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  1. Don't apologize to people who can't tolerate reading.

  2. It seems like the paper predicted this kind of response from them. Plus I have an angry vegan telling me my brain is clogged up.

  3. Carson to Burbank is not going to be a tenable commute for you. With biking that would be, like, 3 hours one way. Miracle Mile and Mid Wilshire is a better area. It splits the difference more for you guys and has plenty of nice apartments and places to go on the weekends. Is it possible for you to transfer jobs closer to the South Bay? Torrance would be a better place to live if you didn't have the Burbank commute.

  4. Long Beach to Burbank would be untenable even without the biking.

  5. The area around Cal State LA has some sleepy neighborhoods and has easy access to Metro and freeways, too.

  6. My parents are gone. There are only two uncles left who remember my childhood and they're on their way out. It's weird. Cousins are scattered to the wind. I really cherish my husband, kids, and friends more than ever now. Relationships are precious.

  7. No, incorrect. Tylenol is metabolized in the liver and it can be significantly liver toxic. Ibuprofen is, in fact, metabolized in the kidneys. Habitual ibuprofen users can sustain both acute and chronic Kidney injury. So kidney disease is a distinct possibility. Ibuprofen ALSO wrecks your guts because it is a COX-2 inhibitor.

  8. https://www.hss.edu/conditions_guidelines-reduce-side-effects-nsaids.asp

  9. Correct. But toxicity occurs in the kidneys, where the drug is metabolized. Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics are two different things. Look up where ibuprofen is metabolized, look up what drug metabolism means, look up risk of kidney injury and kidney failure with ibuprofen, and then get back to me. Both things are true (kidney + GI risk). But what's not true is acetaminophen being kidney toxic (it's liver toxic). That's ibuprofen.

  10. That's generally how commuting to work goes... What else do you expect? In the absence of ubiquitous high speed rail or even better coordinated public transportation, this is the destiny of any large metro area. It's not an indictment of the people trying to get to work, it's an indictment of lack of good public transportation. LA once had spectacular public transportation--it was destroyed quite deliberately by automotive companies. Regulatory capture is the real clown show.

  11. I wish UCLA would help clean up Westwood Village. It's been on a downward slide since the 80s. I know a lot of the landowners there keep the buildings empty as a tax write off, and there's little people can do about it. But I wish they could. Folks should lose property rights if they leave a business property in squalor for more than 4 years, or something.

  12. Revoking prop 13 would fix for all of this. Even without a tax write off some of those property owners are paying penny’s in property taxes

  13. Prop 13 is the root of all evil for CA. It needs to go, I agree.

  14. You think you have less crap? What's in your home? But it's different if it's you. You're allowed to want stuff and have stuff. But other people? No. If they lose their home they are not allowed to want or have stuff anymore? That's all they have! Weird question.

  15. Being homeless was very difficult. I was dealing with a lot while navigating a new environment while trying to protect myself while trying to process repressed trauma while trying to get back on my feet.it was worth it.

  16. My mom and I were homeless when I was preschool age. We couch surfed for years. I remember sleeping in an office and my mom crying in a motel room. We always had shelter, thankfully. I would say we had enough food but honestly I was very underweight as a child and preteen and my height was stunted because of it :( There were intermittent years of stability where my mom had work. But many more where she didn't/couldn't (disabled). Eventually we moved in with grandparents and a few of her brothers all together in a rented house and then we were all stable. Of the 5 adults there were always 2-3 incomes coming in however meager. There was always someone home after school and during school breaks. My Grandpa did the shopping and errands. My Grandma did the cooking, mending, and ironing. My uncles did the house cleaning, maintenance, and yardwork. My mom did all the laundry. I did the weeding and washed the cars. My uncles lived in the garage. We found some happiness together, actually. It worked out.

