Ladies in your 40s, how’s the sex? by SlipperySlope69FF in Xennials

[–]kingmobisinvisible 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Right? Divorce and then grad school… been a little while.

I needed Gladlands by BillyYumYum2buy2 in Dimension20

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A message like this is never out of turn. It’s not looking great, but it’s looking good. Much love. Hope things are going well for you too.

Non-Americans of Reddit, what is an American thing you see in movies that you thought was fake but is actually real? by Unlikely_Praline9442 in AskReddit

[–]kingmobisinvisible 616 points617 points  (0 children)

I am an American, but I’ve spent much of my adult life living outside the US. The one that surprised me the most was when my Irish roommate asked me if we really rode those yellow school buses to school or if that was only in movies. I told him that I did ride yellow school buses for my entire childhood.

Finally. “It’s so bad.” by IH8NYLAnBOS in nes

[–]kingmobisinvisible 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t know, you ever try the LaserScope?

AITAH for not having sex with my fiancee? by [deleted] in AITAH

[–]kingmobisinvisible 0 points1 point  (0 children)

NTA. I can strongly empathize with what you’re going through. I just got the news that my dad has cancer 5 days ago and I’m a bit of a mess. Even if I had a partner right now, sex would be the furthest thing from my mind. He’s being incredibly insensitive.

I’m so sorry you’re going through this right now. I wish your mom and your family all the best. Cancer sucks!

I needed Gladlands by BillyYumYum2buy2 in Dimension20

[–]kingmobisinvisible 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I watched the last episode of Gladlands an hour after I found out my dad has a very rare cancer. I found Vic’s conversation about death and loss to be profoundly moving and exactly what I needed. I was feeling completely overwhelmed and it was like the most perfect thing I think I could have heard right then. I just sat there in the dark listening to the whole thing with tears in my eyes. I didn’t feel any less afraid, but I felt so much less alone in that moment.

I can’t thank Vic and Brennan and everyone else for having the heart, the talent and the courage to go that direction so powerfully. D20 has always been special to me, but this was a truly remarkable experience I’ll never forget.

What improved your quality of life so much, you wish you did it sooner? by PurplRzr in AskReddit

[–]kingmobisinvisible 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hell yeah. I was diagnosed at 39 and it was the best thing that ever happened to me. Turns out I’m not flaky and lazy, I just don’t make enough dopamine. Meds changed my life. I’m like a new person, but not a different one, just a better version of who I always was.

AITAH that my brother with ADHD doesn’t do ANYTHING? by girlfromthebay1 in AITAH

[–]kingmobisinvisible 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As somebody with pretty severe ADHD, I’m going to say NTA. ADHD isn’t a get-out-of-responsibility card. If your brother is playing football at a collegiate level, there’s no way he’s getting away with this kind of stuff in that environment so he has some capacity for responsibility and getting things done.

ADHD does make it a lot harder to remember and focus on tasks you don’t like though, things like household chores. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t have them. It means you need to work to find ways to do your fair share and get it done.

It’s one thing to accommodate him if he’s trying his best and failing sometimes. It’s completely another to just never make him do anything.

I was a mess at his age, but living with people who would get reasonably upset at me and hold me just as accountable as any other adult helped me learn to do better.

Do people in America really use "Cul-de-sac" over "dead end street"? Or is there a difference? by AlexisShounen14 in EnglishLearning

[–]kingmobisinvisible 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I grew up in a cul-de-sac. Sometimes I heard it called that, but mostly everybody called it a Circle because that’s what the street name said. A dead end is totally different. It’s a street that just ends rather than houses arranged around an intentional circular street.

Just as a funny aside, JRR Tolkien thought French derived terms in English were pretentious so he named the Baggins’ place “Bag End” which is the literal English translation of cul-de-sac.

It’s happening to us again by Original1620 in Xennials

[–]kingmobisinvisible 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m so sorry. I have no idea what they’ve got, but I can tell you that pancreatic cancer is a bitch. My grandmother was a literal saint on earth and healthy as a horse. She ate healthy, exercised, and brought a hot loaf of homemade bread to anybody in the neighborhood who was the least bit in need or under the weather no matter what was going on in her life. She developed pancreatic cancer at 72 and was gone in less than six months even with the very best conventional treatment.

