Joyful
5mo ago
Not a single female trump voter I know hasn't had a major cosmetic procedure; the type where you are laid up for at least a week, and a majority of the normie democrats are right there with them.
Major cosmetic surgery? I don't know any young republican women who have had major surgery. Botox maybe. (I personally haven't done that either, but i'm also a senior millenial so edged out of your bracket). I think the effect you are seeing is that for the last 15 years people were told that filler was temporary and it dissolved and goes away so they got it done over and over. It turns out that actually it migrates and doubles in size. Over time this makes faces puffier and puffier. So you are seeing early Kardashian hangover that was supposed to be subtle. Not major surgery. The majority of conservative and rich women don't try to look like trophy wives and arent' trophy wives, so using Mar A Logo as your basis for what women look like is weird. Where do you live?
Joyful
5mo ago
No idea. But consider Dewey instead. Your collection is probably closer to a public lending library than a university library.
Or you can go the way of many great librarians before you and make your own system and try to impose your will upon the world.
Joyful
5mo ago
A lot of the "covid vaccines might be bad, actually" data comes from the military. Infertility claims doubled in the year after vaccination. Women with completely steady cycles (in my entire life I'd never had a late period. as a teen it was every four weeks during chemistry on thursday, that predictable) had their cycles thrown off for months. Young men (again, the military data) had a ridiculous amount of heart complications. The MRNA processes hadn't been tested enough, and MRNA trials since covid have been pulled for having too many side effects. Never taking another MRNA shot again personally.
Joyful
5mo ago
Yes its not the being right that makes me angry. Its the continued lying. Nature still won't publish the lab leak evidence. Apparently (according to Matt Ridley) they went from "not enough evidence" to "everybody already knows this no point in publishing it." I'm angry because my government paid to make the common cold MORE contagious, released it on the world, lied about it, made a vaccine that didn't work and was worse than the cold, and lied some more. And told anyone that objected toany of this that they were outre and people should exclude them.
Joyful
6mo ago
No you simply need the BC and proof of the name change. Like any married woman has to get. Married women do not generally change their birth certificate to pretend they were born married to their husbands. Changing birth certs is desecration of a historical record and makes no sense. I don't even like it for adopted kids.
Joyful
8mo ago
Thanks for this. I get a lot more of my comedy from twitter these days as well. Right now I'm enjoying twitter in-jokes that are only funny after you've seen them more than ten times. Favorites are Rubio having to do all the jobs and fake BBC Drag Queen headlines (although I haven't seen this one lately).
Joyful
8mo ago
If you are looking for a meaningful way to engage with your nostalgia, I'll recommend Natalie Goldbergs book "An Old Friend from Far Away". You will remember more than realize. Its not a book for writing a memoir as a "here is my memoir please buy it". Definitely non-performative. But a way to spend up to dozens of hours digging into details about your life in a profoundly pleasurable and creatively meaningful way.
Joyful
9mo ago
Remove a handful of dangerous cities and the US doesn't have high violent crime rates. Half our murders are in two counties.
Joyful
9mo ago
That's because kids that read books go to college and expect to study the wonders of civilization and literature but get bogged down in taking 10 whiny marxist oppressor/oppressee classes from idiots.
Joyful
10mo ago
I just finished Beyond Cynical and I'm not sure why this isn't a bigger book. It's a great explanation of why we have negativity bias, and seeing it around us, and working against it to be happier. I also just finished Witch King (I love Murderbot and this is her other major series) and I liked it but it lacked the humor of Murderbot.
In lazy comfort food rereading I read Thief of Time (Terry Pratchett) for the first time in years, and it was great, and I'm rereading Scruples and Scruples 2. (70s/80s wealth porn, think Crazy Rich Asians but more episodic and fantasy fulfillment. The book equivalent of a bubble bath in a sunlit bathroom.)
Joyful
10mo ago
Did you see the study that said that devs using AI thought they were 20% faster but they were actually 20% slower? Cal Newport discussed it on his podcast.
Personally I love the help troubleshooting but the code I generate myself.
Botox doesn't result in any of the dramatic features so I doubt anyone includes it. It just makes your face smoother for a while until it doesn't.
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