Hey internet: this right here ^ is how you respond when you encounter new information after a disagreement. It’s totally okay to admit not having known something before. You don’t have to double-down on your ignorance or go off at some stranger.

We’re all just people, learning all the time. It’s cool.

Anyway, thanks for responding like a reasonable person, OP.

For sale: baby shoes, never worn

It’s a famous “six-word story” that is usually attributed to Ernest Hemingway. This meme’s framing is a reference/parody of it.

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If I wanted that, I’d use the hand-held shower head.

Knock-offs include: Steamed Clams and the Albany-exclusive Steamed Hams.

Eh, our tastes change with age. I remember as a teen thinking chest hair on men was icky, but in my 20s I began to love it.

It sounds like you successfully matured, and now you may reap the benefits of Xena’s sexy nature.

Couldn’t we just add equality for sexual orientation and gender expression to a new list of rights, along with the things already mentioned?

OP even said, “Today one could improve on it,” implying that the referenced constitution isn’t meant to be a comprehensive list for the modern day.

There’s nothing wrong with it if it works for you.

Personally, I produce a lot of sebum, and I’ve had to consult my dermatologist about it. I’m not a medical expert and I won’t claim to be - I just don’t want people who are in my boat to follow medical advice that could make their problems worse. One size does not fit all.

cause an imbalance on your scalp and you way overproduce as a response, hence hair getting gross fast.

Can we please stop spreading this myth? Scalps do not adjust sebum production based on how much is washed off. There’s no way for dead hair cells to report oiliness to their follicles - they don’t have nerves, they don’t send signals.

Sebum production is controlled by hormones. Different people produce different amounts. If you find that washing your hair every few days will suffice for your skin/hair type, that’s great. But that advice doesn’t work for everyone. If someone with skin that naturally produces high amounts of sebum follows your advice, they may end up with Seborrheic Dermatitis, which can cause dandruff, hair damage, and hair loss.

My mom goes through every aisle because she refuses to make grocery lists. She insists on trying to remember everything for some reason. Eventually she’d send me, without a list, and be all surprised pikachu face when I forgot stuff.

Now as an adult, I live by my grocery list. I’ve got a pad of paper on my fridge with the heading, “DON’T FUCKING FORGET” which my boyfriend and I add to as things run low.

My local supermarket decided to organize certain health/pharmacy items into a separate section on one end of the store. It has a totally different design, different floors, different lighting, and a different color scheme.

Now when I go to the supermarket, I chronically forget to pick up things like shampoo, toothpaste, and over-the-counter medicines, because they’re all stored in that end that I don’t typically walk through. It’s like on some level, my brain considers it a different store. Unless I wrote a list to remind myself that I need something from that section, I’m probably not going to wander into there.

I bet some C-suite thought they were really clever to make a special little “pharmacy area” on the end. Yet, by sequestering those items away from the main store, it makes me a lot less likely to buy them. “Out of sight, out of mind” is so real.

Successfully foraging in nature is naturally rewarding.

And if that’s not a satisfying answer, just note that one’s idea of “fun” tends to change around the time they reach their 30s. I’d be stoked to find edible plants in the wild.

A person in the U.S. might say their height is 6’5" (six feet, five inches.) Put into centimeters, that’s a little over 195.

The joke is that the number is really high, and without context (like by specifying “195 cm”) it could represent a variety of things. OP chose to make it represent “OnlyFans accounts to follow.”

If there is any additional point to specifying it as “OnlyFans,” I didn’t pick up on it. Anyway, I hope this helps the rest of that comment make a little more sense.

Ah yes, it is a Chromebook. Sorry, I didn’t realize it was a whole separate thing. I’m not hip to new/modern computer stuff, haha.

I don’t know much about Linux, but it’s the system on the computer I share at home. I think I’ve become spoiled to it.

I recently started a new job and was issued a PC laptop. The amount of obnoxious pop-ups and AI crap that I can’t seem to find settings to disable are infuriating. It’s like the computer and the Google apps we use assume I can’t do or figure out anything on my own.

Also, tangential, Gemini needs to stop suggesting itself - yes, I know you’re there. I’m ignoring you because I can’t seem to block you, but I wish you’d just leave me alone.

Goddamn, that’s a “monkey paw wish” if I’ve ever heard one.

(Creepy that the kid was 15 and the women were adults, but that’s a different issue.)

I wish critical thinking were taught and encouraged, but even my school teachers told blatant lies and sent me to the principal for pointing them out. There’s a systemic issue interfering with people’s abilities to question what they’re told (at least, here in the U.S.), and the addition of anxiety makes cracking that egg an even bigger challenge. I learned long ago not to assume that everyone else thinks about things the way I do, and unfortunately almost everyone holds some kind of belief that they’ve never critically examined.

it’s a consequence of being told you have to be perfect or you failed growing up

This would explain so much of the political in-fighting we see here, where “the perfect” becomes the enemy of “the good.”

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This is Michu, he used to live next door to me. He would be outside all the time, even in the freezing cold. Sometimes I’d hear him meowing at the neighbor’s back door to come back in, but nobody would answer. I’d hear the little guy calling out, and nobody would even be home. Sometimes I’d find him curled up on my deck chairs, so I started leaving blankets on them for cold nights. Eventually he started approaching me when I sat outside. We’d chill on the step and watch nature together.

But then a few months ago, he stopped coming. He stopped appearing entirely. When I talked to the neighbors, I learned that he’d contracted a UTI and had died. (Apparently it only takes a few hours for a swollen urethra to kill a male cat.)

Now, I don’t know how much his outdoors lifestyle contributed to his acquisition of a UTI (since they can occur in indoor cats as well, and search engine enshittification is making my search for hard data impossible.) However, I imagine that if Michu had been inside, his people might have noticed he wasn’t healthy.

Honestly, I’m not a vet and I’ve never had a cat, so I don’t feel qualified to tell people how to take care of theirs. This thread just reminded me of how I miss this little guy. He was around 4 years old and still had a lot of love to give. I was just lucky enough to receive some of it.

RIP, Michu ❤️