volvoxvsmarla

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[–] volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month ago (10 children)

Pretty obvious but you can use plastic containers from yoghurt, margarine, etc as plant pods (the ones that go inside the pretty ones). Just make sure to put some holes in the bottom for drainage. For seedlings, egg cartons work too.

Packaging paper we reuse as gift wrappings. I like to draw or "airbrush" something on it.

And toilet paper rolls... If you got a child you probably know.

[–] volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 8 points 1 month ago

If you google the kid she definitely doesn't have albinism. Which makes it even weirder that she was sold for body parts.

[–] volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

But if you feel comfortable, why is it problematic?

[–] volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago

My mom and sister used to say my husband looks like he just got released from Auschwitz so I feel you 🫠

Maybe it's because your dad wants you to get a perfect person. Someone who is nice and loving and interesting and attractive and successful and rich and a good cook and volunteers and whatnot. My guess is not that they would prefer you to have someone handsome and unloving instead, but someone who is both handsome and loving. Because to them, you're perfect. So they want you to have the (what they assume would be) perfect match. Most of this is probably not an active thought process but just some subconscious thinking.

[–] volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 10 points 1 month ago

I got a kid but not a car. Just walking to the kindergarten and back twice a day is movement. We spend a lot of time outdoors at playgrounds or parks and I have to do all the grocery shopping by bike or walking. I don't do other physical exercise admittedly, but this kid is a fitness machine. We be running, playing, I need to lift her, carry her, carry her stuff, clean up, wrestle - for real having a kid made me the most physically fit and active I've ever been.

When I was younger I liked to dance. Trying to lose weight I'd just put headphones on in my room and dance for hours. A friend of mine actually lost a crapton of weight this way, think obese to normal weight.

Also, making a kid (and training for it and reenacting it) is great exercise.

[–] volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 14 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I don't understand how you get downvoted so much. Right now tomatoes are in season and are like 1.39€ per kg. Within a walking distance of 15 minutes I have about 5 supermarkets.

If you have a lot of free time and don't calculate labor costs for this time and you have an acre at your hand like someone's poor grandparents in the other comments, like, ok, feel free to plant tomatoes. (Actually, feel free to plant tomatoes even if you don't.) Minimum wage is about 12€ here. Seeds, soil, buckets (not sure of the English term) also cost money. I only got a balcony, with limited sun exposure too. Like, I still decided to try and grow some crap this year, but it is definitely not worth it moneywise.

[–] volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I got a follow up question to the biblical academic consensus - where do you get that from? I mean literally, since I always wanted to kind of read the bible with these kinds of interpretations, but I absolutely don't know where to go for a source like this. Any tips?

[–] volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago

Decearing egg!!

[–] volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 110 points 1 month ago (17 children)

And then the people all clapped and patted themselves on the back for saving the guy and went about their day. But the guy went back to the same life full of problems that led him to despair. Crippling debt or depression. Estrangement from loved ones that are no longer willing to reconnect. Loneliness or defamation or disease. It's easy to save someone from jumping, but this is not help. That is not the help they need. They need constant and long term help, assistance, and support.

Saving a stranger from a suicide attempt has a vibe to it like preventing an abortion from happening without providing any further support for the mother or the child. Congrats, you saved a life, technically. But you did nothing to save the life.

[–] volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That's a good point, but in my opinion the other common deaths are way worse. Cancer? Living with the anxiety of impending death and constantly getting sicker, more in pain and being nauseous from medication? Or COPD, feeling like you are suffocating slowly? Alzheimers, Parkinsons? Or my personal fear - dying from a stupid simple cold? Man, I take a heart attack any day of the week.

[–] volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No, the people you mentioned are fine. I think it is something with the nose-chin-cheek combo that I find appalling.

For Jennifer Lawrence it's a separate thing, we have many similar features (like fat cheeks and hooded eyes) and it creeps me out too much and I get insecure watching her. I keep thinking how weird I must look and reevaluate my makeup the whole time, it's too stressful.

I also have a thing where I can't stop thinking of rooster anuses whenever I see Kevin Bacon (his mouth).

I want to emphasize that none of this is meant in a mean spirited way and those people are beautiful the way they are. It's my brain that makes these associations and I very much disapprove of them.

[–] volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I have that face thing with Patrick Swayze and Meryl Streep. And the girl from Dirty Dancing. I am working on getting over Jennifer Lawrence's face. All these people are surely somewhat good actors but there is something about their faces that I cannot stand and it makes it impossible for me to focus on the plot. I just made it through Silver Linings Playbook today, finally, it was hard but I am glad I managed, Lawrence did a good job and I forgot about her face for almost 30% of the time. One day I will manage to watch more than 15 minutes of Dirty Dancing.

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