Your oven has a clean cycle for a reason, turns that and all the other disgusting shit you’ve probably been splattering all over the inside into much easier to deal with ash. Don’t worry about starting a fire in there either, the inside of the oven is supposed to get hot.
Edit: I should clarify what I mean by "don’t worry about starting a fire in there. Of all the places in your house, save for a fireplace if you have one, the oven is by far the best place for a fire to be. So if a fire does start in your oven during the clean cycle it’s fine, hell go watch it because it’s the closest thing you get to a fireplace in apartment life.
Yeah, that don’t worry about a fire mindset cost me over $4k and the ability to rent apartments for like 5 years. The story is a bit more nuanced than that, but a fire broke out behind my oven while it was left on for a while.
I’ve been realizing lately that it might be from ADHD - along with many other symptoms. Hoping to get diagnosed next year, and hopefully I won’t waste quite so much time just quietly stressing out.
Yes, medicated. Since committing to medication I’ve really pulled it together. I went off meds for a while in my late 20s and good lord did I set myself back. Getting ready in the morning is still a wild ride, but if I do everything as similarly as possible it helps.
Edit: sorry to say the medication does not fix my time blindness. I am an aggressive user of my work calendar and phone reminders.
Most symptoms of the “milder” mental disorders (depression, anxiety, adhd, etc.) are things that everyone experiences at some point in their lives.
It’s the degree of experience, frequency, and impact that differentiate the two. Also, when those symptoms don’t have an environmental/situational/logical cause.
For example, being too anxious to go out with friends, or compulsively checking that the stove is off even though you know damn well it hasn’t been turned on in a month. Also, being sad because your pet died isn’t a mental disorder like clinical depression.
The line between the two is definitely fuzzy, but psychology is a super complex topic.
This is also, generally speaking, the line between, say, having obsessive compulsions and having OCD. So if anyone is looking for a way express “haha, I’m totally ocd” without sounding dismissive of people with a serious disorder, just say “sometimes I have obsessive compulsions”. That would imply it’s nothing serious.
Same for PTSD. It’s ok to experience post-traumatic stress after something “rather banal”, like I don’t know, seeing a stranger break their leg. And calling post-traumatic stress is fine. Just don’t say “that baby on the airplane gave me ptsd.” That’s quite dismissive.
Anyone that needs help, go get it. Don’t let that your problem feels banal be an impediment. If something is impacting your life negatively, tune it up.
We’ve passed the "Marty McFly came to this year date for existential dread and it was hilarious. Can’t wait for the year when we’re as far from the release of Austin Powers as the movie was from the wild 60s.
You know, I would watch an Austin Powers 4 where he is thawed out in the present, is caught up with current affairs, and then can’t cope. He just spends the rest of the movie depressed. Maybe he even kills himself. It wouldn’t be funny but I would watch it.
If I could freeze time, I would honestly use it to just have as much time to do nothing as I wanted without missing out on real time events. I wouldn’t even use it for anything else
I just want to exist for awhile. No demands, no stress, no desire for food or water, no life or death. Just exist for awhile in my own little universe devoid of time.
I’m sure it doesn’t work that way and I’d get bored of it eventually but I wonder what it would be like to have that level of freedom, if only for a few moments.
The feminist Revolution came and told women that they didn’t have to be constrained to feminine roles. That they were allowed to Define themselves based on their own merits and desires, not just those of society and her husband.
The masculinist revolution… never happened at all and I just made it up…
This bad boy can fit so many fucking Canadas in it
We’ve got: New England Canada, North Atlantic Canada, Mid Atlantic Canada, Florida Canada, Gulf Coast Canada, Rust Belt Canada, Midwest Canada, Southern Canada, California Canada, and All The Rest Canada.
Yes, the majority of the population in the US is in the northeast, that’s why people hate the electoral college system. It gives a significant amount of power to a majority voting minority. A better way to represent a minority would be a ranked choice system.
Electoral college vs ranked choice voting is a false dichotomy. You can do one, the other, both, or neither.
The way to eliminating the electoral college, since it is enshrined in the constitution, is either a constitutional amendment changing to a popular vote method (highly unlikely), or the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.
It’s big, not huge, but there’s not a lot of other big cities out west. In terms of metro area population, it falls right in between Detroit and Minneapolis.
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