smh

I was just think that. Keeping a more-full fridge is more efficient because when you open it there's less cold air to fall out. (I'm really putting my college-level thermodynamics classes to good use...)

That was me when I was, like, 15. I was between the "two sides". The Republicans I was surrounded by were nutzo, but I didn't know anyone more left, other than my parents who "didn't talk politics" (but generally were ok with the queers and not-whites in a nonspecific way). I toyed with the idea of anarchism because I hated being told what to do, settled on the label "fiscally conservative, socially liberal" with the asterisk that social programs tended to be cheaper solutions to issues than Republican. This all would have been around the hanging chad controversy. I think that's when I first noticed national politics.

Then I went off to college and my horizons expanded.

Sounds like you need a better bra :p

The 400 calorie day sounds like me before I started calorie counting, to make sure I at least eat a minimum of 1500 calories. I just don't notice when I should eat, and then food is hard to put together so I put it off.

Drink, on the other hand, I'm good at. I'm up to maybe 3 liters a day because salty water helps my circulation and makes me feel good.

Your story about overeating sweets and feeling like crap and not putting it together... that reminds me of taking a daily multivitamin with my lunch, then consistently feeling so very sick to my stomach an hour later. Took me maybe 2 weeks to figure out the pill was the problem. (I went back to Flintstones with iron, no problem. I'm hesitant to try an adult multivitamin again because I had such a bad reaction before. Plus, I like chewable pills.)

You are! (if I'm reading my regex correctly)

"^T(o|0)(o|0)l_shed$",

And the "lower sodium is more heart healthy" thing was, if I'm remembering a podcast I once listened to right, only consistently true for people that already had high blood pressure. Normal blood pressure people saw more mixed results with a low sodium diet.

source: a recent episode of the podcast Maintenance Phase.

but how deep could the not-cellar be before hitting high tide?

Your idea works, too.

This matches my experience. My college archive digitizes a few yearbooks a year (for whatever classes are having as big reunion) and it's a pain. For modern yearbooks (70s and later) we have a dozen or more copies, so we take one apart and feed it through the feed scanner, which works well. We then store the loose pages in a folder, in case we need to rescan anything.

Older yearbooks (where we don't have so many copies) we use the flatbed scanner and the pages come out warped, so we hand fix each page in Photoshop.

🫂

You’re right. The word is vile and I shouldn’t have made it sound like a matter of personal taste. It's not "gross", it's dehumanizing. I’m sorry.

I didn't use the term "deflowered", I explained how it made me feel when someone else used it. I said it's a gross term and makes me feel gross to hear, which feels like the appropriate reaction to hearing about raped children.

It sucks that you were raped and I'll take your experience into consideration when I emotionally evaluate the word "deflowered" when I encounter it used to describe experiences similar to your experience.