Mouselemming

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[CW: Mentions Cancer] Anyone have any tips on dealing with dysphoria stemming from Baldness

It's not like Male pattern baldness or anything but when I was on Chemo for breast cancer I lost all my hair. It was heartbreaking for me and every day I avoid looking in the mirror because it makes me so sad and sick I almost throw up. I tried wearing a wig but it doesn't look convincing to me even if it does for other people. ...

Mouselemming ,

You probably already have soft hats but maybe a longer wrap like some religious women use to cover their hair would give you the drape to feel more like your long hair, while being softer than a wig base.

Some permanently bald people decorate their scalp with tattoos but you might want to try kids' washable markers just to see how you feel about drawing flowers or whatever before you go as far as a Sharpie, much less a tattoo.

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Large animal veterinarian. I think my arms are too short.

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For your carrot problem, get the really fat bulk carrots, which (at my grocery store anyway) are not woody and very tasty. Peel it as usual, noticing you only have to peel one or two. You're now perfectly set for your first cucumber solution, cutting it in half lengthwise, or maybe even quarters because carrots are a firmer bite. Personally I start cutting off the fat end and work towards the tip, because you have more to grip for better control on the harder slices, and if your last ones are a little thicker they're also small.

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I wonder how many new curling stones need to be made each year. I don't imagine they wear down too quickly, just sliding on ice. I guess they'd need to be buffed if they got scratched but teams would protect them to save the bother.

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So all I know is,

PULL!

Pull what, and how do you set it up?

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Those are some happy trees you got there, hanging around your house with the snow sparkling on them! Be fun to paint that xxwoodpile, too. Yes I just watched Bob Ross on PBS

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Gorgeous. Love the grain and the form

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Nine MORE migrants

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Okay wait, listen to yourself. You expected Obama to give a reasonable answer, and of course he did. Gosh, wasn't that nice? You might agree or disagree with his choices and priorities, but even his worst policies had SOME sort of reason behind them. And were stated in complete grammatical sentences that stayed in topic.

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In a tiny hand

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Looks like you have the bonus option of plucking out the candle and putting your beer on there!

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SNIKT

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The story says "wood smoke" but then they talk about Southern California wildfires, which typically contain a lot of other toxic materials from burning houses, other buildings, vehicles, power and telephone lines, etc. especially the fires burning in proximity to pregnant women.

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In 2025 the Los Angeles wildfires burned more than 16,000 homes and other buildings. And about 6,300 cars.

An outlier yes, but many of the wildfires do burn a significant number of structures, that's the main reason firefighters engage with them. The purely chaparral fires (which may be allowed to burn) are more distant from most pregnant women so even though the smoke blows over it's less concentrated.

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Oh well, yet another place it's impossible to park and drop a wheelchair ramp. That blue thing with the red-zone paint and curb cut is a bus stop. Buses are wheelchair accessible but too few and difficult to access for a person who's well-buggered-up.

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I'm not objecting to the bus stop. Just noting that although it's blue and has a perfect wide platform for the bus wheelchair lift/ramp, and a curbcut to get to the sidewalk, it's a bus stop, not a disabled parking space. Which would be fine if there were any other spot similarly designed on that or any of the other streets with this type of bike lane. So far I haven't seen any.

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No the bus stop is perfectly accessible! It shows they know exactly how to design a handicap space for this type of bike lane, so people with ramped minivans could park. But they don't. All the others have the narrow raised cement lump, that leaves a ramp hanging into the air 6" above the middle of the bike lane.

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Fair enough, we're in the right instance.

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Thunder has never killed any of his family, because of his brave work!

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I live in the US. My spouse has been taken to the hospital by ambulance at least 5 times, probably more. Most of those times he had pneumonia, he's quadriplegic and asthmatic, he couldn't breathe and needed to lie flat and get oxygen, not sit in his wheelchair or a car seat. The other time was a GI bleed from a botched surgery. So all the ambulance trips ended with him being "admitted" and staying in the hospital from a few days to five months. Every time, the insurance covered the ambulance. Being admitted is the qualifying event.

Insurance has also covered non-emergency ambulance rides home, because they don't wait until he's fully well to send him home, and the hospital doctor prescribed it.

Do we spend out the ass on insurance premiums? Yes, because we know we're likely to need the best coverage. It's our biggest monthly expense.

Would universal government-sponsored healthcare be better? Fuck yes.

Would it be gutted like a fish every time the GOP was in power? A good reason to vote them out and keep them out.

But I've driven myself to the ER, because I could still safely do so, and often a Lyft can do the job just as well, if you can sit and don't need medical support to keep from dying on the way there.

"Bleeding out" would require an ambulance, "bleeding" might not. Will the ambulance driver probably decide they need lights and siren? Yeah, you should be calling 911.

Do be kind and protect the driver/vehicle from anything messy or contagious. If you expect the ER will probably be able to treat you and send you home without a hospital stay, it's unlikely the ambulance will be covered.

