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Also called "jetpacking" (especially if the smaller person is gassy).

It is pride month

The person who empties the urine bag has entered the chat!

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One time I took a box of gingersnaps to coldstone creamery and had them mix it into chocolate almond ice cream. Apparently they won't do it anymore even if I bring a still commercially sealed box like I did.

Somebody's never smelled a GI bleed...

tbh I've just accepted that superstitions are part of the human psyche. I don't believe in "chi" in the sense of some energy that can be measured but there's definitely some kind of pattern recognition in the human subconscious that's processing the flow of the environment around them and the people in it that way. And a lot of cultures worldwide have longstanding traditions that guide the way they deal with that both in the sense of soothing that part of the subconscious but also trying to address whatever threat or goal in the environment that that pattern recognition is trying to draw attention to. I really enjoyed "Feng Shui Modern" by Cliff Tan if you want a really great explanation of concrete ways in which principles of that practice tend to help people feel safer in a space. He talks about things like the most common paths people take take through rooms, wanting to have your back against something solid, and not liking having beams and lights hanging directly over your head.

And personally I just try to keep the less concretely beneficial things to fun cultural traditions and other stuff I can connect with people around and avoid things that have been like, objectively disproven by modern science in some way or that would be specifically harmful to some specific circumstance / situation. So like carrying around an evil eye talisman is fine but using an herbal remedy that's been found to be harmful is not. And I find it's also helpful to think of it less in terms of specific effects / outcomes such as hexing, and more in terms of good energy / bad energy or good luck / bad luck. So the evil eye ward isn't protecting me from some specific thing, it's just a general hope that I'll avoid toxicity in my life. And there's a big mindfulness component to these things too; the talisman is also a reminder to yourself to avoid negativity and try to put positivity out into the world around you.

I just got certified to teach mental health direct care workers to talk people down and how to safely restrain people when they are still posing a threat to themselves and others and that's a goal I set almost a decade ago and it's really taking some time to set in that I actually did it. I went from spending 3 hours on a state hospital floor with my back locked up with EPS after getting twice the normal agitation meds to teaching in under 10 years. What the fuck.

Foaming agent. She gets everything nice 'n... lathery.

I feel like boiling PLUS the Brita would be a pretty solid combo. Boil to kill everything then Brita to remove the remaining inert sediment. I can't think of any metals or anything that there would be enough of in river water to hurt you after you've killed anything that was alive.