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I guess it always felt the same to me as when they said I'd eventually want a baby.

When I was younger and living in a conservative area, it seemed like I was broken. where people often started conversations by asking about my husband/boyfriend/crush before hitting oh, you must be one of those weird women who doesn't want husband/house/kids. a lesbian. (you'll obviously eventually want sex and progeny. to do otherwise is just... immature, especially in a woman.)

When I was older and had moved to an area with a lot more different kinds of folks and it came up less, it's just who I am. if some wiseass thinks they know better about how I feel - well, they're definitely not relationship material. not even friends.

and it's a spectrum. I currently have a partner I see every 6-8 weeks, which works for us. but for decades it would be easier to say I was ace than try to explain the circumstances where that might change.

my Dr said to expect a couple weeks when I go off it, if I ever do. and supposedly the all the way off is worse than just going down

oh my gosh. I was starting to think this was something I made up. you totally made my day.

when I was a kid, we had Biggles taped from TV so we could play it (vcr) all the time. it was one of the movies we could all agree on, and it just had part of a label with something that I was pretty sure was Biggles scribbled on it. the time travel shtick is definitely why my mom taped it, and probably why we enjoyed it (not exactly war movie kids, but we'd watch anything vaguely science fiction).

but now no one else in my family remembers it, so I thought it might be a Mandela effect thing.

I finally switched away from the across the street Walgreens because they never filled a prescription until I stood in line to pick it up. online refill of anxiety meds, never notified they filled it but the notifications are glitchy, go in 2 days later and it's not filled. call for refill of the same meds, same issue. and it seemed like every other person in line had the same problem.

Bartells is more of a walk, but I don't have to beg them to fill my prescriptions.

my guinea pig herdleader likes when everyone gets to eat a treat.

she didn't really get why the cat liked meatpaste, but she'd yell until I put out a treat for the cat. I often grab a little something to eat while I sit next to the pen with them while they eat their veggies. it makes them feel like I am part of their little herd. i get all the positive reinforcement grooming and nuzzling affection.

she's just a little too greedy to give me her food, though.

I've got a couple guinea pigs. one assumes the tarp is the limit of his territory, whether or not there's fencing.

the other one regularly goes wandering, but respects the areas I've said are off limits. and she knows she has to get back to her territory - the tarp - to get any treats.

so it's entirely possible this bunny recognizes his "room", as defined by the new rug.

quoting from your link: No reductions were statistically significant. Only one difference [re:disease] was statistically significant.

plus it was done by a pro-vegan group with obvious bias. so the results from the pro-vegan funded study are not terribly good at supporting veganism for cats as more healthy. it's about the same, maybe less disease (severity of disease wasn't covered in the abstract but would be a significant part of a decision). show me a study not funded by a pro-vegan group with similar or better results before I consider feeding my pet a diet very different from their natural diet.

yeah, I do.

I was a kid on free and reduced lunch. there's stigma around being poor enough to need it, and I was bullied for it. my home life was sufficiently dysfunctional that it could be the only food I ate that day, and there were still times I'd rather be hungry than bullied.

so in the interest of removing something kids can be bullied over, sure. tax the rich more, and let a relatively tiny bit of our taxes buy every child at least one meal a day.

-childless taxpayer

thinking OP shouldn't be in the comments is so weird. you should start a conversation but not take part?

in any case, i check the comments here to see what new interesting things i can learn!

ferrets are like kittens that never become cats. they get a little slower with age, but given they start like they're running 3 times faster than the rest of the world, it's not noticeable until you get a young ferret again.

my grandpa used commode, but i haven't heard it from anyone younger. grandpa was a Depression era kid, and the family was poor to begin with.

he also said "shorts" instead of "underpants", which caused my brother who only wore long pants some confusion and trouble.

my cat loses it if she wakes up and can't see me. I live in a studio. there aren't a lot of "out of sight" options. at one point, there was just a screen between me, in my computer chair, and her, on the bed. we still did the whole call and response.

she doesn't look for me, she just starts yelling until I respond.