start a victory garden and ration your IRRATIONALLY ANGRY feelings, part 3

I find pseudoscientific b.s. completely unacceptable, particularly since it's so often targeted to people with legitimate physical issues that require actual medical intervention.

I'm a bit more tolerant, but to qualify for my tolerance these practices need to fall within some rather narrow lines:

- the patient needs to be an adult capable of accepting responsibility for their own health.

- the practitioner should not charge a fee, or if there is a fee, it needs to be very slight and basically just compensate a bit for the time spent.

- the practitioner should not discourage the patient from seeking other kinds of care or medical intervention, or disparage medical science as invalid.

- the practice may be based on any airy-fairy theory of how it works and I don't care, but false claims about effecting cures of serious illnesses are never acceptable.

Believe it or not, there are people out there who just dabble around with this stuff and do meet those criteria. They're mostly harmless. It's the quacks who are in it to make a profit who deserve contempt.

it should never EVER replace legitimate medicine

I agree fully. It's almost entirely placebo effect, but that can be a useful adjunct to healing and shouldn't be rejected out of hand.

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/New-Upside-Down-Exhibit-at-Museum-of-Illusions--511476562.html

These types of places are not museums!!!!

I was just on a 12 hour redeye that was not full at all so I had the 3 seater row next to the windows to myself. After the door closed, an older dude brought his blanket and slippers over and sat in the aisle seat. I lost my mind. He wouldn't make any eye contact. I asked if it was his seat. He said an attendant said he could sit there (which I doubt because they don't want you to move until after you are in the air). I spread aaallllll my shit out and kept waking him up everytime he nodded off at the beginning. MF'er. He stayed the entire time, went back to his seat after we landed to get his stuff. I got up right away to move to the aisle and he totally had to do a reach around without saying anything to get his stuff out of the seat pocket.

Oh god

I was texting my spouse and a friend about it as it was happening, before takeoff, with pics. My spouse was like "why are you so angry?" My friend was like "sit in the middle seat really close."

why

why were you so angry tho

Thread title, my dude

fair, withdrawn

The first time I had to get up to use the bathroom he wouldn't get up and just turned his legs like I was going to crawl over his lap. I loomed and just kept making the upward hand motion. I actually did sleep ok lying down on the 2 seats.

I loomed and just kept making the upward hand motion.

dying @ this

If you’re ever lucky enough to get another three seats free, sit in the aisle seat until takeoff so no fucker like that can invade.

There were multiple seats everywhere free. I was trying to explain to my spouse (again) that this type of thing always happens because I look like a 'nice lady' and that is such a misguided assessment to make.

Sheesh, I'd be livid if this happened to me. Suzy otm, that seems to be the trick.

The guy behind me was sitting in the aisle seat to save his row. He was on alert. xpost.

I have to say though, deep down I knew he wouldn't move because he was an older japanese dude and I am a younger asiany woman. I knew that fucker would go all stoic. I was trying to creepster/shame him out.

God, if he was trying to be all creeper/alpha male on you, no wonder you were so pissed. You were totally in the right when it came to making him as uncomfortable as possible.

What's gotten me completely batshit mad lately (and not in a completely rational "this nation is fucked up" way): the weather. Fuck you, May 1 - September 30; your weather always sucks.

my former boss who i love won the Hamilton ticket lottery for a second time and between him and hid wife they’ve posted 97 photos on fb and instagram and I have such irrational fomo hatred right now

also why is 50% of everyone i follow constantly on vacation & posting photos on social media i hate them

stop having fun all you cunts & be miserable like me

It's when every picture is a separate post on Facebook that gets me, scrolling scrolling scrolling post photos of pints of beer or food with slightly different backgrounds.

yes exactly

I have the worst kind of curiosity. I keep it to myself mostly.

But there was a recent murder-suicide in our quad-county region, where it was it was a 22-year-old husband killing his 22-year-old wife.

So I looked 'em up on Facebook and it was all dreamy wedding days, families dressed in all-white clothing on the beaches of Destin and cozy little date nights at the taco place.

Just remember that Facebook is ALL LIES.

I assume the people who post dozens et dozens of pics from the same event are doing it for immediate family and they don't know how to filter audiences. These are people who will die first in the zombie apocalypse.

pp otm

maniacally posting photos of your vacation in real time for e-validation is symptomatic of not being present and for sure speaks to a deeper dissatisfaction

One thing which shits me immensely is when the user interface on macOS or iOS "pops up" an alert or something a split second before I click or tap on that part of the screen. e.g. if I go to tap the Messages icon in my phone's top row, and some inane alert from an app I forgot to disable dives underneath my finger when it's too late to react. I feel like the UI should be coded such that if you are clicking on something you couldn't possibly have seen because it appeared 0.05 seconds ago, it should treat it as if you clicked on what was there before. Also applies to e.g. rolling banners on websites - I go to click on a story but another one dives in front at the last instant.

totally rational reax imo

When there is any kind of linguistics-related content needed on the BBC and they without fail call up Stephen Fry to do it.

Learning about Mandela effects.

Like, a bunch of non-South Africans mixing up Nelson Mandela and Steve Biko is not a supernatural phenomenon.

I hate button flies.

Thank goodness it's not 1987

Been shopping for jeans lately? They're as prominent as ever!

afaict

button flies vs. button duvet covers.

Admittedly, I buy all my jeans from Old Navy, which is hardly fashionable, but I manage to consistently find ones that look un-embarrassing.

xpost I fucking hate the latter, too, I usually just leave them unbuttoned. Buttoning duvet covers is like hanging a shower curtain, just an annoying waste of digital dexterity.

Old Navy jeans are OK, but I find getting nicer jeans force you to take better care of them, which makes them last longer. Sort of like spending money on a nice pair of sunglasses.

You know what else I hate? Throw pillows. They just get in the way.

sometimes I don't even put the duvet cover on, I just lay it on top of the duvet.

No no, then you get the duvet dirty. You have to turn the cover inside out and use it like a sleeping bag, with the duvet on top.

i love throw pillows. but they need very large and deep sofas to be useful.

currently have duvet cover as sheet, and naked duvet on top of that, as an optional extra. though not very optional with the weather we've been having lately in London :/

throw pillows are the herpes of decor

otm

so in what way is a throw pillow not a cushion

Not comfortable.

You guys need better throw pillows. I fall asleep on mine.

Maybe I also don't know what a throw pillow is.

Filling out website forms on your phone, and the field where you enter your email address helpfully hits shift for you because it assumes the first letter of your email address will be capitalized. Of course it doesn’t matter but I go back and change it to lower case anyway. Also drives me mad when it doesn’t initialize a keyboard with an ampersand and a .com button (or at least a period), so you have to keep switching keyboard screens just to type your email address. Not sure if this is an issue with the website/script or an issue with the phone (although I’m pretty sure a few websites do this correctly, so I’m not inclined to blame the phone).

Or it asks for your zip code but initializes the alphabetical keyboard in that field. Or it asks for your phone number but it doesn’t automatically format to (xxx) xxx-xxxx so you’re never sure if you should put in the - or not. Website forms in general make me angry I guess! Maybe it’s primarily mobile sites but I’m not sure.

Don’t even get me started about the “click every square with a traffic light” bs where you’re squinting at a tiny picture wondering “is that a tiny traffic light in the distance?” or “I think that square might have a pixel or two of the traffic light that is mostly in the adjacent square, but does this idiotic program know that?”

"There have been too many login failures from your network in a short time period. Please wait and try again later."

yeah, treat all 10+ million three customers as if they are the same person, why don't you.

that's steam. but wikipedia also does this.