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roleplay: roxy has a cold. what kind of big gigantic soup do you bring her?
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@falseroxy Have you had the haagen dazs pear and passion fruit sorbet? Soo good
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i think ripe pears are my second favorite fruit after cherries
nicoleofshedtwt@nicoleshedtwt
Who the fuck eats pears? I never see anyone eat or even talk about pears. People will talk about every single fucking fruit in existence except for pears. I hear more people talk about durians of all things. Does no one fucking like pears!?
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@lyd_vic @Romy_Holland @webdevMason It really does all come down to luck. My second didn't tolerate labor so we needed a c -section and the epi didn't work except to make my vision shake back and forth. Thankfully we figured that out before they started cutting and the spinal worked. 🤷 No guarantees in biology
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@4__mula @Romy_Holland @webdevMason You’re very lucky. I had a 10lb-er and pushed so hard I broke blood vessels in my face and neck.
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talked to a pregnant friend who’s very into “natural” everything and is giving birth at a birth center without the option of an epidural. she asked me about my birth and i was like “are you sure you wanna hear this?” and she said yes, so i told her everything.
when i got to the part about the pain of crowning i was like “jeez maybe i really shouldn’t be telling you this” and she was like “well it’s too late now” and then after a long pause she said with great uncertainty “well that was your birth, but my birth probably won’t hurt.”
i have seen the natural birth content that insists that birth isn’t painful, it’s just an “intense sensation.” semantics aside, i think it’s horrible that there are so many women plainly being lied to, who are then making uninformed decisions about how to give birth.
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@Romy_Holland There's a reason my grandmother loved her four births under twilight, as barbaric as it sounds to us now.
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@lyd_vic @Romy_Holland @webdevMason I had a very strong epidural with my first, lasting hours after the birth, and still got her out in 3 good pushes. The midwife was surprised by how quick she came. I thank years of dance training - if you tell me to use my body a certain way, that's what'll happen.
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@Romy_Holland @webdevMason The epidural is only given if there is time for it to wear off before the pushing stage. You have to be able to feel the pushing to make sure you are doing it at full strength. The epidural ensures you can be well rested before getting to that stage.
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Graduates of maritime academies can make $200,000 in the merchant marine while being at sea only six months per year. And yet recruits are getting harder to find. WSJ:
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@ohhhaykayla @maiab And adults. My friend's mom had her first reaction to crabs in her 60s. Chugged expired children's Benadryl while she drove herself to the mercifully close hospital.
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@maiab Fun fact. Children can randomly develop allergies at any time. My little brother was in the second grade when he ate fish sticks at lunch & was rushed to the ER. He’d eaten white fish his entire life up to that point and then all the sudden became severely allergic.
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my daughter’s preschool teacher says it’s the first class she’s had in over 10 years with no allergies
karbon 🐺🦊@karbonbased
Nobody cares about this but sharing in case some or my followers have little ones going through early life allergies. Our little man got diagnosed with an egg allergy around 2, we followed the exposure therapy and fed him baked goods with eggs in them for 2 years, happy to report we graduated to the next rung on the allergy ladder and he can now tolerate eggs as binder and less fully baked (pancakes, waffles, meatballs, meatloaf) So far no reactions and he loves all those foods. Big win. Next step after a year of this will be going to the allergist and having him eat straight egg under medical supervision. 🤞 we're on track to outgrow this allergy thanks to early intervention and exposure therapy.
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@Spicxer Carpets are out of fashion but they help so much with noise in restaurants!
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I’m making dinner for my upstairs neighbors who are having a baby this month (not to reopen this discourse but yes this is a normal thing to do for new parents lol). what can I make that everyone likes and is easily reheat-able? don’t know if i’m capable of a béchamel for lasagna
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@DrPlantel I've had pretty good luck with doctors but I still had a gyn tell me I deserved pain during intercourse because I was a sexually active teenager. Totally altered my sex life for 15 years until I was properly diagnosed and treated for vaginismus.
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The number of people who believe doctors “hate” patients is heartbreaking. No one goes into medicine because they despise patients, what a vile assumption.
Are doctors perfect? No. We are human. We make mistakes. Many of us are stretched thin. But at our core, many of us are here because we care, deeply.
We know that many people have been failed by the healthcare system. We understand that frustration; many of us are patients too. But it is devastating to see that pain exploited by those selling grift, conspiracy, and false hope. I will never stop calling that out.
If you’ve made up your mind that doctors don’t care, that truly saddens me. Because most of us are doing our very best to fight for our patients every single day.
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@boneysoups My feed has disappointed me, I haven’t come across it yet…What’s the title of the article, so I can track it down?
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wired surrogate article LITERALLY jaw dropping my jaw is dropped
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@thedimitri sometimes it's just informational. I figured out how to orgasm during straight sex by asking my girl friends how they did it 🤷 men don't have that problem
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@BrandyLJensen Oddly I have overheard a few conversations about surrogacy among wealthy potential parents and not one of these freaks perceived surrogates as full human beings
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Had to pause multiple times while reading this to take a lap around the room
WIRED@WIRED
When her son died in utero, a venture capitalist went to extremes to punish her surrogate. wired.com/story/the-baby…
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@Dok845 I got Epstein Barr (mono) when I was 16. 5 yrs later I started having pain. More and more fatigue over my 20s. I was diagnosed w lupus at 34, 18 yrs after the damage started. Now, at 40, I have longtime friends who don't know bc it's irrelevant and frankly boring
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@Dok845 It's also easy to overestimate (1) your knowledge of other people's health (2) their own knowledge of their health (3) the linearity and immediacy between damage and symptomology.
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I see a ton about long covid from legitimate, scientific sources that if it was even remotely true would have apocalyptic implications, everyone’s heart, lungs, and brain failing at once, and I can’t square it with the world I actually observe every day.
VOIDFILL🕳️@SOPROSOCIAL
Hahahahaha
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@agraybee I know I'm not well versed on computer programming, but legit, what is the difference between AI as it stands now, and Machine Learning or Markov Chains?
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Because calling it AI was a marketing decision. The real name is Large Language Model, which sums up how it works. It takes trillions of texts and uses them to create sentences that seem germane to your prompt. Nothing in there is "thinking" in the way you understand it.
Xiao Ma@infoxiao
ChatGPT-5 recommended a nail place with mani and pedi for $25-$30 - seemed too good to be true. I followed the link. The source? A 2016 article quoting those prices. That got me thinking: an intelligent person would look at the date and be like "Wow, that's 10 years ago. There's no way this price still exists." But why doesn't AI ? 🧐
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@LauraRbnsn My pet theory is that the fixation on uniqueness is an outgrowth of the popularization of the "individual brand."
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I have a pet theory that as the generation that didn't grow up learning phonics ages into parenting that baby names are going to get more and more insane.
Images AI Could Never Recreate@imagesaicouldnt
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