Ramen was about 20¢/packet back then. Worked out to about 2 packets a day plus just enough for eggs. Was not the healthiest time of my life lol

When I was on snap I got a whopping $17/month because my ssdi income was just barely low enough for me to qualify for snap. It’s insane that people think folks are committing fraud for tiny amounts of food

Conservative political action conference

Orban was a guest speaker a couple years ago in the US. Seems like he founded the cpac in Hungary afterwards

I don’t disagree. I just find it interesting how strongly the media jumped on their connection but there may be another reason for the professor’s death

It’s interesting that Nuno Loureiro is part of this list. I thought the articles that came out after his death said the (now dead) man who killed him once worked with him. So it seemed personal and not conspiracy-related

What a terrible day to be able to read

The grandfather as well, according to their cousin. The family is creepy as heck, but even more so when you realize just how many children these pedophiles had access to within their own family

I had scarlet fever when I was six, and when I recovered I kept trying to turn the TV off even when it wasn’t on. My parents eventually realized the illness gave me tinnitus. It’s so weird to see someone else describe it that way because no one really remembers that sound anymore haha

RIP Dolores. I hate that this song has always been relevant

I’ve heard they can at least survive a fall onto snow lol

Childbirth and pregnancy during the first Trump era was a nightmare, and it is again.

My friends and I have been trying to get sterilized since the election. Half of us have been successful so far. It feels like one of the last ways we can protect ourselves

This is epigenetics, changes to a genome via stress and environment that are passsed to offspring. We’ve known for a while that older men have children with autism or schizophrenia more often than young men, and investigating the cause and mechanism like they have in this study will help people have healthier children in the future.

The type of RNA that are involved in this study are regulatory, which means they can help or prevent gene activity, and are very important in the development of an embryo because the egg doesn’t have this in abundance like the sperm does

Last time I went through airport security the TSA took my cane from me and made me stand clutching the arm of a stranger while they xrayed me (or whatever that scan is). It was humiliating, and I’m lucky my knee didn’t give out during that ordeal.

On my first leg of the trip they gave me a wooden cane that was entirely too tall, but that was definitely better than not having one at all

I’m guessing that’s a typo given he died in 2019?

That doesn’t make sense for type 2. This is exactly how they’ve been trialing treatment of type 1, they just announced it a few months ago I think it was Stanford and Toronto

https://www.ctpublic.org/news/2025-12-09/ice-agents-federal-immigration-senate-blumenthal

I’ve disconnected the doorbell at every place I’ve lived in the last 10 years. If I’m expecting you I’ll be waiting and opening the door for you, everyone else can leave a message or find a different way to contact me

I have sometimes wondered if the shooter heard what Kirk was saying when he took the shot

The other reason for the surgery was actually to look for reasons I’m in pain, like adhesions or other evidence of endometriosis. I have nexplanon and haven’t had a period in several years, yet still have cyclical intense pain

My ob ordered an mri after we learned the surgery was canceled, maybe that will give us the evidence we need to move forward with surgery again