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Also, everything seems to have to be a gift now. Can’t just buy a thing and give it to them. It has to wait to be a present. Or maybe that’s just my wife.

We specifically don’t wait for holidays to give things we want to gift to our daughter (soon to be 3). On her birthday in two weeks she will get a book, a plush animal, and a second hand peppa pig puzzle (I hate peppa pig but she loves it and she doesn’t even know there is a show). That’s it, but she gets many things throughout the year. My husband hates holidays and celebrations, I think that’s where this feeling of “let’s please not make a huge stock of presents to give her twice a year” came from. And it is so much less pressure to find “the perfect gift”.

And you can get rid of things much more easily. I don’t know about you, but if I got a bad birthday present, I tend to keep it, because it was a birthday present. Same for children’s stuff. She got that for her first birthday feels different than she got that when she was around 14 months. Somehow it’s less sentimental, and I am an awfully sentimental and nostalgic person, so this saves my ass.

Another point is that can change interests so quickly. I would not dare to buy her something peppa pig themed right now for Christmas or plan ahead for her 4th birthday. Or let’s say she needs a new bike - why would I wait until the end of summer to give it to her just because it’s her birthday.

But talk to me again on September 9th, I usually get very sad that we don’t celebrate with a crap ton of presents and decorations and a big party right before her birthday.

Interesting. Their la rosetta pizza has beef, arugula and parmesan as toppings btw.

In German, rosetta is a slang for butthole and whenever I hear Rosetta Stone I imagine a kidney stone trapped in an anus.

My favorite pizzeria is also called rosetta and it grosses me out but I have accepted that them stamping every pizza with their butthole is justified if it makes that good of a pizza.

I find it more impressive that someone decided to name their sons dick and butt

Ok as someone not from the states, wtf are boneless chicken wings?

Man, a guaranteed 5 mins of a quiet break and coffee that I don’t have to bring myself sounds kinda nice

Thank you! It feels good to hear someone calling FDP assholes destroying the sense of community. FDP is working hard on keeping the working class poor, powerless and desperate. Trying to “save money” on the most disadvantaged people is disgusting. This alone is enough reason to disapprove of them.

I’d be more grossed out if I had to sit on a toilet seat that was licked by an FDP member than by someone licking the toilet seat.

You know, I agree. But also, you can’t imagine how much I want to scratch the cars that just park illegally in my neighborhood. They park on the curves and crossings and in such small distances that I literally cannot pass through with my stroller without scratching them. So I end up going around the block(s) further and further away just to pass through some gap of illegally parked cars that’s just big enough if I am very careful. But then I end up thinking, wtf. Why do I have to be careful to not scratch their wrongfully parked cars, a private property that they left outside on a place designed and protected by law to be solely for pedestrians, with my private property that should be able to walk this road? And also, why do I not get the same protection if I want to park my bike or stroller outside? Because no one cares if my private property is damaged when it is left outside. If I scratch my stroller on an illegally parked car when I cross the road at the place I am supposed to be crossing somehow I am the one who has to pay damages.

You know what, I can’t roll the R and neither can my inner voice and I hate it for that. I have a speech impairment in my freaking inner voice.

Why I have a phobia of them? (Along, btw, with maggots, larvae, caterpillars, etc.) I don’t think I can give you a good answer, because, well, there is no rational answer to that. I understand they are harmless to me and even good for the environment. Which is why the thought of a place of earth that is both healthy and worm(-alike)-free is literally a paradise dream to me.

There is no reason for the complete and utter shock feeling. I can’t explain it. But I would, for real, rather die than get close to this. I am very willing to chop my arm off to not touch one. I know I was very lucky for the last 32 years to have avoided these situations and I don’t know what to do when they will come up some time in the future. But I do stand by what I said and I think and reconsider it on a regular basis. So far I would rather die or chop my arm off. It’s not a feeling like a panic attack, it is a constant panic mode, a shock, a feeling of existential threat.

You might wonder why I don’t do therapy. The big problem is that I absolutely don’t want it to be otherwise. I don’t want to not have this phobia, I just don’t want the triggers in my life. The thought of looking at a worm and be ok with it is nothing that I feel is worth aquiring. Irrationally, all of you who are just ok with these creatures or tolerate them are the weird ones to me. How does it not make you panic? It feels like the natural and right response to me. At the same time, I know why - because there is no harm. I know your reactions are normal. I just, emotionally, absolutely don’t want this to be normal.

