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Pretty sure this is saved from an attachment from a forwarded email of a scan of a photo copy of a mimeograph.
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History
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Pretty sure this is saved from an attachment from a forwarded email of a scan of a photo copy of a mimeograph.
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Capri Sun.
Ok, anatomical horror story aside - what kind of creepy ass fuck knuckle "smirked deviously" at a virgin while deciding what to "do to her." Who is this written for?
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rude
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Braising low and slow would be a better method. It won't completely break down, but the rest of the connective tissue should melt in your mouth.
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Living to 120 is becoming an imaginable prospect
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I work in hospice and see a variety of conditions. Some people in their 60's with significant mobility issues that are chronically exhausted, but then there's the patients in their 90's who just recently started cutting back on social events and activities due to injury/illness.
Seeing these differences was why I started roller skating (again) at 49 and increased other activities to keep my ass moving and challenge my coordination and balance. I want to get everything I can out of this life.
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Anyone else feel that Lemmy just *isn't* addictive?
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I truly appreciate the fact that I can browse Lemmy for my entertainment, and easily walk away when I need to be an adult and don't auto smash the button when I open my phone.
To me this is a very, very good thing.
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What's good in small concentrations, but lethal in higher? What's a glaring red flag you're encroaching on a lethal concentration?
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LD50's are fun!
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FBI finds 200 sex trafficking victims, 59 missing children in two-week sweep
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Oh dear Lord - I had no idea what you were talking about so I checked in with my friend Google.
I miss the days of my youth when conspiracy theories were fun.
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American here - it could be different in other states, but as a parent every year at the beginning of the school year I had to sign a specific form during registration stating whether or not I would permit my child's photo be taken/published. Yes, it's going to be a nightmare to track, but the school shouldn't want the headache of the fall out for not pulling a photo.
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I work in hospice and travel to patient's homes all day, but my scheduling is done over the phone from a work provided cell phone.
So either I have families/caregivers who never answer the phone and half don't have voicemail set up or the voicemail is full. On the other hand, I have people that answer every call and now and become targets at a vulnerable time. Scammers fucking suck.
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Vaccine research vs. anti-vax research
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No.
Having it can lead to long term damage (lungs, heart, etc.) even if you survive and mostly recover.
Early on they were able to show that people who got the 2 dose initial vaccine showed protection longer than those that were sick with COVID. Again, without the risk of long term organ/system damage.
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With lab grown meat we could see the advent of ethical cannibalism.
I can see someone submitting a DNA sample to Ancestry and watching the horror/drama unfold.
What would be worse - finding out the sample came from a missing person, or someone who never offered the donation?
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can anyone tell me wtf this is?
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For the love of God could you not?
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Oh balls
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Having assembled IKEA furniture, I'm pretty sure he didn't trap his sack during assembly lol.
Sitting on a stool with holes in it combined with a nice warm shower, scrotum relaxes, balls slip through a hole. The problem is that standing will try to yank both through at the same time, which just isn't going to work. I don't have balls of my own (someone who does please correct me if I'm wrong) but I'd imagine that after that startling moment, the scrotum would probably try to retract is contents for protection, which would make matters worse.
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Study links long-term artificial sweetener intake to increased body fat adipose tissue volume
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Is it the diet Coke or the lifestyle of the person who consumes it in significant quantities?
I've noticed that during healthier times of my life when I'm experience less stress, I have no interest in junk food or soda. When I get stressed and I'm not sleeping as well, I get more cravings and find myself making unhealthier choices for the little satisfying bump a dose of sweet/salty/fatty snack and a caffeinated soda provide. Obviously living a stressful life is unhealthy as a baseline.
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What from reddit do you hope to never see on lemmy?
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Just throwing this out there, but while this is the direction you went to deal with the trauma you experienced, do you feel like it's the healthiest path? I have a loved one with PTSD from trauma. There are many ways to deal with it, but I dare guess that therapy (with the right therapist for you) may give you better, healthier tools.
I only wish you well, and hope you find peace.
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Oh no...
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I was 48 before things started turning around for me. It's amazing what finally getting a stable job and sleep can do for mental health.
I hope you find what meets your needs, friend.
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What's your "old person" trait?
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Plus, my shit phone takes multiple attempts for the reader to actually work, then I have to download the PDF for the menu (one of the reasons my phone is shitty is because everything fights for device storage space).
Just give me the plastic coated pages of a menu to page through. I promise I won't wipe my boogies on the pages or lick my fingers while browsing.
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What is a well known 'public secret' in the industry you work in that the majority of outsiders are unaware of?
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17 years ago on a Saturday night, just before bedtime, my 4yo son was being a dufus and managed to break his collarbone. Before we knew it was broken (but knew something was obviously wrong) I took him to the emergency room. We were stuck waiting about 6 hours to be seen. The nurse that triaged us was extremely apologetic and literally stated "I'm so sorry you've had to wait so long, we're stuck having to see the drunken scraped knees first just because they came in an ambulance."
I'm assuming that if my son were bleeding out he would be seen faster, but I've assumed that in non-life threatening situations that ambulances receive priority.
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It's good to come prepared for anything
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Serious question.
Following the assumption that it's not food safe plastic, what is the actual risk that we're talking about here? I get that there's many variables (length of time/temp of contact, porousness and moisture content of food, etc) but let's say that the variety of foods were stored in a cooler for 4 hours prior to consumption. To do this 3x a year, what are the risks? Obviously this set up left in the car during the summer for 8hrs before eating would be a REALLY bad idea, but wondering where it starts crossing the line from insignificant risk to "you should really think twice."
I remember years ago Mythbusters tested the "5 second rule" and contamination really had much more to do with what was making contact vs how long.
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I was raised around those good old traditional values like "do what you're told" and "a woman's value is caring for a family." Once I started thinking for myself and asking questions, I still struggled with all the "but they're killing living babies!" idea. Then one day it occurred to me - we don't determine death by when the heart stops, why would we decide it starts just because we hear a beat? Brain death determines death, wouldn't an appropriate level of brain activity determine life? I let go of a lot of baggage that day.