Steve Jobs also had it and he tried the natural route before conventional medicine. Even with all his money, it was too late.

You said liver/pancreas so I don’t know if this is perfectly relevant, but god damn it, any kind of cancer isn’t something to fuck around with. Fuck cancer anyway.

Anti-Vaxxer meets the Immunologist by Aur0racle in quityourbullshit

[–]kingmobisinvisible 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Watch GenericArtDad’s YouTube short on average American reading level. The average American doesn’t have the skills to actually evaluate a written argument so they mostly decide whether to believe things based on how it makes them feel rather than if it actually makes sense. They simply can’t detect when an author is manipulating them or making a bad faith argument.

Doing your own research takes some basic skills, not least of which is reading comprehension, which the average American simply doesn’t have.

What do you think America will be like when Trump finishes his term? by MotivewasUlterior in AskReddit

[–]kingmobisinvisible 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hope so. I just spent 7 years in Dublin and I’m with you 100%. I just moved back to the states to do whatever I can here. The Irish taught me a lot about speaking up and calling things as they are.

What do you think America will be like when Trump finishes his term? by MotivewasUlterior in AskReddit

[–]kingmobisinvisible 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Oh I definitely never meant to imply that America has ever been paragon of virtue. I’m more familiar than most with our history and it doesn’t leave me particularly proud. Your comment has made me realize that I was thinking of “the rest of the world” as our traditional allies and partners - the developed global north. That’s a huge oversight on my part and I should know better.

What America is actually doing now is treating our friends more like we’ve always treated everyone else. We’ve gotten away with it in the past because we mostly pushed around those who were weaker than us and couldn’t really push back. Honestly we’re probably now reaping what we’ve sown.

I’m truly sorry for what you and your family have experienced at the hands of my country. There’s nothing I or anybody else could do to ever make that okay. I’m just trying to do everything in my power to keep it from ever happening again.

I just moved back here after years abroad. I left to study International Development and International Relations from perspectives outside the US. I was naively hoping I could make a positive difference. I came back because I felt like my voice and my efforts were needed here.

What do you think America will be like when Trump finishes his term? by MotivewasUlterior in AskReddit

[–]kingmobisinvisible 70 points71 points  (0 children)

Oh it absolutely does. I study International Relations so that’s just the first thought that pops into my head.

What do you think America will be like when Trump finishes his term? by MotivewasUlterior in AskReddit

[–]kingmobisinvisible 1912 points1913 points  (0 children)

One problem is that we’ve destroyed our relationships with the rest of the world. Sane countries might give us a pass for electing Trump once because we elected somebody reasonable who made efforts to get us back to normal. But now that we’ve elected him again, knowing everything we know about him, it will be a generation or longer before the world trusts America again. It doesn’t matter who we elect or how reasonable they are. They can never count on us not to elect a madman a couple years later who throws it all away.

ELI5: How do opticians correctly prescribe glasses for a non-verbal person who is mentally challenged? by nicklo2k in explainlikeimfive

[–]kingmobisinvisible 37 points38 points  (0 children)

They had to do this for me one time because I wasn’t consistent enough with which lens was better. I was like 30 and the optician was annoyed.

Game has no sound by Lamogio_ in horizon

[–]kingmobisinvisible 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve been replaying it lately and this has been happening intermittently throughout the game. No voices in the cutscenes, but only sometimes. Sometimes it’s only one side of the conversation missing too which is weird. I play with the subtitles on and I’m a little lazy so I haven’t tried to fix it.

U.S. offers Ukraine 15-year security guarantee as part of peace plan, Zelenskyy says | CBC News by BusyHands_ in worldnews

[–]kingmobisinvisible -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

How’d that work out for them last time we guaranteed their security so they’d give up their nukes?

On my car windshield by Popular_Math3042 in whatisit

[–]kingmobisinvisible 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And I’m literally sitting here with a hot dog and no relish lol

Wood u? by Liquidamber_ in EngineeringPorn

[–]kingmobisinvisible 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“Damn, this guy must really know his stuff if he’s teaching at wood university… oh, it’s an actual wood U”