So, restaurants are to be forced to put calorie counts next to food on menus in the UK, and there has been a lot of backlash to this especially by BEAT, with concerns of it being triggering.
Obviously I get why it is triggering for many, however I feel like people don't realise that not knowing the calories can also triggering for ED sufferers. Some may avoid restaurants for fear of the unknown calories. I just feel like people are over-simplifying the issue. Personally, I think the calories shouldn't be on menus but should be available online.
What do you guys think?
Does it trigger you?
What are your thoughts on my compromise?
Edit: another thing I just thought about is that I think some of the portion sizes in restaurants are just excessive to a point that is unhealthy because people like knowing they have their money's worth. When I worked as a waitress there was a shocking amount of food waste too, I feel like making restaurants and cafés give the calorie counts even just online would incentivize them to not have excessive portions also decreasing food waste.
Virtual Reality is the solution. An amazing virtual reality world is easier to design interstellar space travel, and also more rewarding. It's basically immortality, where you can do anything you want. Any sensation is instantly yours. There doesn't have to be and land disputes, and individual virtual reality machines theoretically could be tiny, if enough short cuts are used. The reasons why we haven't found any aliens, is that they have no need to find us or do anything than live in an almost infinite paradise. My conclusion is that every Alien race that has technologically evolved passed us is living Inside virtual reality machines.
My older brother has the account and money so I have no choice but to HODL but im still worried. Can yoy guys give me some words of wisdom?
EDIT: Thank you for the encouragement to send the text. He was very appreciative of it and will be in touch with me. Lesson learned, never hurts to give credit where it's due. Thank you again, friends.
Hi all, my manager was recently let go. It was kind of abrupt, but my team and I could see why it happened. My boss had called us in a meeting to let us know and even was disappointed that it had to be done. (My manager was fired from an accumulation of mistakes during a critical time from what we were told.) But, we would all agree that my manager was a great lead in terms of having our backs (respected our boundaries when we couldn't go into the office, advocated for us, etc). I guess it just wasn't enough on the business side.
I'm just wondering if it would be inappropriate to send him a text along the lines of
"Hi _____,
I'm really sorry for what has happened. I know this may be little consolation, but I really enjoyed having you as my manager. I appreciate the fact that you always had a good word to say for us and were accommodating to our personal and work life. Although those may be considered basic things, I haven't had a manager that respected those aspects, so thank you for that. I wish you the best for the future."
TLDR; Manager was let go, and I'm kinda bummed and want to make sure he's doing okay and say my thanks. Would that be bad/weird? Let me know your thoughts.
I was driving to the store and my car crapped out on me, turns out the alternator failed and the engine stalled out. I pulled over to the side of a remote road.
It was cold out and I wasn't dressed for the weather without the car's heater. Dumb of me to not wear a warmer coat or think to put a blanket in my car for the winter just in case..but it was supposed to be a quick errand.
I called my boyfriend who lived very close to where I was broken down, and he didn't pick up. I texted him saying I was broken down and I needed a ride, could he help? He said no, he had a friend visiting. I said it was freezing cold and I needed to get out of the cold fast because the car heat was broken too. He said "can't you ask a friend, this is a bad time"
I called a friend who was 35 minutes away and he got on the road right away, and we made plans to have his brother who works for a towing company get it for cheap the next day as a favor. We hung out for a few hours and then I went to bed early. I accidentally left my phone in his car so when he left he took it along.
The next morning I couldn't find my phone and sent an email to my friend to ask if he'd seen it. He replied and said he found it in his car and he could bring it back on the weekend. I thanked him and apologized for making him make the trip twice.
Anyway, I worked through the day and only checked my social media after the workday. I saw some panicked messages from my boyfriend on my Facebook asking what had happened, I didn't answer his texts for 24 hours after the last thing I sent was "can you please come pick me up, it's freezing cold and I need to get out of the cold fast. Car hear is broken" and I wasn't picking up my phone or answering texts or social media messages. Then he went for a drive and found my car abandoned in the dirt off the side of the road.
