Relatable. I love a girl like this. It’s exhausting and it’s slowly impacted my own sanity, but it’s not her fault. It’s mainly about germs with her. She gets really upset if we don’t wash our hands every 15 minutes or so. But at the same time, she’s afraid of antibiotics.
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girltwink@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is jogging on sidewalks harder on joints than if one jogged on dirt?18·1 year agoThe strongest indicator that shoes will work for you, according to the research is… Do they feel good? I’d suggest going to a running store and trying on different brands and jogging around the store. Once you find a comfy pair, you probably chose well.
girltwink@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is jogging on sidewalks harder on joints than if one jogged on dirt?1083·1 year agoAll the people saying “yes” are incorrect. Running on pavement and running on trails exert different strains on the body, but not less. The tendency in road runners is to end up with tibial stress fractures, and in trail runners it is metatarsal stress fractures, but the injury rates are similar. Trail running requires stronger stabilizer muscles (primarily gluteus medius) to maintain knee health in the long term, but this is a problem for both as well.
Use good shoes, strength train your gluteus medius and calves, do most of your miles at an easy pace, and you’ll be running for decades, regardless of your chosen surface. You might even change it up and do both!
(My credentials are that i am an ultramarathoner and have run half a dozen races between 26.2 and 50 miles, on pavement and trail, and i have been coached by a professional ultra runner for several seasons.)
girltwink@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•College Students Dump Dating Apps as Bumble CEO Steps DownEnglish24·1 year agoThis is ultimately a big part of it, and it’s universal, not just in dating. Most friendships are “friendships of convenience” and the other types of relationships typically progress from there. But in western culture, we don’t have any third places, and so we just plain don’t make friendships of convenience anymore.
girltwink@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•College Students Dump Dating Apps as Bumble CEO Steps DownEnglish353·1 year agoI’ve found several long term relationships off tinder as a WLW. It seems to work pretty well for me. The system doesn’t seem to be working for guys, and that’s unfortunate. But a lot of the pressure on women to settle for any man has gone away as women have become more self reliant. The whole thing has become far more consensual and less mandatory for survival. That’s going to influence men’s dating success no matter what medium people use to find matches.
girltwink@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Should I just quit urban and social life for a rural and lonely life?1014·2 years agoNo, you should not. Read about Ted Kaczynski. We’re naturally social creatures. Isolation is very very bad for our mental health. If you’re feeling misanthropic now, it will get worse when you’re not around people.
It might be good for you to take a sabbatical and hike one of the triple crown trails. But the important part is to not isolate yourself completely.
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girltwink@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is it possible to eat in such a way that you'll never have to fart?4·2 years agoOmg 😆 that’s a spectacular reference in this context. I miss eve online.
girltwink@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is it possible to eat in such a way that you'll never have to fart?81·2 years agoMy gf almost never farts. She’s given me a complex about it, i stg. She says she trained herself not to by sheer willpower, and in spite of living together for almost 2 years, I’ve only caught her like twice.
girltwink@lemmy.worldto science@lemmy.world•For the Love of God, Stop Microwaving Plastic33·2 years agoSo far there is a serious shortage of scientific papers demonstrating harm from microplastics. This paper attempts to make such a demonstration, but it does so by using extremely high concentrations, far beyond what could be achieved naturally.
While the concentration of plastic used in these solutions was higher than what a baby would be exposed to by eating from a microwaved food jar in real life
This popsci article briefly touches on this, but if you read the research paper, they actually used concentrations that were orders of magnitude higher. So high, in fact, that cell death would also occur with many inert and safe substances at these concentrations.
It’s very concerning that we’re exposing ourselves to this stuff without fully understanding it. But alarmist papers like this are unproductive at best. At worst, they lead to alert fatigue in consumers, in the vein of “this product is known to the state of California to cause cancer.”
girltwink@lemmy.worldto Fediverse@lemmy.world•lemmy.blahaj.zone has defederated from us - Lemmy NSFW131·2 years agoThat’s kind of a ridiculous take i think. It’s more likely that one single person has too much power and uses it to enforce their morality on others. Tale as old as time.
girltwink@lemmy.worldto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•I feel like Fediverse users are nicer to each other and more generous with upvotes than reddit.52·2 years agoI started posting on 4chan in 2005 😏 my favorite communities on reddit were little isolated bubbles of 4chan refugees. Mainstream reddit culture was pretty bad, and 4chan got overrun by maga weirdos in 2016. So far Lemmy seems like mostly the worst parts of reddit with a few of the good parts. It feels like the default subs, just slower.
The only reason antibiotic resistant germs are different than regular germs is that antibiotics don’t work on them, which doesn’t matter if you don’t use antibiotics! 😆
Her reasons are more vague and appeal-to-nature-y. But you do raise a good point.