just a sad trans girl looking for laugh-out-louds
That one's up there for me too, but you must be way better at drifting than I am. Whenever I feel like I'm finally getting the hang of it, I hit a car.
Ooh ooh ooh, I like this question :D
Obvious follow-up question is whether we're talking about classic or modern. I'll give one of each.
For classic Sonic, I like City Escape the best. Hitting those jumps in the skateboard section and seeing him fly around is so cool. I also like how the speedy-shoe sprint at the end shows off how quick you can go, even though classic Sonic can feel kinda slow and plodding sometimes. The GUN truck nips at modern Sonic's heels, but it has no chance of catching classic Sonic.
For modern Sonic, my fav is prolly Green Hill. Yeah it's stupid easy cuz it's the first level, but it gives you a lot of room to play around with Sonic's skills without dying a bunch of times. Plus, the scenery and the bright colors just stun me every time.
I'm not sure if I could pick one over the other, but... Maybe I like classic City Escape just a bit more.
I usually opt for French bread, I forget if it's better toasted or not. Maybe I need to have it again to remind myself.
Bread, olive oil, balsamic vinegar, fresh mozzarella, tomato slice, and basil -- open-face so it makes a big oily tasty mess :)
Setting aside my depressive episodes and a few signals of impending doom, I look out my window and see a world that is still generally okay around me. That tells me I'm still in a position to go out and try to improve things.
For instance, my family and I got through COVID. To me, that's a kind of privilege, because I certainly know others who weren't so fortunate. So I'm doing my part to ensure another pandemic like that doesn't happen again, or at least isn't so impactful.
Well I suggest you look elsewhere cuz this community has none of those lol
My HOA. Contrary to most experiences shared online, mine doesn't do shit, and no amount of bitching seems to be enough to motivate them. Sure would be nice to have well-maintained common areas someday.
I feel like we're downplaying the obvious and significant impact of Thanksgiving on this situation.
I'm just hoping the story isn't too... complicated. I've been kinda dreading that ever since they teased Shadow at the end of the 2nd movie. Sonic Adventure 2 made just enough sense for me to suspend my disbelief (the ultimate life form is a hedgehog furry speedster?), but most of the stuff after that left me wondering wtf was going on.
Teacher: Oh wow I'm so impressed society is finally trying to reclaim that name after such a dark past.
Parents: No no, we're actually fans of the dark past.
Holy crap, they got Keanu to voice Shadow.
Ask him what he wants and use that as a starting point?
this is like one of those dreams where you're looking for a bathroom but they're all weird and you can't seem to find a normal one
other people have that dream, right?
Not to pull the conversation away from the transmasc community, but I'm transfem and have definitely had my crotch flagged multiple times by TSA while tucking. Twice they made me walk through the scanner again, once I got pat down (and fortunately not felt up on), and once they made me pull my dress taut so that anyone who looked could see my bulge.
I've gone through airport security 4 times since coming out. 2 round trips. What I described is every single interaction I've had with them. Fuck TSA.
Finally, a place where us wet blankets can feel safe about our sexual orientation.
Abilify, insomnia, and strobe light vision effects
I started taking Abilify / aripiprazole just about a week ago and have had some very annoying side effects. I searched on Reddit and found people with similar experiences, but didn't find anything on Lemmy. For the sake of building up content here, I thought I'd share.
My psychiatrist started me on 5 mg Abilify at bedtime. Within a couple days, I noticed these effects:
- I feel drowsy and fall asleep easily about 20 mins after taking it. It usually takes me 30-60 mins to fall asleep otherwise, or 90-120 mins on really bad nights, so it's been helpful in that regard.
- I consistently wake up about 3 h into the night. If I try to go back to sleep, I can only stay asleep for 30-60 mins at a time before I wake up again.
- Whenever I wake up, I have this strange strobe light effect in my peripheral vision for a moment.
- My mood improved somewhat, but that's been outweighed quite a bit by the insomnia.
Just to clarify, I haven't been diagnosed with bipolar per se, but rather a mood disorder not otherwise specified. I get ups and downs, but I bounce between depression and irritability/agitation. Never had a manic episode.
I'll also note that I started lamictal / lamotrigine at 150 mg twice a day at the same time I started Abilify, but I've been on increasing doses for months with none of these issues. I'm also on HRT but that's been going on for years.
Thankfully, my psychiatrist gave me the go-ahead to stop taking the Abilify. Hopefully the negative effects go away soon.
When I see a self-ruling vehicle
Er self-driving, i don't know how to make the rule joke it's my first day
Does hair in food carry any health risks?
Say I go to a restaurant and find a hair in my food. Are there any actual health risks?
Does it make a difference if I:
- Find it in the dish, remove it, and keep eating
- Take a bite, find it in my mouth, and remove it
- Ingest it
This was inspired by a recent news story about a certain authoritarian butthole cosplaying as a food service worker. I did try to look it up (er, search it up?), but the top hits were lengthy meandering articles, or totally off-topic stuff like foods to prevent hair loss. So naturally I gave up and opted to consult the hive mind instead.
Would you stop donating to a free service if it started putting up paywalls?
I've been donating to the news site Vox for a while now, and all their content has so far been free. I felt kinda bad about blocking the ads on their site and fast-forwarding through all the ad breaks in their podcasts. So in the spirit of actually supporting something I like, I started chipping in a few bucks a month.
But recently, they've started putting some of their articles behind a paywall. Since I was already donating, I automatically have access. But for some reason, I feel like I don't wanna pay anymore. It's not like it costs me more, but there's just something about dontating to a free site vs paying for exclusive content that doesn't feel the same. Maybe cuz I'm not a fan of paywalls in general, so I don't want to support companies that implement them.
Does that make sense? What would you do? And if you're not a fan of Vox, maybe think of some other free service/content, like videos from a streamer or a software project or something.
Nausea on HRT? (MtF)
I'm a trans woman, and I've been experiencing pretty annoying levels of nausea recently -- like, daily, for a few months. It's not too disruptive, but I get hungry really sporadically, and I spend the rest of the time feeling vaguely queasy. I'm wondering if it's at all related to the drug cocktail I'm on.
I've been on HRT for about 2 years now. I take estradiol (4 mg/day orally) and spironolactone (100 mg/day). I get my hormone levels checked regularly at a clinic. The spiro used to be 50 mg/day, but I had to up the dose after my testosterone levels started creeping back up several months ago.
The T uptick seemingly coincided with when I started taking bupropion for depression. My T levels are back in range, and I've since switched out the bupropion for lamotrigine (a mood stabilizer). But now I have all this nausea.
Despite what I've described, my HRT prescriber and my psychiatrist both insist that this drug combination shouldn't be causing nausea, nor the jump in T levels. So, it's a mystery, and quite a frustrating one. I feel like I'm a big bag of pills that's been shaken up until it's good and dizzy.
Not sure if anyone can relate to this -- how many depressed trans women are there out there, anyway? But if you have any advice, I'm all ears.
thought i'd get a day off from work, but noooo...
though i am struggling with image uploads for some reason, so i guess i do get to participate in the chaos after all
Empty space between posts (Firefox on Android)
For the past day or so, I've been seeing a bunch of empty space in between posts. All the posts are there, but I have to scroll for a while to see them all. It also happens on comment threads.
I'm using Firefox 127.0.2 on Android 14. It also happens when I request the desktop site view. It doesn't happen on my actual desktop, nor does it happen for other instances like lemmy.world.
Is this a known issue? Any fixes?
Edit: Within hours of posting, pages are loading normally again.