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violetblue, 5 days ago to random

Just got back from taking Max for blood work. I won't be able to concentrate on anything until they call me in a few hours. He's got abdominal pain but is eating normally, etc., so we'll see.

Photo: gorgeous brown and black tabby cat Max in sunlight and shadow standing on a footrest looking away from the camera, showing a small shaved spot on his neck where they did a blood draw.

violetblue, 7 days ago to random

I've never had a Jian Bing ("Chinese Crepe") before! Turns out, this place is a legend. I read later that Mr. Circle is famous and serves "Wellington's best Jian Bing or also known as Asian Crepe." Here's their recipe: https://www.rnz.co.nz/collections/recipes/mr-circle's-chinese-crepe-chicken-jianbing

ZachWeinersmith, 25 days ago to random

Stupid econ question:

So it looks like a lot of remaining inflation is rent. In that case, wouldn't you want to lower rates to increase home-building and home-ownership in order to reduce rent pricing?

RickiTarr, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

The Tale of Two Gynecologists

This is a bit long, and I've talked about this a lot lately, but it's something I'm thinking about a lot in the wake of so much hatred of female Healthcare. When my female troubles got bad enough that I finally talked to my doctor about it, he referred me to a gynecologist. I had already had several ultrasounds and an MRI at this point, and she had put me on some oral contraceptives for several months, (which made sick to my stomach no matter what I did) and had just done another ultrasound. She greeted me with "Well, you're really messed up inside, Honey.", which already had me pretty stressed out. Then told me I would probably need surgery to figure out exactly what was going on. She then asked me if I wanted children, and I said No. I had taken my husband with me to the appointment for moral support, and she glanced over at him, and then talked to me for 5 minutes about how many women my age could still have children, and I could definitely consider it, and that they would do everything they could to make sure I could stay viable. They could freeze my eggs if I had to do a hysterectomy, just on and on. She probably asked me directly 4-5 if I was sure I didn't want kids. Finally, I said, "Ma'am, my husband got a vasectomy over a decade ago, we are absolutely sure we don't want kids." After hubs had found me crying on the toliet, because my period was late again, he went to his doctor and said, "Hey doctor, I'm thinking about a vasectomy." The doctor gave him a pamphlet to read, and made him an appointment. The whole thing was done in a few weeks.

Anyhow, she finally referred me to a gynecological surgeon, and I was not looking forward to dealing with this again, and was just generally terrified of having surgery for the first time. I met with this woman and she was so efficient and practical. It is the longest doctor appointment I've ever had, since this surgery would be exploratory, she went over every possibility of what could happen when she was inside. She did a thorough exam, she went over all the scans that I had, and explained why she thought this needed done. Then she said she would like to put in a Mirena IUD during surgery. She said, "You're in pain half the month, and there's no reason for you to have a period if you don't want to have kids. You'll have some erratic bleeding for six months, but by a year most women have a very light or no period at all, there's no reason for you to needlessly suffer if you don't end up needing a hysterectomy."

It's interesting to me still, that one doctor was so focused on what my body could do, and another so focused on how I felt. I came out of the first appointment feeling scared and confused, and the second feeling heard and cared for. Feeling valued as a person and not a baby maker made the surgery much easier to go through, and the Mirena has been great btw. Women don't have to needlessly suffer.

deadsuperhero, 1 month ago to random

Sometimes, a bad memory can tear open an old wound that you thought had long healed. You wonder to yourself whether things could have been different, if you had made better decisions. Your mind teases you of what could have been, as your morosely gaze into a deep abyss of failure.

You think about what it would take to be reborn and start again, but your head is clouded, and your body weak. The dream lives on in you, but fear and sorrow just keep you down. To move a finger is to lift a mountain.

fraying, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

Today I got my first community violation on TikTok. It was a video about Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing that went on for minutes but failed to mention that McVeigh was a far right Republican white supremacist. That seemed like a pretty stark omission to me, so I left the fact as a comment. First, I was flooded by hateful responses. Then TikTok deleted the comment and issued me a “strike.” I appealed and was denied. I doubt a human ever reviewed it.

inquiline, 2 months ago to random

An entire diligently-reported NYT article on spiking absenteeism in schools...

that doesn't mention Long Covid

RickiTarr, 2 months ago to random

Tell me a silly/funny childhood story!

