Whats_your_reasoning @ Whats_your_reasoning @lemmy.world

In case you can't tell, I'm passionate about rationality and critical think

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Contrast this to my mom, who taught me how to shave my legs but who forbid me from "shaving above the knee."

That ended when I went to school in shorts and the bullies saw my thigh hair glistening in the sun.

It ended two years later, when I met a cool girl who didn't shave if she didn't feel like it, rocking her hairy legs without a care.

I'm still not that bold, but I found a balance that works for me. Nobody else's opinion matters.

My god, that sounds freeing.

Seriously. "Excuse me, Mom. You put what into where?!"

If your son came to you asking for help, don’t overthink. Do the right thing and help him out, regardless of what he wants to shave.

This should be stitched into a throw pillow. The first sentence on one side, the second sentence on the other side.

It could work for so many occasions.

Shit, you're right. I bet all the properties will have a corporate sponsor. Like, "McDonald's™ on Ventnor Avenue" or "Walmart™ of Baltic Avenue" (because let's be real, Baltic Avenue would totally have a Walmart.) Companies would go into bidding wars to get put on Boardwalk or Park Place.

Hey internet: this right here ^ is how you respond when you encounter new information after a disagreement. It's totally okay to admit not having known something before. You don't have to double-down on your ignorance or go off at some stranger.

We're all just people, learning all the time. It's cool.

Anyway, thanks for responding like a reasonable person, OP.

I knew a 17 year old girl who was homeschooled and didn’t know what a “prime number” was. Surprise surprise, her mom was a bible-thumper (and the girl was a closeted atheist.)

Honestly, if my parents had any idea how many creeps were on AOL, I probably would’ve been banned from it. We’re like the “grew up with no seatbelts and survived” version of internet users.

Imagine being guaranteed to buy a house. Or being guaranteed to get married. Or being guaranteed to retire…

Not for sale to persons under the age of 16. By placing an order for this product, you declare that you are 16 years of age or over. This item must be used responsibly and appropriately.

Even the disclaimer implies we’re irresponsible. That’s a weird age limit, too.

Might as well flip the board, because the bank’s gonna charge you for an overdraft if you don’t.

Ah, the good ol’ days, when my friend’s computer would get jacked up from Bonzai Buddy because she thought it was too cute.

I thought it was weird and didn’t care for it, so I never put it on my family’s computer. After it was discovered to be spyware, I felt vindicated.

I remember (as a girl) wanting to talk to another girl my age in a chatroom. The rest of the room started asking if I was a lesbian.

Like we couldn’t just talk to people online without bringing sex into it. I just wanted to make some friends.

A scary side effect of this is how many small plane pilots don’t use gloves when checking fuel. In my flight school, I was the only student who used gloves. Everyone else just covers the tube with their thumb, unconcerned with how easily lead can pass through their skin.

Fuel that gets checked usually gets dumped on the ground, too. It’d be interesting (and probably unsettling) to see how much lead finds its way into the ground around airports.

Or the buzzing of the vibration. At least, that's what I listen for in this scenario. The only time I put the sound on for my phone is when I know there's a call coming that I have to listen for.

This is why my parents dismissed my childhood diagnosis of ADHD. My older brother has the hyperactive type, but I am more of the inattentive type.

The outside is calm, but the inside is a tornado of thoughts that doesn't cease.

Music tastes can evolve. When I started dating my boyfriend, our music tastes seemed worlds apart. He's a rap guy, and I'm a rock girl. There wasn't much we could agree on when we put on the radio, yet we're on the same wavelength for pretty much everything else.

But he still came with me to an Eagles/Steely Dan concert, and he said he liked it. Lately he discovered funk music for the first time, which is a genre I grew up listening to. Now we sing and dance together to funk while cooking dinner.

I think the bigger problem isn't having the different tastes, but being closed-minded about trying new things.

I got deferred years ago because a batch test including my sample came up positive for hepatitis (I forget which type.) I immediately went to my doctor and got tested. I had no risk factors, so the doctor was confused, but they ran the test anyway. It came back negative.

But the center said I was deferred for life, without a chance that I could ever donate anything again. All the plasma they had taken from me had to be destroyed. It was heartbreaking, and I'm still confused how they could defer someone permanently for something that wasn't even in their own sample.

Invasive species are something else. They can cause active harm to an ecosystem and are crucial to look out for, especially in sensitive areas. Just because "life finds a way" doesn't mean destroying a niche habitat is okay.