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I think we just need tiny sinks in stalls, or rather, all public stalls should be designed as semi-ambulant stalls.

Growing up as a crutches user (hip deformity) I didn't fully comprehend that the standard stalls don't have sinks in them. I kind of knew they didn't all have sinks, but I didn't think too hard about it, I sort of assumed the reason most people flushed then came to the main public sink was to use the mirror or dryer.

I got to used to filling my personal bidet at the sink, using it, and washing it at the sink, all behind the privacy of a closed bathroom door.

When I had my hip surgery and no longer needed semi ambulant stalls, or disability access stalls, and it was just so inconvenient to fill and rinse a bidet bottle in a regular public bathroom I stopped using it.

Then a few months later started using the semi ambulant stalls again so I can use my bidet, because it turns out my lichen sclerosis doesn't like public toilet paper and I was getting really bad infections.

But yeah, personal bidet bottles are great, but they require a tap near the toilet.

Some public sinks are easy to fill a bidet bottle, but a lot aren't, you physically can't fit a bottle under the taps and because bidet bottles aren't common it can feel embarrassing to fill it at the public sinks. Disability stalls almost always have a proper tap and sink for washing toilet aid devices.

Do this with a regular onion, especially if you've already got one in the pantry trying to sprout. As it grows you'll get onion greens that work just like scallions in any recipe. Let it go to seed, now you have infinite onions, but depending on your local climate and luck, leave your original onion bulb to winter, and shoot again, and it has probably split into new bulbs, so you'll probably get 2 new onions from the plant, plus onion greens, plus seeds. Eat one bulb, and leave the other bulb to grow more onion greens.

I've never bothered using the seeds, I just keep a bulb or two in the pot. Been 5 years. I still buy onions if I want something like onion jam or French onion soup, where I need like 1kg of onions. But Ive never had to buy scallions, and I've got onion flavour all year long through onion greens (you can dehydrate them, and freeze them really easily too, to store them when you have more than you can use)

I also highly recommend throwing peas into a large tray of soil. Litteraly just grab a bunch of aluminium foil disposable oven pans if you need to, stab some holes in them with a knife, an inch or two of soil, some dried whole peas or fresh garden peas, a sprinkle of more soil or just a wet sheet of kitchen roll/paper towel on top.

You probably won't get peas, but you'll have tons of pea tendrils for salads. On my balcony it's the only "salad green" I've had any luck growing. I have a pretty black thumb. I can't even manage to sprout chia seeds without them moulding, and I've never been able to grow mint despite broad casting mint seeds directly into my garden, urging the gardening gods to spite me with weedy mint but no dice.

When I buy peas, 4/5ths go in the fridge to eat, the other 5th gets planted, and I'll get ~10 dishes from the tendrils vs 1 dish from the peas. Nutritionally the peas have more protein, but lentils are cheap, salad is expensive, so this works for my budget.

I keep having this glitch where I'm stuck in the opening scene with the jojo cubicle. I'm supposed to get a letter telling me I've inherited a farm but that hasn't happened yet, anyone else got this bug?

I understand where he's coming from, but he's also explaining it poorly and using it to be a defensive dick.

I have the same issue when writing "could've", I default to "could of" because of some silly childhood habit, and despite knowing better I still write "could of" out of habit all the time, and I don't pick up on it when proof reading because they are spoken the same way.

He's talking about the accent of his internal monologue/ sub vocalisations when reading.

In my accent, "than" and "then" sound completely different, but in some accents they're practically homophones.

When you cross that with someone who is a phonetic writer, or has language disabilities like dyslexia, you end up writing the more commonly used word. When proof reading you don't realise your mistake because the voice in your head reads those two words the exact same way, and if you're dyslexic you're not going to know it's wrong from looking at it.

I've read it 6 times and it all makes perfect sense, reading it again is only going to help me find the remaining mistakes because of a luck based numbers game.

it takes me 40 minutes to proof read a 25 word email if it's important enough, because I know myself, I have found errors after that long.

That's why I do sometimes get frustrated when kind well meaning people correct my grammar and spelling. It's helpful and I do appreciate it, but it's not that I don't "know" the correct grammar, or why my grammar was wrong, it's that no one game through with a neon sign to highlight where the error was and I genuinely can't see it until it's pointed out to me, or even if I know there's an error, I really, genuinely, do not care anymore. That's not because I take no pride in my literacy, it's the opposite...

There's nothing worse than spending 8 times longer proof reading a comment than you spent drafting it. And your pour over it and really apply yourself to finding the errors. You find 40 mistakes the first time you read it, another 10 the next time, 3 the next. You find no mistakes the next 2 times you re-read it, you ask a friend to read it, so they skim it quickly say "it's fine". Then you hit "post" and you immediately spot another mistake so you quickly edit it, silly me, how did I not see that before posting!? Then someone replies to it and you go back to refresh yourself on what it was you wrote so you can better have a discussion and you spot another error in your original comment! How did that error slip through so many checks! Better re-re-re-re-re-re-read it again now while I'm already editing it.

Then a well meaning person says "by the way, it's "than" not "then"." which is a completely neutral and polite post, but considering I've spent hours thinking about all the mistakes in the comment, I've spent longer than most people spend on proof reading, I hear you trying to help, but all I'm feeling is the world calling me an illiterate idiot after I've finished exhausting myself doing practical things to improve my literacy.

