RL Peeves
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Can someone explain to me why 19-20yr olds think they are entitled to literally every single food item in the house?
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@Cobalt If you want a serious answer, because of evolution. I honestly believe humans are wired so that the actions of children around the ages of 15-25 will piss off their parents, and likewise, their parent’s actions will piss them off, especially when they are living under the same roof.
During human evolution, this adaptation would have encouraged children to leave the house, spreading out the family’s genes and making it less likely for those genes to be wiped out by fire, viruses, predators, and the like.
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@Sage The existence of multigenerational households in a huge number of cultures in the world, as well as the fact that they really dwindled in the United States during the rise of suburbia, strongly implies that this is a cultural trend and not an evolutionary one. Be very, very careful of assuming that what you see as the norm around you exists that way for purely biological reasons, the implications aren’t great.
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The simpler answer is that food is energy, and energy is a necessity, especially for those whose brains are developing at an alarmingly speedy rate (which isn’t the same as saying it stops developing after this point; that’s not true). Modern food is also just really dang tasty, so it triggers the reward pathways in the brain more readily.
Add to this a diminished level of responsibility, since food acquisition is someone else’s job, and “take food, feel good” is the primary reason.
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The realities of dealing with illness and a chronic condition are hitting pretty hard. Trying to keep my chin up, I’ve certainly navigated even more stress in my life but im pretty tired and airplane crud sucks and not even in a fun way. I am used to being able to power through just about anything. I feel pretty gross and annoyed to not be able to anymore.
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Getting yelled at by a 7 year old just minutes after they woke up is apparently a huge trigger for me. Who knew?
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Today I learned that they now make bras with, and I quote, “a built-in raised nipple detail for a perky, braless look that makes a bold statement.”
That’s right, folks! You can now look like you’re not wearing a bra while still enjoying all of the traditional expense and discomfort of… wearing a bra.
We live in the dumbest timeline.
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@Aria wait what there’s a fake nipple in there or like a patch for your own? i could have FOUR nipples, in theory?!?
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@Aria Go for the natural look! But not the ACTUAL natural look, no one wants that!
</sarcasm>
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@mietze There is, in fact, a fake nipple built into the bra. Best of all, it’s in a kind of weird placement that doesn’t look quite right on any of the three different models, IMO.
For the low low price of $64, you too could have large artificial nipples in a highly visible but awkward spot!
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@Aria Everything about this is deeply weird.
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@Snackness said in RL Peeves:
@Aria Everything about this is deeply weird.
Look, I don’t make the fake nipple bra rules here, man. I just bring them to everyone else’s attention like the friend at the candle store who goes, “Ohmigod, this one is repulsive. Here, smell it!”
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@Snackness said in RL Peeves:
@Aria Everything about this is deeply weird.
Now imagine for a moment someone is cold, they’re wearing this, and that’s not where their nipples are in their bra so now it looks like they have like a million nipples.
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@helvetica
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I feel like this might be good for women who have had double mastectomies and got fake breasts? But I don’t know why you’d want them poking out like that.
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@bear_necessities said in RL Peeves:
I feel like this might be good for women who have had double mastectomies and got fake breasts? But I don’t know why you’d want them poking out like that.
I had briefly considered that, since my mother and grandmother both had breast cancer. But every silicone prosthetic that I’ve ever seen for them was designed with a hint of one already included and this bra doesn’t have the little pocket you’d put the forms in, anyway.
So I think this really is some sort Escherian, impossible object expression of women’s beauty standards?
“Show off your nipples! But not your nipples, because ew.”
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Today was the sort of day where:
- I finally had a long enough break in my work to shower at… 6:30 PM.
- At 7:00PM, I had to log back in because one of my co-workers called me crying.
Also, our leadership has apparently decided that the best way to get us the additional writer/content producer we desperately need in 2025 is to… get rid of our project manager. At a time when our book of business has increased by 40%. Because that totally makes sense.
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And now not only do I need a password that contains thirty-seven characters, at least one umlaut, exactly three upper-case H’s, and Jon Bon Jovi’s shorts size, I also need a six digit PIN.
To pay a bill.
I am so grateful for these impossible security measures that make paying a bill a three-hour process of resetting passwords and answering security questions to do so.
It doesn’t store my payment method, see, so as far as I can tell, only the very worst thing could happen. Somebody could crack my account and pay my bill for me, and I’d be so horrified I’d never recover.
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And their website gives me an error.
Of course, I started this process night before last, it gave me the error then, too. And again last night. So I spend a couple of hours with the text-chat customer support guy. Who gets the same error, and tells me to call a voice number. So I do. And get put on hold and disconnected while on hold three times. And then get told that I will have to pay an extra $5 to have an agent process a payment for me instead of doing it myself on the website. And then can’t do it anyway, because of the same error that stops me from doing it. What is the solution? It’s for me to go pay in person. Which also costs an extra $5, by the way.
I am just gonna go off and wait for death.