PS: I’ve been thinking for days on whether to reply or not and decided this time to not delete that worm related comment but actually try to tell you. My first reaction on replies when I happen to comment on this issue is to delete every evidence of me ever talking about worms so that I don’t end up being further engaged or ridiculed. (I understand the latter, I always try to imagine someone having a phobia of squirrels, which are like the cutest thing.) I also tried my best to spell the words out, which is hard to me. I usually just write ~ when I text someone. Anyway, sorry for the late reply.

I can’t rationalize a phobia away

Wait so you’re telling me that there was a time and space on earth without those fuckers? They are my nemesis, my biggest phobia, and just imagining a reality without them is a second of relaxation that I could never convey in its grandeur.

That’s actually a great story and I will keep it close to my heart

I tried to find a publication that would at least show a heatmap (but maybe that’s why these articles are pushed now, maybe the new paper will come.out soon?) of relative gene expression changes. I haven’t found any papers by Love mentioning anything other than radiation measurement (which is also an important field of study and is in no way less of an impressive work). “Altered immune systems” is very, very vague, and specific parts of the genome being modified reads like “oncogenes have mutated”, which wouldn’t be a surprise or shocker.

I want to be clear that I couldn’t find the paper that the article seems to talk about (I couldn’t find any that would mention genetics), that Covid and the war in Ukraine (mandatory Fuck Putin) have obviously slowed down research, and that any kind of doubt I have is absolutely not about the group of scientists doing important and valuable work - just the article’s presentation is very empty and saying little to nothing.

“They got a lot of radiation exposure” “genes that are connected with cancer mutated”, “Wolves don’t get cancer” is not too shocking of a finding and almost to be expected. The devil must be in the details. I’m just disappointed in the article.

Somehow this article is non-existent. It just tells you that a team of researchers put collars on the wolves to measure the radiation levels they are exposed to. They found they are pretty high. 6 times the allowed maximum level for humans. But so far they only want to look into how this affects their cancer rates, and how they protect themselves against cancer. There is nothing yet to assume they have developed a resistance, let alone a biological, cellular or genetic mechanism. So… I mean I guess, but so far it is just plans to look into something.

I mean, I wouldn’t recommend an over the counter retinol to a 10 year old, but you’re right.

I remember using so many drug store teenager products to get rid of pimples, nothing worked, I went to the dermatologist, he prescribed simply 2g of salicylic acid in 100g ethanol, it worked. Like, pimple free within 2 weeks. Then I ran out of the bottle. Was too lazy to get a new one. When I finally went again, boom. Everything gone again.

I mean, this was basically when the internet was just becoming a thing. But I highly regret that it took me so long to get into skincare. And I also regret the laziness about going to the dermatologist (especially since a visit is free in Germany). How I wished that I had gotten into skincare before my wedding, I had to choose a dress that covered up all of my back because I thought I would never get rid of the pimples there. It was a wonderful dress, but had I gotten into skincare just one year earlier, I could have felt more freedom.

And I think a lot of people regret not looking out for their skin earlier. As you mentioned, SPF. How often did we skip this as teens.

“As young as 10” probably implies that most children we are talking about in this article are teenagers. And it is so much preferable to get a good skincare routine if you have specific concerns than to just overdose on drugstore crap that has no effect. Can you overdo it? Sure. Are there products that aren’t too good for such a young age? Some. Should they check with a derm first? Recommendable. But all in all this seems like a healthier trend than using lip fillers, botox, or anything else. Mostly because, especially if we are talking anti aging here, most aging occurs from actual damage. And I would guess that if you get into that stuff, no matter whom you follow, sooner or later the kids end up realising that they should use a good SPF, avoid harsh treatments, be gentle, avoid sun. And I don’t see something wrong with that.

But that’s exactly the point. They were provocative, but not too extreme. Believable to cause a shock and a belief of honesty, of intruders, but not as provocative as they could have gotten.

Honestly there were so many provoking questions that seemed like it had to have slipped through the vetting process that I am starting to think that this was vetted.

If the whole country knows you’re a delusional liar and that media is staged propaganda, putting off a show with provocative questions that seem real might be a good move to reconnect with the citizens and appear able to take criticism and as if you don’t live in an ivory tower.

But that assumes that Putin is playing some kind of 5D chess. Could be that, or it could be what it looked like - just a president being asked uncomfortable questions.

You’re technically correct so I don’t understand the downvotes, you most obviously didn’t imply anything else. Love the mrna technology, went out of my way to get vaccinated during pregnancy (because Germany was a bit slow with that), literally worked on Covid, Anti-Covid meds and mRNA in the lab, and you’ll have my upvote. You’re the best kind of correct after all. Don’t get discouraged.

Oh please please do you have a link or a name that i can google?