Scientists explore chemistry of tattoo inks amid growing safety concerns.
I’ve always suspected tattoo ink was fairly harmful given where it’s embedded and that it’s not regulated. Be nice to see more studies on this. It’s well-known that I do not like tattoos as they destroy the natural symmetry of the body, but another reason I’d never get one is that the ink is probably directly physiologically harmful.
I never feel in danger from women, but this increased attention happens to men too as they become more attractive. Since I’ve made major jumps up the hotness scale, women treat me so much more solicitously now. Customer service women flirt with me shamelessly and offer to help me in ways that they don’t offer to anyone else.
For instance, an airport ticket counter agent basically offered to walk me to the security line at the airport. That NEVER would’ve happened four years ago when I was still schlubby. I had to tell her several times I was fine and didn’t need any help to find the entrance (which was like 100 feet away; I could literally see it from where I was standing).
I’ve had two women assist me, ignoring all the other male customers, while offering to do all my paperwork for me when I was going in for a cert renewal. The next customer up got treated 100x more coldly; they barely glanced at him.
Etc. etc.
It’s a shocking difference when you go from plain or worse to hot. Absolutely shocking.
When we're dealing with decades, it's very hard to zoom out and see the wider context on how much more expensive everything is vs. stagnant wage growth. I had classmates who went to UCLA or Berkeley in '93 for about $5K a year. That'd get your 3-credit course here at Lehigh. (1) https://t.co/DmhSe6A5th
— Jeremy Littau (@JeremyLittau) August 25, 2022
My uncle paid his way through the University of Florida in the late 1970s and early 1980s working part-time at a convenience store during the school year, and full time in summer. He had no other source of funding. That wouldn’t even get you a class now.
College and rent were both far, far cheaper then. I think Boomers truly don’t understand this. Somehow.
Boomers melting down about how this isn't fair is really something. We know life isn't fair. You told us that every single day of our childhood. So I'll give you the same advice you always gave us: Get over it.
— Sarah Watson (@SarahWatson42) August 24, 2022
Ahahahahaha!
Yeah, half my early life was some Boomer or Silent Gen dipshit telling me “Life ain’t fair” when they did something utterly heinous to me that they just could’ve…not done.
HP’s new Thunderbolt 4 monitor uses contrast-rich IPS Black tech.
Only 4K at 31.5 inches? Worthless. Should be at least 6K at that size.
Ten Ohio Counties Ban Wind, Solar Projects Under New State Law. All of them in rural Ohio.
Red States gonna be total hellholes for a whole variety of reasons. It’s happening (get out while you can).
What is the point of this kind of thought exercise? Covid isn’t sufficiently scary anymore but what if it leads to something worse?
There are basically infinity possible scary hypotheticals we could dream up for anything. https://t.co/NoQT1kbKCt
— Angie Schmitt🚶♀️ (@schmangee) August 25, 2022
Oh, the Covidians are just pissed that their lies didn’t lead to the enormous societal changes that they longed for. They insisted on fibbing about Long Covid (claiming everyone would inevitably get it, collapsing society) and now that’s really come back to bite them as most people have had Covid…and it sucked, but amounted to nothing. People’s lived experience (as they say) directly contradicted the Covidian narrative, destroying it.
So now they’re scrambling harder than a line cook at a Waffle House at 3AM on a Saturday morning. Insisting on halting society for unknown unknowns is very, uh, “special.” But that won’t stop ’em.
Press PR from last week. 145×5 @SS_strength @nickd_ssc @thestrength_co pic.twitter.com/SttqnpJiit
— Bre Hillen (@BreHillen) August 23, 2022
Damn. I might be able to do that once on a good day. Once. Not 5x. That’s impressive. She’s (the good kind of) beastly.
Inheritance turned my boyfriend into cruel racist.
Nah, he always was. Now he thinks he has license. Needs to be dumped.
When I lived in Charlotte, I went on a date with a woman with an Amex Black card. She was very nice and I liked her. Beautiful, too. But a huge dealbreaker shortly emerged: she very much wanted kids — soon — and I did not. And she was not looking for a casual relationship.
Dang. There went my dreams of Ferraris and lounging on a yacht in the Aegean with her. All shattered in an instant. 😉
Our date was at a very expensive restaurant (bill was around $300 for two people in ~2003) in a Charlotte high-rise. She insisted on paying. That’s when I saw her card. She was surprised I recognized it. Turns out, she was looking for a decent man to start a family with and she completely didn’t care how much money he earned or what wealth he possessed. She rightly said that was not a worry.
She’d already told me her father was the owner of some high-end law firm, but that’s the first and last time I’d ever seen one of those cards.
Bet she has a couple of kids and is on a yacht now with some guy that actually did want those kids. I regret nothing, but sometimes your life can turn at the oddest of intersections.