You should be able to buy based on your measurements and a size chart, they are stretchy, you don’t need an exact fit.

OP, one time I was at the Walgreens and they were playing that song so loud, it’s so good. I live inside the city so they had this urban-mix Muzak that was great.

I have not put anything on yet, but will browse Bandcamp today

10% sounds ridiculous.

ETA It’s more like .0001%

https://www.globalgastroentrology.com/post/216-death-reports-linked-to-glp-1-drugs-what-the-headlines-don-t-tell-you

Sardines are great in a sandwich and are healthy. I love sardines and thin sliced onions with some mayo as a sandwich, yum. Homemade hummus also cheap and healthy, and if you bought mayonnaise make a little slaw for that too.

Lentils on toast are good & healthy, not a sandwich but would leverage your bread.

I agree that nobody should be eating anything they would not prepare - I don’t hunt because I don’t like camping and am a terrible shot, would be a menace with a gun. But I have gently raised chickens, and am at ease with eating meat, and DO want to know what I am eating. So hunted fowl and grass fed ranch animals are great, , I try to eat less meat humanely raised. We are animals and omnivores and we belong to this cycle of life.

People who want meat as a sanitized experience, who don’t want to think about what they are eating, that does bother me. Vegans don’t bother me, that makes sense. Hunters (for food) don’t bother me. Fishing kinda does, because the oceans are so overfished, we need to lay off awhile.

Anyway - I do think it’s ethical, a deer is going to be somebody’s food and a quick death is gentler than what a different predator would do.

That is funny to me; I love seeing beautiful people but they don’t stun me like that, I can’t really be attracted to someone I’ve not met. And I couldn’t define a “most beautiful” because there are just so many different ways to be beautiful.

Cheap and comfortable at least. Easy only after you figure out what suits your figure and style. At which point I think I’d even add “fun”.

I feel uniquely qualified to answer this, unfortunately, as someone who has given birth naturally several times and passed a kidney stone when I was 20.

The stone was more terrifying because I didn’t know what was happening, I had intense pain and was pissing blood, thought I was dying but by the next day felt nothing and when I went to the doctor he said “you passed a stone, it’s gone now, drink more water.”

I have had migraines more painful than either, but not as urgent feeling as the bladder stone, if that makes sense. They are depressing not terrifying. Childbirth hurts but doesn’t feel like either, it’s productive and sort of exciting, you are having a baby. So it hurts a lot but without the negative emotions it’s easier in a way.

ETA after reading Velma’s post - I never had labor for days with mine, 2 (the first and last) were “precipitous” which basically means I only got the worst part of labor and only for about 20 minutes, one I got the ideal, about 4 hours so time to get used to it and gentler start, and one did take over a day but that was because water broke and no labor, had to be induced (with acupuncture!) and an induced labor hurts more so that was the most painful one, but only a couple of hours. So when I say childbirth not as bad I mean not a complicated one.

This is so normal. I always sort of thought it was nature trying to replace the person who died. It does feel weird but is very common.

Yeah this is for sure a good situation for “fake it till you make it.”

Just say hi to everyone when you see them. Once a day talk to a different person for awhile, you will find out who is more friendly. I’m not naturally social or outgoing and I’m at at ease with that, but people can interpret it as unfriendly, so I try to communicate the way each person likes, to some extent. It may not come naturally to you but YOU ARE NOT ALONE in that. We just learned by practicing.

It’s ok not great I guess? There is a growing disconnect between prices of goods, and wages. Rents and house prices being the biggest example but also electricity, food, gas (I don’t drive much but the gas price shows up in other things like food)

We had a party but oof this year it was lame - my grown kids asked me to have one (our house is a great house for a Halloween party) and then took off to other parties instead of bringing their parties here, and none of the grownups I invited came because it rained hard, and we got almost no trick or treaters either, because of the rain.

Halloween is my favorite holiday, and I am happy enough just decorating and giving out candy, I do dress up. This year just sort of a Ghostess, dead makeup, long gray dress, inverted pentagram necklace. Simple and effective, I didn’t look usual.

The two kids who did stay had scary costumes - one was a data center and one was a Waymo.

You have to understand the roots of the voting registration rules here to understand it better. The whole point of them was to keep black men and all women from having a vote.

That’s it - that is what they were for. So every permutation since is built on that framework, it’s always "the wrong people might vote’ instead of “we want to make sure everyone votes”.

So voter ID is not a bad idea on its face, you go in to vote the poll workers need to know who you are, right? The lady who sits across from me at work is old, she went to renew her driver’s license in February this year and they said no, your current license (that they issued) is not enough, there are new requirements - we need your birth certificate, your first marriage license, your divorce paperwork, your second marriage license, your divorce decree from that marriage, then we can renew your license.

She just managed to get all this by mid-October, so she did get through in time to vote but what the fuck? She had to reach out to 3 states and getting a birth certificate from like the 1950s is not easy. Why is it not easy to renew? Because the laws were written to prevent voting not to enable it.

Health, I would like health until I die (I suppose that’s a limit in a way but I wouldn’t want it to keep me alive forever. Just unlimited health for a lifetime)

Money would be the most useful I think. It would be so nice to never worry about it.