He was convinced I had been ignoring him to spite him for not leaving right away to get me, he hasn't realized how serious it was. And he had expected if I had trouble getting a friend to help I'd call him and tell him I didn't have another option.
I said I wasn't being petty, I was just trying to deal with my own shit when my car crapped out on me. And I honestly wasn't thinking about him at all after he brushed off me asking for help.
He said that I was stupid for not thinking that he'd be worried to be ghosted for a day after saying I was in trouble
AITA for not telling my boyfriend I was ok after he didn't want to help me after my car c
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(23F) I’m doing a mostly solo trip in November (hopefully if covid permits) to Europe. My mom is veryyyy cautious honestly even a little paranoid about me solo traveling. I’ve done domestic solo trips to Colorado, Wyoming, and Seattle. I’ve been to Europe 3 times before one of which I lived there for 4 months with 4 other girls teaching English in Poland (even spent a 6 hr layover in Amsterdam alone exploring). I’ll be starting this trip seeing a friend in Germany, ending the trip visiting a friend in Ukraine and the rest will be visiting a few other countries on my own. Any advise on how to reassure my mom and other anxious family members? I know bad things can happen and I know she’s just worried for my safety but I don’t know how to get her to be a little more chill. I had mentioned today about maybe adding another stop and she did not take kindly to that idea. I know she’s not the boss of me but like also she kinda is since I still live at home and I don’t want to cause her any stress but I don’t want to miss out on life because SHE’S anxious about it... I share my location with her and other family members, check in often, and know how to be a smart and safe traveler, anything else I can do or say to put her at ease?
Thanks in advance
Silence is so troubling lol. Always have to go hunt my puppy down and see what she’s into 🤦🏼♀️
Please share your experience if you have epilepsy and have received a vaccine. I can't find any other resources online.
I appreciate you all so much. Thank you for your feedback
I’m a tiktok user. Judge all you like. The algorithm works cuz it throws content I like. Lotta men’s rights stuff and related info.
Well dick size content comes around and as much as I see females that ridicule men for their size, I see them get ratioed bad as well. With men and some women who make a rebuttal that garners more interaction than the original post. Sometime they get it so bad that the person deletes their video.
Personally, I don’t like seeing creators get bullied. Id lie if I said I didn’t enjoy it sometimes. To their credit, a lot of those females will make an apology. They’re still shit people, but at least they learned something.
Just shows that some people are publicly pushing back and it’s nice to see it.
Since I have a re-tear, unfortunately back and more active here :(
Did any of your surgeons tell you anything positive regarding LIS that made you decide to go for the surgery? Specifically, the incontinence risk? In the short term, I'm most concerned about abscesses (I can't imagine doing a surgery only to need another surgery because of a fistula or something! I would lose my mind). In the long-term, I'm also mostly worried about long term incontinence (i.e., 15-20 years from now). I am a male in my mid 20s, otherwise healthy, with what I'm sure is an exceptionally tight sphincter, so I don't think I'm at very high risk of incontinence, but I still worry... the quality of life trade off is critically important -- pain-free and worry-free living now in exchange for accepting risk for later in life? I feel like it's worth it, but I am a nervous individual. Any positive comments from surgeons would be very welcome here! I'll be asking my CRS about surgery next week, how familiar he is with it, etc.
The article is just so disappointing, but readers are definitely firing back in the comments.
Good things are on the horizon when this blue-green banner shows up
I've had a near-perfect track record with surveys from "researchsurv" (which seems to be some sort of subsidiary(?) of Prodege) as long as I've been using Swagbucks. They're usually pretty short, about 2-10 minutes at the most. Their SB values range from 5-100 and they always immediately credit when completed, no hidden delays or anything like that. The topics of their surveys (music, podcasts, advertising, etc.) seem to reach to a much wider, broader demographic than other providers that look for a very specific type of person to respond, so I've never been disqualified from one of these for not meeting their requirements, just from "overquota." (that being said, this survey did, in fact, kick me due to being over quota, but I'm honestly not even upset about it)
Why can't more survey providers be this consistent? This is why I wish I could see the names of companies in the Gold Survey list.
