The law in my state defines ageism as discriminating against people over forty.

Fun fact! I complained at a job once because I was up for promotion and instead they hired a 22 year old with no experience vs my 11 years experience in the field and my boss accused me, a 35 year old, of ageism against this 22 year old person.

Funner fact! It wasn't actually ageism on my part but sexism on their part, because I happen to be a 35 year old woman and they chose to hire a 22 year old boy to be my boss. Then they asked me to train him. Then they fired me.

It was very fun to read, but I never would have looked it up. Thank you!

This has nothing to do with the original concept/internet meme of "girl dinner", this is just salad and fries. Girl dinner is like... six olives and an entire sleeve of crackers with peanut butter directly out of the jar. Girl dinner is three slices of cheddar cheese, and an entire bag of baby carrots with hummus. If you have the emotional capacity to cook fries and mix a salad, that is not girl dinner, thats just dinner. This is capitalism using buzzwords without understanding what they're saying and I'm irrationally annoyed by this one in particular because I fucking love Girl Dinner.

That is all. Hope your next meal is delicious and fulfilling xoxo

You might need a new therapist, which is okay. I haven't been to therapy in over a decade, but when I used to go, I used to do things like this, and my therapist would interrupt and say "it sounds like you're deflecting, do you think there's a reason for that?" and try to get me to go in a different direction.

Just some unsolicited advice, have a good day xo

Hot take: I want us all to be assigned chromosomes at birth for medical reasons, and then just have it not be a thing that gets talked about outside of medical situations. I read somewhere (and I'm saying this without a source for now) that as we advance genetic science, it's turning out that a much larger percentage of people are intersex, or at least some variation of chromosomes other than xx or xy. So like, get that test at birth and then have your chromosomes as a part of your medical file so a Dr knows how to treat your body. Like blood type. And then, trans-ness is such a small percentage of people that most xx's will still want to be little girls and most xy's will still want to be little boys, but the pressure to fit in a box will start to fade, and the idea that there even is a binary will just go away, because its already not true. No more "its a boy, it's a girl" bullshit, just "we had a healthy baby! They will develop into a kind and honest person one day, because we will raise them that way. We will be happy if they are an Olympic figure skater, or an archeologist, or a janitor, as long as they are happy and safe!"

That's what I was thinking, these sentences could just be combined. "I played with my friend's toy in their colon."

I do not have the means to donate to things that I care about. Most weeks, the difference between overdrafting my bank account or not is literally a few cents. I donate the $3.10 every time the pop up shows up on Wikipedia. I'm sure there are other organizations that need the money more, but I think Wikipedia is SO important, and so far has remained earnest in their behavior. Proud of you for donating what you could, glad I could help a little bit too.

Be well, friend

This is why I love the sims, I get obsessed for x amount of time. I go to work if I have to, but then I'll play sims every other second I can, I'll even bring the laptop into the bathroom with me. Won't sleep, won't cook, won't shower, etc. And then... all of a sudden, mid game even, I'm just... done. For months. Or years. And it's a sandbox game, it's literally digital barbies, so I can just stop and start over with a whole new game later. If im playing a more traditional game, I NEED to 100% it. I NEED a walk through to make sure I don't make any wrong choices, it almost takes some of the fun out of it, so I don't play those kinds that often (my roommate recently let me play Spiritfarer on her console, she had 40hrs and 98% and was like "its not important to the story and i cant find the last one... I got to 100% after 84 hours. We are not the same)

The only star wars media I've ever seen was the mandalorian, I've never seen any of the main movies and stuff, so feel free to make fun of this answer. What I've gathered from context clues is that they're like the Quakers and they just adopt. Then Mando met that single mom on that wet planet and I was kinda hoping he'd abandon his mission, take off his helmet, and just get with her and they'd raise her son and his green baby like step bros and have the perfect lil blended happy family.

2 flower dads in front (adopted dad + step dad)

Bio dad and bride (if she has a good relationship with him and wants that)

2 flower dads in back (other adopted dad + step dad)

Or make them all sit and let bio mom do it, if bride's relationship with bio mom is good.

But I like the planenquine suggestion from the meme best, she should do that. When else will she have a chance to do that?

It's called urtification (after the latin for nettles, Urtica dioica) , and humans have been doing it forever for exactly the reasons she mentioned.

Is there a word for bad nostalgia? Is it just regret? That doesn't sound quite right. I thought i'd outgrown these feelings and put them away, but seeing this meme brings them back full force. The panic, the instant guilt, the sorrow that all comes with looking over the edge of the bed and seeing my lil cabbage patch kid all crumpled up on the floor. Even now I can feel the surge of adrenaline from leaning just a little too far out of bed, almost falling out myself. Just being able to reach one little ruffle on dolly's jammies, just enough to snatch her off the ground, scoop her into bed, and sob and apologize, but deep down I know sorry will never be enough to make up for tossing her on the ground in the middle of the night.

Thanks for the morning cry. Probably gonna have to go to my mom's house after work and see if I can find my old stuff.

Hope you get to feel some sunshine today xoxo