being standard isn’t an excuse, it makes it even more egregious.

i wish agents would at least try to not be insufferable about it, tell me “yeah i know, that’s the way it is” or something so i don’t feel like i’m trying to communicate with some sort of advanced fungus colony…

there are 2 solid low-cost mobile carriers here in sweden, and i literally do this with them. Just hop back and forth every 4 months and you get some sort of deal every single time.

It’s profoundly stupid and makes me hate modern society just that little bit more.

“Anableps anableps” is an amazing species name

just bringing a ton of frozen sperm and eggs is honestly the real answer i feel, why worry about bringing a bunch of living people who need resources and stuff, when you can just bring a quarter of earth’s diversity with you in the freezers?

The two downsides to this is that people can’t really have kids with each other, and if the freezers malfunction you’re a bit in the shit.

if you want more sourness maybe try adding some powdered citric acid or malic acid, whatever you can find at a grocery store. It’ll be in the spice aisle.

i mean the whole point of energy drinks is that they have a stupid amount of caffeine

pronounce it “tshiff”

you seem to be talking about supplements, not vitamins. Fruit is decidedly not expensive unless you live on the mcmurdo antarctic research station.

OP is definitely hilariously exaggerating it, but it certainly can’t hurt to make sure your body has all the nutrients it needs, and placebo shouldn’t be discounted.

In my experience and from my good but not professional knowledge, the most objectively beneficial thing is just to stay well hydrated and eat something. You need that to feel good even if you’re not sick, and when you’re fighting an infection your body is going to be diverting energy to things like fever rather than the stomach, so easy to digest is very important.

And what’s something that has lots of vitamins and minerals and easy to digest calories while also being filled with water? Fruit! (noodles are also a good option, easy to digest plus there’s broth so you get more water) Then add on the fact that e.g. citrus just viscerally feels fresh and like it should help with illness, and you have a very convincing reason to get a bag of mandarins to snack on while you’re sick.

It won’t cure a cold overnight, but it might well bring enough relief that it’s not a full week of wanting to die, and if it has absolutely no effect then oh no you ate a bunch of healthy stuff how terrible.

One thing i haven’t really seen brought up is that all of these symptoms are severe symptoms that the body has to resort to when less extreme measures aren’t enough.

I’ve noticed many times where i only got slightly sick, like a slight fever for not even an entire day, or i just suddenly feel lethargic and the next day i’m back to normal.
And when i do get severely sick, i make sure to take it extremely easy and keep myself hydrated and fed with something easily digestible along with just doing very very gentle exercise (like, stuff an old person would do at rehab). Since i started being this careful when i get sick it’s gotten WAY less miserable.
Like, instead of a week of just sleeping as much as possible because i have 0 energy and everything is pain; it’s 1-2 weeks that starts with the symptoms ramping up over a day or two, being uncomfortable but able to do things, then needing a few painkillers to be functional for 1-2 days, and then it goes in reverse until the sickness has petered back out.

they’re just the modern version of those old portable desktops, just with a battery so you don’t fly into a gamer rage when someone trips over the power cable.

why is that sad?

why would you be supposed to cut your hair in any specific way? are you in the army or something?

haven’t cut my hair in years, long hair supremacy.

i can assure you most of the world does not measure butter in pounds, we have 500g blocks here in sweden as well and i’d expect that to be the european standard at least.

sherpaTTS has some decent voices, not studio quality but it’s good enough that you don’t think about it.

the ~ doesn’t belong there

“why the fuck am i at the mcdonald’s parking lot?”

tbf that’s sorta true, they didn’t have “mini-brains” but stuff like severe pain signals get processed in the spine, since every millisecond matters when you’re absentmindedly stepping onto smouldering coal. That’s why reflexes are reflexive, the brain isn’t even involved at all.