Mezzie

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by Mezzie 4y ago
I found ABTF...back when I was a 26 band size. At least I understood why I could never be happy. Very glad I'm 30 pounds heavier now and can wear a 28 or even 30(!) band...
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by Mezzie 4y ago
> A 36DD is pretty large, a 28DD is not in absolute terms. But in terms of appearance, a true 28DD will look quite large on a small frame. Nope. 36DD isn't really that large, and a 28DD doesn't look very large at all even accou
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by Mezzie 4y ago
I work as a bra fitter and ironically what you see is actually usually the opposite: Women aren't comfortable with their cup size because they think it's 'too big'. This is usually mid size women (like 32F - 38DD/E
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by Mezzie 4y ago
Michigan's Great Lakes Coastlines as well.
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by Mezzie 4y ago
You're right, now that I think about it. If A then B doesn't mean if B then A. Thanks for catching it!
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by Mezzie 4y ago
Or someone like me, who is trained for a very specialized profession and then ended up disabled right out of school. I got MS my last semester of graduate school, so I was then stuck in the 'need to live near family for support but the
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by Mezzie 4y ago
The reliability is a huge factor. That's why my sister (bipolar disorder) and I (MS) have some employment issues. She can work consistently, but bipolar meds stop working sometimes and don't fully level her out. I can work, but my
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by Mezzie 4y ago
Can you work help desk or marketing? Or shadow? I know it sounds weird, but a lot of my competency as a designer comes from the fact that I have spent an absurd amount of time with end-users and have developed a very good intuition for how
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by Mezzie 4y ago
An example from my life is that I'm very hard to bully/persuade to let things go/get to accept bad decisions. Usually, the impetus behind shutting up and going along is that speaking up will have ramifications on one's c
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by Mezzie 4y ago
Be careful not to be willing to give up the tools needed to accomplish your goals, however. Freedom, like wealth and efficiency, can easily become its own end instead of the end to a healthy, fulfilling life.
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by Mezzie 4y ago
Agree. The idea that suffering/being uncomfortable with no purpose brings wisdom would suggest the disabled are the wisest people alive and we're definitely not.
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by Mezzie 4y ago
> In the usa it's more likely you'll be shot while congregating in places known to serve LGBT people. I don't get why you're like... Downplaying that there's violence against LGBT people in the usa? To be flippan
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by Mezzie 4y ago
I think you're both kind of wrong. So much time is spent on worrying about the 'thinking' part of 'are women and men different?' (Or AFAB and AMAB if we want to use the language usually used in spaces dedicated to g
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by Mezzie 4y ago
Yup. I have MS and almost got sucked in. Thank God for the pandemic: Now legit WFH is more common. :|
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by Mezzie 4y ago
> Who defines what is harmful or extremist in the government? An additional related question: Are they even capable of undertaking this task? Our current government officials and bureaucrats don't understand enough about how the I
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by Mezzie 4y ago
The right are open about pushing 'it's worse than it's ever been'. The left prefers to memory-hole history and combine that memory hole with thought terminating hyperbole: They like to present threats completely divorced
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by Mezzie 4y ago
Subjective, absolutely. Meaningless, no, because we're hairless chaos apes living in hives of other hairless chaos apes and plenty of our fellow apes live their lives based on this subjective measure which means it needs to be consider
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by Mezzie 4y ago
I mostly feel bad for the flight attendants. "Why is HE getting food and I'm not?" etc. People suck.
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by Mezzie 4y ago
Yeah, they should, but if someone with that severe an allergy is on the plane, would that be allowed? Also people are stupid and don't think ahead or plan for contingencies: I can see people reading there will be food service and decid
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by Mezzie 4y ago
How long was the flight? I can see this being an issue for people with some other health conditions - type 1 diabetics come to mind. If it's a long flight and they assume food service and then it's removed and they have nothing to
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by Mezzie 4y ago
Ironically, that's what I decided to spend my time on instead. I was trying to decide whether to do a PhD with said technical project/idea or to do one focusing on non-programming technical skills + history for early education pre
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by Mezzie 4y ago
> no outsider is going to jump in giving away their product just to grow market share I wonder how much innovation is being stifled by this practice. I know I have at least one very viable idea (I've shopped it around) that could re
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by Mezzie 4y ago
It's a horror show, and most of the third-party/partner sites look like they were designed and implemented by third-rate barely tech literate hacks. (Which I can say in confidence as I am a third-rate hack and should never be resp
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by Mezzie 4y ago
It's a complete roulette based on the case worker assigned in my experience. I feel you; I also have very variable income and it's shocking how few programs can handle that. I also question how much of this is purposeful due to th
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by Mezzie 4y ago
Are you disabled in any way? There's a MI provision for Medicaid that lets disabled people work and make up to...I think it's like 75k+ a year before they scrutinize my income. I just mention it because if you're in MI and st
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by Mezzie 4y ago
...I worked at a hotel, thanks. Not in room cleaning - I was a dishwasher - but yes, I know how it works. If you think 3 minutes in the bathroom is the same as an actual break, it's not. They appear not to be in a rush because they hav
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by Mezzie 4y ago
C can make up for a lot depending on your network and skills. I'm not particularly well-embedded in my local community and if necessary I could get at least the following things free: * Car repair work * Basic healthcare (luckily I h
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by Mezzie 4y ago
I'd say the difference between those times is the feeling of agency/possibility of a good life (defining good life by what that meant at the time). Objectively, material conditions were worse, but due to a variety of factors, the
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by Mezzie 4y ago
Zero breaks, for one. And no ability to take sick days/stop doing it if you're injured. Doing work for 1-2 hours a day or a few hours a week is very different from doing it for 20-40 hours a week. (Much like there's a differe
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by Mezzie 4y ago
Gig work is a big one. Gig work is taking a huge bite out of the lower-income + more physical service jobs. You still have no benefits and your pay sucks, but you at least can usually control your hours and you don't need to worry abou

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