you’re done with your research before there’s any official ruling

This really isn’t how science works at all. Results that aren’t reproducible and can’t be retested under varying conditions are almost completely meaningless. And no way to find out if it’s (justly or not doesn’t even matter) decided that you can’t do that kind of experiment shortly after your single one experiment is over.

Sandbox games are the wooooorst for what this post is describing! Currently the sims for me.

I’m not saying more kids die in traffic over there. I’m saying people have to be, and are, way more careful to keep their kids away from traffic.

That, and streets are deadly hellscapes over there a lot of the time. Driving laws are barely enforced and infrastructure is almost like it’s intended to kill anyone who dares to exist outside a car.

OP provided a source, so it’s real, but don’t forget that Photoshop is still a thing as well

Hey now, some of us are both

I mourn every single person of colour’s, queer person’s, disabled person’s, and otherwise marginalized person’s life the non voters chose to sacrifice for their lofty ideal of revolution, or whatever else their reasoning was.

Oooh nice! Acids have been a life saver for me in my salt-reducing journey.

It isn’t. Soap is the salt of a fatty acid, sodium lauryl sulfate is a salt, but not of a fatty acid. Both are surfactants (meaning it breaks surface tensions), but have some different properties. A relevant difference in cosmetics is that SLS strips oils waaay better, which can damage your skin barrier and your hair. For some people it works fine, for others it’s too harsh and soap is better. (For me it damages my hair structure and thus makes my waves lackluster, but is fine in shower gel)

Even just some lime juice, black pepper, maybe olive oil would probably be great! I might try that with tofu.

Also 172/5’8 and same, several times! Even from me who were still taller than me! Also dated someone who didn’t care and was 175/5’9 and when we went out together and my shoes made me taller than him, we’d get an average of like 10 comments, all from men, about it. Lots of friends have told me their only slightly taller ex bf wouldn’t ‘let’ them wear heels.

Also, on a dating app, I’d get about 50/50 matches from masc and fem people when I didn’t list my height. When I did list it, I’d get mostly fem ones, and all the masc ones were tall. And fewer matches overall.

I’d settle for ONE week where I don’t have uni or work, or prep work for either (half my job is prep from home), zero medical appointments (I average 2-3 rn), zero chores and errands (cooking would be fine), and zero messages to answer. AND none of those to catch up on after. Can’t fathom how much that would heal me.

Ok to preface, everyone here is right, you do look perfectly fine. The lines are barely noticeable, I had to zoom in to even spot more than one. They also don’t really age you, they look like normal facial expression lines.

That said, even if nobody else notices them, it’s also ok to want to work on them. It’s your face, not ours.

Firstly, I really do think they’re mostly expression lines, i.e. not actual wrinkles. If that’s actually true, you can reduce the appearance of them by drinking plenty of water and being very diligent in moisturizing. Apply a moisturizer morning and night. Don’t over cleanse- for most people, it works best to use a gentle facial cleanser at night and just water in the morning. It’s hard to tell from the picture, but your skin looks well hydrated in some places but not in others, so you might have combination skin. There’s products specifically for that. If the small lines still bother you, you can look into a retinol serum. Those contain vitamin A and they’ll make your skin renew itself faster, thus reducing the appearance of lines and slowing down the formation of new ones. Retinol makes your skin more sensitive to sun, though.

In preventing the deepening and forming of wrinkles, your best bet is to keep up what I said in the previous paragraph, as well as protect yourself from the sun. Even if your skin is of a tone that doesn’t burn, the sun can cause skin cancer and also make you age faster. I myself have started using sun screen every day I go out when the sun is at least semi out, despite never having had a sun burn.

Last caveat, your skin WILL age. It’s a fact of life. We can slow the aging and reduce the appearance of lines, but we have to accept that it’ll happen either way. Cheers!

Im 27, very first birth year for gen z. And I’m a teacher and this is a multiple times a day occurrence. Also, them laughing at my slang terms that I don’t even realise are slang as I’m using them. And the scary bit is, some of them are 18-20, so still firmly gen z too.

Some older people have somewhat similar smartphone behavior as teenagers. Those of us born in the ~80s/90s kinda grew up along with technology. A lot of older people adopted it when they were already adults, so they didn’t slowly grow used to it the way we did. And younger people started using tech when it was already this super intransparent easy to use thing that it is now. So those groups behave somewhat similarly around it: mobile games, a lot of social media use, and, for some reason, also heavy emoji use. I guess it might be because it’s new and cool to them and they never used :-) etc?

Mind you, this is far from universal. Just a bit of a pattern I’m noticing. Also, I don’t really view you, a gen x person, as older, so idk.

If it actually is about the same I 100% recommend frozen over canned. Same applications (stews etc) because they’re also mushy when thawed, but they’re fresher, so they aren’t as gray and sad, aren’t as salty, have more of a taste and more vitamins survive. Only cans I buy are legumes and tomatoes.

Is frozen more expensive where you live? Here it isn’t. And more nutritious and noticably more fresh.

Happy birthday!

Bit of a vague/open one. What are you proud of?

Back after the initial escalation in 23, I was pretty annoyed how all the news that even mentioned it at all phrased it like the genocide started with that escalation and hadn’t been happening for decades prior. But now I see so so much more awareness of the topic, and I kinda changed my mind: headlines like this seem to make people feel less stupid for only realizing now, and thus more inclined to open their eyes to it. Since it worked in 23, itll probably work now, so I’m not really against this headline. Ideally, people will then do some further reading, and eventually find out that the genocide of palestinians has been Israel’s agenda since it was founded after WW2.

Man it’s not like I want to, but there’s a non zero chance that I’ll turn into a (more intersectional) ted kacynsky in the futuse