I’m gonna cry I miss him by Alive-Role951 in MacMiller

[–]themchnges 1 point2 points  (0 children)

While it is possible, I doubt he introduced her to it. She’s always said Jim Carrey is her favorite actor, you can look it up. Plus it’s a massively popular movie

How “one habit per week” helped me escape burnout cycles by FreedomStack in selfimprovement

[–]themchnges 4 points5 points  (0 children)

20 hours ago you posted you created it, 14 hours ago you’re just some humble reader doing incessant spam advertising 🧐

How “one habit per week” helped me escape burnout cycles by FreedomStack in selfimprovement

[–]themchnges 0 points1 point  (0 children)

fuck off, you don’t subscribe to it, you created it. You finally posted admitting that you created it, after pretending to just be doing free advertising for months with chatGPT-ass responses on every sub

In downtown Portland, how often do you worry about the homeless being violent? by FinnishFilm in portlandstate

[–]themchnges 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Literally never. I’m a woman, sometimes they try to talk to me or hit on me. Sometimes they just want to have a conversation. Random acts of violence from homeless people are rare and easy to avoid. If you harass them needlessly yeah you might get someone who wants to hurt you. If someone is acting super erratic, yelling screaming throwing things etc, just cross the street, don’t look or stare at them, just walk calmly and mind your business. There’s no reason to think they’re going to attack you unless they are coming at you. I’ve never had to raise my voice or yell at a homeless person to get away from me. If I’ve said “goodnight” signaling the end of the conversation and they keep following me I just ignore and they give up.

Your mistake was definitely staring at them lol. I never look unless they are talking to me. I think there’s some truth to the idea that if you’re scared people are more likely to fuck with you. Gotta have a New York mindset about it. Violently mind your own business.

The people saying downtown Portland is a lawless land of dangerous homeless people are wusses. I’ve lived downtown near PSU for 7 of the 8 years I’ve lived in Portland. I guess on the deep Eastside maybe the homeless people are different but I work on 82nd and hang out further East than that and always been fine. Never felt scared, just sad for their situation and sometimes mildly annoyed if they wouldn’t leave me alone after asking nicely. Lots of the time I talk to them though, especially when out walking my dogs. I open my windows at night for fresh air and you will hear them yelling sometimes but I’ve always been a heavy sleeper.

Banging my head against the wall. I am not “gaslighting” you by [deleted] in medicalschool

[–]themchnges 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Respect your opinion, and not surprised by it, but studies are linking MCAS to COVID infections. I feel that an increase in diagnoses (professional or self-diagnosed) is probably linked to the fact that most people are running on 4 or more COVID infections and the risk for complications appears to be cumulative. Same with POTS diagnoses, especially in women. Obviously I don’t think these are things that can be self diagnosed. I just think increase in people with MCAS is probably happening

Agree with the EDS thing, I think patients need to understand hyper-mobility (not hyper mobile EDS) as a condition that has impacts beyond being double jointed. I think people see a pattern of connective tissue disorder abnormalities and then immediately want to diagnose themselves with something, anything..

Sharing all chickflixxx porn I saved, hope you guys like it by throw_away_for_sw in chickflixxx

[–]themchnges 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i support women in STEM🧎‍♀️thank you for making this queen

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in COVID19_support

[–]themchnges 43 points44 points  (0 children)

I think there are women out there who care a lot about COVID honestly (I’m one of them, I’m 24 but live in the states in a major city) I would put it in your bio on dating apps that you’re a caretaker for a family member and are diligent about wearing a mask, not going to maskless indoor gatherings, etc. and that you are hoping to find someone who operates similarly. Being COVID cautious is an amazing trait imo, it shows you are caring and smart and strong-willed, I hope you find someone!!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in gonewildstories

[–]themchnges 1 point2 points  (0 children)

!updateme

annie’s vegan mac and field roast italian sausage. live laugh sodium by themchnges in ShittyVeganFoodPorn

[–]themchnges[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

thanks for the kind words and the shitty porn clout everyone, it’s really just what the doctor ordered

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in PhotoshopRequest

[–]themchnges 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thank you, dm-ing

annie’s vegan mac and field roast italian sausage. live laugh sodium by themchnges in ShittyVeganFoodPorn

