You're a good parent.
Meanwhile, my (immigrant) partner and I opened up about our fears to my family last Christmas, and my mom told me not to worry because my partner is "one of the good ones." Ugh.
So yeah, thank you for being rational.
Whats_your_reasoning
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You nailed it with your username.
(I also hate that I agree with everything you said. It's so hard to be hopeful these days.)
For extra peace of mind, OP can consider getting a TDS ("Total Dissolved Solids") meter. My boyfriend got one and uses it to figure out when we need to change water filters.
My favorite thing about this comment is that your username is ricecake.
Cake appreciates cake.
If you mean "a loan translation," especially one where the distinct parts of a word are directly translated part-by-part, the English term for that is calque.
That is, if your local language translates pan = pan, and cakes = quecas, then "panquecas" would be a calque.
They also say "the best things in life are free," but then I end up dropping $300 at the dispensary.
Somebody's been lying.
That word goes all the way back to Proto-Indo-European, making it far older than English itself. In fact, it's older than Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit, all of which decended from Proto-Indo-European.
The more you know! 🌠
I am the exact same, friend. My hair becomes a big oil slick after only a day without washing and it's really obvious. Which is part of why this particular myth bothers me so much.
First, as teens, we had uninformed randos without oily skin telling us to heal our acne problems by putting nonsense like toothpaste and silly putty on our faces. Now, those same uninformed, non-oily randos tell us that our greasy hair can be solved by not washing it.
But my dermatologist was right about the acne care they recommended, I'm inclined to trust them about my scalp care too.
My family is like this. All we do is make fun of each other. It’s kept mostly internal (including close family friends) but that’s how we show love.
Oof, my mom is like this. My entire childhood was: bullying at school, bullying on the playground, then coming home to mom making jokes at my expense while telling me to "learn to laugh at myself" when I got upset because her words sounded exactly like what bullies would say.
It's one thing to poke fun at friends and peers who share your humor, but I hope adults recognize that kids are still developing their senses of self, and stuff like this can fuck them (and their relationships with their parents) up for life.
It’s what happens when you’ve been stripping your hair dry for years and your scalp is trying it’s best to fix the problems you’re causing. Stop causing problems and it’ll normalize.
Please do explain how an exocrine gland on the scalp is supposed to know how much oil is on a strand of dead hair cells, located inches away from the skin?
Thank you for the links. I already knew about prions, but I'd never seen the Med Twins before. A channel where an attractive young man talks about medical science in a foreign accent? You just found my catnip.
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Trump reveals executive order requiring Pam Bondi to prosecute ‘anti-Christian bias'
(www.rawstory.com)
I love finding new special interests, but the accompanying sleep-deprivation is real.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21148286
I was kicked off Medicaid at the start of this year and subsequently lost access to my ADHD and depression medication. In February, I moved to a new area and got a new job, but had to wait several months until I qualified for health insurance through it.
After that point, I had to wait for a weekday when I wasn't working and when I had the mental capacity to tolerate back-to-back disappointing phone calls... all without medication that would make the process significantly easier to tolerate. These are only the calls I've made today.
Finally, FINALLY, I have an intake appointment scheduled.
It's absolutely shameful how much a struggling person is expected to do in order to access basic mental health care.
I was kicked off Medicaid at the start of this year and subsequently lost access to my ADHD and depression medication. In February, I moved to a new area and got a new job, but had to wait several months until I qualified for health insurance through it.
After that point, I had to wait for a weekday when I wasn't working and when I had the mental capacity to tolerate back-to-back disappointing phone calls... all without medication that would make the process significantly easier to tolerate. These are only the calls I've made today.
Finally, FINALLY, I have an intake appointment scheduled.
It's absolutely shameful how much a struggling person is expected to do in order to access basic mental health care.
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I feel you. I've been thinking a lot about my options lately (as I'm sure we all are.) As appealing as the idea to leave the country is, there's some part of me that's screaming, "No. Our place is here. These is our home. These are our neighbors. This is our fight."
I hope those most vulnerable can find a way to stay safe... But as for myself, this system has kept me too poor to afford having kids, let alone owning a house, or any other assets, without hope of affording retirement, trapped in a system where I'm basically a slave running in a hamster wheel... So what have I got to fear? I'm going to stay here and organize.