Same tbh. But we do have some normies who stumbled in by chance, and I’m sure there are people who see these small communities as a ripe exploitation vector (during the Reddit exodus everyone was super concerned with how to monetize shit, for example)
But yeah for the most part nobody really wants that.
I don’t think anyone here really wants that.
My anthropology class had us buy four textbooks all written by the professor.
None of them was used at all during class.
I didn’t buy them, or rent them, or spend any money on them. And then I learned to look at the book author while signing up for classes, since the book(s) is/are usually listed.
I have been using it for over 10 years for headache/migraine, so I get a way way higher dose than cosmetic, much more frequently, over far more injection sites (60-80 depending how my neurologist is feeling and what shifted complaints I have). So like take that for what it’s worth. The actual effect of it is pretty much the same, just paralyzed muscles in more places, and dosed more frequently.
It turns out after a long enough time (which, fun fact, super long-term use hasn’t really been well studied! Yay!), you actually do get some facial expressions back, but they are super muted. Mostly your face starts to employ other muscles that aren’t paralyzed. If you also get injections elsewhere for many years, like I do (neck and shoulders), the recruitment of other muscles can lead to some nasty rebound pain as the unparalyzed muscles desperately try, and fail, to make up for the loss, and knot the fuck out of themselves in the process. I’m dealing with this one now, going on 6 mths.
But for the most part, yes, you do lose a solid range of emotional expression, depending where you get the injections. Say goodbye to anger, surprise, confusion, and unfortunately compassion, among many other brow-heavy expressions (I decline injections in the constricting muscle between my eyebrows so I retain passable expressions of compassion confusion and anger, but surprise is gone entirely). For the first few weeks after getting it done, starting at about day 3 post-injection (every single time for at least a decade, I promise), you’ll feel how paralyzed your muscles are. It’s a weird feeling. You try to make a face and can’t, but you can feel the struggle. If you ever adjust to it, you still feel the first week or so, but significantly less.
I’ve declined to have any purely cosmetic injections, despite my neurologist making regular comments over the years about my lop-sided smile lines and crows feet (I use my face in asymmetrical ways; I like the wrinkles. It’s character.), so I don’t have the smile problem, tho I do get TMJ injections which make chewing tough stuff really difficult. I get enough of the shit injected already that I don’t really want more just to be “pretty”, but even with the current regimen, I get to look eternally youthful as I fall apart from the inside. Yay…
If it’s something I want to remember (to do, to look into, etc.) and probably won’t, I text myself, and leave the notification unread.
It works as a nice backup too, won’t lose them in email or deleting a note app or something.
I guess I haven’t really had the smelly problem (or at least nobody has mentioned it…). I have to use unscented detergents due to fragrance allergy, and I think thats a big part of why I don’t have that problem. The scented detergents leave so many residues to hold the scent that your own scent tends to stick more. Or maybe you just notice it more as it mingles with a scent you are used to. Not sure, but the unscented stuff at worst smells a bit musty.
When I get deodorant buildup or the musty smell, I do a warm cycle with enzyme detergent (usually wash on tap cold, but when I do a warm cycle I use dirty labs unscented enzyme detergent. I’ve tried others, including scented, before I found that and they worked decently too) and it clears right up.
If you have the smelly problem with bedsheets or towels or anything, look into laundry stripping. You can do it with natural cotton and whatever clothing as well, but it requires super hot water so it does cause some damage to the fabric.
Considering I buy clothes every few years at most, still have clothes from middle school and I’m almost 40, generally don’t throw stuff out when it starts getting worn just repurpose it, and recently started buying almost exclusively athletic clothing due to build and material quality, probably a really long time tbh.
I also don’t usually wear clothes at home, which helps. Bathrobe. I have five of those.
I’d bet I could survive the bulk of my remaining life without getting new clothes, but they’d be in rough shape by then.
“When the fuck do they expect me to do this?” Being replaced by “perhaps I should work later” is top tier military satire.
No fucking chance of working late voluntarily. Not paid for it. Only do when told to.
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They are both calzones.
I think it probably is, yeah. I’m not gunna look it up but that sounds right.
We have a fondu restaurant where you can get hard cheeses to dip in your cheese goo.
Idk why anyone would eat there beyond novelty tho, it’s so disgustingly expensive for the tiny bitty servings you get.
But they aren’t out of business yet, so your cheesy cheese idea isn’t a total flop :)
My area of wi, too.
I go to Amish dairies now, and sometimes the non-Amish side of the road cheese shops attached to smaller farms. it’s not cheaper, but it’s not a large-scale farm, at least, and the money stays more local.
Actually the piggly wiggly here in town has some of the best cheese and meat prices, despite being 2-4x more expensive for literally everything else. (Chicken legs and quarters for 0.35/lb is normal, bulk bacon which is mostly fat (great for cooking) is $0.50/lb, cheese isn’t outright cheap but less than other places). They seem to have worked out some sort of contract with a local dairy; that brand is nowhere else around.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=cE4lpSFNFUE
Tiny banjo?
17 isn’t that young, I was emancipated and thus a legal adult at the time (for convenience and work)… but yes I was fully aware of how the districts around me worked, because I used the choice program myself multiple times.
That didn’t stop me from warning the up-and-coming families, some years before it would have become an issue, so they could figure out what to do about it for themselves. None of my business beyond raising the warning call.
In my family it was jello, half of the half-set jello was mixed with whipped cream, other half cut into chunks, then mix in marshmallows, and fruit, and let it all set up.
I’ve never seen jello salad with cheese, veg, or nuts or anything, that’s wild, just cuz I’ve never seen it before.
Thanks! On the plus side in my time I was able to redirect young women away from my coach and the super hostile sexist environment he cultivated… helping out with jr high wrestling club was encouraged, so I talked to a lot of parents, and told them about my experience at that school, with that coach, and recommended looking for another for their upcoming female wrestlers.
I hope they had an easier time :) I genuinely enjoyed doing it, against mixed sex opponents. Male and female bodies have different strategies, and keeping them separated is stupid imho.
As a girl I had a similar experience with my mom, sole parent. Except I never got big at all. I got fit and learned how to use my tiny size to do what I wanted.
She used to beat my ass for being autdhd, when only the adhd part was known, and then I hit middle school and took up wrestling (on the boys teams! Fuck authority! Fuck norms! Girl power! Holy shit was that a struggle for several years that involved lawsuits… but she finally loved and supported me for being the almost son she never had… I’m actually still a woman tho, I just liked it :D) and suddenly my problems weren’t problems for her anymore…? Magical how that works. My golden child older sister stopped being a raging cuntbag at me, too, the first time I picked her up and slammed her onto her bed to shut her up when she threatened me.
No no that family dynamic doesn’t leave lasting personality issues, not at all :)
Tangent, but I wish we could normalize pass-around bakeware/dishes (with goodies). Nobody in my experience gives away stuff on dishes they want to keep anyway, without explicitly saying they want the thing back.
I like to go to thrift shops/garage sales and get cheap mismatched dishes to make/give away baked goods in/on so nobody has to think about returning it. They cost about the same thrifted as sturdy “disposables” these days. If they want to return it, that’s fine, but most people forget and that’s also fine, because then later they give me something in the same cheap dish, and that’s lovely. Or they use it to give food to others and that’s also lovely. Or they use it themselves and that’s great too!
This works wonderfully for holidays or other potlucks when there are a lot of dishes going around, and it works extra well for shows of support after a loss, when the grief makes memory difficult to maintain.
I also hate it. And the fediverse in general is super against it. And I’m super here for that.