  17. Look, if you get an average job here you make about 20 dollars an hour. After taxes and paying your health insurance premium you'll take home maybe 2,000 a month. A studio apartment is like, 1,700 per month. You won't have enough for food and transportation to work. If you get a roommate and split a 1 bedroom, you MIGHT have enough for food and transportation, but you still won't have enough for utility and phone bills. If you pack a bunch of people in a multi-room house and you work full time, you can scrape by but you won't have any money to do anything fun, like travel. If you want to make it here and have any quality of life you need to have specialty training and a high-paying job. You'll need either union trade work, computer/IT certifications (data analysis, database, cyber security, etc), or a bachelor's AND a master's degree in a decent-paying field. California is not a place to try to find yourself. There's more demand than supply here, housing goes to highest bidder, rent is insanely high, etc. There are lots of jobs in LA. Tons. But competition for livable jobs is fierce.

  18. Might be worth seeing a doc over. People can get really activated by stressors, and you've had a lot of stressors. It can launch folks into a mania or a hypomania. I don't say that lightly. Some people get a literal sleep response from sleep deprivation that can do this. It's not abnormal to have sleep changes in midlife, but if your sleep patterns are drastically different, you still have energy after little sleep, and you find yourself with rapid thinking (or big ideas, overspending, hyper-religiosity, irritability, etc.), you might want to tell a doc. Definitely pay attention if your wife says you're not yourself.

  19. Are you, me? That’s all happening but it seems like my normal. Maybe it’s been going on too long and I’ve come to accept it as normal. Maybe I’m headed for a crash. Landed in a sticky-wicket just about “one year ago” - I’m coming up on the annual “celebration” of its “resolution”..

  20. It can get out from under you and spiral really fast. Best thing is to try to increase sleep duration at night. Talk to a doc about it. Trust.

  21. I like to use Haiti as a test case, because it's close to the US and it's not that big. I'd like to see a billionaire fix Haiti. I'm not impressed with going to space, that's been done. Fix Haiti and I will be impressed. Because it either can't be done. Or it can be done, but they don't care to do it. If I was a billionaire that would be my challenge, but I'm not sure it can be done.

  22. Billionaires don't fix things. They parasitize. That's how they become billionaires.

  23. 2 mice can be over 2,000 mice in one year. If there's more than 2 mice in the equation already, it's even more exponential than that. They will overrun your home. I'm sorry to say, but your kindness is not going to be repaid. If you are finding them in your home you should call an exterminator.

  24. I've lost both parents. After my mom's death I was a wreck about it for more than a decade. She was a single parent and I was her only child. After my dad's death I felt peace, which was very unexpected. I was still close with my dad. I think it just put an end to that whole chapter of my life. Nobody to worry about anymore. I've had three aunts and uncles die as well, and I didn't even cry. So maybe there's some numbness there. I don't know. That whole generation turned into viscous MAGA assholes. I have another uncle who refused to get the COVID vaccine, got COVID, is now on oxygen for the rest of his life because of it, but rants about how COVID is fake. I'm a clinician. I told about the morgue trucks at my hospital during the peak, and the refrigerant trucks for the morgue trucks. He told me those were fake, too. Now he won't talk to me. Fuck him. Anyway, the world keeps turning and I feel fine...

  25. Cycling and horseback riding were once considered risk factors in the development of testicular cancer, but meta-analyses have not borne that out over time. If the sport is rigorous enough to cause testicular pain or numbness, it's probably not a good idea to continue to exercise for a long duration.

  26. I was told in 4th grade that I look like the Childlike Empress and it's never left my brain. I love this movie.

  27. Being pedantic: Alz is more of a diagnosis while dementia is a group of symptoms. The disease of Alz causes many dementia symptoms but isn’t the sole cause.

  28. Alzheimer's is a specific form of dementia. There are many types of dementias. Parkinson's is a type of dementia. There's Lewy Body dementia. Frontotemporal dementia. Vascular dementia. You're right that there are different constellations of symptoms, and those constellations tell you which form of dementia you're looking at. It's generally understood what people mean when they say Alzheimer's. It's used as a catch-all for dementia connotatively. Unless you're in a clinical setting it's probably not too useful to run around trying to correct people for using the term Alzheimer's. It's also the most common form, accounting for the vast majority of dementias (60-80%), so I'm not sure why you would want to...

