Huh. I didn't know about a-pillar blindness. Definitely an important thing to know.

You're right, I need to look out for future me even if I feel mostly ok now.

I really enjoyed Sense8 (Nomi) before it was cancelled. 😒

I often feel the same way, Link. Currently fantasizing about my homemade tomato soup waiting for me at home 😌

I will never understand why any gay person would ever be transphobic.

Like.........??? You do understand that people have used many of the exact same arguments against trans rights as they've done to suppress gay rights too... right?

It'd be unethical to gatekeep such important information.

I'd love it so much if I were close enough to my parents to want to spend that much time with them, but that's unlikely to happen.

I love them, yes, but if they weren't my parents, I'd want absolutely nothing to do with them. Childhood trauma aside (it's complicated), they're conservatives with not one but TWO Trump flags at their house. 🙃

It makes me so sad, because I know they love me and want to spend a lot more time with me, but my mental health suffers every time I spend more than one or two hours with them (and sometimes even then).

I don't have the heart to tell them that, at least right now. I can't imagine it would go over well anyway, considering their serious lack of emotional intelligence.

When it comes to things like chocolate bars, cookies, brownies, pop-tarts, ect., I almost always pop them in the freezer for a bit because it changes the texture.

Cookies/brownies with chocolate chips/m&ms are the best for this, because the chips get crunchy, while the cookie part is chewier.

Arcane, the animated League of Legends show on Netflix.

Oh MY GOD, every element is seriously SO mind-blowingly good. And imo its animation is at least as good as—if not better than—the Miles Morales Spiderman movies... though they did spend six years working on it tbf.

And to be clear, while I'm vaguely familiar with LoL, I've never played it so I had zero emotional connection to any of the characters before watching.

Be prepared to cry though. Like the loud, punched-in-the-gut, ugly sobbing kind of crying.

I'm so sorry for your loss. I can't begin to imagine what kind of horrible person does that kind of shit to anyone, let alone someone who struggled so much with their mental health.

It sounds like you were a great friend to him.

Unfortunately, I used to work for a bank in the US for several years. CFPB complaints are one of the few ways a consumer could get their issues to be taken seriously and for the bank to actually be held accountable for their violations of federal regulations and general scumbaggery. Upper management was quite afraid of them. 😌

The CFPB investigates important issues like discrimination (such as redlining) and has the ability to prevent a bank from doing certain things, like issuing mortgages. I'm sure it has its problems, but without it, consumers would be screwed over by the banks even more than they already are.

I don't think that's the point. Bon Appétit specializes in food and its preparation, not science. It's difficult to know if what your source is saying is legitimate if you don't have the education needed to truly understand what they're talking about.