It’s a scale but you get readings on your percentage of fat and muscle and metabolic rate. if you have an app and smart watch it’s kinda neat seeing how they reflect off of each other if you do different exercises and shift the nutrition of food.

Isn’t that the truth.

there is a fad of supplements. Supplements are important for certain conditions and life styles(?) for sure. But they’ve been over sold I think as a dietary supplement to be normalized. I grew up with the education thinking they are the necessity. Like part of nutrition and regular diet.

It is not a necessity with the right food tho.

I had found Supplements became unnecessary when I implemented food balance in meals (always more veggies, fruit and beans) and looked up how much exactly is in different types of food and measure it. Logging is pretty important to train the habit though. Used to have no idea if I had been doing the right levels. Just took multivitamins and thought I was good. Now I just keep a bottle of calcium and vitamin d around if after I checked my levels and found I didn’t get enough during the day. Most stuff is already supplemented via the diet. Like all the a b c k vitamins and several minerals. If im doing beans, fruit and veggies every day these shouldn’t be necessary to take in pill form.

(But also alcohol can starve the brain of vit b and cause a brain condition) so I’m scarce on that stuff.

Having said that I still found if doing a whole bunch of overtime and not eating healthy or regularly, or have had oral surgery or oral injury: supplements/adding to blended smoothies are probably necessary for those times.

I wouldn’t say changing to Linux changed my life so much as it preserved the life I wanted. The change was just some (thankfully) brief adjustments to get comfortable with it. Way easier than I thought it was going to be and so much of that is thanks to the gurus online leaving answers and blogs for us folks in the transition period.

The point was that I didn’t want my life changed by windows becoming worse and worse anymore. In a disposable world closing us off from each other with too much change too fast going on right now because of the heavy handed over implementation of AI hard yanking control away from user: Linux gave me an option to retain the permanence, connection and control I wanted from my experience.

Apparently windows AI update broke recently . I don’t even remember the last time I loaded windows. I think it’s been a few months. Now I don’t even want to look back. Just relieved that if something like that happened on a Linux distro, rollbacks are easier to accomplish on the user side. Already theorized, practiced and prepped my parachute for something like that. Ok maybe you’re right. It has changed me. I don’t think I would have thought and behaved like this had I stayed on windows.

To control emotions a person has to acknowledge the emotion is their’s to manage.

Not something magical that someone else gave them.

EG: the incels and nice guys who blame women for making them feel rejection. Or cultures that kill women and homosexual men for making them feel erotic.

Get a dictionary. It helps with understanding words you don’t understand.

I wish I got a biometric scale way earlier than I did.

This thing is like cheat codes

Sounds like it would cost a lot on a city tax to go that distance to replace it

Probably harder to maintain easier fixes in colder areas where the ground freezes for half a year.

This. This is why animals are the most awesome…

I mean people are pretty damned awesome. But cmon this is the cutest thing.

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Also if you’re using windows and avoiding acrobat try Sumatra for reading pdfs. FOSS is the way. Libre draw also does document signing for pdfs

Well over 18. Paid for Driving instructor(cuz by then I was able to afford it at that age) . Seriously best money I have ever spent.

do not have a relative teach you. All a relative will teach you is all their bad habits. An Instructor will reprogram you the correct way and teach you how to actually pass the test.

Thanks, it was hard to decide if the work itself was hard or heartache or just both having them mixed in.

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Cleaning up a dead relative’s house after they were hoarding.

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Yikes yeah that place sounds rotten to the core. I’m glad you got out of it and hope you found safer ground ! Glad you kept your sanity too. That can be a challenge in such situations where you can feel the walls closing in.

I hear you. Yes, It’s definitely easier when there are at least already one or two women already present.

But sometimes you have to watch your back sometimes even then. Cuz there can be the ‘pickme’ ladies that lean into the misogyny. I’ve come by some real toxic ones that had rap sheets of other victims all women that had bundled together and basically had group therapy about the same woman.

That’s where I start saving every single email they (the toxic ones) send me. I’ve taken one or two out in my day just on ‘accidently’ forwarding an email they sent me they thought they had me too intimidated to send. I was just biding my time giving them false confidence.

Strength sometimes takes a lot of patience to help a person fuck up in front of the wrong line of people.

Document everything.

Though I’m hoping current days are getting better where this kind of toxicity is easier to call out. I’ve notice some of the more recent places of work that they even encourage and prefer calling it out in the moment with HR and not having it be dealt with in such a chaotic way. Though that can also be dependent on how good your HR is. (Watch out for HR using the catch phrase ‘conflicting personalities’ is a dead give away you got a dud HR)

This. So many brave ppl asking such questions light the ways. There are jerks but don’t let them dictate what happens to information. Don’t give into them. Be the light in the darkness.

…what is is to be a woman in STEM. and why a lot of women leave and why it’s a sausage party. And also why women online often disguise themselves even in games.

That being said I suggest this when some rando online is trying to pressure you: when a person is so fragile to be easily annoyed by your existence: exist harder. They are the fool for giving you such power. Lean into it. Ask more questions. Watch them stir in their seat overreacting.

Cuz one thing I’ve learned is when you are that brave: there are twice as many newbies hiding around you thinking you’re awesome for asking all the hard questions.

Don’t delete because of some elitist assholes. Leave it up for the other newbies. Get more newbies up in their business.