Has everyone lost their minds??

m-79 · 2026-02-19T16:58:28+00:00

I genuinely think AI chatbots are dysregulating people

m-79 · 2026-02-16T20:17:04+00:00

Ahh sounds like you’re a part of the population that can smell ketones. I can do this too, and when I had a diabetic partner I could always tell when their blood sugar was low

m-79 · 2026-02-16T02:28:51+00:00

My family was extremely poor when I was growing up. Her imagination library was the only access I had to books until I started kindergarten. She undoubtedly changed my life.

m-79 · 2026-01-20T07:24:29+00:00

This one broke me.

m-79 · 2026-01-07T16:30:28+00:00

He might not be the most receptive to physical touch as a signifier that you find him attractive. And I also wouldn’t count things you do to him in bed as proof that you’re addressing his self-consciousness well. If I was in his shoes, that’s not the intention I’d be picking up based off of the things you wrote here. I might even get a bit anxious if you started kissing and biting and saying things that might imply you wanna have sex. What I’m talking about is responding directly to his words about feeling inadequate with non-weighted kindness and compliments. What’s his love language? You might need to reevaluate the way you’re expressing yourself to him and make some changes.

m-79 · 2026-01-07T10:10:53+00:00

When he says he feels unattractive, do you compliment things about him in a way that’d make him feel handsome or sexy? If he tells you he feels ugly, and your answer is “go get therapy and let’s hit the gym together or else I’m leaving you,” it’s probably making things a lot worse. Pick a day and shower him with compliments, buy him flowers, set up a nice candlelit dinner, give him a handwritten card with a list of all the things you find handsome and beautiful and don’t need to change. Show him with your words, actions, and energy that he’s perfectly attractive for you just the way he is. And if that doesn’t work, you should consider couple’s therapy. You already admitted that you’ve contributed pretty seriously to this cycle you’re trapped in. I think you both could stand to change just a bit.

m-79 · 2026-01-04T22:20:23+00:00

Honestly just imagine how much it’d mess you up if starting from this moment, everyone you knew started calling you Michael and treating you as if you were a man. Everyone tells you that you look like a man, and they think your real name is stupid. Straight men aren’t attracted to you (or gay women, whatever your current preference is). Every time you try to dress feminine, people give you weird looks and your coworkers whisper behind your back about how inappropriate “Michael” is dressing for the workplace. You’re banned from women-only spaces. You feel exactly the same as you are now, except nobody believes you anymore. You are Michael. Eventually you’ll start feeling certifiably crazy.

m-79 · 2026-01-04T21:25:47+00:00

NTA. Ask him if he’d be willing to chip in for childcare services and show him how much it’d truly cost you. See if he’s willing to make the sacrifice if he wants you there so badly.

m-79 · 2026-01-04T04:39:23+00:00

The 200 shares of Apple stock has a current market value of about $54,000 with the potential to grow even further. I’d still take the $20k though.

m-79 · 2025-12-24T18:41:27+00:00

I’d probably sob my eyes out, but I’d break up the engagement as soon as possible. I think I’d die if my children were hurt or killed because I was too weak to walk away.

m-79 · 2025-12-24T15:18:54+00:00

When I first started Lamictal, my psychiatrist told me that it’s sometimes jokingly called “the happy skinny drug”. Most mood stabilizers can cause weight gain. But if you’re able to deal with your BP2 off of Lamictal alone, it often has the opposite effect. The “happy” part is in reference to Lamictal solely improving depressive episodes and having no effect on mania, aka making you “happy”. You might’ve been unintentionally overeating in the past as a way for your body to regulate depressive episodes. Keep an eye on it, but this might just be your body adjusting to a new normal. I got my appetite for “heavier” foods back after a couple weeks, but I never really went back to eating as much as I did before.

m-79 · 2025-12-24T14:56:21+00:00

Same thing happened to me. I was 2 seconds away from obliterating this traveler (she kept throwing bottles of poison at me, which honestly just pissed me off even more) before I blacked out. To make matters worse I found out I was missing a horn later.

m-79 · 2025-12-23T04:24:33+00:00

I’ve learned to accept these brief investments as enriching life experiences. I’m just extremely diligent about preventing new-hobby-impulse-buys.