I'll start:

One time in Sunday School, the teacher was talking about the difference between humans and animals, and mentioned that Animals had Tails and humans didn't. I let her know this was not true, because my Dad had a tail, just in the front, instead of the back. The teacher was silent for several seconds, and tried to correct me in a church appropriate way, but I doubled down, and insisted that my little brothers also had front tails too. This got so heated that the teacher had to go get my parents to take me out of Sunday School.

RickiTarr, 2 months ago to random

Getting tired of being a bipedal, please give me other options.

mivox, 2 months ago to random

Today, made my traditional St Paddy’s dinner (not to be confused with a traditional Irish meal for the same occasion. I don’t even know if there is one, tbh.)… brown bread, colcannon, home-cured corned beef, Alaskan Smoked Porter (not pictured).

A green-glazed dinner plate, filled with sliced corned beef, a pile of colcannon, and a wedge of brown bread generously covered in butter.

seachanger, 2 months ago to random

from the 1920s to the 1960s people smoked right in your face - it took 40 years, millions dead, and life-sacrificing activism to change that norm. just for perspective 😕 #CovidIsNotOver

seachanger, 3 months ago to random

Israeli soldiers opened fire on starving families scrambling for scarce food aid, killing 104 and wounding over 700, then they backed over the bodies with their tanks. People had to carry the wounded away themselves as no ambulance could reach them and little if any medical services are available.

#gaza #ceaseFireNow

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/29/dozens-killed-injured-by-israeli-fire-in-gaza-while-collecting-food-aid

seachanger, 3 months ago to random

good to not let relatively small technical questions become emotional proxies for all that frustrates us about life and the internet

RickiTarr, 3 months ago to random

Share your cute adorable face, or don't, just be a lurker!

This my face in the sun, and my poofy hair and my eyes looking at you

RickiTarr, 4 months ago to random

If you could kick something out of your life today, what would it be?

RickiTarr, 4 months ago to random

Y'all remember when we sent our boys overseas to stop the Nazis from doing whatever this is?

This time there are three scantily clad women tied up by their wrists, in the background is a really smirky Nazi, in the foreground is a boiling cauldron that looks like it's full of lava and a hand holding a glowing Nazi brand
Okay there are three women once again all scantily clad, two are in the background in a prison cell looking on in horror as the third woman is tied up on her knees. There's some topless dude who looks like Yule Brenner holding yet another Nazi brand, while a Nazi officer watches joyfully. There is a headline: The Wild French Nymph Who Smashed Hitler

seachanger, 5 months ago to random

remove the need to extract insane profits from almost any sector and notice how many problems that would solve. transitioning more things to co-op ownership is not easy but it is possible and holds so much promise

RickiTarr, 5 months ago to random

Do you think there are any truly credible sources of news and information?

I feel like anymore when I read something, I need to do further research, and find second or third sources for verification. So many headlines are click bait half truths, hyperbole, or just full on lies and don't get me started
on YouTube "News".

luckytran, 5 months ago to random

“Into the trash went more than 18 million masks, 22 million gowns, 500,000 gloves, and more. That’s not counting states that didn’t give the AP exact figures.”

Ugh. Such horrible mismanagement that they didn’t give more masks away for free to the public.

https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-ppe-stockpiles-masks-50bf7739fc9d69f4b991a14daadecaba

RickiTarr, 5 months ago to random

Alright, after all this talk of ketchup/catsup, I need to know:

What are the Top 5 Condiments you have to have in your kitchen?

inquiline, 5 months ago to random

I am not going to argue with people but I am a paying customer of #dropbox and I am not a total clueless user (tho I'm not a tech person either); and I find this AI-query feature rollout confusing and not-reassuring about how they're using my data; and was alarmed to find the feature on by default.

(Reacting to a post accusing others of hyperbole/hysteria)

Mrfunkedude, 5 months ago to random

As we approach the end of the year, wouldn't now be a good time to FINALLY DUMP THAT BOX OF OLD CABLES AND CHARGERS THAT YOU'VE BEEN HOLDING ON TO FOR TEN YEARS "JUST IN CASE" ?!?!?

It's ok. You can let them go now. You're going to be fine.

CogitoErgoWtf, 8 months ago to politics

#politics
Lauren Boebert said she "tried to handle it", with "dignity and grace".
I think it's the "handling it" in public that was the problem. #Boebert