Maybe this is just me but with the way things have been going the entire world looks like its about to go to shit. Massive Covid outbreak in India with new delay strains have made it seem like covid wont be going away anytime soon and might even get worse. All of this has made me wish there was really a SCP foundation, like someone with the ability to help make things right again. Something to put the world back together.
TLDR: Realtor and mortgage specialist are friends. Realtor threatens that we'll lose the house because financing condition is about to expire. Realtor & mortgage specialist pressure us to make an ALL-CASH offer on a house at the last minute. Realtor offers to extend the financing condition deadline when we refused to go ALL-CASH. They are later surprised that we managed to switch to a different bank in time. Mortgage specialist loses our business.
Province: QC
On Friday, I asked /r/LegalAdviceCanada in this thread about what we should do when the home intended on purchasing, which accepted our offer conditional to financing, was about to slip out of hands because our mortgage specialist at a particular bank went through a brokerage to find a (presumably cheap) financial appraiser, and claimed that all financial appraisers were "overbooked" and that he couldn't get the financial approval within the conditional deadline.
Our realtor, who is a friend of our mortgage specialist, made the threat that if we did not remove the financing condition SOON, we could lose the house upon the financial condition's expiry because another outbid buyer could make a new, ALL-CASH offer over our winning bid since our winning bid was now disclosed, adding that he thinks the sellers' realtor would not accept a financial deadline extension.
We called our mortgage specialist and voiced our concerns. He replied that an ALL-CASH option could be an alternative, with the addition of a clause written by the realtor to protect us indicating that the sellers must allow more time for a financial appraiser in the event that the buyer wishes to change its financing method (ALL-CASH) for a mortgage one later. We expressed clearly that we were not comfortable with that option and we wanted to better understand its legal implications. The mortgage specialist got us in a 3-way call to discuss the ALL-CASH option and this clause with our realtor.
Surprise surprise! The mortage specialist had an ALL-CASH offer letter ready right away and was happy to change his financial approval letter for an ALL-CASH offer on the house until the mortgage approval could be concluded. But we were still not quite reassured. If for any reason, the bank would refuse financing on the house later, we would be virtually screwed, having to empty ALL of our TSFA &
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When you consider entering a position on the market, you’re supposed to approximate the risk/reward ratio and take an educated and logical decision. A lot of r/GME members are still stressed by their investment. They’re not all bots and shills, I understand them and refuse to make fun of them, as I once felt like them as well.
I will not promise a 99.99% chance of getting a $1,000,000 per share moon landing here; heck, I’m not even assuring you that a fast and thunderous short squeeze is coming in the following week(s); it could be a long-term squeeze à la Tesla and it wouldn’t change my analysis in any way, shape or form. I will just use a few prosaic arguments to comfort you in your current position.
As an axiom, I will only make one starting assumption: you have not invested capital that you know you will need —that is to say that you MUST get back— in the following months (medium term). If you unfortunately have, you might be in trouble if this squeeze takes time to mature.
Now, you must understand that GME shares have an intrinsic value: it’s not just a bunch of 1s and 0s on some app user account, it represents a part of a company. My take is that as long as this company a. does not extremely dilute its existing share pool, and b. doesn’t go bankrupt, your investment will not completely vanish nor even seriously depreciate. What do we know?
While it was in the midst of a massive pluriannual short attack in 2019, Gamestop bought back about 1/3 of its own shares, a great move since it killed two birds with one stone: it lessened the severity of the shorting pressure and it did so while taking full advantage of the artificially depressed prices.
Source: https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/gamestop-buys-back-a-crazy-amount-of-stock-2019-12-10
At the time of writing, Gamestop has not taken advantage of the situation to issue loads of new shares to make a quick buck for two main reasons:
- Doing so would potentially give breathing room to the hedge funds that harassed it for years, which would be incredibly stupid and short-sighted, all the more so as those crooks are not known for their gratitude or their willingness to settle for a draw.
- It would alienate a lot of investors still involved in the company, especially retailers. What’s more, a good part of those retailers are also consumers. Last but not least, all the free publicity that Gamestop received in
Still holding 💎🙌🐕🚀
