My guess is you let the days go by and let the water hold you down

Well you gotta do what you gotta do

Am an academic, can confirm

I didn’t notice the picture but I spent a solid 5 minutes in existential grammar crisis about “Erdnüsse gegen Zigarettenstümmel eintauschen”. Because to me it reads like they gave peanuts to get cigarette buds.

Yes, it is just cbat on repeat

1/8?? What kind of dream job do you have?

How on earth are you reading while lying on your stomach??

Anecdotally, I had a quenching desire to lie on my stomach after giving birth. Like, I was exhausted and sleep deprived and you could have told me that this would kill me and I’d still sleep on my stomach in the hospital. I later looked it up and apparently lying on your stomach helps with the back formation of the uterus.

So you telling me venus doesn’t look like a cheesy pizza?

That got deep really fast xD

Anyway, I’ll be happy to share results once I’ll get to it!

I assumed it was because it helps develop fine motor skills. Also bright colors and contrasts are a visual stimulant.

As a frequent pee-er myself I think I should talk to my doctor

You wouldn’t believe how surprised I was that you could just buy them as a regular person. Somehow it felt like only doctors are allowed to have these. You can’t have that at home.

Well, we do now, but it feels wrong.

I often regret a lot of decisions and long for the paths I didn’t take. Then I remember that I was very likely to take a path that would have gotten me killed. Be it through rape, accident, suicide, or - most likely - by drinking myself to death. My life right now isn’t what I thought it would be, a lot of things didn’t turn out as I had yearned for, but it is a nice life and I am so grateful. So when I get sad about the missed opportunities, I try to humble myself and be grateful and impressed by what I have achieved. I didn’t die. And if I think about what deep pit I got out of, then my “life career” is so much steeper than a lot of people’s. Going from the mariana trench to the coast is quite a climb, even if you’re just at sea level at the end.

First and foremost: good! Let them continue to do research. And hint, any new discovery is good and should be followed up. The caveat is that beta amyloid plaques in the brain have started to gain a lot of critique as a target for Alzheimer’s. The problem is that research has focused a lot on stopping or even reversing the accumulation, but even when this works, this usually doesn’t alleviate the symptoms. And obviously it’s research in mice. So take the enthusiams with a grain of salt.

Damn that reminds me how I felt like things ought to, have to, must and will absolutely change with the pandemic. Lo and behold, 6 years later, we’re back to the same old shit.

I assumed we’d realize that we went too fast and too far. That we need to work together to get over this, cooperate, help one another. That there are things that matter more than corporations. I naively assumed that in times of global crises like this, we would get closer together and put aside all that shenanigangs. Slow down and realize that if we just tune it down nature will come back, the planet will heal.

Obviously, quite the opposite happened society wise, and even in terms of medical policy we are back where we started.

We are currently having Covid. How we know? We still use home test kits. When I told people we tested positive today they are so surprised that we even tested. They are even more surprised I am keeping my daughter home since she has no symptoms but a cough.

Everyone is surprised that I wear a mask when I pick my healthy daughter up from kindergarten when I have a cold and my spouse can’t pick her up. People are surprised I am cancelling a dentist appointment last minute because I have the flu and conjunctivitis. People are back to going to work with a flu. For fucks sake.

Can I suggest putting some frozen kale or spinach in it as well? For extra veggies and taste. We basically cook that every week and I love it. Granted, I put a tad more effort into it (stir fry onion and garlic and tomato paste before I add rice, lentils, greens and broth) but it’s basically the same.

Also try adding soy sauce, smoked paprika, and liquid smoke. Just a drop but it does wonders. Yeast flakes are also great.

As someone who’s actually had this problem (in an urban area) and actually solved it

That’s honestly quite remarkable

Idk wtf 🌚 means

Well I mean I can’t really hang out at a playground without a child, let alone climb stuff there. There’s an age limit (at least where I live) and you cannot hang out there without a child 😅

Same for a very cool museum that has a whole floor dedicated to amazing stem experiments. But you can only go there if you accompany a kid age 3-8. They send teenagers who come on their own away, let alone grown ups.

I can’t bike on the sidewalk. I much prefer biking on the sidewalk. I have to bike on the sidewalk when I have my kid with me.

Where I agree is wearing cutesy glitter stuff in my hair. I should have done that much before I had my child as an “excuse”.

For real, having kids is like a free pass to do things and go places you would be too embarrassed to otherwise or simply not allowed to.