Or even taking fewer showers. So many people shower daily with out actually sweating or getting dirty at all, destroying their natural skin barrier. Both taking fewer showers and also moisturizing, inside by drinking water, and outside with lotions or creams is the ticket for most people.

I was told it’s part of my hypervigiliance. I have cystic fibrosis so I already have more nerves that are more strongly connected than other people so my skin is incredibly sensitive and I have tons of physical and medical trauma that makes me hyper aware of my body and skin sensations so I’m always itching and noticing every little thing on my skin. I recently stopped shaving my legs and the feeling of my leg hair moving when I walk is so incredibly distracting and intense it almost tickles. I think trauma can induce excessive skin concern in people I just happen to be on the more extreme end of that spectrum

That’s just people who know how to cook, beginners want to follow recipes to a T and almost always come up with sub par results to someone who knows how to cook because they already incorporate what you’ve mentioned. This is just “make sure people cooking know how to cook” lol

The term “tankie” exists independently and prior to the popularization of the internet

I accidentally subscribed to one and it was filled with tankies acting like they were the true and righteous moral bastions of society while espousing blatantly ableist ideas and pure wishful thinking rewrites of history. I left and blocked that community.

I go from universe to universe collecting all the copies of me, then we get together and decide which one will be the easier to take over, then we take over that universe. Then we either rule as a hive mind or I kill the disloyal versions of me

Considering I was born with a deadly genetic illness that would eliminate me from most universes with out very advanced medicine so this might be a difficult task, unless I guess I’m the only genetically flawed version

Dark City (1998) could definitely fit the bill, it has so many unique ideas for that time in film and you can see there’s of all sorts of future sci-fi movies in it from the matrix to inception, it’s a very visually ugly movie and the acting is subpar but as a premise it’s super interesting. Generally I think remakes are a waste of time and money but I’d love to see this movie with a proper budget and modern technology

Around the time my kids were graduating from highschool, she always made it seem like being a mom was this monumental task that no reasonable person could ever do well, just unbearably difficult so to cope you’d need to scream at and emotionally abuse your children or you’d never survive. There are two modes of mothering, ignoring your child or screaming at your child. My mom kept me fairly isolated and wouldn’t drive me anywhere despite living in along distance to nothing but other houses mostly filled with older couples so I never really got to see how “normal” families work or how other kids interacted with their parents, if I ever did manage to get an invite to a new friends house or an after school activity was forbidden from participating. Raising kids though, wow, such an incredible eye opener to just how easy kids are to love, how easy it is to raise children when you’re a sane and consistent parent. Motherhood isn’t inherently a screaming match between you and a child who never asked to be there that you hate because of their mere existence. Sure not everyone is cut out to be a mom, of course, but to present abuse as both normal and justified is evil. I don’t care how bad she had it as a kid, she was obligated to protect me from that just like I was obligated to protect my kids from the things she did to me. She was an early childhood education teacher and I’ve come to realize it’s because anyone over the age of ~4 is too much of a human being for her to handle, she only wants completely subservient, physically small children around because she can dominate them and any other social interaction that she’s not dominating the other person is intolerable to her. She’s a pathetic person truly

Ugh that was such a wild slide and if you said anything you were treated like the dumbest person on earth who wanted “the terrorists to win” - trying to explain to people the patriot act was in fact not patriotic or even good for us was the first time I really realized how tuned out everyone was and how desperate they were to be told how to think

I will never understand why people who feel this way would adopt or take in kids from places or cultures they feel so negatively towards

The animation freaked me out but Dr Seuss illustrations also freaks me out

There’s a subset of TERFs that are lesbians, they’ve seen a lot of butch lesbians transition fairly recently (from what I’ve collected on the TERF forum I’m aware of) and they seem to point to that a lot. They seem to just consider transmen to be butch lesbians who “bought into gender ideology” and consider them to be quite delusional for doing so. I don’t get any sense of particularly “protecting butch lesbians from themselves” they seem to frame it more as those women are lost causes and the way to “protect them” is by not allowing them to be “infected” by trans identity, they definitely talk about them like they’re “asking for it” if anything bad does happen to them because they do believe they are women entering a world of evil men but have no way of physically preventing it.

I don’t consider myself a TERF, I do consider myself to be a fairly radical feminist (no we aren’t automatically trans exclusionary) so I do sometimes see them in rad fem spaces and was genuinely curious about the perspective but it seems fairly not cohesive there’s tons of conservative think in it, lots of “crunchy” women etc. TERFs honestly seem to care way more about the TE than the RF, they don’t seem to have any uniting ideology…

Ok what even is “the fediverse” and why is it called that?

I’m here to waste time, like I’d imagine most of us are

Also play settlers of catam

I’ve never met anyone who looks like me so I don’t worry about it

Sounds like something management would say