Food. Probably get a single catering size meal from a restaurant.

In the late 90s-00s a good half of the school wore hoodies and pajamas everyday. So it was 50/50 t-shirt n jeans vs hoodiejamas.

I’m with you on the pedo-staches. Ew.

You should refer to her as her nickname, Rory, since they’re both Lorelei.

I have always been “non-traditional” looking. When I was young and skinny I don’t think I was ugly but certainly not conventionally beautiful. Now that I’m older I am certifiably “meh”.

The expectation to look pretty (for men) is still there even if I don’t meet the criteria for their attention. I still feel the societal pressure, I still feel bad about my appearance when I’m not serving male gaze ideals. It doesn’t just go away even when you’re disqualified from personhood for being ugly.

I’m hoping becoming an old biddy will release me from requirements and I can feel free.

Until you can afford it deal with the more permanent solutions, I used to know someone who both waxed and epilated their beard.

They used stripless wax like GiGi Strip Free, a microwaveable wax that smells like pine resin you can get at Sally beauty supply. They also purchased an epilator from Amazon, which is a device that plucks hair in bulk and looks like an electric shaver.

Both methods are touchy but can give you a smooth face with a longer regrow time.

With waxing you have to be careful not to rip off your skin which is always a risk when waxing the face. Epilating just takes technique and pain tolerance.

Both are reportedly painful at first but you get used to it after a while.

I’m not a “collector” but so far my physical media is a mixture of both. I just don’t have the storage capacity for cases but I keep cases for things I really like or box sets.

Yes it has been a stark difference that picked up this month. I was in what used to feel like a chill community and the sheer vitriol of the threads the past week has been really annoying.

This is stupid but I was just using it so it is on my mind: a calculator. Saves so much time and paper.

I don’t wipe it unless it gets gummed up but honestly I’ve can’t think of anything where this happens anymore. All of my condiments are either jars or squeeze bottles. I never wipe squeeze bottles and they never get gummed up. Jars only get wiped if they somehow got a bunch of stuff in the grooves, which is excessively rare.

That being said using a finger is nasty and I hope you guys don’t serve guests from those bottles.

Gumballs. I can’t buy them often because I’ll just straight up eat them to excess like a weirdo. I don’t know what it is, I can’t stop myself and this didn’t start until like 4 years ago.

I don’t word good and ChatGPT bro helps me use my nouns.

That’s only kind of a joke, I have anomic aphasia and use ChatGPT to help me find the words when I lose them. I used to use Google but it doesn’t really work anymore.

Dude my parents chain smoked every day in a poorly ventilated mobile home. It was everywhere and we became noseblind unless it was directly wafting in our face (yuck). When I moved out everything was so much better. I was so happy to be able to breathe and not stink, however, I also left the house addicted to nicotine despite never having smoked myself.

I’m strongly suspicious that some of my current health problems might be tied to second hand smoke.

Edit: one thing I did to get around it was wash my clothes so that I’d have an outfit in the dryer (protected from smoke) to put on in the morning. Combined with morning showers I hope I didn’t smell that much.

The big boy band hits from the late 90s/00’s. I was pulling some edgy crap as a teenager and despised them at the time.

Look, they’re catchy by design and denying it is futile.

Yesterday I didn’t change the channel when I was listening to some personal high school nostalgia music and Bye Bye Bye came on after. It’s enjoyable and I wish I wasn’t such a cringey dramatic weirdo in high school even though we all pretty much are at that time in life.

I watched Girls5Eva recently and knew instantly I was doomed.

I would love a local one to use for the same things as CharGpt only I want to control the knowledge training dataset so only quality data is in it.

I do not have the resources or knowledge to pull this off but it would be really nice to not worry about garbage-in-garbage-out.

Hot dog! I knew there’d be a juicy explanation in the comments. Way to be my dude.

Also for those who don’t feel like Googling it: flow arts include juggling, spinning, baton/staff/whatever spinning, fan dance (?), and more.

TIL there’s a general term for that.

Wouldn’t the coin on the knuckles thing count?

Compulsive skin picking for those who don’t want to have to Google it.

Fairly worried. I limit plastic but even limited it’s in a lot. I want to install a filter on my washing machine to help catch micro plastics from my clothes. I have a septic but I think it would still be helpful in adding yet another barrier before they filter into groundwater.

I’m a little more worried since they said that it will create blockages in your veins and arteries so you’re more likely to stroke the fuck out.

Everything sucks and there isn’t much to do about it on the individual scale and the push to put the moral onus on consumers is fucking bullshit. I’m 90% certain the recycling service I pay extra for just dumps it with my regular garbage.

Seconded, I’m loving Connect.