RBWells @ RBWells @lemmy.world

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I don't understand the mismatch, how can one be interested in a one night stand with someone who hates one night stands? Like, how did you get this far in without that coming up already?

I don't think your approach to sex is wrong, at all, nothing wrong with needing casual sex, I just don't understand how you ended up in this situation, if you don't like her in even a friendship way how did it get this far?

I don't know if you are joking but fresh orange juice, strong cold brew, and fizzy water is really good. I thought it would be awful but it's delicious.

A hori-hori, a knife shaped for digging and cutting both, and often one side has measurement lines too. Ever since I got one a few years ago I have not been without one. Dog destroys it? I buy another. Kids lose it? I buy another. Just such a useful tool.

And both these items make good impromptu weapons.

Mermaid hair! It's awesome!

Garden knife and iron skillet.

I do agree with the consensus here - it's weirdly moralistic to say fat people should just do willpower harder, if there a drug that works for so many. It's a lot like telling an anorexic to just eat more. Eating disorders are complicated. A drug that fixes the appetite and improves blood sugar handling is an enormous improvement compared to what we had before.

I've never been fat, but have been eating disordered in the other direction and there is no way I could have been convinced to eat more just because it would have been healthier. If there had been some drug to fix my relationship to food back then, I feel like nobody would have said "just use willpower and eat better."

At home if I make pizzas I make one for me with anchovy, onion, and hot pepper flakes or pickled spicy jalapenos and that does usually keep everyone off it, and I love it, my ideal pizza. Salty anchovy, sweet onion, punchy peppers, so good!

This is all true, but if overweight is your most urgent health issue, and if the excess fat is causing other health issues, simply reducing weight by whatever means can improve health, and there are virtuous cycles too, if you are lighter you can move more, maybe you feel better about your body and treat it better, an upward spiral. The epidemic of overweight (or more specifically over-fat) is causing so many cascade effects here that it's well worth treating aggressively.

What I'd like to know is are these beneficial side effects just due to the weight loss, or are they available to normal weight people who take the drug? Is it actually the drug, or would they get the same benefits by losing weight some other way?

No idea. One of my kids likes it, I always block Pinterest results on searches once I figured out how, because I can't stand that site.

What the what? There is no "none of these" choice? In that case I'd check them all. And in the next screen when they ask how many hours for each, put 100 hours for each of them.

I have never had an account on any of those, did have a very long run on Reddit and a couple of interest-specific communities.

It was the inverse in my house, oldest daughter and I are chiliheads, ex was not, though he was ok with mildly spicy stuff, not oversensitive. So daughter and I go out for Thai food because if it's just us we can get it so spicy. We bring some home and warn the dad don't eat it, it's spicy . He gets stoned and forgets, eats it and was literally traumatized; would not touch anything spicy for a couple of years.

Done, thanks. Also the old mod resurfaced when I acquired it, so I added her back in as a mod too.

My kids do "the board", write a checklist for the morning on a whiteboard.

I use the heck out of the phone calendar, and set alarms in both home system and work computer to make me stop and focus.

A "we have food for" list on the refrigerator.

To some extent, just aligning my schedule to fit my better hours, which are in the afternoon. I don't go to work so early, because I'm kind of useless before lunch anyway.

The long arm of the paw!

Not at all weird where I live. Very good use of the park.

If it's weird where you are, even better. Go for it.

We had a little-used parking lot a couple blocks away from my old house and there was a guy who practiced the tall unicycle there. For 20 years, we would drive past that corner taking kids to/from school & us to/from work and it never failed to delight us when he was there.

About 4 hours but not in one go. Everyone is different but I can't imagine 8 hours straight at anything.

Woah, I've not seen any of those! Yes I am old. I liked the animated Aeon Flux a lot, and there was a pretty bad live adaptation, so I thought it was famous.

I think sort of, yes. It's funny because I will move somewhere, then it gets gentrified and people can't afford to move there, it's happened four times in my life. But doesn't that mean I am an early stage gentrifier, when I move where I can afford to?

And on energy, I feel stuck, need a car, don't use it often, with two large and two small salaries in the household we are solidly middle class but I don't want solar panels because then my roof and house become uninsurable, we are all electric no gas.

In short YES anybody living in comfort is likely part of the problem, but I would love for everyone in the world to live in comfort!

Wouldn't this depend on why the assassin is after me?

Is this obscure? I thought it well known?