I do this always. It’s the “I’m not a threat” thing. I prefer the discomfort or personal inconvenience to being seen as a threat or even causing anxiety in that direction. Maybe it makes no difference, that’s fine, maybe they think I’m weird, also fine as long as it has the intended effect of getting across that I am not a threat. It’s worth it for the times it does matter.

Not a bad thought, but I’m either too smart or too stupid to fool myself like that. I’m not sure which.

Every time I think about buying something used, I remember the time I had bed bugs (not from buying used stuff; a neighbour was infested) and I drop the idea immediately. My brain doesn’t care that I’ve never seen a bed bug in a thrift store, I just won’t take the risk. Can’t take the risk. Too traumatised.

You even called it out as an uncomfortable question. You’re as far from wrong here as one can be. I hope your sister comes around and can have an equally uncomfortable conversation with her husband.

Well, yeah. Gravity affects the passage of time, and gravity is not uniform throughout the universe. Some areas have much higher gravity, enough to cause significant differences in the “age” of certain patches of spacetime, especially over the age of the universe. The real question is, does the age of a patch of spacetime change anything else about it?

I think you’re on to something, raging badgerfuck does sound like it’d be on the list of marriage-enders.

Given that they are serious, though, and the subject, maybe they should be taken deadly seriously.

That if I just show someone the truth, they’ll believe me.

Technology Connections is one of my favourite YouTubers, props for the shout-out!

Have everyone, even people you care about and who supposedly care about you, call you something you hate for four or five decades. And they know you hate it, and you know they know, and they keep doing it anyway.

It’s not the name, it’s the incessant implication that you and your wishes do not matter.

I love stuff like this. Seeing history portrayed through the eyes of a culture not my own is endlessly fascinating. I really enjoyed Hetalia for this reason, too.

I’m going to block you and your community personally, because if there’s one thing I hate more than the patriarchy it’s gatekeepers. You make your own world smaller and our movement less effective by attacking our own like this.

You get what you pay for, I guess.

Yeah, that’s just the zeitgeist - closer and closer to midnight.

We have no information on how he obtained the potatoes, how he transported them to the hotel or got them up to the room, any other occupants of the room or bathtub… This could be the headline to a psychobanger of a story.

If those cooktops had been electric, there would have been no increase in NO2 at all. Additionally it was a small study, sure, but the thing you cite - keeping doors and windows closed - is just good methodology. Have to be sure the NO2 isn’t coming in from outside.

I had gone some length of time without remembering that story, thanks so much for the spike of anxiety.

Sick of the bland food, probably.

Report them to ICE?

But I love sushi…