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7 years ago @ The Toast - A note on The Toast · 9 replies · +282 points

7 years ago @ The Toast - A note on The Toast · 7 replies · +328 points

OR MAYBE SHE IS

7 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 0 replies · +23 points

You are not being unreasonable! I've had dudes act very similarly to me, and usually I either ended things immediately with no regrets or they (often somewhat-snittily) vanished once they realized that I wasn't going to cave to their pressure. If a guy can't wait a few dates for me to decide I'm into him/get more comfortable with him physically, then he clearly doesn't value me as an individual that much or has incompatible priorities/speed from me. (I've had to remind myself of this a few times when guys I thought had potential faded away because I didn't want to get physical right away.) Either way, it's not going to work for me. Also, if a guy is being pushy to the point of being disrespectful that early on when we're supposedly on our best behavior, that doesn't bode well for his personality.

7 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 2 replies · +89 points

My favorite quotes from the decision:

"We add that, when directly asked at oral argument whether Texas knew of a single instance in which the new requirement would have helped even one woman obtain better treatment, Texas admitted that there was no evidence in the record of such a case."

"Nationwide, childbirth is 14 times more likely than abortion to result in death, but Texas law allows a midwife to oversee childbirth in the patient’s own home."

7 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 0 replies · +7 points

Ugh, a friend-of-a-friend who is a lovely, smart person has apparently gotten heavily into Landmark and keeps pressuring my friend to go, to the point of telling my friend that she isn't investing enough in her career and self if she doesn't do Landmark. My friend is a very generous-hearted person and kept insisting that it's not a cult and that it's doing great things for her friend. Our friends kept pointing out that Landmark is leading FoaF to be an asshole to her and that FoaF is paying a lot of money for something widely believed to be culty and scammy and now trying to drag her into it. But, obviously, you don't want to believe that your friend is being sucked into a scam that's making them an asshole!

7 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 1 reply · +14 points

"I'll put it in your photo album!"

"You seem to be feeling a lot better now!"

I feel like that guide's voice is still my inner voice sometimes...

7 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 0 replies · +6 points

Yes! I was the lucky recipient of a combo pack of Oregon Trail, Yukon Trail, and Amazon Trail when I was 10 and I loved them all. All of the different technology for panning for gold! My sister and I had a long-running inside joke/catchphrase of how the shopkeeper in the beginning says, "It's a biiiig saw!"

7 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 0 replies · +33 points

There's also a Mars, Pennsylvania! Pennsylvania, underrated for its weird place names.

7 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 1 reply · +5 points

I've been wanting to get a bigger harddrive for my 30GB Classic, but now its battery is also starting to go. I don't know enough tech stuff to know if I should try to replace both components, cross my fingers and buy used on eBay, buy a new one... No one I know understands why I still carry around basically an entire harddrive just for my music everywhere I go, but the big ol' brick has lasted me almost 10 years and many drops!

7 years ago @ The Toast - Cocktail Hour: Open Th... · 0 replies · +9 points

I used it! I went on two rounds, I think both in college. I had bad cystic acne that wouldn't go away with any other topical or oral medication, made me miserable, and left ice-pick scars on my face. Luckily, I had a trusting doctor who was pretty loose about some of the pregnancy testing and birth control requirements, so I only had to do the online test and blood draw every month. I think it did make me achier and maybe a bit more scattered/fatigued, but I had pre-existing hip and knee problems and was a sleep-deprived college student, so it's hard to tell. The only permanent negative side effects are that my skin is a little drier and more sensitive than it used to be, but nothing too bad and mostly on my face. I did have some hormone-based cystic acne come back over the last couple years that getting a Mirena IUD has almost 100% cleared that up. Based on that and that I had to do two rounds of high-dose Accutane, I think some of my acne was hormonal all along, but my mother was completely opposed to me going on HBC. I don't regret it, though--my acne was miserable, and the long-term effects have been very minor.

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