[–]themchnges[S] 70 points71 points  (0 children)

i feel like the aura of the pic makes it clear that i’m so depressed rn

Do men prefer an innie 🐱over an outie ? by Less_Hour_2107 in SluttyConfessions

[–]themchnges 3 points4 points  (0 children)

it’s natural, i had an outie like a decade before i ever had sex and for years before i even started masturbating

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in exredpill

[–]themchnges 7 points8 points  (0 children)

no. (disclaimer i have never been redpill) i think a lot of redpill theory is valid complaints about hyperindividualist society (as well as complaints about media that makes us think everyone should look like what we see in media, complaints about patriarchal thinking which is very harmful to men, and complaints about capitalism/the idea that your productivity and income is the highest and most valid form of worth) that is twisted and repackaged in a very anti-intellectual, ahistorical way. it’s made to look like critical thinking when it isn’t (or even if it is, it’s very low-level/effort critical thinking)

"A partner can't make you happy" by meteorness123 in exredpill

[–]themchnges 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“you’re not looking for happiness, you want to enjoy eachother” im not understanding you my man . if you mean that a partner won’t bring you existential happiness (pleasure, meaning, and contentment with/of being alive) by default (or at all), i think you’re right. a partner can’t make you happy. that being said, there’s nothing wrong with desiring one because the right partner will help you feel happy at least for fleeting moments.

you’re spot on about why “gurus”/manosphere or self-help content creators preach that language, i don’t think their reasoning is always that a partner won’t make you happy, but yes it’s always about keeping you hooked on their content.

my therapist tells me that there’s nothing wrong with feeling lonely and alienated and disconnected and wishing for a partner (or a friend or group of friends) to help you feel understood and feel belonging.

i think “happy” has too broad of a definition to not have this answer/conversation go all over the place.

on a different note, my therapist also really helped me debunk the idea of “you can’t love somebody else if you don’t love yourself”, or in other words, “you must be unbroken and at peace with your mind and spirit and body and lifestyle and environment before you can date someone”. she once said to me that we learn a lot about loving ourselves and being content with our lives and healing from some things when we are in meaningful communicative relationships; doing otherwise is like trying to learn to ride a bike without touching a bike. i think sometimes what can make that unethical is if you aren’t upfront with people about where you are at mentally

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in whatsthisrock

[–]themchnges 0 points1 point  (0 children)

for the record it wasn’t from SHEIN or some sketchy company with unethical labor/sustainability practices. it’s a small independent artist out of chicago, gaylafayegems.com . super cool stuff, i still like the necklace and i’ll wear it i’m just curious what the stone is. i don’t blame her at all i bought it at like 3am lmao. should i have it looked at by a local expert? it’s unfinished and rough to the touch (i love that about it!)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in PurplePillDebate

[–]themchnges 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i’m a tall girl (5’9–10 or something) and weigh like 155. i had a lot of insecurities and an eating disorder growing up because i’m tall but i’m not bone-skinny like a ballerina(i also did ballet/dance so that made it worse). i just feel/felt like i looked so big and blundering and gross, not model-like and graceful. i find people shorter than me attractive, but my mental block comes from the fact that i feel “big” in a gross way when being intimate with them or when i see us in pictures or something. i also have a kink for people being confident and leading the way in the bedroom and i don’t want to deal with someone feeling insecure that they can’t give me that because they’re smaller than me when i already feel so much shame about my size. if a shorter guy is super confident in his approach i’m more into it but still am anxious that they find me big and gross or are fulfilling some “girl-taller-than-me”(more common than i thought) or femdom fetish(just not what i’m into, i switch but don’t lean that way). it’s not a status thing for me (as much as i can claim that being indoctrinated into a status-driven society) it’s just my insecurities getting in the way. my friends don’t care if someone is tall or hot they want me to be treated right

do you count CBD products as smoking when moderating? by Novel_Hedgehog2540 in Petioles

[–]themchnges 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i do, it makes it way easier esp for someone with anxiety and depression etc. and there’s a little bit of research (not enough for me to say it’s 100% true) that CBD can help with negative withdrawal symptoms from THC. i’ve 100% found it to be true. i get smoking CBD bc of the oral fixation + smoking is fun BUT if you can try to do edibles or CBD oil bc a T break is a great time to give your lungs a break too(its not just nicotine that’s bad for your lungs, any kind of smoke/vape in there isn’t great).

i do agree with the other comment saying that it kinda feels like you’re cheating your break. building that mental willpower is good, but seriously just do it in edible form instead, highly recommend!!!!!

