Tough to differentiate bots that only vote from human lurkers who only vote.

Are you American left, southern Europe left, eastern Europe left, or northern Europe left?

🎶"Period sex, period sex. Put down a towel, let’s party til it’s dry, with some period sex… "🎶

Just checking.

For how I use it, I recommend just getting a classic analog watch… I had a pretty cool one as a child with Bugs Bunny as a background. It was neat.

I like checking my pulse for fun and use the alarm for reminders during the day on my smart watch, but that’s all the extra features I still use out of all the extras. It’s a Garmin.

It’s not “everyone”… maybe just locally to you?

But here it’s “peed” for child and “pehd” for foot, in every word I can think of right now at least.

I got a smart watch a while back. Had a lot of fun setting up workout routines, tracking my run, measuring my activity and sleep, putting in reminders for water and movement, setting alarms, journaling my period, syncing music to headphones, connecting calls from my phone etc.

Then I got bored with running and stopped logging in online to transfer my data, got annoyed with all the reminders that always popped up at the wrong time, turned off bluetooth and wifi within a week because it drained both phone and watch on battery, so no longer connected to headphones or phone, and of course I quickly forgot all about tracking periods etc because I had to turn on wifi and sync to do so, and figured out the sleep tracking was bogus.

I still use it all the time, to check the time without pulling out my phone and risk getting distracted. It’s great to have this technology that shows the time right there on your wrist!

Kinda annoying to have to charge it weekly but well worth it for keeping the phone tucked away safely. I even finally started automatically checking my wrist instead of reaching for the phone when needing the time. Pretty neat!

Nah, I’ll call without warning “just to chat”… or because I get frustrated trying to make plans over text.

But I get anxious and/or annoyed when my own phone rings without warning, and might not even pick up haha.

Yeah, I’m fully hypocritical in this regard. I’ll call people randomly “just to chat” with no notice haha.

Only if you want people to remember it.

I prefer calling people to texting them.

But I also don’t like being called.

I guess those are my two wolves.

Europe.

I’m very close with my mom, I call her interchangeably her name or “mom”. My friends know her and I speak of her often at work and in general because we hang out a lot, so most people have met her and/or know her well by her actual name.

I am not as close with my dad and call him dad most of the time, unless trying to get his attention - he is very bad at reacting or responding to anything but his name if he isn’t listening fully. I mostly spend time with him in family situations, unlike my mom who I consider friend as well as family.

It’s not the most common to call your parents by their name here, but it’s not super unusual or disrespectful either.

It all comes from organized crime. It finances incredible amounts of violence and slavery and corruption. Took me a while to face up to that fact, but eventually I couldn’t ignore it.

So I’m strictly alcoholic now.

Country-wide organisation that works on measuring government and industrial impact, and lobbying for changes, on environmental issues.

Local cat shelter with TNR-program.

Grant program for scientists developing safe and reliable alternatives to animal testing.

Lobby organisation for animal welfare on EU-level.

Wikipedia.

Grant program for researching and/or developing treatments for brain issues, from Alzheimer’s to anxiety.

More infrequently to others (anti-cancer, local youth sports, scouts, anti-bullying etc), as they show up with campaigns, sales drives, events etc.

I never give through round-up-campaigns in stores, markup on charity-versions of regular products etc, because that’s just a tax write-off for the company. I’d rather use that write-off myself and thus be able to give like 25% more to approved organisations. Not all of the above organisations are approved for tax write-off though.

Some "mm mMM mmh MMmm"s might suffice

I aim to articulate my thoughts (praise) during the meal, preferably early on, instead of having to recall the experience once its over. It also makes me more mindful of the meal if I try to find things to note while consuming it.

You likely won’t remember to do so, lol, but if you do, try it!

I prep this by mixing dry lentils and dry rice in a box with a measuring cup on it.

Compared to oven ready meals it’s just the extra step of using the cup to add from the box once and from the tap twice. And you don’t even have to wait for the oven to heat up.

This comment section really shows how important it is to specify your location when asking for advice.

Airing out radiators is like the simplest task one can do where I’m from. One flat heat screwdriver and a rag for the dripping, and you’re done faster than you can even call a landlord or repair firm. No crazy steam contraptions.

So you’re either calling for an expensive and time wasting repair unnecessarily or catching a faceful of scalding steam, if you take advice from the wrong part of the world…

Santa hats on spooky shit for sure, if I can be arsed. I rarely manage to take down decorations until it’s time to put em up again, so I try to just take down my least favourite items and let the ones I enjoy stay year round.

Biggest mistake was decorating my many plants with fake spider webs. Took me a year to get rid of (mostly for lack of trying) and looked like shit with all the dead leaves staying tangled in it instead of falling away.

I’m trying to stick to more permanent decor since.

A couple of fully rebookable vacations (because no way am I getting family or friends to agree to a date and location in a day).

High quality all-season camping gear and at least three new pairs of shoes (hiking, working out, everyday) and a quality bed for myself.

Cleaning service gift cards for any leftover amount.

No, I changed my mind: Any leftover amount would go to charity. I can clean my own damn house (or live in filth), and my current bed is good enough.