I have this problem, but width only, not overall size.

I just wear men’s shoes, and even those are wicked hard to find. There isn’t really a category of shoes for my size (not big enough overall for drag shoes to be right, but far too wide for normally sized women’s shoes - I wear 6-8 [brand dependent] 4EW in men’s) and I’m not willing to spend a fortune on shoes to have cute custom ones made, so men’s shoes and sandals are my options. Boring.

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I haven’t had quite that interaction, but I’m equally blasé about it. It’s literally just part of life.

“In the past year have you had thoughts of suicide?”

broad gesture if you haven’t you probably aren’t paying attention… but I’m apathetic, not active. Not that it would matter because when I was actively suicidal it took 6 fucking months to be seen by you chucklefucks…

They always get that concerned face and I have to reassure -them-… like no it’s fine this is just normal for me…? I live with chronic pain, I live with chronic poor-ness, it’s just chronic life (and not the fun drug kind, even). I’m not into it, but I’m not actively thinking about doing anything about it, either. Doesn’t mean I want to be resuscitated if shit happens, tho… and I don’t… (any more chronic issues would be probably one too many, and then I’d get active…) I even know exactly what probably painless method I’d go with, because suffering is dumb. And it’s something I can act on quite literally any time I want with zero effort on my part other than going to the store, so that I’m still here is a great sign!

My current doc (Va changes my doctors every couple years) was the absolute first, out of dozens of people I’ve told that to, who was like “ummm… that’s actively bad… so what is your mental health plan? (Told her I don’t have one, other than suck it up) I’m going to give you an open-ended referral to some outside groups who may be more able to help you, especially on short notice… I get why you don’t trust our mental health… so if you ever want that, just send me a message and I’ll put in the referral for you. Also here’s a list of non-profits that aren’t directly affiliated who may be better suited to help you…”

Fwiw, whatever it is in your life that causes these things, I hope they stay at or below active-planning level. If you ever want someone totally random to vent to, my DMs are open, and I’ll reply with commiseration rather than gaslighting you about things not being that bad, because… well I get how pointless that would be 😜

I felt that way about blitzball in final fantasy 10 (I think). Never finished the actual game.

The trick I’ve found over years of people-Ing as the person working is to always end with a statement that can either be turned back with ”you too!” without being awkward, or warrants something other than an autopilot response.

Thanks for stopping in, have a great night

Enjoy your meal and if you need anything just let me/us know

Don’t forget to tell your friends about us, and have a great day

Etc.

That way it’s totally fine for them to autopilot the pleasantries and they won’t feel cringey after.

Definitely mine too. It doesn’t even run faster than 1x… which is sucky slow but my own fault for having too many livestock animals to support my ~60 pawns… (peaceful gets very out of control if you let it) but now I have an outpost mod and as soon as all my kids are adults, most of them are gone.

I lived through a hurricane down in Texas years back, and the poverty “pick up basic supplied” lines were really dehumanizing.

No shade, no real concern for humans, just passing out goods based on queue and hole with someone made it to the queue

And of course performed by cops… you know, paragons of society………………………

I’ve had mine done for… god decades now and I’ve never had that thought even as an intrusion…

But now I will, damnit…

Definitely the pissed one. It costs next to nothing to farm any particular platform via bots, so why not go for anything that might have niche demographics? Destabalizing leftist groups seems to be sort of a goal of certain other groups these days so…

It only takes one.

Just say no.

I think that’s the one inverted color pic that is still widely recognizable by basically everyone, while not being someone particularly famous in a widely applicable way (Einstein and Marilyn Monroe are the only other two I can think of with iconic enough single-frame images to be able to be likewise recognized, but I’m open to other examples!)

Yeah because the economy is totally great right now and finding work that pays the bills is super easy!

— things said by people who are out of touch

Even when the economy was good, it took months to find new employment if you have to have any sort of standard (like minimum income above the minimum wage threshold). Most people right now can’t afford to be out of work for months.

Maybe your area was good, maybe your skill set is in demand, maybe you have zero standards or requirements to support your family, whatever it is, your experience is not at all the standard, and it’s much more likely you just have survivor bias. That’s when you say “it was easy for me, it should be easy for everyone!” While everyone else is struggling.

At least they don’t have to worry about sunburn because that can’t possibly be a comfortable or easy position to maintain for long periods of time…

Imagine a sunburned anal sphincter… shudder

One of the later red dwarf episodes has this. The ship gets upgraded to m-corp, which is pay-per-everything, and subscription-based, and as registered crew lister is the only one impacted. He can only see and hear things from m-corp.

Featured in the… super amazing movie Waterworld (1995)

I made some video game themed Xmas ornaments out of air dry clay as a gift… they turned out fine, but I didn’t realize the paint I used on them didn’t do a good enough job sealing them up. They should have been resin-dipped. In places the paint cracked, moisture got in, and over a couple years expanded the paper-based clay through the cracks so they look super creepy now. Very disappointing.

Mistakes are a great way to learn, though.

This misses the most important part.

Every other part of history is crammed just before the 1900s, as a big lump sum. Who cares how long ago the 1600s are, it’s basically the same as the 1900s, right?

Which is wild considering the spice trades of the… (according to the internet, prehistory through modernity, so that’s a thing…)

I have to assume that 1950s housewives were so thoroughly drugged up that they couldn’t tell the difference…

I know that they made everything in jello/aspic because gelatin was formerly a luxury, like sugar and basically any spices, so they went a bit batshit when they got cheap access…

No, but it also isn’t calorie-neutral, or calorie-reducing like fad diets claim…

Not a veggie in sight, so your whole digestive motility was based on alcoholic diarrhea. (Been there…)

So fashionable to shit yourself in public in white dresses.