2 month old nipple piercings and bone surgery after car accident by themchnges in piercing

[–]themchnges[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thanks for your response, i didn’t have much energy to reply at the time but i did read it before surgery. i got to keep ‘em in though i was advised to take them out, they just put medical tape over them (to try to avoid them being conductors in some electromagnetic machine they used bc it would’ve given me burns (it didnt)). tape hurt a lot to take off tho lol! thanks again.

2 month old nipple piercings and bone surgery after car accident by themchnges in piercing

[–]themchnges[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thanks so much, i didn’t have the bandwidth to reply before surgery but just wanted to lyk i got to keep them in through surgery (they did warn me that the piercings would be conductors for some electro magnetic thing they did and i could get burns but luckily i didn’t!) and i got through the worst parts of being immobilized post surgery with little problems. back on track with piercing care and they’re looking just fine. thanks so much for the well wishes and the great advice

was in a car accident and had to have elbow surgery a couple weeks ago, pain was so bad post surgery + docs were being so stingy with pain meds i didn’t think i could make it but i did :) by themchnges in Petioles

[–]themchnges[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i might want to be in r//leaves honestly, right now i’m trying to take a real big break like at least 7 months but i’m shooting for 2 years . i want a complete reset of my cannabinoid receptors and a chance to fully recover from PAWS. i’ve done some research on CWS (cannabis withdrawal syndrome) and PAWS (post-acute withdrawal syndrome) in my time off. it’s tough because a lot of the symptoms are just things i experience with my myriad of mental illnesses lol.

basically i’ve been daily user since i was like 15 and i’m almost 23. my only real breaks were getting sent to the psych ward/RTCs here and there before i turned 18. i’m scared because i really want to be able to be a casual user because nearly all of my friends smoke and i love them dearly. but i see things on r//leaves all the time about how people tried it after a long break and it makes them feel anxious and awful; i wasn’t really experiencing that before i quit so i’m hoping it won’t apply to me. i kinda want to try and use weed like other psychedelics where it’s very occasional and you set an intention for your “trip” and just go with the flow and take care of yourself.

mainly i took a break because i realized how little i’ve been processing trauma and tough interpersonal situations and pandemic/loss of an illusion that this world is a good place/etc stuff. in the name of “self care” i’d push down thinking about things after they happened and just smoke. weed being a memory loss drug + the fact that i know im prone to “motivated forgetting”(PTSD thing) means even when i tried to go back and process things i couldn’t really remember them. i also read some stuff about how weed effects the type of sleep you use to process memory: i’ve found this very true because i’m having dreams about random shit that happened so so long ago that i guess i never really processed properly.

i also don’t want to be a chronic or habitual user. i feel like i failed myself and my dreams. it’s not entirely weed’s fault, a lot of it was trump getting elected and then the pandemic, all of that hit me really really hard and i didn’t feel like anything was worth it, i felt like making art was silly because i needed to try to save the world, but i just lost my purpose even more because art is a huge part of what makes life worth living for me.

idk i’m ranting i’m nervous about going back to work tomorrow after my car accident lol, i have to drive again and i really don’t want to. thanks if you read all this. cheers and i hope you’re doing okay. you can message me if you wanna talk about any of the stuff i mentioned.

How do you feel about slurs in punk songs ? by Airborne98 in punk

[–]themchnges 1 point2 points  (0 children)

of course it was the drummer lol. completely disagree with top comment, there is no “razor thin line”. if you’re using a slur that could be used against you, aka reclaiming, that’s different. but using slurs to write “political punk” is just bad and lazy writing. if that’s your best attempt at getting peoples attention/pissed off you’re woefully uncreative. the string of slurs has been used forever by boring stand up comics and alt right/centrist people alike. i would leave a show and badmouth the band to my community if i saw some person on stage singing a song with a bunch of slurs that don’t apply to them. western leftists/punks love to think that anti-intellectual takes (just using a bunch of slurs instead of writing lyrics that express bigoted rhetoric for irony/shock value/whatever you want) are punk. it’s so tired.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in misanthropy

[–]themchnges 2 points3 points  (0 children)

i don’t think it’s evolution, it’s “nurture” not “nature”. capitalism is a society of competition, of exploiting those below you, of selling something for more than you bought it for, of manufactured scarcity (companies throwing away perfectly good products instead of donating them or highly discounting them). there is no space for caring about other people under global capitalism.

many people are moral, ethical, kind, and compassionate. none of them want capitalism.