These spell check comments make me angry, not at the person trying to help me learn. But angry at myself for being a fucking moron, for wasting years of my life working twice as hard to achieve half as much, with my best being better than my best ever was and still in some instances being seen as having not tried at all.

What's worse is then I'm reading my comment for the 700th time trying to find where I've used "then" where I should have used "than" and even though I know now what mistake I'm looking for, I can't see it!

I've gone so far as to ctrl+F "of" in a 6 page report from work because a co-worker was running out the door to grab something for an event, made a comment about me needing to change "of to have" in the report but couldn't remember what page just that she noticed it, and off she went.

I'd already read this thing well over 50 times. I went through one by fucking one to try and find where I had written "could of", but I could not find it.

Whatever, it was no longer worth it. I printed them off, and I've grabbed a random bunch of pages to start folding the booklets and as I've grabbed it, directly above my thumb, clear as day, bright as sun, fucking "could of".

Did I go back and print off another batch of copies now that I'd found it? Yes (felt guilty the whole time, what a waste of paper)

The worse part, my co-worker comes back, we finish setting up, we're putting booklets on guests chairs and my cooworker flicks through one and says "aw, you didn't get a chance to fix the "could' of" mistake." because it turns out there were 2 instances that I'd missed while going through it word by word. Of course as soon as she said it, I could see it. In my defence she'd only spotted the one, not the original 2 in the copy I gave her for proofing...or the original 20 in the copy I proofed myself.

So after all that, when someone who doesn't know me corrects my spelling, I'm grateful, but I don't care, I'm burnt out on fixing it, I cared too hard too much in the hours I was proof reading it before you got here, and I know it's incorrect, and I know self improvement is important, but come back in a week when I'm not angry and frustrated at myself and this text.

Food I cook is starting to taste more and more like my mother's cooking. Moving out of home I always assumed my mums poor cooking was down to technique, boiling the brussel sprouts, steaming the peas until they were grey, water frying everything. As soon as I learned to cook properly it was amazing how much flavour everything had. Letting things brown fully, using oil, not overcooking everything.

But recently, no amount of skill can save the sad veggies sold in store.

It makes the hyperprocessed foods even more appealing when there's nothing you can affordably do to improve the simple produce and staples. When potatos cost the same as Pringle's, calorie for calorie (and they do, ) it's easy to see why "just eat beans, rice, and in season produce" isn't helpful advice - yes it's frugal, but it's depressing, and not as easy as it used to be. Why waste money on already rotting food that tastes bland when the same money can buy me a more nutrient dense food that lasts longer and tastes better?

I've got a few things growing on the 2m concrete slab my landlord calls a back yard, it helps having home grown spring onion, parsley and pea shoots to dress up a dish.

I'm a terrible gardener, I can't even get mint to take. "grow your own" is thrown around too readily when people complain about produce quality. It's not always an option, there is a physical skill, a cognitive skill, and resource requirements.

I feel like I can comfortably assume you are not European.

Are you thinking of ~10 more well known progressive countries with strong social policies, high GDP and strong economies.

There are 50 countries in Europe, many experiencing civil unrest, some who's economies famously tanked in recent years, several that are currently at war with each other, dozens that are recovering from recent wars, terror and loss of territory or government control.

If we look at Europe as a whole and split the idea of a "functional" society into select criteria, then yes, we can point to individual European countries and identify the structures, policies and practices that make that country functional in that aspect of a society. But that dies not make "much of Europe" a functional society.

I stand by my statement that no one place on earth is fully functional, ethically and equitably simultaneously serving all its peoples.

It doesn't depend on knowing the type of snake though.

Every hospital I've ever heard of have detection kits that can tell them exactly what anti-venom you need without needing to get closer to the snake that bit you.

You can bring the snake in, but that's just going to delay your care as a bunch of untrained doctors and nurses try to figure out what to do with a venomous snake in their emergency room.

There's less than 5 snake bite deaths a year, and most of those are due to delayed care, none are due to "didn't know the snake"

Name a functional society

I remember during Covid lock downs extroverts were loosing their minds and blaming their extrovertism for their cabin fever.

First of all, true isolation is unhealthy and crazy inducing for everyone, that's why they still use solitary confinement in prisons for further punishment, so no, extroverts, you're not special for feeling depressed during a global pandemic. (but yes, it did suck extra for them)

But so many extroverts seemed to assume lock downs were an introverts wet dream. There was very little attempt to understand each other. I'd see introverts empathising with extroverts who were struggling, but the reverse rarely happened, extroverts just seemed to assume "you introverts must be loving this solitude" and when myself and others tried to open up about how we were struggling I would hear "yeah but you like being alone, you're used to it" like that makes it easier.

At no point did I really see any of the extroverts I know, or anyone online posting about how "wow, being pushed this far out of my comfort zone by lockdowns sucks, is this how introverts feel when I force them to actively engage in crowded, highly social parties?"

Not that I expect the middle of a planet wide plague to be the time I'd suddenly expect people to show self reflection and emotional maturity, but it was still worth the observation.

Yes stealing food is unethical. If someone steals your food you should take it right back off them.

That's why I do all my shoplifting at the duopoly stores that are currently under government investigation for wage theft and price gouging.... and not the community grocer who isn't stealing from the public.

Australian Magpies aren't corvids, they're butcherbirds, unrelated to the European magpie.

They're cute, but they're definitely dicks.

Having had a defecography this is very similar to the encouragement the radiologist gave me....