And if you're one of the millions with no insurance because our stupid job-based profit-oriented system makes it unaffordable? My heart breaks.

Kristi Noem would probably come shoot you for free.

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From scratch is an idiom meaning "from the start" (as in a starting line scratched in the dirt for a footrace)

And in the context of food it means "cooked by myself from basic ingredients." I don't think OP means they grew the wheat, maybe not the jam berries, but they made the English muffin from dough using flour and yeast etc, not a mix and not store bought. They boiled up the jam from fresh fruit, and made the pectin to thicken it rather than buying pectin powder. They didn't do all that tonight, in fact the elderberry mead started 6 years ago. And I bet it's damn good!

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That's a legitimate use of "scratch" and since OP was being too cool to use the whole phrase "from scratch," it could be re-interpreted to mean "I decided to throw out the whole meal and just eat a spoonful of peanut butter. What a waste of all my hard work!"

Like if they'd just opened their mail and in it was a notice: WARNING: MAJOR ARSENIC CONTAMINATION IN YOUR AREA! Injesting anything grown in your soil may cause severe illness and harm to vital organs!

This reminds us to be careful with phrasing.

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In 1929 someone celebrated "Kill a Colonizer Day" by gunning down seven of Bugs Malone's gang that had been colonizing Capone's turf.

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They should be in jail, they're a threat to the community.

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I think they're cheese waxes like from Laughing Cow. They're saying "melt down old cheese waxes to make romantic red tea-light candles for your Valentine."

Edit to add, "you may fascinate a woman with a piece of cheese." So bring some more Babybels to eat in the Jacuzzi by candlelight.

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White people willing and able to do construction work in Texas cost more, if they can be found at all.

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Trying to hew closer to the original grammar rather than preserve the poetry:

You know also that the forms of speech can change within a thousand years.

And words too, which at the time were prized, but now, shockingly foolish and weird we think them.

And yet they spoke them so, and succeeded as well in love as we.

A thousand years? That's so 1380 of you, Jeff! I can think of cringey '80s pick-up lines that fit this standard.

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Equivalent of "stuffed to the gills"

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Skip rock. Throw stick for dog.

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My first thought: how'd you open the cans? But I guess you must have an electric can opener.

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With pull tabs you'd still need to hold the can down anyway.

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Honored, you mean. 😸

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The best way to help Cheeto get fit is to play actively with him.

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Grab a head of romaine next time, slice it up and rinse it and have it in the fridge so you can grab a handful to add to your sandwich or bed under your hot chicken to catch the juices. Maybe grab an apple while you're in the produce section.

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Unfair to Linus, who is a kind and caring individual. For instance young Snoopy often stole his blanket and he never shot the puppy.

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Personally I prefer to say, "What a beautiful toy you have! May I admire it?" and hand it back with "Thank you for the honor of holding your magnificent toy!" Or "seeing" if they didn't let go of it.

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ESPECIALLY for toddlers!!

Personally I prefer to say, "What a beautiful toy you have! May I admire it?" and hand it back with "Thank you for the honor of holding your magnificent toy!" Or "seeing" if they didn't let go of it.

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For those of you with MAGA family members, and who might live in states which require ID to vote: most people might pat a pocket to check that they have their wallet but aren't likely to check their driver's license is actually in there. Getting stuck without it at the polls might not completely stop them voting but we all have seen conservatives change their tune when something impacts them. The license could turn up at someplace like their grocery store...

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Especially if the bed's in a corner and you're too short to reach

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Doesn't really fit the requirements but actor/singer/guitarist David Peter Capaldi probably still has his old sonic screwdriver tucked in a pocket just in case.

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Yes I don't know what happened there, fixing it!

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What'd'you shave with that toothpick?

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Yes to all this but if you don't want any smoke, use the unburned end of the same match you previously lit the candle with to quickly push the wick tip down into the pool of wax to extinguish it. Lift it right back up again while the wax is still melted so it's ready to light later.

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Little correction: your 10 year old correctly wrote "come to an end" but you typed "come to and end"

Nice job on the poem, kid!
I hope the death stuff is more hypothetical than from any tragedy in your life.

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I once did a project with my 3rd graders where we looked at a bunch of poems and cartoons from The New Yorker and then they tried to do one of each. It seemed like almost all of the adult poems had death as a major theme, so I specifically told them something like "that's a topic for old people, try to write about Life instead." I sent them outside to look at something in "Nature" (well, a suburban school playground) and come up with a metaphor for their poem. The only rules for the cartoon were, one picture, one line, and both should be necessary. Humor preferred but optional, same for social commentary. They came out surprisingly well as a whole, and I bound them as "The Third Grader" for the class library.

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You know, I actually have one of those pull-out ones and I almost never use it! It came with the home but it's so big it doesn't fit well in the sink to clean it.