  29. ESH. It wasn't your problem to solve, it was your daughter's. It would have been far better to let your daughter know that you knew, and to explain to her, over time, that it would be too awkward for you to have your SIL over knowing what you know, and that it would have to come out eventually. It was your daughter's job to breach the topic. Clearly it was something she was struggling living with or she wouldn't have told her mother. By jumping the gun and doing the work yourself, it set the marriage up for failure. There's a lot less room for marital counseling and reconciliation when the problem is presented as: "they were hiding this from you and they were never going to tell you." If you had taken time to hash it out with your daughter first, she could have approached her husband herself, perhaps with: "before we have children, there's a problem we need to address. I did xyz, it was wrong, I want to keep our marriage, this is what I'm willing to do, etc." The situation required more time and more tact. If you had taken more time you could have made it clear to both wife and daughter that these kinds of secrets don't often stay secret, so there's little utility in staying mad at the mother for talking about. And all the more reason to address it with the husband, etc. Hindsight is 20/20, but this is a strong lesson in not jumping so quickly to forcefully solve someone else's problems. A lot more introspection and planning was needed for this to have worked out more amicably. Even if the daughter telling the husband didn't result in eventual forgiveness and reconciliation, at least it would have come from her doing the work. It was her work to do.

  30. I agree that it was her work to do, but she failed it for years and probably would have never told her SO.

  31. I just wish her dad had gone to her on a few occasions and spent time hashing it out with her more. One conversation and an ultimatum is not going to produce anything other than the result he got.

  32. The traffic in LA is truly monstrous. He's going to want to live as close to the university as possible. He's also going to need a car here. Public transportation is not great. It's easy to visit fun places once you live here, but it's not easy to live in fun places while commuting multiple hours per day. Do not recommend. Live close to work/school. Very close. Closer the better. Like, walking distance to school. He'll still need a car for shopping and traveling.

  33. That's not the reality. THE LAW forces your son to be a parent BECAUSE HE GOT SOMEONE PREGNANT. He forced himself. It doesn't matter if he's "ready..." Parenthood is a consequence of his action and people very much will force him to be responsible for his actions. That you keep saying this over and over is unreal. Your son is a parent. The deed is done, and he did it himself. Christ.

  34. He can choose to be an uninvolved parent, or a deadbeat parent, or a terrible parent. Those are also his choices. But I hope that's not what you're teaching him to do.

  35. What I think you're actually saying is "Nobody can force me to be a grandfather." Well, you are a grandfather now. You can choose to be an uninvolved one, an unloving one, a deadbeat one, or a terrible one. And if you do, that grandchild deserves better than you. Alternatively, you don't deserve the love of that kid. You aren't responsible for paying for that grandbaby, but you are responsible for loving that little human that didn't ask to be here. Do better.

  36. If I see any signs up for this dog I will let you know

  37. Summer of 2007 was a pretty good one. Saw many shooting stars one evening.

  38. The facilities are really nice. I used to take student nurses there when I was a nursing instructor. The behavioral health unit for kids and teens is large and well-designed. Reviews for places where people are sometimes held against their will are never going to be good. The real metric is whether or not those individuals are kept safe from harming themselves, whether they are getting meds and therapy, and whether or not they are getting recreational therapy and activities while they are there. Del Amo has pretty good metrics as far as this goes. I'm sure some nurses are great and some are not so great, and a lot of that has to do with how stressed they are related to staffing numbers--this is an issue everywhere.

  39. College campuses are really fun and there are so many

  40. Any favorites? I was gonna visit UCLA and USC any others you recommend

  41. UCLA is my favorite because it's so expansive. And it's absolutely gorgeous.

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