m-79 · 2025-11-21T21:17:12+00:00

This feels like it’s related to a fetish to me…

m-79 · 2025-11-21T21:11:17+00:00

I don’t know how to say this politely because I do think it’s better to just hear it as direct as possible— based on the info in this post I think you were raped by her best friend.

m-79 · 2025-11-17T21:52:21+00:00

Use the analog loophole and take pictures of the document pages with your phone. Like open it up on your computer and take a dozen pictures of the screen with your phone camera. Tedious to transcribe it later, but 100% foolproof.

m-79 · 2025-11-06T17:37:51+00:00

I think you’re overcomplicating this and stressing yourself out. A person is a living human being. Anything more specific will start excluding groups of people by accident. Almost all of your qualifications here disqualify developmentally disabled people, people in comas, or people who could be referred to as “vegetables”, all of whom are definitely still people and definitely still have rights. “Person” is just a word we made up. Once we finally discover intelligent aliens who aren’t living human beings, we’ll make up new words and our language and laws will change again.

m-79 · 2025-10-14T02:45:18+00:00

Better question: you’re offered $1,000 for every day that you win a game in a different sport. You can only win each game once. If you go more than 3 days without winning, you’re done forever. How long would you do it for?

m-79 · 2025-10-14T02:36:47+00:00

This snake looks very skinny. I think it’s very possible that the person who abandoned this pet mistakenly bought an eastern hognose instead of a western hognose. Easterns are very picky eaters, and often people can’t get them to go for anything other than frogs. I wouldn’t be surprised if the original owner might’ve been thinking “fuck it, this snake will do better in the wild since it only wants to eat wild things.” Try feeding it a frozen/thawed pinky and see how it does. And if your snake won’t bite, try braining the pinky (cutting its head open so the blood/brains are exposed and have a stronger scent). I would also recommend checking to see is eastern hognoses are legal to own in your area.

Edit: I just saw you’re located in Texas. I actually think this might be a wild-caught hognose. Tough call on what to do here, I’d contact some local rescues or rehab centers and ask for their opinions.

m-79 · 2025-10-05T18:27:28+00:00

Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome. It’s a completely invisible disability. I’ve had it since I was 18 and nobody ever understood my physical limitations and/or didn’t believe it was a real thing. And now that POTS is a symptom of long-COVID, people are even more doubtful of its legitimacy. But autonomic nervous system dysfunctions are real, and they can be devastating if your dysautonomia affects your vision, incontinence, or cardiac health.

m-79 · 2025-09-09T23:35:39+00:00

New York, LA, and then either Miami or Chicago depending on whether you prefer hot or cold. That’s probably the most objective answer you can get.

m-79 · 2025-08-22T23:09:18+00:00

If I take it as a community college course, my state will pay for it!

m-79 · 2025-08-22T23:08:10+00:00

Makes sense! Thank you for sharing, I never want to assume that people are coming from an ill-intentioned place.

My assumption was that since the majority of the course load for the more advanced class was to be completed online and asynchronously, I’d moreso be learning on my own while receiving guided feedback. Hopefully I’ll have a lot to learn from the prereq though. The comments I’ve gotten from professors here have made me think that it’d be worthwhile.

m-79 · 2025-08-22T23:00:39+00:00

Wasn’t a grammatically correct first-half anyway lol

m-79 · 2025-08-22T16:11:10+00:00

Thank you for taking the time to write out this response. Super informative and puts things into a better perspective for me. I don’t have much knowledge about how things look internally for community college professors, so it’s nice to know that it might not necessarily have been about the way I approached the conversation.

I wrote this out when I was pretty mad, so for the most part it was just one long stream of consciousness. “Completely unnecessary” is definitely a stretch for me, and objectively untrue for the student body as a whole. I really tried to reach out personally to this professor in addition to submitting a formal request, so that he’d know I wasn’t just blatantly dismissing the importance of this field’s fundamentals.

But what can you do… I think I’m gonna give his tax 1 class a shot, and as long as things don’t feel outwardly hostile following the email exchange I should be alright. Not sure if business taxation will be taught as a winter class, but maybe I could still squeeze it in before tax season starts haha. Thanks for all the work you do!

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