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@goblinodds international meaning go take a plane to whatever country is good for IVF and get them to stick you with needles for $20 while you enjoy first press olive oil

@LauraFlowD yeahh maybe you're right. unfortunately i am a huge pussy about needles and need someone else to inject me so international would be hard

hello i am very sad/mad we got ZERO embryos and they tried to tell us that probably it was bc my eggs are busted (conveniently unfalsifiable) and i should try a "low inflammation diet or acupuncture" w/o reflecting at all on their own process (lots of reason to think that couldve been improved on) i understand now why ppl keep their cards close to their chest about this stuff bc when i was Real Sad it was very annoying having to remember everyone i needed to update on this front and then be like "oh no theyre going to feel bad for us this is going to be SO UNCOMFORTABLE" anyway i do not want to deal with other people being sad for me so i prob will only like and not respond to any sad reacts although if you have ideas or then pls spill recovery was honestly so shit i was initially like "idc if we get zero embryos i dont want babies this badly" but apparently if they'd managed to navigate things better (likely partly but not entirely their fault, u cant entirely know in advance how ppl will respond to the drugs) then the cohort of eggs wouldve been clustered and we'd have gotten FEWER TOTAL EGGS (so: likely much less disastrous recovery) but more mature ones + likely even higher quality this place was enough of a mess that we're gonna dip as soon as we can get as much data as possible out of them but now we have to work out whether we should proceed w my sinus surgery (like 15 years overdue, polyps likely a huge part of the reason i've been basically nonfunctional and not had any adulthood to speak of) or try to eggmax ASAP (prob want 3 months to load up on vitamins and find a new place and time it all right) since there is in fact a bit of a cliff at 38 and i'll be 38 in january very !! annoying !! this feels like it was so avoidable but our fault i guess for turning a blind eye to how disorganized they were ofc the eggs could still be busted, these things arent mutually exclusive, and prob we wouldnt know w/o putting me through the torture fest a couple times more o7

@selentelechia my car doesn’t start cause electric but most of its newer brethren automagically pick foward/backward, which is pretty cool. and surprisingly the shift isn’t a button

I dislike that my car starts and shifts with Buttons, because everything else also uses Buttons and sometimes when I'm parked and turning on the AC or something I'm like oh no, did I press a Serious Button? starting and shifting should have more mechanical gravitas

@goblinodds get the sinus surgery. let yourself reset a bit. cliffs are statistical, you are a point on a bell curve, but not necessarily that point. maybe consider international options, for less money, more entertainment etc

@goblinodds damn, they put you through all that shit and then didn’t even deliver? I’d be pissed

@CollinRugg if it is possible to hit a car with a plane and neither driver nor pilot is at fault, something is seriously wrong with the road and airport design

JUST IN: Baltimore bakery truck struck by a United Airlines plane coming in for a landing at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey. According to local reports, the plane was a United Airlines Boeing 767-400. Senior vice president of Transportation & Logistics at H&S Bakery, Chuck Paterakis, says the driver was headed from Baltimore to New Jersey when he was hit. The driver suffered minor injuries, according to Fox Baltimore. "Our maintenance team is evaluating damage to the aircraft and we will investigate how this occurred," a United spokesperson said.

@Robotbeat tina rhymes with Ming Na, makes sense

She doesn’t say in the clip how to pronounce it…

@planefag we should leave. good luck to them.

This is what these psychotics actually believe.

@tracewoodgrains @BellaRudd1 gay couples are a great way to ensure babies get adopted - most conservative churches are very family oriented, seems an obvious throughline

@BellaRudd1 it seems less "hard" than "left untried." if conservative religions said e.g. "gay marriages with premarital celibacy, same rules as straight people are fine" I think they'd be much more credible in their condemnation of pride-maxxing, having provided a real alternative

"Gay equality was a mistake" is an odd response to "Growing up gay in a system that had no role for gay people really did a number on me." If sexuality is innate and persists despite extreme efforts to crush it, as mine was, provide social roles that allow dignified lives.

@tracewoodgrains the only gay people I ever have a problem with are the ones in denial, as they often seem to spread their misery I’ve noticed this in other variants of repressed people, particularly when the repression’s origin is religious basically, telling people they’re evil is bad

@tracewoodgrains @nephew_jonathan equity is a word often used in bad faith

Philadelphia is closing a much-loved forest high school with programs unlike any others in the country and a 100% graduation rate due to under-enrollment. Why is it under-enrolled? Because Philadelphia changed enrollment rules to force their enrollment down. A brief thread.

@kenwheeler no ragrets

got so drunk last night that i ordered a full size soccer goal lmfao

@VicVijayakumar now I have learned the purpose of a bassinet

Everything is so black and white on this site. You can cosleep with your baby by putting them in a bassinet and now you are both right there and also aren’t going to accidentally kill them. You sleep so much better when you’re not subconsciously worried about crushing them.

@BasedNorthmathr men were the primary mixtape source. women do not spend their whole lives mourning the one that got away if anything, men are more romantic than eomen. women tend toward pragmatic

god she has no idea

@tracewoodgrains a law clerk in DC? hopefully that was as prestigious as it sounds

fyi – for anyone wondering what kept me from posting for eight months nothing short of court rules could have stopped me from sharing every thought that crosses my mind with my forty-eight thousand closest friends but now that's over with

@AdamRackis til what whale nursing looks like

Holy shit is she squi—you know what never mind I'm on main

@Duderichy why not poof

hair is at a point where I have to put just a little bit of product in so it doesn't poof

now can I really blow your mind?

unsure if i'm just being a millennial dad but i want to introduce the kids to the terminator

@CuriosityonX somersaulting and the cardboard box are peak

🚨: Eight Marines outsmarted a DARPA AI meant to spot people. Two somersaulted 300 meters, two snuck under a cardboard box, and one pretended to be a tree—and the AI missed them all, because it was trained to catch people walking.

@FeralPHunter why did you ask this question do not rage bait luck

the great thing about having luck this bad is it cant get worse, right?