I'm in my 50s and was told my whole life that I needed a skin care routine or I'd regret it. My skin was always oily until I hit menopause so I didn't see a point beyond washing my face every day.
So, I didn't bother until I was like 49 and started getting a flaky forehead. Seriously, it was like dandruff of the face. It was that, and not wrinkles or fear of them (I have a few, nothing excessive yet) which drove me to using a cleanser and a moisturizer.
I just use Neutrogena Hydro Boost products, no fancy department store stuff. And it works really well, I no longer have facial dandruff. I'm told I look young for my age but I plan to age gracefully- no Botox or fillers or anything like that for me, ever.
The thing is, the dress went viral, not the people in the wedding. I have never seen a photo of the bride and groom, nor even a photo of the face of the woman who wore the dress. I don't see how the dress itself going viral could be a nightmare for the people in the wedding.
Most of them. Like you, I pretty much did everything that wasn't injectable. I calmed down after I had kids, but ended up severely alcoholic when they were a bit older. That ended with a mushroom trip. After that I microdosed for a while as it improved my mental health, but I haven't felt like I needed it in a couple of years.
Yeah, I think I'll look into in as well. On Reddit sometimes people would use NSFW as a trigger warning on writing, but I'm not really triggered by writing. I'm not super into porn of any kind, though, so I'd rather not see that kind of content.
I don't feel too bad when I'm forced to use Reddit as a resource, because I have a pihole as well as a ton of adblockers, and I don't have a Reddit account anymore. I miss the niche communities, but I find that my life is better without that continual time sink with its constant silent downvoters, so I don't visit just to browse nor do I interact with the site beyond a page view. No upvoting, no downvoting (of course it's already impossible because I'm not logged in).
For some reason, when I tried that, I got a literal firehose of furry porn. Which is fine, I don't want to yuck anyone's yum, but it was...a lot. All at once. And I'm unable to determine exactly where it's coming from (new to Lemmy, and pretty sure NSFW is not allowed on Beehaw).
It's a line from a Pink Floyd song. I like the fact that when people see my name, if they know the song, they probably hear it in their heads. This is especially poignant since I once had a love like no other- it was our song. He died, but he would have loved my username. He would have loved Lemmy, too.
I don't think there's anything on the planet that is "for everyone". At my age there are a million things that people insisted that I would love, that turned out to be anything between mediocre to downright nightmarish. And it's not because I am some kind of downer who doesn't enjoy life.
I've done lots of things that were lifechanging for me that I absolutely do not recommend for everyone. Some of those things include: moving to another continent for life, psychedelic drugs, having children, recording an album (unreleased, will never be released), ownership of various pets. None of these things are for everyone, and I wouldn't push anyone who was reluctant to try it "just once".
I am so opposed to being on an instance that is federated with Meta that I'd probably delete my account if that happened. Thankfully I understand that Beehaw has already made the decision not to federate with them.
I'm the person who posted above about her dogs killing a cat that came into our garden. It would have been my preference that my dogs were acclimatised to cats rather than seeing them as prey, but that would pretty much require that I had owned a cat when they were young dogs, and I didn't. They honestly react the exact same way to a cat that they would to a hare or a badger, but I'm sure the hare would be faster than them and the badger would fight back.
I agree. I live in a rural area in a country where cats were seen as farm tools rather than living beings and pets until very recently, and keeping a cat indoors is believed to be “cruel” by most, but I see cats killed by cars incredibly frequently.
Also, I have two highly prey-driven dogs who are always controlled except when they’re in my walled back garden. The neighbour’s outdoor cat wandered into my garden, and it ended in a tragedy that left both me and the neighbour traumatised. The cat didn’t survive. It was in no way my fault, or even really the dogs' fault- the cat should never have been allowed to wander into the dogs' space on my property.
Then the neighbour tried to have our dogs put down, claiming that the dogs had come into her garden, killed the cat, and returned to our garden. Thankfully the dog warden who came to investigate saw that this was patent nonsense- we have a double-gated 3-metre wall with wire across the top on the neighbour’s side, it’s not possible for the dogs to escape into the next garden and quickly return.
So the neighbour built a catio for her new cat and does not let it wander. I am deeply sorry that a cat died before she came to that conclusion, but she should have controlled her animal just as I control mine.
I am much happier in my 50s than I ever was before- in fact, I was despondent for the vast majority of my adulthood. So I'd go back to pretty much any age before I turned 45, give myself the biggest hug, and say "It's going to be okay, you're going to make it, and you really are good enough."
I have heard so many stories on accounts being restored after using PowerDeleteSuite, what I plan to do is just delete my account so that my various comments cannot be cross-referenced as coming from the same person. I wish I could wipe it and know it would stay wiped- as a European this is within my GDPR rights, but it seems that good old spez plans to ignore GDPR.
