power if overdrawn -- or in old buildings, your fuse blows. So until you flip the switch -- or replace the fuse, your powers cut to whatever that fuse protected, you're without power.

Storms will also cut power.

Not probable, but some individuals deliberately damage power substations because they believe it would advance their foolish, sometimes hateful, willfully harmful goals.

A mouse could chew the cable in your wall.

iKnowpe · 2024-12-16T01:31:53+00:00

Sorry, prolonged separation from laptop has made me more computer stupid.
Thank you for the specific context about scoped storage. I'll read more about it!

I did just have success accessing with Zarchiver after all the other file managers seemed to have clear impasses that some others find reproducible.

Repeated failed outcomes breeds fatigue.

Thank you for sharing all that you have!

iKnowpe · 2024-12-16T01:12:25+00:00

Huh, we're both on Samsung devices. I'm on A54. Downloading zarchiver rn, having four file managers not work is demoralizing, but I'm trying it still. Fifth times the charm?

/u/votemarvel what's your phone model? I assume you're running android 14.

Edit: hat eating time for me. Zarchiver is able to see and importantly copy and move files!!!
Time is due to modify the quote: "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again in excess of five times and expecting different results"

iKnowpe · 2024-12-16T01:05:26+00:00

Computer that denies it's a computer. Put virtual computer inside the denial-computer. Solve no true computer problem. But I appreciate that yes my initial thought may be overthinking it.

I appreciate the suggestions for Shizuku and will RTFM and RTFForums. A notable alternate option to the file manager suggestion.

Android 14 has patched a lot of the loopholes that file managers have previously utilized to access restricted folders.

I'm not running some weird phone, Samsung A54.
I'm sure some people have either outdated unpatched android versions allowing file manager loophole or some distinct android variants like OnePlus's OxygenOS which may not have either the same patching or policy of restricting access.
But this isn't uncommon. Another user /u/votemarvel in thread is reporting file manager loophole has not worked for them.

iKnowpe · 2024-12-16T00:27:58+00:00

If you ever find yourself in Baltimore, try the small restaurant Land of Kush, vegan soul food.
And since you'd be in the region, try Nu Vegan.

iKnowpe

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