I don’t know if Brain Age has any legitimate scientific value but it sure as heck is fun. Don’t buy the switch version though, that one sucks.

I’m trying to 100% the achievements in Portal without guides, and I’m doing the challenges now but I have never felt so fucking stupid.

There’s certain classical music that goes into very high notes, it hurts my ears and I can’t stand it. My dad loves classical music and I feel bad not being able to share his joy for it, though there is some that I don’t mind.

Also metal for same type of reason, some guitar noises just hurt my ears.

The Irish name that gets me is Cian, especially cause I used to know someone named Cyan (like the colour).

Isn’t X just like a muted “sh”?

I used to have a work friend named Siobhan and when I’d come home I’d mention her to my partner. Sometimes I would text him about her. He fully thought these were two different people for like a year.

Listen to some about MMIW from Indigenous perspectives, like the Stolen podcast. It depends on who you’re listening to but cops drop the ball a lot when it comes to finding indigenous women and reporters that are worth their shit don’t tip toe around that. Many unsolved cases have less of a bias towards cops in general I think.

I also think that Casefile is actually pretty unbiased, though I haven’t listened in a while, but I remember hearing a lot about how cops fuck up on those.

I tried magnesium and didn’t notice a difference. However I got my blood work done recently and found out I was low on B12. Started taking a B complex and it’s made a huge difference in energy levels.

It’s all about figuring out what your body’s missing :)

Just wear em but then don’t be an asshole. Disarm people. And call out people that assume you’re an asshole and try to talk to you like you’re one of them.

My partner is bald (not by choice) and white (also not by choice) and he gets racist people assuming he’s racist all the time. Just call em out or make them feel weird if they say some fucked up shit to you.

Oh my god I picked up “GG” at some point (I don’t even play MMOs) and I literally say it all the time now. I’ve had to explain it to multiple people too because it’s not like a very normal people term.

Another one is during the Sweet Brown era I was going on a college trip and I used to say “ain’t nobody got time for that” so often that I got my English professor saying it and she was pissed. LOL. Now, due to fiscal constraints, I only say “ain’t nobody got dime for that” :(

Today I was asked whether I wanted a cup or cone with my ice cream. I had to stop and ‘draw’ each one out in my mind because I couldn’t remember which was which.

Skibbidy reminds me so much of early YouTube though. It’s so fucking stupid and senseless.

I mean, between peanut butter jelly time, the fucking badger song, or even as far back as the bizarre dancing baby, it’s all dumb and senseless.

I’ve never gone to one but I have a friend that highly recommends fuck up nights (https://en.fuckupnights.com/).

Apparently it’s a group that like meets up and like tells each other how they fucked up at work/in life/whatever. Kind of works like a support group but also helps to develop public speaking in a super judgement free environment.

Not totally my cup of tea but it sounds super interesting.

Good luck! You got this :)

I’m not sure what you mean by local as each indigenous nation presumably had their own way of referring to the land.

‘Turtle Island’ is the common translation for the ways that many Algonquian- and Iroquoian-speaking refer to North America.

Where I live (Lekwungen territory) means “place of the smoked herring”.

I’m not a bastard, but I’m a bandaid. My sister and I like to debate which is worse (:

That’s right, it’s an issue in Catholicism too. That’s why my sister wasn’t conceived before marriage, she was just born a few months early 😉😉

Yeah I grew up without a kettle and just lived with shitty badly heated water. Got myself a kettle after moving out and improved my tea experience greatly.

I got my parents a kettle though because my mom, especially, drinks about 10 cups of hot water a day, but she hates the kettle and won’t use it. I do not understand.

Microwave can take 2-3 minutes depending on how hot you like it and how shitty your microwave is. They also tend to not heat evenly.

A good kettle might also take about 3 mins, though some can take up to 5 or 6, but you’re guaranteed properly heated water.

I’m embarrassed that I’ve never even thought of attempting this… Do all microwaves have that option?